Holly Bostick wrote: >Dave S schreef: > > >>I am starting to play with Gnome, >> >>I am trying to install some more icons, I drag my icon file to 'Theme >>Preferences', it downloads then reports ... >> >>"Can not install theme. >>The bzip2 utility is not installed" >> >>bash-2.05b$ emerge -p bzip2 >> >>These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >>Calculating dependencies ...done! >>[ebuild R ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.3 >>bash-2.05b$ >> >>So it is there. I have tried comming out and then back into Gnome but >>with the same result. >> >>Any ideas ? >> >>Dave >> >> >> > >Where did you get the icon theme from? > http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/1051
>Have you looked inside the >archive? > Nope but if I save it to the desktop, bunzip2 it .. tar xvf it .. cd to the directory bash-2.05b$ ls 36x36 README index.theme makePngFromSvg.sh scalable bash-2.05b$ cat README This is a mostly complete svg icon set based on SGI's Indigo Magic Desktop. If you come across any file types missing icons, drop me a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll add it bash-2.05b$ >Some themes available on kde-look.org and (less often) >art.gnome.org or gnome-look.org need to be compiled first (they're >actually source tarballs rather than gnome-installable themes). > I did not know that, but the README does not suggest compiling & there is no make file > Plus it >would be useful to know if the archive is actually openable in the first >place-- and by what program, > Yep it opens by bunzip2 >so open it and look inside to see what's there. > >Weird error, though-- even for a theme. > >Holly > > -- [email protected] mailing list
