Conky-manager failed to start

I'm using ubuntu 19.10. I want to customize my home screen, so I installed conky and conky manager. At first, the app runs very well but when later on I started to run the app again it's showing an error as follows:

Error: Commands listed below are not available:
*import
Please install required packages and try running it again

Any suggestion?

1 Answer

The package conky-manager has a few 'hard' dependencies that it requires to successfully run. This can be seen well enough in the Debian control file where the following dependencies are listed:

Depends: [...] realpath, conky, p7zip-full, rsync, imagemagick <---

(I have added the arrow and trimmed out some of the script to enhance readability). In your case conky-manager is complaining that it cannot access import which is one of a suite of applications that come with imagemagic.

Test if this is the case on your system by running the following:

andrew@ilium~$ import --version | head -n1
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-71 Q16 x86_64 2019-10-31
andrew@ilium~$ 

To bring conky-manager back to life simply run the following in a Terminal window:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

And then all should be well...

References:

• Playing Around with Conky on Gentoo: A nice run-through concerning conky and the conky-manager. The import error is specifically mentioned along with the fix...