How To Install radicale3 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radicale3 on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radicale3.
Install radicale3 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install radicale3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install radicale3
Install radicale3 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the radicale3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove radicale3
radicale3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.