How To Install radicale3 on Fedora 34

radicale3 is A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale3 on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radicale3.

Install radicale3 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 radicale3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install radicale3

Install radicale3 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 radicale3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radicale3

How To Uninstall radicale3 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the radicale3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove radicale3

radicale3 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.