I’m looking for the calendar program from BSD. It’s a CLI program simply called calendar. I’ve done a pacman -F calendar but didn’t see it in the results. Does anyone know where that package is?
Are you sure it’s called calendar? The util-linux package contains /usr/bin/cal — you should already have this.
There are various packages with a name containing the word “calendar” in the AUR, but I’m not sure whether that is what you’re looking for.
pamac search calendar
Thanks for the reply. It’s different than cal. You type “calendar” at the shell, and it prints out holidays from a holiday file. Some distros have it, and I know it from my Solaris days, but I think it’s a BSD utility. I know Mint used to have it.
Looks like I may have found the man page: calendar(1) - OpenBSD manual pages
I don’t know what the package name is on OpenBSD, but either way, keep in mind there are not many BSD applications used on GNU / Linux distributions.
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There is a carl-calendar in the AUR, which may do what you seek.
pamac build carl-calendar
Yes, that’s the one! The man page is showing the right one!
I’ll check out carl-calendar. Thanks!
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carl-calendar isn’t it, sorry. That’s a colorful version of cal, with other features. This one doesn’t print a calendar at all, just lists the dates and holidays of any events in the next two days.
I know it has been in linux distros before, so that’s why I’m not thinking it’s one of those BSD things that just isn’t there in linux. It WAS in linux, so I’m hoping it still is.
Well, I don’t really know the tool you’re asking about — I’ve never worked with BSD proper, but I have worked with both OSF/1 in 1995 and whatever UNIX UNISYS used on their minicomputers in the early 1990s — but like I said, there are many applications in the AUR with the word “calendar” in their name.
Worst case scenario, you can always download the source of the original and compile it yourself.
Just make sure you have base-devel installed. 
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If Linux Mint had it, then it was likely from Ubuntu. The bsdmainutils package from Ubuntu appears to contain a calendar application. There is an AUR bsdmainutils that appears to be built from upstream Ubuntu.
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I’ll check out the bdsmainutils. That sounds promising. Thanks!
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Thanks @takakage! That’s where it was, in bsdmainutils, which I’ve now built. Question, when I did a pacman -F calendar, why did it not show up? Or does that not search AURs?
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Because /usr/bin/calendar does not exist in any package in the Manjaro repos.
No, pacman does not search AUR packages. Either way, that functionality is not available for AUR packages as the files are not indexed as repo packages are.
EDIT: @Aragorn and I replied at the same time…
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Correct. pacman does not access the AUR. It only manages precompiled packages from the repositories.
The AUR does not actually contain packages, but rather PKGBUILD scripts, which are bash scripts that pull in the sources from wherever needed and then build them into an installable ALPM package.with makepkg.
pamac however can access the AUR, and can also be used for installing Snaps and FlatPaks.
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