How To Install conky-all on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conky-all on Debian 10.
What is conky-all
conky-all is:
Conky is a system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Conky has many built-in objects, as well as the ability to execute external programs or scripts (either external or through built-in Lua support).
This is a full conky with most compile options enabled:
X11, XDamage, XDBE, Xft, MPD, MOC, math, hddtemp, portmon, RSS, Weather, wireless, IBM, nvidia, eve-online, Imlib2, apcupsd, I/O stats, argb, Lua and the cairo and imlib2 Lua bindings, Audacious, XMMS2, and PulseAudio.
There are three methods to install conky-all on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install conky-all Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install conky-all using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install conky-all
Install conky-all Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install conky-all using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install conky-all
Install conky-all Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install conky-all using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install conky-all
How To Uninstall conky-all on Debian 10
To uninstall only the conky-all package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove conky-all
Uninstall conky-all And Its Dependencies
To uninstall conky-all and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove conky-all
Remove conky-all Configurations and Data
To remove conky-all configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge conky-all
Remove conky-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove conky-all configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge conky-all
Dependencies
conky-all have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conky-all package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.