Unable to install new gnome icons.

Cyorg · 2010-02-07 22:42:50

For some reason I'm unable to install new icon themes in gnome. I download the tar file and extract it to the .icons folder, but when I go to the "customize theme" settings it doesn't have the new icons... This is the same way that I've installed new icons with every other distro, but for some reason it's not working here... Have I missed something?

n0dix · 2010-02-08 00:24:24

Do you have the .gtkrc file or something similar in your $HOME?

Cyorg · 2010-02-08 03:34:24

No, This is what I have in my home folder.

[van@ArchLinux ~]$ ls -a
. .dbus .gconfd .local .recently-used.xbel
.. Desktop .gnome2 .macromedia .screenlets
.adobe .dmrc .gnome2_private .mozilla .themes
.bash_history Downloads .gstreamer-0.10 Music .thumbnails
.bash_profile .emerald .gtk-bookmarks .nautilus .thunderbird
.bashrc .esd_auth .gvfs Nostromo2-1 .xsession-errors
.cache .fontconfig .ICEauthority Pictures .xsession-errors.old
.config .gconf .icons .pki
[van@ArchLinux ~]$

SemiBz · 2010-02-08 17:03:33

Try installing them in /usr/share/icons.

sHyLoCk · 2010-02-08 17:08:10

Create PKGBUILD Not necessary but it's fun and clean way.
Maybe check out AUR for some icon themes?

SemiBz · 2010-02-08 17:12:15

sHyLoCk wrote:

Create PKGBUILD Not necessary but it's fun and clean way.
Maybe check out AUR for some icon themes?

Umm .. Creating PKGBUILD could fix a *broken* theme ?

sHyLoCk · 2010-02-08 17:58:05

SemiBz wrote:

sHyLoCk wrote:
Create PKGBUILD Not necessary but it's fun and clean way.
Maybe check out AUR for some icon themes?
Umm .. Creating PKGBUILD could fix a *broken* theme ?

No, but if you use PKGBUILD you wouldn't end up with a broken package.

@OP

Can you please post a link to the icon theme you are trying to use?

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2010-02-08 17:59:09)

sj87 · 2010-02-08 18:19:31

You might want to rather just drag 'n' drop the tarball into the Customize Theme window and let it do all the work for you.

Some lazy people do ignore the packaging rules and provide broken icon packages, so just extracting the contents to .icons might not be enough. The real icons folder might be a sub-folder in the tar archive's root or something like that, and you need to cp that folder into .icons.

Last edited by sj87 (2010-02-08 18:24:07)

Cyorg · 2010-02-08 19:25:24

sHyLoCk wrote:

SemiBz wrote:
sHyLoCk wrote:
Create PKGBUILD Not necessary but it's fun and clean way.
Maybe check out AUR for some icon themes?
Umm .. Creating PKGBUILD could fix a *broken* theme ?
No, but if you use PKGBUILD you wouldn't end up with a broken package.
@OP
Can you please post a link to the icon theme you are trying to use?

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. … ent=101422

sj87 wrote:

You might want to rather just drag 'n' drop the tarball into the Customize Theme window and let it do all the work for you.
Some lazy people do ignore the packaging rules and provide broken icon packages, so just extracting the contents to .icons might not be enough. The real icons folder might be a sub-folder in the tar archive's root or something like that, and you need to cp that folder into .icons.

I've tried the drag 'n drop method as well, but when I drag my tarball in to the customize theme window, it doesn't stick, it just goes right back into the downloads folder.

MAroco · 2010-02-08 19:36:28

May be just me, but I tried downloading that file 3 times now and if I try to extract it, I get a reproducible error message, so probably the archive is just corrupt. In that case there is not much you can do about it apart from chosing another icon-theme or mailing the maintainer to fix it. But first try if you can extract the archive yourself, maybe its just my internet connection...

If that works, and there are no silly subfolders included, copy it to /usr/share/icons as already mentioned. Will have to do that as root.

Last edited by MAroco (2010-02-08 19:39:53)

Cyorg · 2010-02-08 20:43:29

Thanks for the help guys. I'll try out /usr/share/icons when I get home tonight... Feeling a bit dumb. I've never had trouble installing an icon theme before.

MAroco · 2010-02-09 00:19:26

No need for *you* to feel dumb! If the package is really corrupted - as I'm 99% sure - it is not your fault at all.
The maintainer of the iconset may have a reason for such feelings though

In Arch you have to do lots of things by hand that other distributions have fancy GUIs for, so it takes some time to get used to it. There is some learning involved and that means reading - and asking if reading didn't help.
The good side is, if you know how to do it in Arch by hand it will most likely work that way in other distributions too, if the GUIs won't play nicely.
And it certainly is much *cooler* that way

If you get the icons working, tell us how you did it so others can profit too and please mark the thread as solved.

Last edited by MAroco (2010-02-09 00:20:58)

sHyLoCk · 2010-02-09 01:35:39

MAroco wrote:

No need for *you* to feel dumb! If the package is really corrupted - as I'm 99% sure - it is not your fault at all.
The maintainer of the iconset may have a reason for such feelings though

How are you 99% sure? I just downloaded it and it works here fine!

@OP

Download the file. Then :

# tar xvf Nostromo-1.02.tar.gz -C /usr/share/icons

MAroco · 2010-02-09 02:44:29

@sHyLoCk: I tried downloading and extracting it three times before and file-roller complained it weren't a valid gzip format. Tried it again now, same result. BUT your terminal-command indeed works, so it seems my file-roller/gzip/whatever has issues... Thanks for letting me know and apologies for pointing in the wrong direction. Shame on me

[Edit: indeed its file-roller... squeeze also extracts the archive. File-roller can extract any other gzip I tried without problems though. Very peculiar... Neither removing-reinstalling the bastard nor compiling or deleting its folder in /home/user/.gnome2/ will help but as for now it's only this one file! I just went through a random selection on /var/cache/packman/pkg. No probs at all... Anyway don't wanna hijack the thread, thanks for making me aware of this.]

Last edited by MAroco (2010-02-09 03:18:41)

Cyorg · 2010-02-09 04:15:40

Extracting to /usr/share/icons worked. Thanks for the help!

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Unable to install new gnome icons.

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