how to install Conky Manager on Ubuntu 18.04?

Question

Recently I installed Ubuntu 18.04. Installing Conky Manager with these commands failed with "Dependency is not satisfiable: realpath".

sudo apt install conky-all
cp /etc/conky/conky.conf ~/.conkyrc
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install conky-manager
wget https://launchpad.net/~teejee2008/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/conky-manager_2.4~136~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install gdebi
sudo gdebi conky-manager*.deb

Do you know how to resolve the dependency on "realpath"?

Solution 1

You can install it with a .run file from GitHub.

For 64 bit:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/teejee2008/conky-manager/releases/download/v2.4/conky-manager-v2.4-amd64.run
chmod +x conky-manager-v2.4-amd64.run
sudo ./conky-manager-v2.4-amd64.run

For 32 bit:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/teejee2008/conky-manager/releases/download/v2.4/conky-manager-v2.4-i386.run
chmod +x conky-manager-v2.4-i386.run
sudo ./conky-manager-v2.4-i386.run

Solution 2

Install realpath first and then install Conky Manager.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/realpath

Solution 3

I've worked on building conky manager for 4 hours and I'm very experienced in building packages.

But building conky manager was a trip down a road I don't wont to go again LOL.

I highly advise whoever wants to install it on Kubuntu or Ubuntu 18.04 to go with answer 4,

It ran flawlessly on Kubuntu and Ubuntu 18.04 fully updated. I just had to try it.

But I also need to say that if anyone was wanting to learn how to build packages from sources, that you would learn a lot from building conky manager and have a lot of fun too.

https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eteejee2008/conky-manager/trunk

Or from GitHub:

https://github.com/teejee2008/conky-manager

Solution 4

Donwload realpath in here, download conky manage in here install with GDEBI or dpkg :

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

I have written a post about how to install the conky manager on ubuntu 18.04, along with the error that I found on this site. May be useful.

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Comments

[Zeiss Ikon]

Artful is 17.10, right? If realpath is in 17.10 but not in (bionic) 18.04, there's probably a good reason.

[Marc Compere]

"answer 4" is ambiguous. which author's answer do you recommend?