Installing repoze.who.plugins.ldap

Installing the repoze.who.plugins.ldap plugin itself is rather easy, but unfortunately, installing python-ldap (the main dependency of this plugin) may be a nightmare. Hopefully this document will help you get this plugin and its dependencies working quickly.

The quick install

If you’ve already installed python-ldap on your computer, the following command will install repoze.who.plugins.ldap:

easy_install repoze.who.plugins.ldap

If it’s not already installed on your computer, read on.

Note: If you’re on Ubuntu, don’t rely on the python-ldap package provided by the package manager - its install will be ignored by easy_install for some reason; this may also happen in Debian. Read on to install it manually.

Installing python-ldap manually

If you have problems to install the plugin, they are very likely to be caused by python-ldap: You will have to install it manually in order to set the correct path to the OpenLDAP libraries.

Once you’ve successfully installed python-ldap, you’ll be ready to install repoze.who.plugins.ldap with the command above.

Installing python-ldap on Ubuntu

This may also work for Debian. If this procedure works in your Debian system, please let us know.

First, install its dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python-dev libssl-dev

Then, download the source of python-ldap, uncompress it and cd to its folder. Once you’re there, edit the setup.cfg file to correct the parameters in the [_ldap] section:

extra_objects =
extra_compile_args =
libs = ldap_r lber ssl crypto
library_dirs = /usr/lib
include_dirs = /usr/include /usr/lib/sasl2

Save the file and run:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Installing on other systems

For more information, visit: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/doc/html/installing.html

Please don’t hesitate to let us know how you installed it on other systems, so that we can post it here.

Troubleshooting

If you have trouble to install python-ldap on your system, please ask in the python-ldap mailing list.

Installing the mainline development branch

The plugin is hosted in a Bazaar branch hosted at Launchpad.net. To get the latest source code, run:

bzr branch lp:repoze.who.plugins.ldap

Then run the command below, from the project folder:

python setup.py develop