Conky: unknown variable image

[Roberto Leinardi]

In Ubuntu 15:04 conky seems to not recognize the variable $image:

conky -c ~/.conky/Ubuntu/conkyrc-775px
Conky: unknown variable image
Conky: desktop window (2c0000a) is subwindow of root window (1ed)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

It worked correctly in previous versions of Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: conky 1.9.0-6build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-11.11-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 3 00:05:18 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-28 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: conky
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Shengjing Zhu (zhsj)]

In 15.04, conky-std doesn't support imlib2 binding.

You need to install conky-all if you want to use the variable $image.

[Roberto Leinardi (leinardi)]

Thanks, installing conky-all solved the problem.

[paul (paulse)]

conky-all worked for me too on Xubuntu 15.04. Thanks

[Jean de Bosset (jb64l3)]

conky-all didn't change anything for me.

$image is still unresolved
same for
$weather

[caspar luc (luc-caspar)]

Apparently the conky-all is not a universal workaround. It did not solve the problem on my Lubuntu computer either.

[Hector Trincavelli (trinca)]

I believe found the solution. Imlib2 (libimlib2.so.0.0.0) is found under /usr/lib/conky, referenced by a symlink libimlib2.so.
However, the above library native in Kubuntu 15.04, with newest plasma 5.3, is located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libImlib2.so.1.4.6, and referenced by a symlink the name of libImlib2.so.1 under the same directory.

So, to get rid of the infamous ${image} on the conky-harmatton window, I followed these steps:
1) Renamed /usr/lib/conky/libImlib2.so.0.0.0 to old_libImlib2.so.0.0.0
    #cd /usr/lib/conky/
    #mv libImlib2.so.0.0.0 old_libImlib2.so.0.0.0
2) Created a new symlink to acomodate the orphan symlink libimlib2.so
    #ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libImlib2.so.1 libimlib2.so.0.0.0

That's it!, now imlib2 can bind the variable $image.

Furthermore, you would like to do the same procedure with libcairo, however I haven't noticed difference.

[mehrdadscomputer (mehrdadscomputer)]

conky-all worked for me too on Lubuntu 16.04.
sudo apt-get install conky-all