How To Install python-mockldap on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-mockldap on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-mockldap is simple mock implementation of python-ldap (Python2 version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mockldap on Debian 10.

What is python-mockldap

python-mockldap is:

This project provides a mock replacement for python-ldap. It??s useful for any project that would like to write unit tests against LDAP code without relying on a running LDAP server.

The goal of mockldap is to provide a mock instance of LDAPObject in response to any call to ldap.initialize. In the general case, you would register return values for all LDAPObject calls that you expect the code under test to make. Your assertions would then verify that the tested code behaved correctly given this set of return values from the LDAP APIs.

As a convenience, the mock LDAPObject isn??t just a dumb mock object. The typical way to use mockldap is to provide some static directory content and then let LDAPObject generate real return values. This will only work for simple LDAP operations??this obviously isn??t a complete Python LDAP server implementation??but those simple operations tend to cover a lot of cases.

This package contains the Python 2 version of the library.

There are three methods to install python-mockldap on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-mockldap Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-mockldap using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-mockldap

Install python-mockldap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-mockldap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-mockldap

Install python-mockldap Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-mockldap using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-mockldap

How To Uninstall python-mockldap on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-mockldap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-mockldap

Uninstall python-mockldap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-mockldap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-mockldap

Remove python-mockldap Configurations and Data

To remove python-mockldap configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-mockldap

Remove python-mockldap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-mockldap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-mockldap

Dependencies

python-mockldap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mockldap package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.