Installing the Oracle Calendar Desktop Client for Linux
Before you begin
The Oracle Calendar client for Linux is an X11 application built atop the Motif toolkit and requires kernel 2.4.9 or higher. In order to install the Oracle Calendar client, you will need an X11 server with Motif runtime libraries installed on your system. If you need to access dCal from Linux kernels earlier than 2.4.9, use the Oracle Calendar web client.
Install the Oracle Calendar desktop client
You can install the Oracle Calendar client for Linux in by using yum or by downloading and installing the client manually. Select your preferred installation method below.
Installing the Oracle Calendar client using yum
The Linux@DUKE project has provided a package that can be installed with yum.
If you are running a Linux@DUKE distribution and have root access, run the following:
yum --enablerepo=duke-nondistrib install oracle-calendar-client
An Oracle Calendar Client icon should now appear among the Office applications in your desktop environment's application menu, with yum installing the application to /usr/bin/ocal. Please continue reading below to find the next steps.
Installing the Oracle Calendar client manually
The Oracle Calendar desktop clients for use with dCal are available from the dCal software downloads page. Download the package for Linux to your home directory to begin the installation process.
After downloading the installer, create a temporary directory and unpack the tarball into it:
mkdir /tmp/calinstall cd /tmp/calinstall tar xzvf ~/cal_linux_1012.tar.gz
The tarball unpacks into an OracleCalendar_inst subdirectory.
The Oracle Calendar client uses a Java-based installer. If you plan to install the client for system-wide availability (or into a directory you don't have write privileges for), run the installer as root. If you run the installer as a "normal" user, you'll be restricted to installing into a directory to which you have write privileges.
To run the installer:
- Change to the OracleCalendar_inst directory and do one of the following:
- To use the X-based GUI installer, run ./gui_install.sh
- To use the text-based installer, run ./text_install.sh
- Follow the prompts to select a destination directory and to (optionally) create symbolic links to the executables associated with the client (for example, in /usr/local/bin).
Next steps
Now that you have the Oracle Calendar desktop client for Linux installed, configure the client to connect to the dCal server. Server-based authentication provides a reasonable level of security and requires no additional software; Kerberos authentication provides a higher level of security and provides a persistent login lasting at least 10 hours. Also, other Kerberos-aware applications (SAP's "Authentic Login", Mulberry, etc.) will use the same Kerberos ticket as dCal. Select the desired method below.