Smallish Conky issue

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-22 15:57:06

This is probably an absurdly simple fix..

My package manager insists that I have the newest version of conky installed, but it's 1.7, which is obviously NOT the newest version. It gives me the same rap when I try to install from the terminal.

I downloaded the archive for conky 1.8, but I honestly don't have much of an idea as to what I ought to be doing with it.

halp?

Unia · 2011-02-22 16:29:26

Unpack it (right click). Now open the folder, open a terminal from there (or open a terminal and cd to the directory).

When you're in, run

./configure
make
sudo make install

That's the general way to install packages by yourself. If you get any errors, please post them here. smile

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-22 16:46:49

it snagged when looking for lua5.1 during the configure.

lua5.1 is there, but it apparently can't find it.

Unia · 2011-02-22 17:19:42

Hm.. I don't compile that much so I'm not very experienced at it. I'd wait for someone else to help you. Sorry

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-23 16:46:09

Thanks though smile

servingwater · 2011-02-23 16:56:13

Did you enable it?
Configure Conky with the ``--enable-lua'' option to enable Lua support at compile time.

For more info

http://wiki.conky.be/index.php?title=Conky_and_Lua

Last edited by servingwater (2011-02-23 16:56:43)

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-23 17:19:02

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the --enable-lua. do you mean using it all as one line as in:

./configure --enable-lua

? Or do you mean going into one of the files and changing something there?

the short answer is no, I didn't before, but I tried it now, and that didn't work out for me.

servingwater · 2011-02-23 17:36:28

I tried myself since I have never used lua....

1. Installed lua with my package manager

2. ./autogen.sh
3. ./configure --enable-lua
4. su
5. make install

I went by the book in the wiki worked like a charm. smile

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-23 17:52:13

Still not working >.< Same problem.

Lua5.1 is installed...I'm guessing that it's just located somewhere bizarre for some unknown reason and that's why conky can't find it when it installs.

slapfish · 2011-02-23 17:52:24

If I remember correctly the package you need is conky-all. Try to

sudo aptitude install conky-all

EDIT:

$ sudo aptitude show conky-all 

Package: conky-all
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.8.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/utils
Maintainer: Cesare Tirabassi <norsetto@ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 1241 k
Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libc6 (>= 2.9), libcairo2 (>= 1.8.0),
         libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libimlib2,
         libiw30 (>= 30~pre1), liblua5.1-0, libncurses5 (>= 5.7+20100313),
         libx11-6 (>= 0), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6 (>= 0), libxfixes3
         (>= 1:4.0.1), libxft2 (> 2.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Suggests: apcupsd, moc, mpd
Conflicts: conky-cli, conky-std
Replaces: conky, conky-cli, conky-std
Description: highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)
 Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your
 root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as
 the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through
 built-in lua support). 
 
 This is a full conky with most compile options enabled: 
 
 X11, XDamage, XDBE, Xft, MPD, MOC, OpenMP, math, hddtemp, portmon, RSS,
 Weather, wireless, IBM, nvidia, eve-online, Imlib2, ALSA mixer, apcupsd, I/O
 stats, argb, Lua and the cairo and imlib2 lua bindings. 
 
 Use this if you are not sure what conky flavour you need.
Homepage: http://conky.sourceforge.net/

Last edited by slapfish (2011-02-23 17:54:36)

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-23 18:02:59

Do I need to download conky-all somewhere?

"couldn't find package conky-all"

Unia · 2011-02-23 18:06:38

Maybe sudo apt-get update first?

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install conky-all

slapfish · 2011-02-23 18:27:33

I doubt that he hadn't updated since conky-all introduced in the repos, during alpha1 release, but in any case an apt-get/aptitude update have never hurt anyone big_smile

However, I'm wondering about the contents of sources.list. If after sudo aptitude update you still don't get conky-all package, please post the result of:

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-24 19:41:01

~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse

anonymous · 2011-02-24 19:44:14

So you are still on #! 9.04? Well I suppose you can use this PPA then:

https://launchpad.net/~norsetto/+archive/ppa

However I highly encourage you to switch over to the much newer #! Statler.

aliceinmadness · 2011-02-24 20:05:56

lol, I installed the lite version back when because I honestly don't use much besides the internet. I'll look into updating the whole thing and see if that fixes my problem. Thanks!

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