Installing Netatalk on Alpine Linux

Install the latest Netatalk

The easiest way to get Netatalk on Alpine Linux is to install the netatalk package with apk.

For building and installing from source yourself, find links to the official documentation below.

• Compile Netatalk from Source: Alpine in the Manual
• INSTALL.md in the source tree

Prepare

Many of the packages that Netatalk rely on, are in Alpine's Community repository. This repository may be disabled by default, in which case you need to enable it before attempting to install the required packages.

See the Alpine Linux Wiki for more information.

Autotools

Below follows the build instructions for the legacy Autotools build system. In most cases, you want to follow the instructions in the links at the top of this page to install a later version instead.

Packages required for bootstrapping the build system:

apk add autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig

Packages required for building:

apk add avahi-dev build-base cups cups-dev db-dev gcc libgcrypt-dev openssl-dev

Optional packages:

apk add acl-dev cracklib-dev krb5-dev libtirpc-dev openldap-dev

Berkeley DB

As of Alpine 3.13.0 (Jan 14, 2021), BDB is officially a deprecated package.

At the time of writing db-dev still lives on in the Alpine repository, however. In the worst case, building BDB is always an option.

Avahi

If you see Avahi initialization errors, the avahi-daemon may need to be launched manually. Do this if zeroconf service discovery doesn't work out of the box.

Build

First, bootstrap the autotools build system:

./bootstrap

Second, configure the build system:

./configure

Or, if you installed all the optional packages:

./configure --enable-openrc --enable-krbV-uam --with-cracklib --with-libtirpc

Third, compile and link the code:

make

Finally, install the compiled binaries:

make install

Run

Note: netatalk 2.3.2 and earlier has a bug that prevents the openrc init script on more recent Alpine (and Gentoo) systems. Please apply this patch if needed.

By default, the init script will launch afpd and cnid_metad. If you want the AppleTalk service to start up as well, edit your local netatalk.conf file and set ATALKD_RUN=yes etc.

One off start/stop of netatalk daemons

rc-service netatalk start

rc-service netatalk stop

Enable and disable startup on system boot

rc-update add netatalk default

rc-update del netatalk default