[SOLVED] Classic BSD calendar in Slackware

Hi!

I'd like to use the bsd calendar under Slackware. How can I achieve that?
Can you recommend a slackbuild or translation source?

Thanks in advance

What's wrong with calendar(s) shipped with Slackware out of the box?

$ cal -y
                               2017                               

       January               February                 March       
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7             1  2  3  4             1  2  3  4   
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14    5  6  7  8  9 10 11    5  6  7  8  9 10 11   
15 16 17 18 19 20 21   12 13 14 15 16 17 18   12 13 14 15 16 17 18   
22 23 24 25 26 27 28   19 20 21 22 23 24 25   19 20 21 22 23 24 25   
29 30 31               26 27 28               26 27 28 29 30 31      
                                                                     
        April                   May                   June        
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1       1  2  3  4  5  6                1  2  3   
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8    7  8  9 10 11 12 13    4  5  6  7  8  9 10   
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   11 12 13 14 15 16 17   
16 17 18 19 20 21 22   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   18 19 20 21 22 23 24   
23 24 25 26 27 28 29   28 29 30 31            25 26 27 28 29 30      
30                                                                   
        July                  August                September     
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1          1  2  3  4  5                   1  2   
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8    6  7  8  9 10 11 12    3  4  5  6  7  8  9   
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15   13 14 15 16 17 18 19   10 11 12 13 14 15 16   
16 17 18 19 20 21 22   20 21 22 23 24 25 26   17 18 19 20 21 22 23   
23 24 25 26 27 28 29   27 28 29 30 31         24 25 26 27 28 29 30   
30 31                                                                
       October               November               December      
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7             1  2  3  4                   1  2   
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14    5  6  7  8  9 10 11    3  4  5  6  7  8  9   
15 16 17 18 19 20 21   12 13 14 15 16 17 18   10 11 12 13 14 15 16   
22 23 24 25 26 27 28   19 20 21 22 23 24 25   17 18 19 20 21 22 23   
29 30 31               26 27 28 29 30         24 25 26 27 28 29 30   
                                              31

If you don't want to use cal, there is gcal, which is actually supposed to replace the BSD style calendar, according to https://boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/001711.

So check out if this suits your needs: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/office/gcal/

Slackware has 'cal' but not 'calendar'. Perhaps that's the one OP is referring to.

I found this port on sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdcalendar/ but I've never downloaded/used it so I have no idea about the quality of the port (also it's rather old, but then it probably doesn't need much maintenence given its age.).

Under Debian based distros the bsdmainutils package contains calendar, which is not the same as cal. First, I'll try gcal and see how close it gets to calendar. Otherwise I'll try the mentioned code from sourceforge.net. Thanks all!

If a package you need is available under another distro, don't hesitate to look at their sources! Some may be easy to read and understand (Arch), some slightly harder (Gentoo), and some borderline impossible without having read their packaging bible (Fedora/Debian), but you'll always be able to find a source archive, patches and possibly a Homepage URL.
In the case of bsdmainutils, https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/bsdmainutils, there isn't a Homepage mentioned.
If you look at the source (Debian Source Repository->tree), you'll see a readme, which quickly tells you why: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/bsdm...it/tree/README, and directs you to a file (which I seem to be unable to find) containing the source for each component if you'd want to fetch them yourself.
Thankfully, debian distributes easily downloaded and unpacked source archives for each of their packages, which makes it easy to compile yourself. Usually, there's two archives: a source .tar, and a "debian" .tar. You would then extract the source, and inside the source extract the debian tar, which contains patches and additional files. This package in particular has the debian folder in the same archive as the source.

This package requires libbsd, which is available in SBo. You should get that first.

Here's a SlackBuild I just made to build bsdmainutils: http://chunk.io/f/18472bce5835460bbe...kBuild?lang=sh
The sources are here: http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/m...12+nmu1.tar.gz
and here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lib...1.6.02.tar.bz2

It differs slightly from the Debian package:
- Utilities that conflict with util-linux have been removed
- /etc/cron.daily/bsdmainutils has been installed in /usr/doc as cron.daily.
- Similarly, /etc/default/bsdmainutils has been installed in /usr/doc as bsdmainutils.default. Please verify these scripts work before using them in production, if you even need them!
- Other slight filesystem alterations to fit with the slackware filesystem.

EDIT: It got accepted into SBo! It should appear at https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...c/bsdmainutils by next update!