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MX17 version didn't have lua5.2 on board

skidoo wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:24 pm

male wrote:...No asqwerth, this has nothing to do with other packages bearing the name "cairo" in them ...The only astonishing point was that my (and @eadwiene's) MX17 version didn't have lua5.2 on board, which is necessary to convert syntax1.9 ---> to syntax1.10....

Maybe this is intentional because of the construct: conky-all(1.10) and the CM and its configuration files in 1.9

conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: attempt to call a nil value
conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: attempt to call a nil value
conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: attempt to call a nil value
conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: attempt to call a nil value

Jerry3904 wrote:

MX17 version didn't have lua5.2 on board

Sounds like something we should correct for the next version, thanks for mentioning it.

asqwerth wrote: I doubt lua5.2 has anything to do with the problem. Regarding converting conky 1.9 to 1.10, COnky 1.10 does it normally while running, even in MX15/16.

asqwerth wrote: Anyway, what I did was try to get the manual gears clock conky running in Manjaro, which has conky 1.10, lua (latest 5.3) and lua52 both installed, and also has cairo package (1.16) already installed .

asqwerth wrote:I had to use screenshot because after that first message, another error message kept propagating non-stop (see below) and I couldn't scroll up fast enough to copy the starting error message ("select all" menu option also wouldn't work):

So it didn't work in Manjaro either for me. How did you get it to work??

male wrote: Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:29 am

asqwerth wrote: Anyway, what I did was try to get the manual gears clock conky running in Manjaro, which has conky 1.10, lua (latest 5.3) and lua52 both installed, and also has cairo package (1.16) already installed .

Why don't you do that in MX17?

First of all, these are the "inconsistencies" of 1.10 ! The gurus have already stumbled over this. 1.10 punishes immediately "errors" of the configuration from 1.9
But the screen says for me, that lua5.3 is not installed ?

wrote: Not for nothing has Sector11 developed the pkill command for this purpose

I confess, with 1.9, I didn't even try it.
I cleaned up the code and adapted it to my MX system and then converted it to 1.10.

asqwerth wrote: I think the terminal error message shows that lua53 is installed but the cairo modules can't be found.

Also, here is a screenshot from the package manager of manjaro to show it's installed (note that lua52 is also installed):

Not for nothing has Sector11 developed the pkill command for this purpose

How do I use it in a conky?

To clarify, you successfully ran the original clock conky under conky-legacy (version 1.9) in MX, then you just converted the syntax of the clock config file to 1.10 but you didn't try running the converted file on a system that runs conky 1.10?

I cleaned up the code and adapted it to my MX system AND THEN converted it to 1.10.

I was talking about this error:

male wrote:I also used the conky packages of the Distri in arch-linux for a long time and had no success.
Only when I understood to use the packages from AUR instead, the long awaited success was there.