We download the latest version of OpenLDAP from
ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-stable/openldap-stable-20000704.tgz
and copy it just like before to our favorite software directory, /usr/software. Then we uncompress it by typing
cd /usr/software
tar –xvzf openldap-stable-20000704.tgz
Please note that the file mentioned above was the most stable version available as of 30th October 2000. You might want to check for a newer version at http://www.openldap.org/. Now that we have unpacked it we are ready to configure, so lets type
cd openldap-1.2.11
./configure
make depend
make
Now we will test our installation with
cd tests
make
which hopefully turns out well. To finish the installation we do
cd ..
make install
and LDAP should now be installed properly and we can start configuring it. Not exactly the easiest and most obvious thing to do, but I'll guide you through everything.