Install Faenza Icon Theme

[on2mars]

How do you install new icon themes with XFCE? In particle, I was thinking about the Faenza icons.

[Toz]

The Faenza icon theme has a PPA - https://launchpad.net/~tiheum/+archive/equinox.

To install, from a terminal window, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

As for general icon installation procedures, extract icon packages to:
~/.icons -> for individual user use (create folder if it doesn't exist)
/usr/share/icons -> for system-wide use (required sudo)

Let us know if you need more detailed instructions.

[on2mars]

After I added the PPA and updated it, it said that it could not fetch the tiheum/equinox ppa. And I tried to install it and it said that faenza-icon-theme was not found. I don't know what is wrong because I use the terminal to add ppas all the time and this has never happened before.

[Toz]

What version of xubuntu are you using?

What is the output of:

sudo apt-get update

...and

apt-cache policy faenza-icon-theme

[on2mars]

I am using 12.10.

[DarkAmbient]

It hasn't been packaged for 12.10 yet I think.

Tried it myself and got this:

W: Misslyckades med att hämta http://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equi...source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Misslyckades med att hämta http://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equi...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Misslyckades med att hämta http://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equi...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[on2mars]

That looks pretty similar to what I got. Not exactly sure because of the different language though. Will they package it for 12.10 when 12.10 is released?

[wojox]

I am using 12.10.

Download Faenza Icons

Open a terminal and move to the directory you downloaded to:

wojox@wojox-testing:~$ cd Downloads/
wojox@wojox-testing:~/Downloads$ unzip faenza_icons_by_tiheum-d2v6x24.zip 
Archive:  faenza_icons_by_tiheum-d2v6x24.zip
  inflating: Faenza.tar.gz           
  inflating: Faenza-Dark.tar.gz      
  inflating: Faenza-Darkest.tar.gz   
  inflating: Faenza-Darker.tar.gz    
  inflating: Faenza-Ambiance.tar.gz  
  inflating: Faenza-Radiance.tar.gz  
  inflating: emesene-faenza-theme.tar.gz  
  inflating: AUTHORS                 
  inflating: ChangeLog               
  inflating: COPYING                 
  inflating: INSTALL                 
  inflating: README                  
  inflating: UNINSTALL               
wojox@wojox-testing:~/Downloads$ ls
AUTHORS                      Faenza-Darker.tar.gz                Faenza.tar.gz
ChangeLog                    Faenza-Darkest.tar.gz               INSTALL
COPYING                      Faenza-Dark.tar.gz                  README
emesene-faenza-theme.tar.gz  faenza_icons_by_tiheum-d2v6x24.zip  UNINSTALL
Faenza-Ambiance.tar.gz       Faenza-Radiance.tar.gz
wojox@wojox-testing:~/Downloads$ sudo ./INSTALL 
[sudo] password for wojox:

[Toz]

They can also be found here: http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228. There is a readme file in the zip file with instructions on how to install.

[on2mars]

That worked great wojox. Thanks guys for the help.