Vm: Cannot install samba/cifs-utill

[wouterVE]

Hi,

I'm trying to mount a samba share in my nextcloud-server but having a hard time with it.

Output sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package cifs-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'cifs-utils' has no installation candidate

output sudo apt-get install samba

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 samba : Depends: python-dnspython but it is not installable
         Depends: python-samba but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.13) but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: tdb-tools but it is not installable
         Depends: update-inetd but it is not installable
         Recommends: attr but it is not installable
         Recommends: samba-dsdb-modules but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

outputsudo apt-get install python-samba

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-samba : Depends: python-ldb (>= 1.1.2~) but it is not installable
                Depends: python-tdb but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So, what could be removed in order to get samba working as I really need this for backup purposes.

Fyi: I have all repositories enabled but multiverse.

[enoch85]

If you Google it you might get a quicker result than asking here. This is no support forum.

Why don't you just use the client that are built into Nextcloud? This seems kind of over complicated. Just install External Storage App and set it up from GUI instead. Should work out of the box, and needed dependencies are already installed.

[wouterVE]

ok my apologies, could have fixed it myself indeed, at first sight I thought there were broken packages in this installation hence my post.

it turned out there was a problem with my sources.list

I chose mirror.veracruz.co but this resulted in a Got NODATA issue: 'NODATA' when doing sudo apt-get update
As can be found on this post, this means the url is not translated correct by the provider.

So I changed my repositories to an official Ubuntu one and now I can install it without problem.

Maybe one can a take a look at mirror.veracruz.co , if you ask me this mirror is down as it resolves to a page to register this name.

Thanks for the excellent work with this image.

[enoch85]

@wouterVE No problem! I'm thinking I will remove the option to change mirrors in the coming version as it's mostly causing issues anyway. Or maybe improve it an only go with Ubuntu official ones.

Thanks for the heads up!

[wouterVE]

@enoch85
You're very welcome! Would be a good idea to stick with the official Ubuntu ones, I've change my repositories to the local ones (http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ in my case).
Now sudo apt-get install is working like a charm :-)

Keep up the good work!

Wouter