conky command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix conky command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

conky: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: conky: command not found

Solutions to conky: command not found

How To Fix conky: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu conky is provided by conky-all package.

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, PulseAudio, iCal, iconv, IRC, and systemd journal.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install conky-all

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install conky-all.

sudo apt -y install conky-all

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install conky-all

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix conky command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.