Installing Netatalk on FreeBSD

Install Netatalk

The easiest way to get Netatalk on FreeBSD is to install the netatalk4 port with pkg.

With root privileges, install the netatalk4 package:

pkg install netatalk4

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

Run

Netatalk ships with an init script for FreeBSD.

If needed, activate the script with:

/etc/rc.d/netatalk enable

Start or stop the script with

/etc/rc.d/netatalk start
/etc/rc.d/netatalk stop

If you use D-Bus for, for instance, afpstats, please make sure that the dbus service is started before you launch netatalk.

service dbus onestart