sudo-ldap not installable

Just tried on Intrepid, and the problem is still there indeed.

On Maverick, I'm trying to force removal as suggested. Does not seem to work.

mark@ldapclient:~$ export SUDO_FORCE_REMOVE=yes
mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo apt-get install sudo-ldap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sudo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sudo-ldap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/336kB of archives.
After this operation, 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
dpkg: sudo: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 ubuntu-minimal depends on sudo.
 gksu depends on sudo.
(Reading database ... 170472 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sudo ...
You have asked that the sudo package be removed,
but no root password has been set.
Without sudo, you may not be able to gain administrative privileges.

If you would prefer to access the root account with su(1)
or by logging in directly,
you must set a root password with "sudo passwd".

If you have arranged other means to access the root account,
and you are sure this is what you want,
you may bypass this check by setting an environment variable
(export SUDO_FORCE_REMOVE=yes).

Refusing to remove sudo.
dpkg: error processing sudo (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sudo
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

BTW, the other workaround suggested does not appear to work on Maverick, either.

mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo passwd
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

As an alternative workaround, I did this on Maverick. If this system were something other than a test VM, I would be more careful with the password, BTW.

mark@ldapclient:~$ mkpasswd password
GjIcQ0DGpk0bI
mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo usermod -p GjIcQ0DGpk0bI root
mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo apt-get install sudo-ldap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sudo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sudo-ldap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/336kB of archives.
After this operation, 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
dpkg: sudo: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 ubuntu-minimal depends on sudo.
 gksu depends on sudo.
(Reading database ... 170472 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sudo ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package sudo-ldap.
(Reading database ... 170447 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sudo-ldap (from .../sudo-ldap_1.7.2p7-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up sudo-ldap (1.7.2p7-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/sudo ...

Hmm... and that seems to have broken sudo for me. I cannot sudo vi /etc/sudo-ldap.conf now... nor can I su to root. :-(

Oups, false alarm. Fat fingers. Still cannot su to root, but I can sudo vi /etc/sudo-ldap.conf. Now if only I could get the rest of it working...

FYI: http://marginnotes2.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/sudo-with-opendj/