Compile Conky v1.7.1.1
kaivalagi asked me: Bruce, if you haven’t got the details already there, is it worth adding this to your Conky Hardcore site?
Ummmm … lets me think: YES!
Why? Because this will be good for any version.
So here’s what he gave is:
I figured users might want to know how to compile the latest conky version. So, for anyone wanting to use the latest conky you can compile it easily using the basic steps below.
- Get the source tarball from conky.sourceforge.net: Conky Home
- Extract the tarball contents somewhere and go to the location in a terminal window
- Run “./configure” *
- Run “make”
- Copy the “conky” exec file from the ./src folder into /usr/bin/
* Optionally add feature settings to the ./configure call so they are included in the build e.g. “./configure –enable-rss”
The default configure call has the following features:
* X11: X11 support: yes XDamage support: yes XDBE support: yes Xft support: yes * Music detection: Audacious: no BMPx: no MPD: yes MOC: yes XMMS2: no * General: OpenMP: no math: yes hddtemp: yes portmon: yes RSS: no Lua: yes wireless: no IBM: no nvidia: no eve-online: no config-output: yes Imlib2: no ALSA mixer: yes apcupsd: yes
Possible features that can be included are found by reading the ./configure file in the root folder of the source, they are:
--disable-option-checking ignore unrecognized --enable/--with options --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no) --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] --disable-dependency-tracking speeds up one-time build --enable-dependency-tracking do not reject slow dependency extractors --enable-shared[=PKGS] build shared libraries [default=yes] --enable-static[=PKGS] build static libraries [default=yes] --enable-fast-install[=PKGS] optimize for fast installation [default=yes] --disable-libtool-lock avoid locking (might break parallel builds) --disable-config-output disable if you do not want conky to output a default config (with -C) [default=yes] --disable-own-window disable if you do not want support for creating own window [default=yes] --enable-audacious=yes|no|legacy enable audacious player support [default=no] --enable-bmpx enable if you want BMPx support [default=no] --enable-ibm enable if you want support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks @<:default=no] --disable-hddtemp disable if you do not want hddtemp support [default=yes] --disable-apcupsd disable if you do not want apcupsd support [default=yes] --disable-math disable if you do not want math support [default=yes] --disable-mpd disable if you do not want MPD support [default=yes] --disable-moc disable if you do not want MOC support [default=yes] --enable-xmms2 enable if you want XMMS2 support [default=no] --enable-eve Eve-Online skill monitor [default=no] --enable-rss enable if you want rss support [default=no] --enable-lua enable if you want Lua scripting support [default=yes] --enable-wlan enable if you want wireless support [default=no] --disable-portmon disable if you do not want tcp (ip4) port monitoring [default=yes] --disable-rpath do not hardcode runtime library paths --disable-x11 disable if you do not want X11 support [default=yes] --disable-double-buffer disable for no Xdbe double-buffering support [default=yes] --disable-xdamage disable if you do not want Xdamage support [default=yes] --disable-xft disable if you do not want to use Xft [default=yes] --enable-imlib2 enable if you want Imlib2 support [default=no] --enable-nvidia enable if you want nvidia support [default=no] --disable-alsa disable if you do not want ALSA support [default=yes] --enable-openmp enable if you want OpenMP support [default=no] --enable-debug compile with debug symbols [default=no] --enable-testing use strict compiler flags for testing [default=no]
A pre-requisite for this is the package “build-essentials” as well as a bunch of dev libraries, all of which are found in the default Ubuntu repositories. When attempting to “configure” or “make” you will see errors detailing the dev library requirements if they are not fulfilled. If someone wants to list the package names be my guest – I will not be removing the dev libraries from my machine though.
BornTwisted gave us the list:
lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev libxml2-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext6-dbg libxext-dev libxdamage-dev libxft-dev libimlib2-dev libglib2.0-dev
I simply lined them up and put a sudo aptitude install in front of them:
sudo aptitude install lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev libxml2-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext6-dbg libxext-dev libxdamage-dev libxft-dev libimlib2-dev libglib2.0-dev
This is the .configure he used, (so did I):
./configure –enable-rss –enable-nvidia –enable-imlib2 –enable-lua
And there we have it: Conky 1.7.1.1 compiled and installed.
Thanks kaivalagi and BornTwisted
Have a nice day.
Bruce
