FAQ

Frequently asked questions:

• start up of khal and ikhal is very slow

  In some case the pytz (python timezone) is only available as a zip file, as pytz accesses several parts during initialization this takes some time. If time python -c “import pytz; pytz.timezone(‘Europe/Berlin’)” takes nearly as much time as running khal, uncompressing that file via pytz via (sudo) pip unzip pytz might help.

• Installation stops with an error: source/str_util.c:25:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

  You do not have the Python development headers installed, on Debian based Distributions you can install them via aptitude install python-dev.

• unknown key “default_command”

  This key was deprecated by f8d9135. See https://github.com/pimutils/khal/issues/648 for the rationale behind this removal.