OpenLDAP on Debian

Well here’s probably another incomplete article with scratch notes about installing OpenLDAP on Debian Sid.

I recently bumped into a problem when trying to install OpenLDAP and will document how I fixed these problems.

Problem

When trying to install OpenLDAP through the regular methods:

omega:~# apt-get install slapd

I ran into a ‘grave bug’:

grave bugs of slapd (-> 2.4.25-1.1) <unfixed>
 #628237 - slapd: installation fails: slap_sasl_init: auxprop add plugin failed
   Merged with: 627984

The above message is generated by the apt-listbugs program that checks bug reports before actually installing something. So we can inspect the cause of this problem by viewing the Debian Bug Database.