Comment 12 for bug 463684

I am sick of this.

I have spent the last 4 days upgrading, installing, uninstalling trying really hard to get OpenLDAP to work on Ubuntu but I am just now giving up.

For those who care to listen there are some reasons:

1. I originally had it working on Edgy but when I went to test some stuff on Friday it was no longer working. Plus I thought it was probably time for an update...

2. The update had some moments but I eventually arrived at Karmic but along the way my slapd.conf wouldn't upgrade.

3. No worries, I'll remove and install the package again. Really really bad decision.

4. The installation wouldn't work because the remove wouldn't delete the slapd.conf. The remove was failing as was the install. I eventually deleted the slapd.conf manually so the remove and install would then work. I was surprised that a new slapd.conf was never created.

5. The configuration script asks just 3 questions when it clearly should be asking a whole lot more. Nobody seems to know why it's not asking more but they think the documentation should be updated to reflect that the configuration will only ask 3 questions. Duh!

6. More googling and I found a step by step to getting the ldap server working. Well, at least there were steps but I couldn't get them to work. I needed some Berkeley database which I couldn't find anywhere, and I looked for other packages that utilised this bdb and tried installing them - I don't know if the database arrived or not but the LDAP script still failed with some error about the database, I think it was error (80) - really cool messages. So my ldap server is like a beached whale without this database.... I thought that was what pre-requisites were for....

7. None of the ldapadd scripts worked and now the problems are just adding up...

Wouldn't it be nice to have a piece of software that would load, provide some configuration options and then you could use a tool like LDAPExplorerTool2 to do the loading and searching functions.

I'm a developer and my application operates as an LDAP client - I don't want to learn all of the intricacies of the LDAP server in order to test my application. I want just the basics operating so I can test my app with a couple of use cases.

I'm now completely turned off Ubuntu and will be heading off to another Linux derivative.

Good bye.
Murray