Installing Black Candy on EndeavourOS Latest

Black Candy is a beautiful, minimalistic, and easy-to-use Conky theme designed for Linux systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Black Candy on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

• EndeavourOS Latest installed and running
• Git installed on your system. If you don't have Git installed, you can install it by running the following command in your terminal:

sudo pacman -S git

Step 1: Clone the Black Candy repository

To begin with, you need to clone the Black Candy repository to your local system. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. Open a terminal on your system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.
2. Navigate to the directory where you want to clone the Black Candy repository.
3. Run the following command to clone the Black Candy repository:

git clone https://github.com/blackcandy-org/black_candy.git

Step 2: Install the required packages

Black Candy requires a few packages to work properly. To install these packages, follow the steps below:

1. Open a terminal on your system.
2. Navigate to the directory where you cloned the Black Candy repository.
3. Run the following command to install the required packages:

sudo pacman -S conky mpd mpc

Step 3: Configure Black Candy

Now that you have the Black Candy repository cloned and the required packages installed, it's time to configure Black Candy. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to the black_candy directory in the terminal by running the following command:

cd black_candy

2. Open the config.lua file in your preferred text editor.

nano config.lua

3. In this file, you can configure various aspects of Black Candy such as the date format, the weather location, and more. Make the necessary changes and save the file.

Step 4: Start Black Candy

To start Black Candy, navigate to the black_candy directory and run the following command:

./start.sh

This will start the Conky theme and display it on your desktop.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Black Candy on EndeavourOS Latest. Black Candy is a beautiful and minimalistic Conky theme that displays system information in a sleek and elegant manner. By customizing the configuration file of Black Candy, you can make it your own and display the information that is most important to you.

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