Installing Netatalk on OpenBSD

Install Netatalk

A binary netatalk3 port exists for OpenBSD (despite the name, it packages netatalk 4 at the time of writing.)

Ex. (with root privileges)

pkg_add -I netatalk3

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

Prepare

Below follows the build instructions for the legacy Autotools build system. In most cases, you want to follow the instructions in the links at the top of this page instead.

Instructions for installing netatalk 3.x on OpenBSD 7.5

Install requisite packages for netatalk:

pkg_add -I \
  autoconf-2.71 \
  automake-1.16.5 \
  avahi \
  bison \
  dbus-glib \
  db-4.6.21p7v0 \
  gcc-11.2.0p11 \
  gmake \
  libevent \
  libgcrypt \
  libtalloc \
  libtool \
  meson \
  openldap-client-2.6.7v0 \
  openpam \
  pkgconf \
  tracker3

Build

export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.71
export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.16
export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./bootstrap
./configure --with-init-style=openbsd --with-tracker-pkgconfig-version=3.0
make
make install

Run

Netatalk 3.2 and later ships with an OpenBSD init script.

Enable and start the service

rcctl -d enable netatalk
rcctl -d start netatalk