I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora # Contributor: James Rayner # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury pkgname=conky pkgver=1.7.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" license=('custom') replaces=('torsmo') depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxml2' 'curl' 'wireless_tools' 'libxft' 'glib2' 'libxdamage' 'imlib2') makedepends=('pkgconfig') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enorsetto/%2Bjunk/conky/download/head%3A/fix_h...) build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} #Apply patch to make conky look in right place in /sys/class/hwmon/ patch -Np1 < ../../fix_hwmon_for_2.6.31.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-wlan \ --enable-rss \ --enable-ibm \ --enable-imlib2 \ --disable-lua make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE } md5sums=('cf6f5d45d42ad68c618c00271813b80d' 'efb3e188cd3879fc7b5af51b59d553ec')