How to Make Google Calendar work with Kontact

[carlosestensser]

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?

[claydoh]

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

[james147]

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?

[claydoh]

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

[andystmartin]

Awesome. Google is finally integrated into my KDE calendar.

This is great!

[TheMacster]

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.

[SteveRiley]

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

[SteveRiley]

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

[woodsmoke]

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

[TheMacster]

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:

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.