https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netatalk
This is a 3 year old piece of software in the latest Ubuntu LTS release. That is real bummer.
I don’t want to do all this:
http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Install_Netatalk_3.1.6_on_Ubuntu_14.04_Trusty
I’d really just like to apt-get install netatalk and have the latest.
Using a 3.0+ version of Netatalk is especially nice since it uses filesystem extended attributes for AppleDouble instead of hidden files all over the place. http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.0/ReleaseNotes-3.0.html
First, the results:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:evarlast/netatalk
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install netatalk
A brief warning: config file syntax changed entirely from 2.2 netatalk to 3.0 netatalk. If you are upgrading from 2.x to 3.x you will need to audit your config files and test and make sure everything works.
How I did it:
On a refresh trusty install:
$ sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev devscripts libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev systemtap-sdt-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev tracker libtracker-sparql-0.16-dev libtracker-miner-0.16-dev libtdb-dev libevent-dev
$ sudo apt-get source netatalk
$ sudo apt-get build-dep netatalk
$ curl -o netatalk_3.1.6.orig.tar.bz2 -L ‘http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/files/latest/download?source=files’
$ tar jxvf netatalk_3.1.6.orig.tar.bz2
$ cd netatalk-3.1.6
$ cp -a ../netatalk-2.2.2/debian .
$ dch -v 3.1.6 -D trusty
$ vim debian/patches/series # remove everything except the macusers patch
$ vim debian/control # edit and update with dependent packages we installed as listed http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Install_Netatalk_3.1.6_on_Ubuntu_14.04_Trusty Be sure to add a final NETA_LDCONFIG=/bin/true to the configure flags
$ vim debian/rules # edit and update configure options as listed on wiki page
$ vim debian/atalk.docs # remove README line
$ debuild
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -S
Install the package or dput it into a PPA.
In putting this together I ran into an issue with a strange automake assumption that the build will be as root, or that the user running make can run ldconfig. This is not the case when building debian pacakges. Searching for NETA_LDCONFIG returned this url: http://oichinote.com/plus/2014/07/installing-debianized-netatalk-3-1-3-on-ubuntu-14-04.html