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Configure Conky

Installing the Mail and Weather Forecast package for Conky

We need to install additional package in order for Conky to display new mail and weather forecast on your desktop.

In your terminal,

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line to the end of the file.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/m-buck/ubuntu hardy main

Save and close.

Back to your terminal,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install conkyemail conkyforecast

Download and install the radio times font into ~/.fonts and update the font cache:

$sudo fc-cache -fv

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