conky and conky-manager(2) are not related in packaging.
You can remove conky-manager2 and still get everything of anything we are seeing in these posts. (as long as some conky package is installed, most likely
conky-all)
There are not cross dependencies between them, well other than if you want to use conky-manager2 it would be pointless if you have not installed some conky package, because then you will not be able to use conky, thus conky-manager is irrelevant.
If you search:
apt search conky, you will see a few packages. The one named only
conky you can see is a virtual package and just the way to get a basic setup without having to know the package name is actually
conky-std (which would mean
apt install conky-std).
What you really want, in your specific case, since you are definitely going to use the advanced dependency lib features, is the package
conky-all.
conky-cli is just the conky setup but where the conky output only goes to a terminal based situation. you will not be using graphics here and the mass of features that you are aware of.
conky-std is just that same conky except instead of output going to terminal it will go to the desktop screen. You will not get advanced 3rd party support libs packaged into the install. No cairo, imlib, xft fonts, and like 30 other specific support things or so.
conky-all will have all the internal api bindings to be able to use the many 3rd party support libs. That's the one you want, and that's all you do, you don't go digging through other system packages and installing other stuff, it's all included.
Check the output from your search above, you should see where it looks like that:
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p conky - highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
i conky-all - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)
p conky-all-dbg - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled - debug)
p conky-cli - highly configurable system monitor (basic version)
p conky-cli-dbg - highly configurable system monitor (basic version - debug)
p conky-std - highly configurable system monitor (default version)
p conky-std-dbg - highly configurable system monitor (default version - debug)
if you have more than one of the
i(installed) markers then it means you have some package confusion, possibly from an earlier post of someone telling you to install one package over another one and not cleanly removing the previous, -you can simply remove it and proceed easily without issue(worse case is you go
apt install conky-all again). But you need it to finally look like the above output.
removing one of the conky packages listed above will have no effect on the existing conky-manager2 package.
