Conky Companions PPA

WARNING:  Using PPA's  is not normally a recommended practice in Debian!
It may cause #! to go CRUNCH!! BANG!!  Use at your own risk!

I use it without a problem!

Just about anyone that uses  Conky is familiar with Kaivalagi's Python Scripts and the support threads on the Ubuntu forums.

• conkyBanshee

• conkyClementine - NEW

• conkyDeluge - no longer supported

• conkyEmail

• conkyExaile

• conkyForecast

• conkyGoogleCalendar

• conkyGoogleReader

• conkyGuayadeque

• conkyPidgin

• conkyRhythmbox

• conkyTransmission - replacing conkyDeluge

Well, why not have those python apps in your "resourses list"?
Here's how!

For the ARCH users here:

ArchLinux : Package support is present in the AUR. All my packages can be seen here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?S … =kaivalagi

This is where the #!'er's come in:

Ubuntu/Debian : All the script packages have now been copied into the Conky Companions PPA. Any package updates will be provided by the team through this new ppa. The ppa can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~conky-companions/+archive/ppa. To use this ppa first delete the old ppa files using this: "sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/m-buck* && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/conkyhardcore*". Then follow the instruction on the PPA page to install to your sources list:

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:conky-companions/ppa to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

> Technical details about this PPA

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Conky Companions.

Using Ubuntu?  Use the Link: (Read about installing)

Using Debian (#! Statler) use the: > Technical details about this PPA link.

It is quoted here for you to see {brackets - notes added by S11}:

On older (pre 9.10) Ubuntu systems {Or: Debian Systems}

Step 1: Visit the PPA's overview page in Launchpad. Look for the heading that reads Adding this PPA to your system and click the Technical details about this PPA link.

Step 2: Use the Display sources.list entries drop-down box to select the version of Ubuntu you're using. {"hardy" works with Statler: edited by S11}

Step 3: You'll see that the text-box directly below reads something like this:

Copy those lines.

Step 4: Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

{or whatever text editor you have}

This will open a text editor containing the list of archives that your system is currently using. Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste the lines you copied in the step above.

Save the file and exit the text editor.

Step 5: Back on the PPA's overview page, look for the Signing key heading. You'll see something like:

1024R/9BF2D8AB (What is this?) {<<--- seen below}

Copy the portion after the slash but not including the help link; e.g. just 9BF2D8AB

Step 6: Now you need to add that key to your system so Ubuntu can verify the packages from the PPA. In your terminal, enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9BF2D8AB

Replace 9BF2D8AB with whatever you copied in the step 5.

This will now pull down the PPA's key and add it to your system.

Step 7: Now, as a one-off, you should tell your system to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA you just added:

sudo apt-get update

Now you're ready to start installing software from the PPA!

Read more about Personal Package Archives in our help wiki.

I now have:

  13:13 ~
         $ aptitude search conky
i   conky                - highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
i A conky-all            - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)
p   conky-cli            - highly configurable system monitor (basic version)
p   conky-std            - highly configurable system monitor (default version)
i   conkyText            - Delimited text file formatting using a template, for use in Conky
p   conkybanshee        - Banshee info, for use in Conky
i   conkyclementine        - Clementine info, for use in Conky
i   conkyemail            - Email inbox count script with ssl capabilities, for use in Conky
p   conkyexaile            - Exaile info, for use in Conky
i   conkyforecast        - Weather forecast script with support for language files, for use in Conky
p   conkygooglecalendar    - Google calendar script to display event data, for use in Conky
p   conkygooglereader    - Google Reader script to display rss summary data, for use in Conky
p   conkyguayadeque        - Guayadeque info, for use in Conky
p   conkymisc            - Misc python scripts for use in Conky
p   conkypidgin            - Pidgin buddy info, for use in Conky
p   conkyrhythmbox        - Rhythmbox info, for use in Conky
p   conkytransmission    - Transmission torrent info, for use in Conky

  13:19 ~
         $ 

Happy conkying!

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-10-17 14:19:21)