Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Conky Manager is a graphical user interface, over the Conky configuration files, it makes easier for the user to enable or disable the Conky themes for displaying the cpu usage, memory usage, network traffic and others. Some Linux operating systems, like Pinguy OS come with Conky installed by default.
The latest version available is Conky Manager 2.1, which has been released recently. Among others, it fixes some dependencies for Ubuntu 12.04, comes with improved support for the background management, for the most popular desktop environments and got some bug-fixes for already known issues.
In this article I will show you how to install Conky Manager 2.1 on Fedora 20, Fedora 19, OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3.
Because it is available via repository, installing Conky Manager 2.1 Fedora and OpenSUSE systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the conky-manager package. Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Conky Manager 2.1 on Fedora 20 systems:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Kenzy:packages/Fedora_20/home:Kenzy:packages.repo
$ sudo yum install conky-manager
How to install Conky Manager 2.1 on Fedora 19 systems:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Kenzy:packages/Fedora_19/home:Kenzy:packages.repo
$ sudo yum install conky-manager
Optional, to remove Conky Manager, on both Fedora 20 and Fedora 19 systems, do:
$ sudo yum remove conky-manager
How to install Conky Manager 2.1 on OpenSUSE 13.1 systems:
$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:DarkSS/openSUSE_13.1/home:DarkSS.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install conky-manager
How to install Conky Manager 2.1 on OpenSUSE 12.3 systems:
$ sudo zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:DarkSS/openSUSE_12.3/home:DarkSS.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install conky-manager
Optional, to remove Conky Manager, on both OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3 systems, do:
$ sudo zypper remove conky-manager