I have searched and installed a lot of icon sets, but after a while I was surprised to see how big these packages were and decided to return to the basic set "Lubuntu Box". But I have tried to delete all the big packages that I considered useless from usr/share/icons
and from ~/.icons
. And something went wrong: a lot of applications are without icon now, like the network tray icon, DeaDBeef, and many others
I have reinstalled lubuntu-artwork-12-10 without result. For some reason "malys-uniblu" is the icon set that still covers a lot of apps that other icon sets do not.
Some of the icons that I have now installed:
trying to install elementary and gnome back, i got error
More details on error report:
(Reading database ... 347458 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace elementary-icon-theme 2.7.1-0ubuntu6 (using .../elementary-icon-theme_2.7.1-0ubuntu6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement elementary-icon-theme ...
gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0: The generated cache was invalid.
WARNING: icon cache generation failed for /usr/share/icons/elementary
Selecting previously unselected package human-icon-theme.
Unpacking human-icon-theme (from .../human-icon-theme_0.36_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package breathe-icon-theme.
Unpacking breathe-icon-theme (from .../breathe-icon-theme_0.51.2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package gnome-colors-common.
Unpacking gnome-colors-common (from .../gnome-colors-common_5.5.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package gnome-brave-icon-theme.
Unpacking gnome-brave-icon-theme (from .../gnome-brave-icon-theme_5.5.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Preparing to replace lubuntu-elementary-icon-theme 0.34 (using .../lubuntu-elementary-icon-theme_0.34_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lubuntu-elementary-icon-theme ...
Setting up elementary-icon-theme (2.7.1-0ubuntu6) ...
gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0: The generated cache was invalid.
WARNING: icon cache generation failed for /usr/share/icons/elementary
Setting up human-icon-theme (0.36) ...
Setting up breathe-icon-theme (0.51.2) ...
Setting up gnome-colors-common (5.5.1-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/gnome-foot.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/start-here.svg is dangling; it will be updated with best choice
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/places/gnome-colors.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link `/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-colors-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-brave-icon-theme:
gnome-brave-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-brave-icon-theme (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up lubuntu-elementary-icon-theme (0.34) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-colors-common
gnome-brave-icon-theme
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up gnome-colors-common (5.5.1-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/gnome-foot.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/start-here.svg is dangling; it will be updated with best choice
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/places/gnome-colors.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link `/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-colors-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-brave-icon-theme:
gnome-brave-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-brave-icon-theme (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-colors-common
gnome-brave-icon-theme
Edit after answer advising Clean your cache, then use apt-get install -f and then install Hi Color first
: how to clear cache is not clear to me but i did some stuff found on askubuntu here; apt-get install -f
gives a lot of errors posted below; but especially: how to install hi colors? i mean they are already installed; removing it first involves removing a huge number off apps; just reinstalling in synaptic gives the errors posted above.
# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up gnome-colors-common (5.5.1-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/gnome-foot.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg (part of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/start-here.svg is dangling; it will be updated with best choice
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/places/gnome-colors.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link `/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-colors-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-brave-icon-theme:
gnome-brave-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-brave-icon-theme (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-colors-common
gnome-brave-icon-theme
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Could I restore my icons?