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    Question cant istall ICONS???

    - huhu, please help me.. i cant install the icons that i downloaded in the gnome-look.org.. please help me.

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    System - Preferences - Appearance then on the bottom of window - install. Go to location of download and select.

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    I think you can also drag and drop the file into that window

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    1) Open a terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
    2) cd into the directory where your downloaded icon theme is stored.
    3) Run the following (substitute the name of the icon archive for icons)
    Code:
    sudo tar xvf icons.tar /usr/share/icons
    4) System -> Preferences -> Appearance
    5) Press the Customize... button
    6) On the Icons tab, choose the theme you just installed
    7) Close all the dialogs.
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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    Quote Originally Posted by munkyeetr View Post
    1) Open a terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
    2) cd into the directory where your downloaded icon theme is stored.
    3) Run the following (substitute the name of the icon archive for icons)
    Code:
    sudo tar xvf icons.tar /usr/share/icons
    4) System -> Preferences -> Appearance
    5) Press the Customize... button
    6) On the Icons tab, choose the theme you just installed
    7) Close all the dialogs.
    - this wont work. the downloaded icons are in a zip format.

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    Extract the .zip file on your Desktop.
    If its content is a .tar.gz or a tar.bz2 file, just drag and drop it into the Themes tab of the Appearance dialog box.

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    Or you could install Art Manager. It is an easy to use program for installing the various themes, icons and so on.

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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    Where did you download those icons?
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    Re: cant istall ICONS???

    An alternative is to open nautilus with gksudo in a terminal

    gksudo nautilus

    browse to the location of the archive file, open it up and extract all to /user/share/icons with the create folders option clicked on. Then you will see it in Appearance.
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