#calcurse

We all have our ways of keeping our lives in order, from a scrap of paper in the pocket, to an overcomplicated digital personal organiser. If you are already using your Raspberry Pi for day to day tasks then the following program might be right down your alley.

Calcurse is a text base calender software offering scheduling, task management and reminders system. Being a lightweight textbased application, it sits right at home on your Raspberry Pi. To install it we simply use Apt-get to grab the latest version, type the following

sudo apt-get install calcurse

As usual you will need to authenticate the sudo command. THanks it, you should now be able to launch Calcurse by typing

Calcurse

You dont need to leave it open to recieve the reminders as the application launches its own background service to ensure that reminders are monitored. Much like many other linux applications, you can also launch it with certain parameters to get information quickly without launching the apllication fully. For example 

Calcurse -a

Will print to the screen a list of all outstanding appointments.

Download calcurse-2.9.2. Later versions probably work.

Open the Terminal, cd ~/Downloads/calcurse-2.9.2.

./configure CFLAGS="-fnested-functions"

make

sudo make install

Edit: after playing with calcurse for a brief period of time, I've moved on to wyrd which seems like a better system.

It's based on a unix app called remind. The only thing that bugs me is that downloading and installing remind is hampered by the developers staunch anti-Apple position.

The formula for calcurse was recently updated to version 2.7.

To install calcurse on your Mac, open your Terminal application and run the following commands;

brew update brew install calcurse

 The updated formula is as follows:

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require 'formula' class Calcurse < Formula url 'http://culot.org/cgi-bin/get.cgi?calcurse-2.7.tar.gz' homepage 'http://culot.org/calcurse/' md5 'eddfae36370fd89532149fe80c312e1e' depends_on 'gettext' def patches DATA end def install ENV.append 'CFLAGS', "-I#{include} -fnested-functions" ENV.append 'LDFLAGS', "-lintl" ENV.O3 system "./configure", "--disable-dependency-tracking", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--mandir=#{man}" system "make" system "make install" end end __END__ diff --git a/configure b/configure index 69d2800..175871e 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -1488,7 +1488,8 @@ else if test -f "$ac_aux_dir/mkinstalldirs"; then mkdir_p='$(mkinstalldirs)' else - mkdir_p='$(SHELL) $(install_sh) -d' + #mkdir_p='$(SHELL) $(install_sh) -d' + mkdir_p='$(install_sh) -d' fi fi @@ -1706,7 +1707,8 @@ else fi fi -INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM="\${SHELL} \$(install_sh) -c -s" +#INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM="\${SHELL} \$(install_sh) -c -s" +INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM="\$(install_sh) -c -s" # We need awk for the "check" target. The system "awk" is bad on # some platforms.

This package, calcurse, depends on;

gettext