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    How to Make Google Calendar work with Kontact

    I have spent a stupid amount of time trying to get kontact working nicely with Google calendar. Occasionally, it worked with Akonadi Resources, but more often than not, it failed.

    For me, it was extremely irritating, as I wanted a full KDE experience and not Thunderbird or some other GTK app added in just to have a working sync to Google calendar.

    After what seemed like forever, I found akonadi-google and now I'm a happy bunny!

    This is what I to get everything running nicely:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs5-dev kdepimlibs5-dev libqjson-dev libphonon-dev xsltproc
    git clone git://anongit.kde.org/akonadi-google
    cd akonadi-google
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
    make
    sudo make install
    All information was found here:
    http://www.progdan.cz/2011/09/akonad...tasks-support/

    Then Open System Settings> Personal Information
    Click on the Add button and then click Google Calendars.

    Enter your information, open kontact and everything syncs sweet as a nut.
    Last edited by TheMacster; Apr 26, 2012, 05:27 PM.

    #2
    Hi TheMacster

    And welcome to the Kubuntu forums.

    Two things:

    a) Please do NOT be a stranger.
    b) Please report in a week or so as to what happened with your fix.

    Again, welcome!

    woodsmoke

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      #3
      It's also available via PPA, for those who don't wish to compile from source.

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        #4
        And it works! Shows all my calendars, and no more dealing with Google's goofy half-assed CalDAV. Yay!

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          #5
          I've had this fix running for a couple of months now, and I'd say it's perfect really. Shame its so well hidden.
          Last edited by TheMacster; Apr 27, 2012, 01:29 AM.

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            #6
            Awesome. Google is finally integrated into my KDE calendar.

            This is great!

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              #7
              it looks like it may have just missed the final freeze date, which is probably why it isn't in the repos.

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                #8
                Originally posted by claydoh View Post
                it looks like it may have just missed the final freeze date, which is probably why it isn't in the repos.
                Then what is this?

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                  #9
                  that is the old, broken resource. The new one is called akonadi-google

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                    #10
                    I've been struggling for ages with akonadi-googledata.
                    This stuff is amazing !
                    Why isn't this package (which works great, afaik) in the repos when akonadi-googledata is?

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by carlosestensser View Post
                      I've been struggling for ages with akonadi-googledata.
                      This stuff is amazing !
                      Why isn't this package (which works great, afaik) in the repos when akonadi-googledata is?
                      Because it was released rather late in relation to 12.04's development cycle so did not get tested enough before the final feature freeze. I think it could easily be included in any future KDE version updates in Kubuntu's PPAs, however.

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                        #12
                        When I create an event in Kontact, I get the notification:

                        akonadi_googlecalendar_resource_0: The top-level collection cannot contain any tasks or events

                        and the event never appears in Google calendar. Has anyone else seen this?

                        Otherwise, akonadi-google is working nicely and it was easy to install from the ppa.

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                          #13
                          Its not the akonadi google calendar that you need to add. Click add calendar and scroll down a bit on the pop up window until you see Google Calendar. Add that and all should be fine

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                            #14
                            Well thanks for this post TheMacster, I just added the ppa and installed.
                            Added my google calendar. It worked first time.
                            Kontact just became even better
                            Using Kubuntu 17.10 64Bit

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Batty View Post
                              Well thanks for this post TheMacster, I just added the ppa and installed.
                              Added my google calendar. It worked first time.
                              Kontact just became even better
                              You're welcome

                              I've added the ppa too. It appears that the AMD builds are screwed at the mo, so if anyone is on an AMD machine, I recommend compiling from source as detailed in my 1st post.

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