Installing Mate themes

stephenboston · 2021-05-23 15:43:51

I have downloaded Midnight-Blue.tar.xz from mate-look.org and tried to install it using pacman.

pacman -U Midnight-Blue.tar.xz

which complains that the file is corrupt.

Is there some other utility I should be using for this? Or is the package corrupt?

Slithery · 2021-05-23 15:56:37

You can only use pacman to install actual packages, it won't work with random archives from the internet.

Please do your own research before opening threads here, a web search for 'install mate themes' should be the first thing you think of doing.

stephenboston · 2021-05-23 16:15:51

Install mate themes led me to a lot of Ubuntu doc which may be just fine but I'm looking for an arch-specific approach.

Which I was hoping for here but - here you are.

The Arch wiki for Mate has nothing on themes except a bit on how some applications ignore them.

This documentation on package installation https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Offlin … f_packages suggests that tar.xz is an extension that pacman understands.

I did a lot of research and experimentation before posting here. I always do.

Is Mate themes on Arch an issue you've dealt with? Or is the top-of-mind issue newb-bashing? So 1990s.

How much research did you do before accusing me I had done none.

shulamy · 2021-05-23 16:26:21

maybe system>preferences>look and feel>appearance can help you

ezik

stephenboston · 2021-06-02 01:23:42

shulamy wrote:

maybe system>preferences>look and feel>appearance can help you
ezik

Yes. Tne 'install' button on that dialog will pull in the theme tar.gz just fine.

Thaks

linuxfan2021 · 2021-06-07 12:35:35

pacman may be the only way to do this, but I'm not really sure. (that is, for installing actual packages. MATE is probably different)

Last edited by linuxfan2021 (2021-06-07 12:36:21)

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