[Solved] Deleted /usr/share/applications folder, How Can i Restore it?

TheChaoticR · 2016-09-25 21:12:08

I deleted the folder by mistake and now lost all icons in the menu and in the Settings app for Gnome. What can i do? Will it require a full reinstall?

Edit: Problem solved using promarbler14's tip.

Last edited by TheChaoticR (2016-09-26 22:25:05)

null · 2016-09-25 21:20:25

All packages that place files in a folder "own" the folder in pacman terms. So you could reinstall all packages from

pacman -Qqo /usr/share/applications

Last edited by null (2016-09-25 21:21:00)

ewaller · 2016-09-25 21:24:53

null wrote:

All packages that place files in a folder "own" the folder in pacman terms. So you could reinstall all packages from
pacman -Qqo /usr/share/applications

Or, you can use pacman -Qk to identify packages that have missing files and install only those

null · 2016-09-25 22:12:42

Hmh. Didn't know about the -k switch. But the output doesn't seem to be filterable for only packages that have missing files? At least the man page doesn't reveal anything and the output is quite verbose and needs grep'ing or awk'ing to get usable results. 'pacman -Qqo /usr/share/applications' should in a situation where you deleted the whole folder also only show packages that have missing files, or am I missing something?

Last edited by null (2016-09-25 22:51:31)

TheChaoticR · 2016-09-25 22:40:05

I used pacman -Qk and got the list with all the packages with missing files, but can't reinstall with pacman -S. It says that the [package] is updated and ends the command. Am i missing something?

promarbler14 · 2016-09-25 23:24:43

Perhaps you have a foreign package. Try this one-liner: pacman -S `pacman -Qqo /usr/share/applications | xargs pacman -Qqn`

Raynman · 2016-09-26 08:11:03

null wrote:

Hmh. Didn't know about the -k switch. But the output doesn't seem to be filterable for only packages that have missing files? At least the man page doesn't reveal anything and the output is quite verbose and needs grep'ing or awk'ing to get usable results.

The -q switch applies here as well:

$ pacman -Qqk | cut -d\  -f1

TheChaoticR wrote:

can't reinstall with pacman -S. It says that the [package] is updated and ends the command.

Please don't paraphrase: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

beta990 · 2016-09-26 09:18:32

TheChaoticR wrote:

I used pacman -Qk and got the list with all the packages with missing files, but can't reinstall with pacman -S. It says that the [package] is updated and ends the command. Am i missing something?

Should the --force flag be used?
This force reinstalling the whole package again.

Last edited by beta990 (2016-09-26 09:19:19)

WorMzy · 2016-09-26 11:00:47

beta990 wrote:

TheChaoticR wrote:
I used pacman -Qk and got the list with all the packages with missing files, but can't reinstall with pacman -S. It says that the [package] is updated and ends the command. Am i missing something?
Should the --force flag be used?

No.

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[Solved] Deleted /usr/share/applications folder, How Can i Restore it?

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