Installing Netatalk on OpenIndiana

Build on OpenIndiana

In the absence of a binary netatalk package for OpenIndiana, we need to build it from source.

• Installation Quick Start

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