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, for instance to get a newer version, follow the guides linked here.

• Installation Quick Start
• Compile Netatalk from Source

Prepare

Many of the packages that Netatalk rely on, including netatalk itself, 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.

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.

An experimental SQLite CNID backend has been introduced in Netatalk 4.3.0 as a drop-in replacement for Berkeley DB.

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.

Run

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