Installing Netatalk 2 on Alpine Linux
Prepare
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.
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-gentoo --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
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Last updated 2024-05-09
