I would like to post an update on our previous OpenLDAP source installation, but I encountered an error so, enough with the source thing and let’s install one from packages which is available on Sunfreeware.

OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. These build packages installs in /usr/local/

Requirements and Dependencies

Here’s what packages you’ll need:

• openldap-2.3.35

Dependencies are:

• openssl-0.9.8e
• sasl-2.1.21
• libiconv,
• db-4.2.52.NC
• libgcc_s.so.1 which you can get on libgcc-3.4.6 or gcc-3.4.6

This implementation of OpenLDAP was build on a sparc machine Sun Blade 100 workstation running Solaris 8.

Installing Packages

You can go ahead and refer to this post in using the pkgadd .

Once all the packages are installed above, the binary can be found in /usr/local/bin , /usr/local/sbin and config files are in /usr/local/etc.

There are some more setup and configuration to setup (like setting of variables) but as far as installation is concern, we’re done.

See you on the next post about configuration for OpenLDAP

We’re trying to install OpenLDAP ver 2.3.38 on a Sun-Blade-100 (UltraSPARC-IIe) but the stupid workstation’s OS installation is so bare that it doesn’t even have packages for CC or GCC (I’m sure there’s a lot more).

So, before we could do the OpenLDAP compilation, we need to install first GCC and other prerequisite apps.

Here’s what I need to install on the box:

Need to install the following:

• gcc,
• ar (binutils)
• libiconv
• libintl
• Berkeley DB (db)

Donwload all packages on Sunfreeware and install.

change to the directory where the packages are located

# pkgadd -d <package name>

answer promp question (usually change of permission)

If all has been installed, we can proceed and compile OpenLDAP. Of course if that don’t work out, we could always installed it’s packaged version on Sunfreeware!