This is finally working for me in Intrepid Ibex (8.10). I am able to sync my desktop calendar with the google calendar without noticing that Evolution is involved. My primary goal was to get calendar events to show up in the clock/calendar dropdown in the top right corner (by default). To do this is actually pretty simple. In the settings for your Google calendar, copy the private ics link. Paste the link into the address bar and change the http(s) to webcal. Hit enter and it should prompt you to open it using evolution-webcal. Let it do that, answer the questions it asks and all should be good in the world.
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best post EVER! There’s a lot of summeries out there but this is the one I was looking for and is the simplest since I never run Evoution but wanted the dates to appear in the calendar. Thanks!
Thank you so much for a really easy way to do this!
Evolution-webcal doesn’t show up in the list of options for opening a webcal link … any idea where to find it? (I’ve checked, it is installed)
In my install it is located at: /usr/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal
I can’t say for sure whether or not that will work for you though.
Good Luck
Wow! Thanks. I no longer have to maintain my own version of this.
Well done! This is exactly what I wanted!
Super ! Merci beaucoup :cP
Is there a way to remove this (backing up /usr/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal and then removing, doesn’t work).
Nevermind, It automaticly adds it to evolutions calendar.
ok, i feel really dumb, but what is the “private ics link”?
When you’re looking at your calendar, click on the dropdown of that calendar’s name (should be on the left).
Click Calendar Settings
At the bottom there will be a collection of links. You want the private ICAL.
good tip! Anyway, after choosing evolution-webcal, I keep getting the error message: “Error Loading the calendar , there was an error loading basic.ics”
Any Ideas? Thankyou!