Install Calendar, a Light and Feature-packed Calendar App for Linux
Calendar is a calendar application written in C++ and using Qt5 library for Graphical User Interfaces. This application has a similar appearance to Gnome Calendar, because it was inspired by the Gnome Calendar, but was remade from scratch.
Calendars have the advantage of being lightweight and functionality that doesn’t require a lot of dependencies.
The main target of creating Calendar is for users who use the KDE desktop environment, but it doesn’t matter if you use this application even if you don’t use the KDE desktop environment, Calendar will run just as well.
Calendar has user interface simple and intuitive. Users can easily schedule an event and schedule a list of things to do in the near future. You only need to do one click on the date in the Calendar application, then Calendar will display pop-up to add an event schedule.
Added events are displayed with the date and color coded categories. You can set whether the added event is repeated annually or monthly by just clicking checkbox which is on the menu.
So you don’t need to be afraid to miss someone’s birthday celebration, celebration of an event or other important moments.
Calendar allows you to create color-coded categories. It helps you to organize and differentiate work or school, college, personal, community, organizational events easily using just one app.
The calendar also allows you to do export/import events from/to other calendar applications using “.ics” format files. Most calendar applications generally support the use of this “.ics” format calendar file.
That way you can also do backup schedule If you want to reinstall your device, or when you want to use another device, you can have the same schedule that was created earlier by restoring database from the previous device application.
At the time this article was written, according to the developer, this application was still not final or perfect. But when I run the Calendar application it runs fine without any problems.
How to Install the Calendar Application on Linux
Calendar is a new app, so far it’s not available on repository on any Linux distribution. So to install the Calendar you have to do it manually.
Download file source code of this app in “.zip” format on the following Calendar developer Github page. Then wait for the download process to complete, the downloaded file will be in the Downloads folder.
Then open Terminal on your Linux by pressing the keyboard combination or open Terminal via the application menu. Since the file is in the Downloads folder, enter the following command in Terminal to go to the Downloads folder:
cd ~/Downloads
The downloaded file is still in the form of archive with “.zip” format, first extract the file by entering the following command in Terminal:
unzip kalendar-master.zip
After successfully extracting, go to the extracted folder, namely terminal-master, then enter the “src” sub-folder which is where source code from the Calendar app, enter the following command in Terminal to go to the folder:
cd kalendar-master/src/
Then run the following commands one by one in Terminal:
qmake
make
Wait for the process from these steps one by one to complete. Once done, you can open the app by doing double click on file binary ‘Calendar’ in the “/bin” folder.
If when you open it, a menu appears pop-upselect “make executable and run” so that the file can be run as an application.
