While messing around with Ubuntu 11.04, I decided to give Gnome 3 a try. It failed, and a bunch of stuff stopped working. So I uninstalled it. After that mess I couldn’t install any new packages. Why? Simply because the gnome-icon-theme pack was not installed correctly.
Here’s a brief of the error message:
Setting up libgtk2-ruby1.8 (0.19.3-2ubuntu1) …Setting up libgtk2-ruby (0.19.3-2ubuntu1) …Setting up rbbr (0.6.0-3ubuntu1) …Errors were encountered while processing:gnome-icon-themeempathyevinceevolutionevolution-exchangegnome-control-centerSetting up gnome-icon-theme (2.31.0-0ubuntu2) …update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg doesn’t exist.dpkg: error processing gnome-icon-theme (–configure):
Missing Images
Looks like some images were not reinstalled during the rollback. Here’s a link to the resource:
http://www.parsix.org/browser/pkg/vinnie/main/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/debian?rev=6662
Copy the all the .svg files into the /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ path, run:
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
Then to verify everything is working correctly:
sudo apt-get install -f
Hope it helps!
Very helpful indeed! I also wanted to try GNOME 3 in natty, but only managed to mess up everything. After purging the bad ppa, things were back to normal, apart from that bunch of little icons that breaks the package manager…
thanks a lot for providing a solution!
Thank You!! I tried gnome-3, didn’t liked and did:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
to come back to gnome2 but after that, evince was not working.
Now everything is fine!