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.

• Installation Quick Start
• Compile Netatalk from Source

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