How To Install radicale on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is radicale
radicale is:
Radicale is a CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
Calendars and address books are available for both local and remote access, possibly limited through authentication policies. They can be viewed and edited by calendar and contact clients on mobile phones or computers.
This package contains the radicale daemon.
Some authentication schemes require either of the packages apache2-utils, python-ldap, python-passlib, python-pampy, courier-authdaemon or python-requests.
SQL storage requires the package python-sqlalchemy.
There are three methods to install radicale on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install radicale Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radicale using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radicale
Install radicale Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radicale using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radicale
Install radicale Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install radicale using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radicale
How To Uninstall radicale on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the radicale package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radicale
Uninstall radicale And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radicale and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radicale
Remove radicale Configurations and Data
To remove radicale configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radicale
Remove radicale configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radicale configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radicale
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
