Radicale is an open-source calendar and contacts server. It allows you to sync your contacts and calendar events among devices. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the installation of Radicale on Fedora CoreOS.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
Start by updating the packages on your Fedora CoreOS machine. Open a terminal and run:
sudo dnf update
Fedora CoreOS does not support the Radicale package in its official repository. We'll need to use pip to install Radicale.
Start by installing pip3. This is a package management system that you can use to install and manage software packages written in Python.
To install pip3, run:
sudo dnf install python3-pip
Once you have pip3 installed, use it to install Radicale:
sudo pip3 install radicale
After installing Radicale, we need to configure it.
Create a new configuration file for Radicale. In the terminal, run:
sudo nano /etc/radicale/config
Paste the following configuration into the file:
[server]
hosts = 0.0.0.0:5232
[storage]
type = file
filesystem_folder = /var/lib/radicale/collections/
Create a new directory to store your Radicale data:
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/radicale/collections/
Create a user for Radicale. In the terminal, run:
sudo radicale-adduser
Follow the prompts to create a new user.
After configuring Radicale, we can start the service.
Start the Radicale service using systemctl:
sudo systemctl start radicale
Set Radicale to start automatically when the system boots:
sudo systemctl enable radicale
After installation and configuration, you can test Radicale.
Check if Radicale is running:
sudo systemctl status radicale
Use a web browser or a synchronization client like Thunderbird to connect to Radicale. You may need to disable SSL verification if you're using a self-signed certificate.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Radicale on Fedora CoreOS latest. You also learned how to configure and test it. You can now sync your calendar events and contacts among devices using Radicale!
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