Having Trouble Installing Conky

[Trace]

I'm super new to Linux and have it running on a few older macbooks. I have a lot to learn.

Trying to install Conky Manager and am getting this error in terminal:

• sudo apt install conky-manager
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  E: Unable to locate package conky-manager

Any help would be appreciated. As for how to paste in my system information and set up, I see that done here but I do not yet know how to generate that report so if you need me to provide more info, I'd appreciate some assistance with that as well. Thanks

[zcot]

Just to mention, conky and conky-manager are completely separate programs, since the thread title says you are having trouble installing conky. You can install conky simply with the software manager, synaptic, or using terminal command: apt install conky-all.


As for conky-manager, that package doesn't exist past the Ubuntu 18.xx repositories, the work was abandoned years ago, however there is an official fork called conky-manager2 that is actively worked on.

conky-manager2 is not packaged in the default Ubuntu repository, but you can install the program from here: https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2

[Koentje]

Funny how small our world is. I recently had a small conversation with you on github! (lowrida)

I'm super new to Linux and have it running on a few older macbooks. I have a lot to learn.

You have to install the following packages before building Conky-Manager2. You can use this command:

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apt install build-essential git valac libgee-0.8-dev libgtk-3-dev libjson-glib-dev gettext libgettextpo-dev p7zip-full imagemagick

Then get (clone) the conky-manager2 source from github with this command:

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git clone https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2.git

cd into the conky-manager2 folder

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cd conky-manager2

compile the source:

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make

Install compilation:

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sudo make install

I can't remember if this also makes a shortcut in your menu, so if not, then you also have to do that.
Make a subfolder in home called ~/.conky were you stuff all your conky scripts in.
If you start Conky-Manager2 it will find them in there.

Good luck!

[zcot]

I can't remember if this also makes a shortcut in your menu,

Make a subfolder in home called ~/.conky were you stuff all your conky scripts in.

Yes, it will create a menu shortcut for you.

Also, it will already create that ~/.conky folder because it installs the base configs package that Teejee had added to the conky-manager originally.

[Koentje]

Also, it will already create that ~/.conky folder because it installs the base configs package that Teejee had added to the conky-manager originally.

This is not always the case.. on mint 19 it did, on mint20 it did not. (in my case)
I had my own backup folder full of scripts, so i did not care. But in case it does not make the ~/.conky folder you can go to /usr/share/conky-manager2/theme and extract this archive to ~/.conky.

And btw, that Conky Seamod is still screwed up! That never ran how it supposed to be on any of my systems..