Installing Netatalk on OpenIndiana
Build on OpenIndiana
In the absence of a binary netatalk package for OpenIndiana, we need to build it from source.
Below follow concrete steps how to install Netatalk on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.06.
Prepare build environment
As root, update the OpenIndiana system and then reboot
# pfexec pkg image-update
# reboot
Install the build toolchain and C compiler
# pkg install build-essential build/meson ninja
Install mandatory netatalk dependencies
The iniparser library isn’t packaged in OpenIndiana, so let’s build it from source.
# wget https://gitlab.com/iniparser/iniparser/-/archive/v4.2.6/iniparser-v4.2.6.tar.gz
# tar xzf iniparser-v4.2.6.tar.gz
# cd iniparser-v4.2.6
# mkdir build
# cd build
# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local ..
# make all
# make install
Install optional netatalk dependencies
# pkg install cmark cracklib database/mariadb-114/client database/mariadb-114/library
Build
Extract a netatalk release tarball.
# tar xzvf netatalk-4.3.2.tar.xz
# cd netatalk-4.3.2
You should read the help message, in order to know configure options.
If the applicable libraries are installed, many options will be detected automatically.
# meson configure
Do configure! The following options are not auto-detected.
# meson setup build \
-Dbuildtype=release \
-Dpkg_config_path=/usr/lib/pkgconfig \
-Dwith-dbus-sysconf-path=/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d \
-Dwith-iniparser-path=/usr/local \
-Dwith-tests=true
Build, test and install.
# meson compile -C build
# meson test -C build
# meson install -C build
Starting
Start mDNSResponder.
# svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/multicast:default
Start Netatalk.
# svcadm enable svc:/network/netatalk:default
See also
- OpenIndiana Wiki
- Package Search - netatalk
- netatalk - Solaris package
- Installation Guide for OpenIndiana
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
