Cannot install on bookworm

[beetlegigg]

On Debian Bookworm I cannot - sudo apt install netatalk - the message is:

Package netatalk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'netatalk' has no installation candidate

It was installing OK on Debian Bullseye. Can this be fixed? Thanks.

[rdmark]

The netatalk package was removed from Debian 12 (Bookworm) because the package had no maintainer last year.

I took over as maintainer of the Debian package earlier this year, so there's a good chance we can get it added back in Debian 13 (Trixie)... in about 1.5 years.

There is a maintained netatalk package in Debian Unstable (Sid) so as a workaround you can add the Unstable repos to your apt sources:

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/how-to-run-unstable-packages-on-debian-stable/

You may run into dependency challenges. When I tried this a few months ago I found that I had to pin the libgcrypt20 library to the unstable version as well. I don't know if Debian 12's repos has gotten an update to their libgcrypt20 package yet or not...

[beetlegigg]

Many thanks, that was a very helpful link to how to install unstable packages and its working well. Just to give current info, I did still have to pin the libgcrypt20 lib as well as netatalk as you did a few months ago.

[rdmark]

Good to hear that it worked out for you!

[hogwollop]

Many thanks for your work and taking over as maintainer! Helpful links and clear/concise compile instructions allowed me to use AFP to workaround what appears to be a bug in Sonoma's smbfs 5.0. (Transfers of many large files to Linux/Samba or Windows servers appears to reliably cause a watchdog kernel panic on a couple of Mac Sonoma 14.1.2 clients).

[metaljay]

really sorry to revive this, can anyone help share further information on how to install netatalk on bookworm?
I'm struggling to even add the unstable repo let along how to 'pin' a version (the link above was little too complex for me 😒)

when I try to install netatalk manually (with the .deb) I get this:

`pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install ./netatalk.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
netatalk : Depends: libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7) but it is not installable
Depends: libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: lsof but it is not installed
Recommends: python3-dbus but it is not installed
Recommends: tracker but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).`

[beetlegigg]

@metaljay
I wrote down the steps I took for this in my 'create a new image for a raspberry pi' notes, so I paste the relevant section below and hope it helps.

**Note for Bookworm netatalk needs to be installed with unstable version:

5.1.  Edit the apt sources.list file
- sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list 
- add the following to the bottom of the file
# For unstable releases - added by bg
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Note: Do NOT do an apt install until a preferences files has been created!

5.2. Create a file preferences file
- sudo nano  /etc/apt/preferences       
- enter the following text:
                     
Package: *
Pin: release a=bookworm
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: netatalk
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: libgcrypt20
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 100

5.3. Now do an apt update (even if recently done!)
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt full-upgrade

5.4. Install netatalk
- sudo apt install netatalk

[metaljay]

amazing! worked perfectly!

Thanks so much! I tried without pinning libgcrypt and it also worked installing netatalk

[geerlingguy]

Note: I also had to install libtirpc-common from unstable, otherwise I got the error Depends: libtirpc-common (>= 1.3.4+ds-1.1) but 1.3.3+ds-1 is to be installed.

Easy enough with sudo apt install libtirpc-common -t unstable (or pinning it via prefs).

Note that after doing that, SSH seemed to stop working, I had to reinstall it with unstable as well... sudo apt install openssh-server -t unstable.