Satya's blog - Shibboleth 2 on Ubuntu 9.04

I recently tried to install Shibboleth as a Service Provider on Ubuntu 9.04. Shibboleth 1.3 is End-of-lifed June 2010, so the shibboleth-users mailing list advised me -- strongly -- to use Shibboleth 2. Well, Ubuntu 9.04 doesn't have the packages for it. Debian Lenny does. So here's how you get a Shibboleth 2 SP (Service Provider) on Ubunt 9.04:

Remove libapache2-mod-shib and auto-loaded packages, if you had them installed. Then, install some of the packages required by the shib2 module:

aptitude install libsaml2 unixodbc opensaml2-schemas xmltooling-schemas

and dependencies. The aptitude command will take care of the dependencies.

Download and install the following. These are the shib2 package from Debian lenny (current stable).

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shibboleth-sp2/shibboleth-sp2-schemas_2.1.dfsg1-2_all.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shibboleth-sp2/libshibsp1_2.0.dfsg1-4_i386.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shibboleth-sp2/libapache2-mod-shib2_2.0.dfsg1-4_i386.deb

Or go find them yourself, since the particular versions listed are sure to be obsolete after this article is posted. You want shibboleth-sp2-schemas libshibsp1 libapache2-mod-shib2, in that order. Download the .deb files and run

dpkg -i shibboleth-sp2-schemas*.deb libshibsp1*.deb libapache2-mod-shib2*.deb

Last updated: Jun 05 2009 18:42