So I deleted the /usr/share/icons folder by accident and now certain icons are missing as well as the SHOW APPLICATIONS icon and top-right icons on my GNOME3 DE.
What do I do?
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If you can get a copy of those icons from any other computer, you should try that. – Puspam Jun 21 '20 at 06:36
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Have you checked in your recycle folder if that are there? – George Udosen Jun 21 '20 at 06:37
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You can check which packages have files in /usr/share/icons by running:
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/icons
fontforge-common, gnome-sudoku, gnome-software-common, drumkv1-common, cheese-common, libkf5purpose-bin:amd64, libpeas-common, usb-creator-gtk, qemu-system-data, libgeocode-glib0:amd64, orca, modemmanager, rosegarden, gcr, aptdaemon-data, aisleriot, kipi-plugins-common, digikam-data, indicator-applet, imagemagick-6.q16, hugin-data, rygel, xjadeo, ubuntu-artwork, compton, transmission-common, thunderbird, gnome-power-manager, gnome-mahjongg, yelp, gnome-font-viewer, gnome-control-center-data, gnome-characters, cabextract, gnome-screenshot, gnome-mines, audacity-data, apport, software-properties-gtk, vlc-data, calf-plugins, indicator-printers, gnome-bluetooth, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-shell-common, eog, indicator-messages, xcursor-themes, ubuntu-web-launchers, gnome-todo-common, inkscape, ario-common, gnome-calculator, vim-common, indicator-session, unity-settings-daemon, poedit, gnome-online-accounts, rhythmbox-data, hicolor-icon-theme, blender-data, obs-studio, feh, gnome-calendar, totem-common, firefox, qdigidoc-tera, deja-dup, synaptic, update-notifier, nautilus-data, qsynth, qjackctl, vmpk, network-manager-gnome, file-roller, openshot-qt, yaru-theme-icon, oxygen-icon-theme, skypeforlinux, amsynth, dgedit, kdenlive-data, kdeconnect, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-logs, gmrun, xmonad, pianobooster, dmz-cursor-theme, minuet-data, baobab, wireshark-common, compizconfig-settings-manager, simple-scan, shotwell-common, seahorse, gnome-accessibility-themes, breeze-icon-theme, ibus-data, humanity-icon-theme, remmina-common, gedit-common, winetricks, virt-viewer, virt-manager, samplv1-common, fwupd, evince, flowblade, marble-qt-data, ubuntu-mono, adwaita-icon-theme, gnome-terminal, lmms-common, libreoffice-common, qdigidoc4, evolution-common, gimp-data, hydrogen-data, libkf5sane-data: /usr/share/icons
If you want the icons for a particular package back, you can re-install it. That will restore any missing files:
apt reinstall gimp-data
The only side-effect I can think of is that these packages will then be marked as manually installed and won't be later removed by apt autoremove if you've removed the package that caused them to be installed in the first place. I can't immediately see an option for disabling that though :(
If you want to reinstall all of the packages (which would make sense) you can use sed to get rid of the commas in dpkg -S output so it would be easier to copy-paste on to an sudo apt reinstall command line:
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/icons | sed -e 's#,##g'
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