LDAP import into Blue-Mind 2.0.8 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and maybe other Debian based installs as well.

Did an out of the box install of Blue-Mind 2.0.8 on a server to start investigating if Blue-Mind could replace my current Exchange Server install as it had the basics which are calendaring and activesync support for mobile devices, but found out that it couldn’t do the ldap-import according the instructions found here.

It seems that the package website can be browsed as a directory so I went looking for the plugin name as that was mentioned on their community pages.

So, if you want to do LDAP imports on your Ubuntu 12.04LTS server within Blue-Mind you can do so with the following two commands:

wget “http://pkg.blue-mind.net/2.0.8/precise/main/bm-plugin-core-ldap-import_2.0.9987_amd64.deb”
dpkg -i bm-plugin-core-ldap-import_2.0.9987_amd64.deb

You will need to use sudo of course and then restart Blue-Mind, after which you now have the “Directories” tab added as shown in the Blue-Mind knowledge base article mentioned above. However how to add it was missing in the knowledge base, or at least I never found it. Also it might be possible that it does install if you run OpenLDAP on the same server which was not so in my case. Hope this might help you out if you are struggling with the same issue.