Thanks for this very nice rendition.

To recap for anyone else trying to load it at this stage,
(helps if you have sudo gainroot and mc installed )

App manager seems to bomb out and says uninstallable
but here is the quick and dirty (using PR 1.3 clean, no special others)

1. copy the deb file. and the config file (read the thread -!)
2. just leave the conf file alone for the moment
open the terminal
3. run#> sudo gainroot
4. run#> dpkg -i conky-all_1.8.5-1_armel.deb
unless you have lua from some other app or whatever it will give up and complain.
-ignore that complaint and move on-
5. now, copy (renaming) the conky.conf.txt to /home/user/MyDocs/conky.conf
6. At this point you can run#> conky.sh and off it goes
7. You can close the app and then go to the desktop and add the shortcut as usual.

At least, that's what i did and it works as advertised.