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

At the time of writing, the avahi-daemon needs to be launched manually on Alpine. 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