How To Install radicale3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale3 on CentOS 8.
What is radicale3
The Radicale Project is a CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server. It aims to be a light solution, easy to use, easy to install, easy to configure. As a consequence, it requires few software dependencies and is pre-configured to work out-of-the-box. The Radicale Project runs on most of the UNIX-like platforms (Linux, BSD, MacOS X) and Windows. It is known to work with Evolution, Lightning, iPhone and Android clients. It is free and open-source software, released under GPL version 3. THIS IS MAJOR VERSION 3 UPGRADE BETWEEN MAJOR VERSIONS IS NOT SUPPORTED -> deinstall old major version -> install new version -> follow migration hints Upgrade hints from major version 2 -> 3 can be found here https (section ‘3.0.0’)
We can use yum or dnf to install radicale3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radicale3.
Install radicale3 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install radicale3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install radicale3
Install radicale3 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install radicale3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install radicale3
How To Uninstall radicale3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the radicale3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove radicale3
radicale3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/radicale
/etc/radicale/config
/etc/radicale/rights
/run/radicale
/usr/bin/radicale
/usr/lib/systemd/system/radicale.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/radicale.conf
/usr/share/doc/radicale3
/usr/share/doc/radicale3/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/radicale3/README.md
/usr/share/radicale
/var/lib/radicale
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.