I had the need to install netatalk on CentOS 5.4.  Sadly there were no easily found precompiled packages of netatalk, so I googled to find some guidance on the best way to do this.

I found a great article on www.linuxquestions.org which gave plenty of hints as to what was required, and to compile from source wasn’t going to be too arduous.

So here is what I did…

Downloaded and installed Oracle (is there anything they don’t yet own?) Berkeley DB

You can find Oracle Berkeley DB through a simple google search.  I used version 4.8.30.NC.  I found that 5.x didn’t work.

After downloading and extracting Berkeley DB, I compiled with command:

cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix

../dist/configure –prefix=/usr/local/db-4.8.30 && make -j 2 && make install

Then downloaded netatalk 2.1.1 and compiled and installed with command:

cd netatalk-2.1.1

./configure –enable-redhat –with-bdb=/usr/local/db-4.8.30 –prefix=/usr/local/netatalk-2.1.1 –with-mutex=x86/gcc-assembly && make -j 2 && make install

Then configured the software from /usr/local/netatalk-2.1.1/etc/netatalk and started the server

chkconfig atalk on

service atalk start

Hope someone finds this useful.