[ThinLinc-technical] Installing on RHEL/CentOS 8

[Samuel Mannehed]

Hi Jonathan,

> Installing on CentOS 8 latest with EPEL repo enabled, when I attempt
> to install the python2-ldap3 package I get the following error
> 
> [root at thinlinc-test]# sudo dnf install python2-ldap3
> Last metadata expiration check: 1:09:41 ago on Wed 30 Sep 2020
> 11:36:15 BST. Error:
>   Problem: conflicting requests
>    - nothing provides python2.7dist(pyasn1) >= 0.1.8 needed by 
> python2-ldap3-2.6.1-1.el8.noarch
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or
> '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
> 
> In the first place it's 2020 and you are still using python2 no cool, 
> not cool at all from a security perspective. You have had long enough
> to migrate to Python3
> 
> What's the suggestion for RHEL/CentOS 8 that actually works?

Note that python2-ldap3 is only required when you need to use the
"tl-ldap-certaliases" tool, it is used to map ldap users to Smart
Card certificates. This part of tl-setup is not mandatory and can be
skipped.

Best regards,
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