Did you install the package conky or conky-all?
conky-all has most compile options enabled.
Tested in latest Bionic daily.
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt policy conky-all
conky-all:
Installed: 1.10.6-1.1
Candidate: 1.10.6-1.1
Version table:
*** 1.10.6-1.1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ conky --version
conky 1.10.6 compiled Thu Sep 14 05:41:34 UTC 2017 for Linux 4.4.0-93-generic x86_64
Compiled in features:
System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky
General:
* math
* hddtemp
* portmon
* IPv6
* Curl
* RSS
* Weather (METAR)
* Weather (XOAP)
* wireless
* support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
* nvidia
* eve-online
* builtin default configuration
* old configuration syntax
* Imlib2
* apcupsd
* iostats
* ncurses
* Internationalization support
* PulseAudio
Lua bindings:
* Cairo
* Imlib2
* RSVG
X11:
* Xdamage extension
* Xinerama extension (virtual display)
* XDBE (double buffer extension)
* Xft
* ARGB visual
* Own window
Music detection:
* Audacious
* MPD
* MOC
* XMMS2
Default values:
* Netdevice: eth0
* Local configfile: $HOME/.conkyrc
* Localedir: /usr/share/locale
* Maximum netdevices: 64
* Maximum text size: 16384
* Size text buffer: 256
"conky" installs conky-std which has fewer options enabled.(you may have forgotten this)
Installing conky-all will replace the conky-std version.
Code:
sudo apt install conky-all