Deleted /usr/share/icons :)

Is there anything I could do to get back application icons? I installed new theme and i solved system icons but my app icons are gone
Best wishes

dickoverfrick wrote:
itsbrad212 wrote:
I'm at a loss. Maybe try an older package version and then upgrade it with pacman. (I.E. install, for say, 1.0.4, then use pacman to update to 1.0.5)
I'm not recommending anyone force installing anything, but I would have tried that by now, me being the idiot I am
that's not an option...
there are a lot of packages
I mean just to test it out. We'll figure out what to do about all of them later

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@Roken: re-read my post to see what the problem is. I have deleted any instances of libreoffice-* inside /usr/share/icons.
The problem is that pacman is complaining about /usr/share/icons/locolor/.../libreoffice-* files that do not exist. /usr/share/icons/locolor empty and yet pacman thinks there's files in it!
Per the rest of your comment, appreciated. I practice the same -- for libreoffice, I figure without it installed, I can delete anything to do with libreoffice (I had no custom setups, templates, etc.). I wouldn't dream of it with various libraries, as you mention, without checking the Arch website of forums first.
So... how to figure out why pacman is seeing "ghost files"?

Can I delete USR,share,private files?

Searching for causes of lost space, running app WhatSize, I found that several files were pretty large. All the "USR" files come to 400MB, the "private" (var etc) come to 75MB, followed by "dev" "bin", "mach kernel" and "sbin".
Is it at all safe to delete these? and will they be recreated by a restart?
thanks

Also:
Some of them vary in size. If you run WhatSize again, it may show a different figure, depending what your computer is doing at the moment.
DPSG-Scout is right about caches, but do not search in these folders.
Some caches that can grow that you can delete with no problem: the users caches. ~/Library/Caches separately from each user.

[SOLVED]I removed /usr/share/icons what should I do...

crying...
my DE is xfce4.all the icons have gone what should I do TAT
thanks a lot
Last edited by jhello (2012-10-24 08:11:47)

vacant wrote:
loafer wrote:I would begin by reinstalling the packages which contain the icons to see if that helps.
Some packages may not have been explicitly installed (e.g. difference between pacman -Qet and pacman -Qdt) but I doubt the OP is worried about that nicety at this moment
Makes no difference when reinstalling a package...
Also, "pacman -Qqk" will give you a list of packages with missing files.

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Excuse the infrequent postings , hey I 'm running Arch and most always can find an answer by searching but must admit I's hit a wall and dread the thought of losing Claws and the E-Mail that is in it . This is probably a simple fix so I Thank You all in advance .
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Password:
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pacman: invalid option -- '-'
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Thanks
Did a little more research and not to sure if it had anything to do with the "game and/or Haskell " , don't know .But reread the Wiki Downgrade and came up with this .
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
The package ,libldap-2.3.43-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz , is sitting on desktop and the one I've installed is 2.4.18-1 so now acording to the wiki would ; pacman -U pkgname-olderpkgver.pkg.tar.gz. , be
wrote as such -
pacman -U libldap-2.418-1-libldap-2.3.43-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
or does the package have to be some where else ? Still learning here and downgrading seems like a good deal ! Also would it resurrect Claws without loss of E-Mail ?
There was this filed/reported , on Google : http://tinyurl.com/qwjbtq
which led me to here :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16217
and
Found package here :
http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/current/os/x86_64/
Last edited by wesley_of_course (2009-09-16 23:23:30)

Mr.Elendig wrote:1. you are not typing the package name correctly, please use tab completion
2. just reinstall any cabalized haskell packages that you might have installed.
Thank You Mr.Elendig for your response !
wesley ~ $ yaourt -Q claws-mail
Error: PACMANBIN: /usr/bin/pacman-color is incorrect
/usr/bin/pacman-color no recognized in config file
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Error: PACMANBIN: /usr/bin/pacman-color is incorrect
/usr/bin/pacman-color no recognized in config file
==> List all installed packages
core/libldap 2.4.18-1
Claws is updated , but can't find the list , ( ghc-pkg list --user ) , I think Haskell probably needs to be configured and don't have a clue .
Shaman icon , when running , isn't visible nor Pidgin ! Use System Monitor to kill it but Pidgin shuts down when window is closed , whats in common with the two and not others , is it still related to the
Haskell install ? Now the spam icon in Claws is greyed out too .
Thanks again for helping out . edit ; forgot to mention running
locate ghc-pkg list wesley
and it came back with a slew of apps., !? can't believe they all need re-installed , maybe base packages for them will reinstall what it wants to set it straight ????
Last edited by wesley_of_course (2009-09-28 02:47:07)

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