[SOLVED] Theme re-installation error

Nabeel · 08-13-2011, 05:16 AM

I had Installed a theme on my ubuntu 10.10 system, But removed it after a while. Now after a couple of days I want to reinstall it but It gives the following message

Quote:

Installation for theme "elementary Lion 1.1" failed. "Can't move directory over directory

Thanks

MTK358 · 08-13-2011, 08:58 AM

How are you installing it?

Also, is the theme a tar archive? If so, run this command and post the output:

Code:

tar tf path/to/theme/archive

Nabeel · 08-13-2011, 10:56 AM

I am installing it via Appearance

here is the output of the command

Code:

elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/old/right_slider_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/old/left_slider_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/old/breadcrumb_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/old/breadcrumb_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/button/breadcrumb_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/button/left_slider_normal_alt.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/button/breadcrumb_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/button/right_slider_normal_alt.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/midori/base.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Window/window.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/breadcrumb_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/left_slider_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/right_slider_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/breadcrumb_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/extra-widget.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Sidebar/handle.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Range/slider-prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Range/trough.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Range/slider.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Panel/panel.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Panel/panel-dark.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/media-skip-backward.svg
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/close.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/media-skip-forward.svg
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/media-playback-pause.svg
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/media-playback-start.svg
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Handle/pane-vert.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Handle/dimple.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Handle/resize_grip.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Handle/pane-horiz.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/mode_pressed.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/mode_pressed_N.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/mode_pressed (kopia).png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/selected.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/mode_normal.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/insensitive.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/mode_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/nautilus.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/panel.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/panel-dark.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/postler.rc.~1~
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/panel.rc.~1~
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/steadyflow.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/totem.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/gedit.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/eog.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/panel-dark.rc.~1~
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/gnome-terminal.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/dexter.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/postler.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/midori.rc
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/combo_down.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/dummy.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/gedit-close.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/gedit-toolbar.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_back.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_find.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_forward.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_home.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_refresh.png
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/stock_stop.png
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/changelog
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/elementary-theme.install
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/copyright
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/control
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/rules
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/compat
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.~1~
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/minimize_pressed.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/minimize_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/minimize.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/maximize_pressed.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/maximize_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/maximize.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/close_pressed.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/close_prelight.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/close.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/button-active.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/button.png
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/button-gone.png
elementary Lion 1.1/index.theme
elementary Lion 1.1/AUTHORS
elementary Lion 1.1/CONTRIBUTORS
elementary Lion 1.1/COPYING
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/old/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/button/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/midori/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Window/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/nautilus/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Sidebar/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Range/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Panel/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Icons/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Handle/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Button/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/Apps/
elementary Lion 1.1/debian/
elementary Lion 1.1/gtk-2.0/
elementary Lion 1.1/metacity-1/
elementary Lion 1.1/

MTK358 · 08-13-2011, 11:19 AM

This should install it:

Code:

cd ~/.themes
tar xf path/to/theme/archive

Nabeel · 08-13-2011, 02:05 PM

Thanks It worked. Could you please explain what was the problem, and what you did that fixed it.

Regards

MTK358 · 08-13-2011, 02:16 PM

I didn't fix anything. I just told you how to install it manually instead of using whatever you were using to install themes.

The way it works is that your themes directory contains subdirectories for each theme, and then each of these contains subdirectories for each thing that it can theme, and then the contents of these subdirectories are specific to the thing being themed.

Most themes come as archives that follow this convention, so simply extracting them into the themes directory will install them.