As an alternative workaround, I did this on Maverick. If this system were something other than a test VM, I would be more careful with the password, BTW.
mark@ldapclient:~$ mkpasswd password GjIcQ0DGpk0bI mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo usermod -p GjIcQ0DGpk0bI root mark@ldapclient:~$ sudo apt-get install sudo-ldap Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.35-22 linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: sudo The following NEW packages will be installed: sudo-ldap 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/336kB of archives. After this operation, 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? dpkg: sudo: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: ubuntu-minimal depends on sudo. gksu depends on sudo. (Reading database ... 170472 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sudo ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for man-db ... Selecting previously deselected package sudo-ldap. (Reading database ... 170447 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking sudo-ldap (from .../sudo-ldap_1.7.2p7-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Setting up sudo-ldap (1.7.2p7-1ubuntu2.1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/sudo ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140467 Title: sudo-ldap not installable -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs