How To Install pal on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pal on Ubuntu.

What is `pal`

pal is:

pal is a command-line calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events. It has similarities with the Unix cal command, the more complex GNU gcal program, and the calendar program distributed with the BSDs.

Some of pal’s main features are:

A cal-like calendar that highlights days that have events.
Assign different colors to different types of events.
Search events with regular expressions (-s).
Includes calendars for US holidays, Christian holidays, world holidays, historical events and more.
One-time events and a variety of recurring events are supported (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). Recurring events can have start and end dates.
Easy-to-use interface for interactively adding, editing and deleting events (-m).
Automated deletion of old events (-x).
Option to generate an HTML calendar (–html).
Option to generate a LaTeX calendar suitable for printing (–latex).

Ways to use pal effectively include:

Create your own calendar files and be reminded of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and events.
Remind yourself daily of your “To Do” list by using the special TODO event type.
Run pal in your shell initialization file (such as ~/.bash_profile) to see your calendar whenever you open a new terminal.
Set up a cron job that emails you and/or others the output of pal every morning (–mail).
View the calendars of other pal users on the same system.

There are three methods to install pal on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pal Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pal using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pal

Install pal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pal using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pal

Install pal 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 pal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pal

How To Uninstall pal on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove pal

Uninstall pal And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pal

Remove pal Configurations and Data

To remove pal configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pal

Remove pal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pal

Dependencies

pal have the following dependencies:

References

pal website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pal package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.