Installing Netatalk on openSUSE

Install Netatalk

At the time of writing, there are experimental netatalk packages available for openSUSE that can be sideloaded.

Build from source

For building and installing from source yourself, for instance to get a newer version, follow the guide below.

Install dependencies

zypper in -y bison cracklib-devel dbus-1-devel file flex gawk gcc libacl-devel libavahi-devel libdb-4_8-devel libevent-devel libgcrypt-devel libmariadb-devel libtalloc-devel libtdb-devel libtracker-sparql-3_0-0 meson ninja openldap2-devel pam-devel perl pkg-config systemd systemtap-sdt-devel tcpd-devel tracker

Configure

meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Dwith-appletalk=true -Dwith-dbus-sysconf-path=/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d -Dwith-tests=true

Build

meson compile -C build

Run integration tests

meson test -C build

Install

meson install -C build

Check netatalk capabilities

netatalk -V
afpd -V

Uninstall

ninja -C build uninstall

Enabling and Starting

You must run Avahi ahead of Netatalk.

# systemctl enable avahi-daemon
# systemctl enable netatalk
# systemctl start avahi-daemon
# systemctl start netatalk