Trying to install a conky theme with no luck

I feel like im kicking a dead horse asking about conky, but anyway, conky is installed with the default configuration. I downloaded the theme here. I followed the instructions but I get error when I test it in terminal:

conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: attempt to call a nil value

At this point I do not know what to even check. Anyone?

That conky theme was added 13 years ago and updated 4 years ago. Last comment was 3 years ago and it said: “…no working…ubuntu mate 20.04…”
Maybe you should try something newer?

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there’s an error in the lua config, it says it’s somewhere under conky_main. What u could do is remove chunks of code to narrow down the problem until u find it, and fix it.

Conky generally isn’t very friendly towards casual users, and configs tend not to translate well between machines and distros unfortunately.

The strategy i used, was find a config that mostly works, then fix it up till it did everything i wanted.