HOWTOBUILD.md

How to build this software. It was tested on Mint 18.x and 19 versions, but will probably build just the same on the various *ubuntu systems too.

additional required packages to build:

build-essential git valac libgee-0.8-dev libgtk-3-dev libjson-glib-dev gettext libgettextpo-dev

additional required run time packages:

p7zip-full imagemagick

here is a one-shot installation command for all of the above packages:

apt install build-essential git valac libgee-0.8-dev libgtk-3-dev libjson-glib-dev gettext libgettextpo-dev p7zip-full imagemagick

clone this repository

the following command will create a subdirectory from whatever directory you are currently in called conky-manager2 then download the files from github and put them in that subdirectory:

git clone https://github.com/zcot/conky-manager2.git

change the directory to that source code location:

cd conky-manager2

compile the source:

make

install the finished program into the local file system:

sudo make install

can be uninstalled as follows:

sudo make uninstall