How To Install conky on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install conky in Fedora 36. conky is A system monitor for X

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install conky on Fedora 36.

What is conky

A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. but more kickass. It just keeps on given’er. Yeah.

We can use yum or dnf to install conky on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conky.

Install conky on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install conky using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install conky

Install conky on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install conky using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install conky

How To Uninstall conky on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the conky package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove conky

conky Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/conky
/etc/conky/conky.conf
/usr/bin/conky
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/c13d94036a07215a59bb7f4096946795e5cff9
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/2eeeb2caf1dbba6da7a9c4e9ee9a53e1125924
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/c875a738199204ac908c55babb8bc322189281
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/7ff8fff9138262df0baedba3db53b33e4bd643
/usr/lib64/conky
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo.so
/usr/lib64/conky/libcairo_imlib2_helper.so
/usr/lib64/conky/libimlib2.so
/usr/share/applications/conky.desktop
/usr/share/doc/conky
/usr/share/doc/conky/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/conky/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/conky/README.md
/usr/share/doc/conky/convert.lua
/usr/share/doc/conky/gedit
/usr/share/doc/conky/gedit/README.md
/usr/share/doc/conky/gedit/conky.lang
/usr/share/doc/conky/nano
/usr/share/doc/conky/nano/README
/usr/share/doc/conky/nano/conky.nanorc
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim/README
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim/ftdetect
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim/ftdetect/conkyrc.vim
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim/syntax
/usr/share/doc/conky/vim/syntax/conkyrc.vim
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/conky-logomark-violet.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/conky.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install conky on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).