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If you have previously used an older version of Netatalk, please read the chapter about upgrading first !!!
Please have a look at the netatalk page on sourceforge for the most recent informations on this issue.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/
Binary packages of Netatalk are included in some Linux and UNIX distributions. You might want to have a look at the usual locations, too.
Ubuntu package: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
Debian package: http://packages.debian.org/
various RPM package: http://rpmfind.net/
Fedora/RHEL package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search
Gentoo package: http://packages.gentoo.org/
openSUSE package: http://software.opensuse.org/
Solaris package: http://www.blastwave.org/
FreeBSD ports: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
NetBSD pkgsrc: http://pkgsrc.se/search.php
OpenBSD ports:http://openports.se/search.php
Prepacked tarballs in .tar.gz and tar.bz2 format are available on the netatalk page on sourceforge.
Downloading the Git repository can be done quickly and easily.
Make sure you have Git installed. which git should produce a path to git.
$>which git/usr/bin/git
If you don't have one make a source directory. cd to this directory.
$>mkdir /path/to/new/source/dir$>cd /path/to/new/source/dir
Now get the source:
$>git clone git://netatalk.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/netatalk/netatalkInitialized empty Git repository in /path/to/new/source/dir/netatalk/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 2503, done. ...
This will create a local directory called "netatalk" containing a complete and fresh copy of the whole Netatalk source from the Git repository.
In order to keep your repository copy updated, occasionally run:
$>git pull
Now cd to the netatalk directory and run
./bootstrap. This will create the
configure script required in the next
step.
$>./bootstrap
Your system needs to meet the following requirements:
A C compiler, Netatalk compiles fine with gcc > 2.7.95
To be able to compile with AFP3 support, your system has to support large files (>2GB).
On linux systems glibc > 2.2 is required.
Netatalk makes use of sleepycats' Berkeley DB. At the time of writing, the following versions are supported:
minimum 4.6.x
In case Berkeley DB is not installed on your system, please download it from:
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html
and follow the installation instructions.
Netatalk can use the following third party software to enhance it's functionality.
Libgcrypt (recommended) and OpenSSL
Required for encrypted passwords. Without it, the password will be sent over the network in clear text. Libgcrypt is needed for DHX2. OpenSSL is needed for the older DHCAST128 (aka DHX).
Libgcrypt can be downloaded from: http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/.
OpenSSL can be downloaded from: http://www.openssl.org/.
OpenSLP
SLP (Service Location Protocol) is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks.
Mac OS 8.5 - Mac OS X 10.4 use SLP to locate AFP servers.
You can download OpenSLP from: http://www.openslp.org/.
Avahi or mDNSResponder
Mac OS X 10.2 and later prefer Bonjour (aka Zeroconf). Netatalk can advertise AFP server and Time Machine volume by using Avahi or mDNSResponder.
Avahi is a freely-available implementation of Zeroconf.
Avahi must be build with DBUS support (
--enable-dbus).
You can download Avahi from: http://www.avahi.org/.
Starting with Netatalk 2.2.3, mDNSResponder is also available.
You can download mDNSResponder from: http://developer.apple.com/bonjour/.
TCP wrappers
Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP.
Security options are: access control per host, domain and/or service; detection of host name spoofing or host address spoofing; booby traps to implement an early-warning system.
TCP Wrappers can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/
PAM provides a flexible mechanism for authenticating users. PAM was invented by SUN Microsystems. Linux-PAM is a suite of shared libraries that enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users.
You can get the Linux PAM documentation and sources from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/.
iconv
iconv provides conversion routines for many character encodings. Netatalk uses it to provide charsets it does not have built in conversions for, like ISO-8859-1. On glibc systems, Netatalk can use the glibc provided iconv implementation. Otherwise you can use the GNU libiconv implementation.
You can download GNU libiconv from: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/.
To build the binaries, first run the program ./configure in the source directory. This should automatically configure Netatalk for your operating system. If you have unusual needs, then you may wish to run
$> ./configure --helpto see what special options you can enable.
The most used configure options are:
--enable-[redhat-sysv/redhat-systemd/suse-sysv/suse-systemd/gentoo/netbsd/debian/systemd/fhs]
This option helps netatalk to determine where to install the start scripts.
--with-bdb=/path/to/bdb/installation/
In case you installed Berkeley DB in a non-standard location, you will have to give the install location to netatalk, using this switch.
Now run configure with any options you need
$>./configure [arguments] [--with-bdb=/bdb/install/path]
Configure will end up in an overview showing the settings the Netatalk Makefiles have been created with.
If this step fails please visit the troubleshooting guide.
Next, running
$>make
should produce the Netatalk binaries (this step can take several minutes to complete).
When the process finished you can use
$>make install
to install the binaries and documentation (must be done as "root" when using default locations).