Linking Orage to Google Calendar using Vdirsyncer

After struggling to make sense of the official instructions, I decided to plough in and found that the only real difference from the time before Google started messing about with their security, was that you have to install different auxilliary programs instead of requests-oauthlib. Had I realised, I could have done it a while ago.

I'm not sure whether the authorisation will have to be renewed every week as it seems with some google apps. Anyway, I've made a few changes to the article that worked 5 years ago and posted it here:

https://davespagnol.wordpress.com/2024/07/07/linux-linking-orage-xfce4-desktop-to-your-google-calendar/

This needs to be read in conjuction with my earlier HOWTO on putting Orage on your panel clock. I need to add that to the article but it's getting late!

It is now a month since I posted the above advice. At no time has Google asked me to renew permissions for the synchronisation to continue working. I think we can safely say that once you set this up it continues to work.