Conky Install

[masterartmason]

Good day!

I have been looking via google for a solution to this. I installed conky with no real issue via command line.

sudo apt-get install conky

no issues at all.

When I try to install the GUI manager via

sudo apt-get install conky-manager

I get package not found. 

Has the name changed? Are there other repositories I can use?

Thanks!

[SRW]

I am pretty sure Conky-Manager only works with Conky versions 0.8x or before, mostly due to code formatting changes. However, you can find Conky-Manager here...

webiste: https://teejeetech.in/conky-manager/

repository: https://launchpad.net/~teejee2008/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[leon.p]

I am pretty sure Conky-Manager only works with Conky versions 0.8x or before, mostly due to code formatting changes.

As far as I know, current versions of conky are still mostly backwards compatible with the older configuration style.

[SRW]

I am pretty sure Conky-Manager only works with Conky versions 0.8x or before, mostly due to code formatting changes.

As far as I know, current versions of conky are still mostly backwards compatible with the older configuration style.

Yea you're right, I should have phrased that differently.  Conky-Manager will work with newer versions of Conky, but not conky scripts written in the newer formatting style.

[masterartmason]

When I follow those directions and add the repository which is fine i get the following message on install:


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

[SRW]

When I follow those directions and add the repository which is fine i get the following message on install:


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

Which Linux distro are you using?

[MountainHorse]

Look for Conky Manager 2

[SRW]

Look for Conky Manager 2

Cool...

Conky-Manager2 is a fork of Conky-Manager and (from what I read) works with the newer configuration file (conky v1.10).  Though users will have to build it, but there is a HOWTO on it.


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

[masterartmason]

Thank you! Conky-Manager2 was just what I needed!

[bescott9944]

Look for Conky Manager 2

Cool...

Conky-Manager2 is a fork of Conky-Manager and (from what I read) works with the newer configuration file (conky v1.10).  Though users will have to build it, but there is a HOWTO on it.


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

Thank You for the Info and the link. Much appreciated...!