Accidently deleted everything in the /usr/share/icons directory

[Noops811]

When I tried to delete one of the icon themes in the /usr/share/icons directory I accidentally deleted the whole thing since the last command I did was moving something to that directory and I just pressed the
up arrow and replaced mv with rm and forgot to remove the directory name before pressing enter.

I have tried to reinstall the Papirus icon theme and they appear in the directory but when I go into
Manjaro settings manager -> appearance -> icons and click the icon theme nothing happens. I have also tried to download an icon theme from the internet but for some reason it won’t let me extract the file.

So right now I have no icons, Is there any way I can fix this
way I can fix this?

[Tomek]

Install/reinstall manjaro-icons? Maybe you also need to install other icon packages.

[Noops811]

When I try to install icon themes I get a lot of warnings like this and it doesn’t seem to install properly

Blockquotewarning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/manjaro.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/manjaro.svg
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/manjarolinux.svg
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/128x128.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/16x16.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/22x22.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/24x24.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/32x32.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/48x48.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/64x64.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/96x96.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/green/green.svg
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/128x128.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/16x16.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/22x22.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/24x24.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/32x32.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/48x48.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/64x64.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/96x96.png
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/maia/maia.svg
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/white/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/manjaro/white/white.svg
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/whiskermenu-manjaro.svg

[Tomek]

What when you try install hicolor-icon-theme?

For XFCE you need also at least adwaita-icon-theme.

[Noops811]

Thank you for suggesting to install the hicolor-icon-theme since that seemed to fix most things. There
are still some issues like my cursor won’t change back and if I try to use a download some icon themes i still get warnings eg.

warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/Moka/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/Moka/16x16/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/Moka/16x16/actions/
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/icons/Moka/16x16/actions/exit.png

[realmain]

Did you try installing moka-icon-theme? Since that is what your output says you’re missing.

[pablomhr]

Hi install

sudo pacman -S manjaro-icons adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme papirus-maia-icon-theme

[Noops811]

Yes I tried to moka-icon-theme and some of the icons do work however a lot of the ones on the panel are blank and my cursor stays the same for any icon theme I use. I’ve also downloaded the candy icon theme and put it in /usr/share/icons and I get the same result where some but not all of the icons work.

[Fabby]

You got lucky @Tomek is here beause the standard response to something like this is:

Restore your last system backup.

So please read this:

[HowTo] make a crash-proof backup for Manjaro

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ A few things you need to know about backups: One copy does not constitute a good backup! Backing up is not about the backup itself, it’s all about the easy and fast restore! Backup files should be stored on an external disk that gets connected to the system only during a backup or restore cycle so that RansomWare cannot encrypt your backup when it stumbles into your system through wine ¹ Alternatively, you can use a NAS directory that is protected by a password and that get…

Because you got lucky once! Next time you’re going to lose your daughter’s / dad’s / GF/BF birthday pictures and these are irreplaceable!

This was the universe warning you you should become serious about backups.

[Noops811]

With the command:

pacman -S manjaro-icons adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme papirus-maia-icon-theme

I get a lot of warnings. It still doesn’t seem to fix the problem but some icons do work so maybe I should just manually add icons or something?

Unfortunately I only backup my files and I don’t do a system backup so I cannot do that. This has made me realize that I should probably start doing system backups however.

[cscs]

You would need to share the actual errors if you want help …

…something like this probably would work:

sudo pacman -S manjaro-icons adwaita-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-icon-theme papirus-icon-theme papirus-maia-icon-theme --overwrite 'usr/share/icons/*'

or maybe

sudo pacman -S $(echo $(pacman -Qqs icon)) --overwrite 'usr/share/icons/*'