How To Install calendar on Fedora 34

calendar is Reminder utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install calendar on Fedora 34.

What is `calendar`

The OpenBSD calendar command is a reminder utility. Calendar reads a mix of configuration files and standard calendar databases and then displays lines that begin with either today’s date or tomorrow’s. The output of the command shows upcoming events for the week.

We can use yum or dnf to install calendar on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install calendar.

Install calendar on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install calendar using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install calendar

Install calendar on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install calendar using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install calendar

How To Uninstall calendar on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the calendar package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove calendar

calendar Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/calendar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/2568ae95109b0aa6dd368e5ee7de5936283884
/usr/share/calendar
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.all
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.birthday
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.canada
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.christian
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.croatian
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.discord
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.fictional
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.french
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.german
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.history
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.holiday
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.judaic
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.music
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.nz
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.openbsd
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.pagan
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.russian
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.space
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.uk
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.ushistory
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.usholiday
/usr/share/calendar/calendar.world
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.all
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.feiertag
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.geschichte
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.kirche
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.literatur
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.musik
/usr/share/calendar/de_DE.UTF-8/calendar.wissenschaft
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8/calendar.all
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8/calendar.fetes
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8/calendar.french
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8/calendar.jferies
/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR.UTF-8/calendar.proverbes
/usr/share/calendar/hr_HR.UTF-8
/usr/share/calendar/hr_HR.UTF-8/calendar.all
/usr/share/calendar/hr_HR.UTF-8/calendar.praznici
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.all
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.common
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.history
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.orthodox
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.pagan
/usr/share/calendar/ru_RU.UTF-8/calendar.primety
/usr/share/man/man1/calendar.1.gz

References

calendar website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install calendar on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.