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Howto Setup Osmo personal organizer in Ubuntu

January 15th, 2008

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Osmo is a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In current state the organizer is quite convenient in use - for example, user can perform nearly all operations using keyboard. Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet user preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which use plain XML database to store all personal data.

Osmo Features

Currently, Osmo has the following features:

Calendar:

note per day
arbitrary coloring of the days with notes
date calculator
built-in full year calendar
‘jump to date’ function
compact mode (run as ‘osmo -cal’)
handy popup menu for month change
integration with Tasks and Contacts modules

Tasks:

category filter
priority per task
date dependent task color
hide/unhide complete tasks

Contacts:

‘find as you type’ support
robust search functionality
photo support
import/export support for CSV files
optional export to XHTML format

Preparing Your System

Osmo depends on libxml2 and libgtk2.0 (version >= 2.. Ubuntu’s Gutsy repos satisfy those dependencies, but chances are you won’t have the -dev packages installed for compiling. Just to make sure we use the terminal to

sudo aptitude install build-essential libxml2 libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-dev gettext

download osmo using the following command

wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/osmo-pim/osmo-0.1.2.tar.gz

Now you need to extract the osmo-0.1.2.tar.gz file using the following command

tar xvf osmo-0.1.2.tar.gz

cd osmo-0.1.2

./configure

it shouldn’t throw around any errors, if all went well until now. And then run the following commands

make

sudo make install

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open the osmo you need to enter the following command in your terminal