How do I get rid of AppleTalk?

walterbyrd · 07-12-2006, 07:11 AM

I have no idea why it's installed, I don't remember installing it.

I have a new debian 3.1 etch install. During startup I get a message like:

Starting AppleTalk services (this will take awhile): NET: Registered protocol family 5

It really does "take a while" and my boot-up is slow enough. How do I get rid of this? Or least not start this during boot-up.

HappyTux · 07-12-2006, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterbyrd

I have no idea why it's installed, I don't remember installing it.

I have a new debian 3.1 etch install. During startup I get a message like:

Starting AppleTalk services (this will take awhile): NET: Registered protocol family 5

It really does "take a while" and my boot-up is slow enough. How do I get rid of this? Or least not start this during boot-up.

A quick search here suggests you need to apt-get remove --purge netatalk to get rid of it.

Code:

apt-cache search apple talk daemon
netatalk - AppleTalk user binaries

apt-cache show netatalk
Package: netatalk
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 2064
Maintainer: Sebastian Rittau <srittau@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.3-4
Replaces: libatalk1
Depends: netbase, libpam-modules, libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-14), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.23-1), libdb4.2, libgssapi4-heimdal, libkrb5-17-heimdal, libpam0g (>= 0.76), libslp1, libwrap0, perl
Recommends: lsof, rc, slpd, db4.2-util
Suggests: tetex-bin, quota, timeout
Conflicts: libatalk1, netatalk-dev
Filename: pool/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4_amd64.deb
Size: 758826
MD5sum: d03931c42bd8a11e45226c30749c69dc
SHA1: 6ec564749cdac11df9c14cf92d36cbe5a6524e2d
SHA256: 0ced059c6905822ef00496497393a782e1454608c93155d80983744a38a9cc23
Description: AppleTalk user binaries
 Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for
 BSD-derived systems.  The current release contains support for
 EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and
 AFP.
 .
 This package contains all daemon and utility programs as well as Netatalk's
 static libraries.
 .
  Homepage: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
Tag: interface::daemon, made-of::lang:c, network::service, role::sw:server, works-with::file
Task: file-server

r0b0 · 07-12-2006, 10:24 AM

I think it's package called netatalk. So do aptitude remove netatalk

walterbyrd · 07-12-2006, 03:30 PM

Can I be sure that removing netatalk will not affect anything else.

RodWC · 07-12-2006, 03:34 PM

I'm going to say it won't. If it does, it will most likely tell you this before it uninstalls. And even if something is affected afterwards, you can always re-install very easily.

Dutch Master · 07-12-2006, 03:40 PM

Well, when I do a Debian install the first thing I do is removing netatalk or making sure it doesn't get installed in the first place! Don't worry, it's pretty much a selfcontained package you can remove without braking dependencies. I know, did it several times

Code:

apt-get remove netatalk

will do the trick

JackieBrown · 07-12-2006, 07:10 PM

I don't have it installed and I have no problems.

I actually don't use tasksel. It installs too much. It is nice for the new user but that's about it.

I just uncheck everything in the install phase, get left at my command prompt and apt-get everything I need.

It's not a space issue, I just like choosing what's installed (or not installed) on my system.