Conky Lua & Cairo Troubleshooting

[RichardCain]

The cpu function requires an argument (i.e. cpu0, cpu1 etc.). This was fine on my old dual-core processor laptop, as I could just have two readouts. However, since my new laptop has an i7 processor, it's a bit silly to have 8 different readouts. Is there a way to average these into a single readout?

My first thought was to create a bash script to do this, but I can't find any bash commands which return cpu usage.

[dk75]

Wrong thread.
This is for LUA and Cairo only.
You question is about core Conky function which works without any LUA or Cairo code.
Go to Conky thread instead.

[RichardCain]

Apologies.

Thanks for the pointer

[ihatethisflavorsomuch]

How the heck do I enable or download or whatever the hell I have to do in order to get lua and cairo. Its making conky ugly and I have literally been up 72 hours obsessing over this, someone just tell me how I don't want to code any scripts, or anything, I just want to install conky with the cairo/lua stuff installed. The end.