I needed to install a calendar generation package on a Linux system. I had previously used pcal on another Linux system and decided to use it again, since I was familiar with it and found it met my requirements.
I looked for a pcal RPM package. I found that the perl-Calendar-Simple
package contained a pcal program and decided to install it.
I installed the package, which is available from
http://packages.sw.be/perl-Calendar-Simple/ or
RPM PBone. If you are using
the RPMforge repository, you
can install it with yum or another installer. To configure
yum to use the RPMForge repository, see
RPMForge Packages and Yum Priorites.
# yum install perl-Calendar-Simple
After I installed the package, I found it installed /usr/bin/pcal.
That pcal program was a Perl script. I could use it to
generate the current month's calendar by typing pcal or a specific
month from the current year with pcal m, where m
is a number representing a month, e.g. pcal 6 would display
the month of June. Or you can use pcal mm, e.g. pcal
06 for June. That pcal can also generate a calendar for a
specific month and year with pcal mm yyyy, e.g. pcal
06 2009 for the calendar for June 2009.
# pcal 06 2009
June 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
But that pcal program didn't offer me as many options as
I had with the cal program that was already installed on the
system. I didn't need anything particularly fancy, but I did need the
capability to generate a calendar in
HTML format, which
the Perl pcal script didn't provide.
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