Installing Netatalk on Fedora Linux
Install the latest Netatalk
The easiest way to get Netatalk on Fedora is to install the netatalk RPM package with dnf.
sudo dnf install --assumeyes netatalk
For building and installing from source yourself, for instance to get a newer version, follow the guides linked here.
AppleTalk
If you want to use Netatalk as an AppleTalk server, you may need to install the kernel-modules-extra subpackage if not already present on your system.
Then you need to remove Fedora’s default blacklist of the appletalk kernel module.
This can be achieved by editing the following file and commenting out the line that says “blacklist appletalk”.
/etc/modprobe.d/appletalk-blacklist.conf
This will allow Fedora to load the appletalk kernel module.
Note: Do not delete this file. The system will simply recreate it at a later point.
Known issues
If you did an in-place upgrade from Fedora 40 to 41, you may have to update your PAM configuration to avoid an authentication error. See issue#1807 for further details.
Enabling and Starting
# systemctl enable netatalk
# systemctl start netatalk
Footnotes
This is a mirror of the Netatalk GitHub Wiki. Please visit the original page if you want to correct an error or contribute new contents.
Last updated 2025-09-14
