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How do I completely remove and reinstall Samba on Debian?

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My Samba installation has become a mess, and now the services won't even start correctly anymore, for some reason. Is there a way to completely remove Samba, as if it was never there, and then reinstall it so I can have a fresh setup?

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will remove the entire package, along with configuration files, which won't. After the purge, reinstall samba using from :

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