install papirus icon pack from official repo:[Solved]

[ne0h]

https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTe ... icon-theme
i follow this guide for debian.
but when i:

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sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/papirus.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv E58A9D36647CAE7F

i have this error:

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[gpg: failed to create temporary file '/root/.gnupg/.#lk0x000056282de0ee80.brick.47223': File o directory non esistente
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/root/.gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: File o directory non esistente

how i can solve that?
thank you!

[Termy]

If I were you, I'd forgo those instructions, and not bother with a PPA (unnecessary for icon themes), instead just placing the icon theme directories into '~/.icons/'; it's really that simple. Sometimes installation instructions overcomplicate matters, confusing people who aren't familiar with Linux. TBQH, I've probably been guilty of doing that myself.

Note that the following instructions don't verify the files in any way, which is what the gpg(1) step does (in a very thorough way).

So, what I would do is, install git(1) so you can work with Git repositories:

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sudo apt-get install git

Clone the repository to the current directory:

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git clone 'https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme'

Copy the icon theme directories to your HOME:

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cp -r papirus-icon-theme/{Papirus{,-Light,-Dark},ePapirus{,-Dark}} ~/.icons/

If you want, you can now uninstall git(1):

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sudo apt-get remove git

Just ran those commands myself, and it worked fine. It's a nice theme. Remember to remove that 'papirus-icon-theme' repository directory if you don't need it anymore.

[ne0h]

thank you!

[Demmers]

If I were you, I'd forgo those instructions, and not bother with a PPA (unnecessary for icon themes), instead just placing the icon theme directories into '~/.icons/'; it's really that simple. Sometimes installation instructions overcomplicate matters, confusing people who aren't familiar with Linux. TBQH, I've probably been guilty of doing that myself.

Note that the following instructions don't verify the files in any way, which is what the gpg(1) step does (in a very thorough way).

So, what I would do is, install git(1) so you can work with Git repositories:

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sudo apt-get install git

Clone the repository to the current directory:

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git clone 'https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme'

Copy the icon theme directories to your HOME:

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cp -r papirus-icon-theme/{Papirus{,-Light,-Dark},ePapirus{,-Dark}} ~/.icons/

If you want, you can now uninstall git(1):

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sudo apt-get remove git

Just ran those commands myself, and it worked fine. It's a nice theme. Remember to remove that 'papirus-icon-theme' repository directory if you don't need it anymore.

This is exactly what I was just looking for myself after having just installed LMDE to replace standard Mint! Question though, does this method allow for upgrades through the Update Manager, or is this now to be done manually?

[Termy]

Question though, does this method allow for upgrades through the Update Manager, or is this now to be done manually?

It's 100% separate. Luckily, it's just an icon theme, so you don't need to keep updating it. Anecdote alert: I have a mouse cursor theme I've used for well over 10 years, and I haven't looked for an update in all that time. Not everything needs to be updated. That being said, an icon theme update may include icons for new things, which you might actually want. I wouldn't be too concerned about updating an icon theme though, especially one which has been around for quite a while. YMMV.

[Demmers]

It's 100% separate. Luckily, it's just an icon theme, so you don't need to keep updating it. Anecdote alert: I have a mouse cursor theme I've used for well over 10 years, and I haven't looked for an update in all that time. Not everything needs to be updated. That being said, an icon theme update may include icons for new things, which you might actually want. I wouldn't be too concerned about updating an icon theme though, especially one which has been around for quite a while. YMMV.

Thanks, I did think as much. The only reason I asked is because I recently replaced my standard Mint with LMDE 5, and I had Papirus on that. I couldn't figure out why some icons were different after having just installed Papirus on LMDE, until I noticed the deb package was last updated early 2021! So I uninstalled, and went through the above. Now I have everything as it was before! The main difference that bugged me was that Papirus added colourful icons in the Weather applet. Now I have them back.

[Termy]

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Ah. Dang, they must be actively working on that theme — noice! What you can do, is cd into the repository directory, then run git pull to see if there are any updates; if there are, remove the files you transferred over with cp(1), then copy the new ones over.

...and thanks for that.