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I've been trying to get conky to work for awhile now, but I can't seem to make it install cairo properly.

What I've done:

  • installed conky-all (sudo apt-get install conky-all)
  • Tried to get a theme which used lua and cairo, but that didn't work, because conky couldn't find cairo
  • I opened up a lua command line (lua) and tried the command require 'cairo'. I got this:
no field package.preload['cairo']
    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/cairo/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/cairo/init.lua'
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/cairo/init.lua'
    no file './cairo.lua'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/cairo.so'
    no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.2/cairo.so'
    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.2/cairo.so'
    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
    no file './cairo.so'
stack traceback:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    (command line):1: in main chunk
    [C]: in ?

I ran conky -v, and it told a different story:

Lua bindings:
  * Cairo
  * Imlib2
  * RSVG

Does anyone know how to 'correctly' install cairo or get lua to find it? I just want conky to work ;(

2 Answers2

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conky only provides the cairo and imlib2 binding internally, they won't work in your external lua installation. Additionally, the conky from [extra] is only compiled with imlib2, so you should use that. If you really want cairo, then you'll have to recompile it with cairo enabled.

KARAN SUNIL KUMBHAR
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Just install package manager for Lua modules:

sudo apt install luarocks libcairo2-dev

Then install cairo bindings for lua:

sudo luarocks install oocairo.
BeShary
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