[SOLVED] Installing Conky with lua error

[kageman]

I've been trying to install Conky and I keep running into issues. Many sites say to just run sudo apt-get install conky from the terminal, but it doesn't work and the program isn't listed in KPackageKit. So I went to install it from the tarball and it said I didn't have pkg-config installed. So I installed pkg-config and it said I didn't have X11 installed. So I installed X11 and it said I didn't have lua5.1 installed. Now I installed lua5.1 and I'm still getting the same message:

checking for X11... yes
checking for LUA... no
checking for LUA51... no
checking for LUA51... configure: error: Package requirements (lua5.1 >= 5.1) were not met:

No package 'lua5.1' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LUA51_CFLAGS
and LUA51_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I'm not sure what to do next, so if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it a lot.

[Snowhog]

Re: Installing Conky with lua error

conky is found when I search for it in KPackageKit. The results are:

conky-all
conky-std
conky-cli
conky

You want to install conky.

In KPackageKit > Edit Software Sources > Kubuntu Software ensure that you have all the entries checked (you don't need to check the last one - Source code).

[kageman]

Re: Installing Conky with lua error

Ok, thanks. I must have spelled it wrong when I first searched KPackageKit.