How to install Conky on Linux Mint?

One of the most important things to do after installing the Linux Mint operating system is to install Conky.

Conky Linux Mint

What is Conky?
From the manual Conky will find this answer

Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo. Since its inception, Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while maintaining simplicity and configurability. Conky can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window. Not only does Conky have many built-in objects, it can also display just about any piece of information by using scripts and other external programs.

Conky has more than 250 built in objects, including support for a plethora of OS stats (uname, uptime, CPU usage, mem usage, disk usage, "top" like process stats, and network monitoring, just to name a few), built in IMAP and POP3 support, built in support for many popular music players (MPD, XMMS2, BMPx, Audacious), and much much more.

Conky can display this info either as text, or using simple progress bars and graph widgets, with different fonts and colours.

The point is Conky is a system monitor, more than 250 objects can be monitorized.

How to install conky on Linux Mint?

Here's the answer, open Terminal and type
sudo apt install conky-all
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Written using:
Host: zaldi-linuxmint
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
Kernel: 5.0.0-32-generic
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1
Player: Audacious 3.9
Browser: Chromium 87.0.4280.66

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