Debian gnome-themes-extras_0.9.0-5_all

[showgun22]

I just tried Debian on my old PC for fun and I saw their gnome-themes-extras_0.9.0-5_all and I must say I really like the themes include in that package.

I would like to know if there is a way to install them on Ubuntu?
If so I would appreciate a small howto for this keep in mind I am no expert
Thanks

[Therion]

Download, save and install this .deb file:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-themes-extras/gnome-themes-extras_0.9.0-5_all.deb

[dje]

i did not want to install the debian package in case of breakages..

download the package from the debian package site (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/gnome-themes-extras/download)
in a terminal:
cd /path/to/location/of/deb
mkdir gnome-themes-extras
dpkg -x gnome-themes-extras*.deb gnome-themes-extras
then navigate to this directory and go through it (/gnome-themes-extras/usr/share), you can drag and drop the directories under /icons and /themes into System >> Preferences >> Appearance to install them ;)

dje

[howefield]

That looks like an old package, the list can be found here

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-themes-extras/

Download the latest deb package, you would probably want

gnome-themes-extras_2.22.0-3_all.deb

then double click the downloaded file and follow the instructions to install.

[showgun22]

Sorry about my lack of knowledge

1) I had already downloaded the file and the deb installer does not install anything from what I can see all you can do is extract
2) I also extracted to its own folder I had also tried System >> Preferences >> Appearance to install them but no luck on how to do it

3) I just copied the directories to where they should be in the usr/share but every time I use Preferences >> Appearance to change the theme it does change
a few things but not all I get this error

the theme will not look as intended because the required GTK+theme engine smooth is not installed

sounds like it might be a lost cause

Thanks

[balaknair]

Open Synaptic> search for 'gtk engines smooth'> install