Installing LDAP on 5.10

[Mike Kenny]

Zach (and others) thanks a lot for this information. This all makes perfect
sense - after it has been explained.

Much appreciated,

Mike

On 1/24/06, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> libpam-ldap is in universe
> change the following line:
> deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
> to:
> deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted universe
> to enable the universe repository (you can also add "multiverse" to
> enable that repository as well).
> Be sure to do the same for your various "ubuntu.com/ubuntu" updates
> entries as well so you can grab universe updates as they become
> available.
>
>
> /* Some side notes for optimizing your sources.list: */
>
> Disable deb-src lines except for instances when you actually need to
> download source code for a package.  This will optimize the apt-get
> update operation, since there will be less package info to download.
>
>
> Also disable third party repositories, except for when you need to get
> something specifically from them.  Often times they will have packages
> that are newer/higher versions than what is in the Ubuntu repos and
> that will cause apt to grab those unofficial packages during an
> upgrade operation.  It's best to keep third party packages to a known
> set that you explicitly allow.  For example I have marillat & debian
> repositories in my sources.list, but they're commented out except for
> when I need them.  I don't want to accidentally install non-ubuntu
> packages that I'm not aware of.  This also will cause those third
> party packages to show up in the local/obsolete section in synaptic,
> allowing for easy removal in case of breakage.
>
> As some have mentioned, having multiple mirrors in sources.list isn't
> necessary.  They just result in unecessary package data that has to be
> downloaded during each apt-get update operation.  To my knowledge apt
> isn't smart enough to grab packages from the "best" mirror.  I think
> it will download from the first in the list.  Having the additional
> mirrors listed in case one is down might be useful, but in that case,
> just have them commented out, and enable them if/when necessary.
> Again, third party repositories are best disabled except when
> explicitly required.
>
>
> On 1/24/06, Mike Kenny <inzanix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Every howto or reference I can find tell me that I need to execute
> >  $ sudo apt-get install libpam-ldap libnss-ldap
> >
> >  but this reports:
> >
> >  Reading package lists... Done
> >  Building dependency tree... Done
> >  E: Couldn't find package libpam-ldap
> >
> >  My /etc/apt/sources.list contains the following:
> >
> >  deb http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main
> > restricted
> >  deb-src http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main
> > restricted
> >  deb http://users.lichtsnel.nl/~seveas breezy-seveas freenx
> >  deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/ breezy-seveas freenx
> >  deb http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ breezy-seveas freenx
> >  deb http://mirror3.ubuntulinux.nl/ breezy-seveas freenx
> >  deb http://free.linux.hp.com/~brett/seveas/freenx/
> > ubuntu-seveas freenx
> >  deb http://seveas.ubuntulinux.nl/ breezy-seveas freenx
> >
> >  and I have executed
> >  $ sudo apt-get update
> >
> >  Is there some other site that I need to add to this file? For that
> matter,
> > I am pretty new to Ubuntu (and Debian) so if anybody could provide me
> with a
> > known good sources.list or tell me what I am doing wrong, assuming that
> that
> > is not the problem, I wou appreciate it.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> >  Mike
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