On 21 February 2018 at 09:21, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general wrote:

Hi,

I've just accidentally deleted my '/usr/local/share' folder. This happened while I was creating custom copies of launchers from /usr/share/applications.

Now, if I understand it correctly, the '/usr/local' directory should only contain files created by the user. In fact, I checked other subdirectories (bin, etc, games, include, lib, man, sbin, src) and they are all empty, except for a couple files I manually created in 'sbin' and 'lib'.

But, as I was almost sure that the 'share' dir specifically was _not_ empty before I started messing with it, I just ran 'pacman -Qkq' and it reported '/usr/local/share/man' missing. This was promptly fixed by reinstalling the 'filesystem' package.

But this has me wondering if there was something more important which resides there. Perhaps something generated by an application or script.

None of my backups include that directory, so I'm afraid this makes me impossible to check for myself, other than installing/configuring everything from scratch.

Can you guys clarify this for me?

In case it's relevant, my desktop stack has Cinnamon, LightdDM, networkManager, Samba and other less important packages on top of a standard Arch Linux setup.

Thank you, Marc

/usr/share that a lot of stuff in it. Quoting directly from `man hier` "This directory contains subdirectories with specific application data, that can be shared among different architectures of the same OS. Often one finds stuff here that used to live in /usr/doc or /usr/lib or /usr/man." I would recommend you reinstall every package you currently have installed.

On 21/02/18 09:26, Morgan Adamiec via arch-general wrote:

On 21 February 2018 at 09:21, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general wrote:

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Hi,

I've just accidentally deleted my '/usr/local/share' folder. This happened while I was creating custom copies of launchers from /usr/share/applications.

Now, if I understand it correctly, the '/usr/local' directory should only contain files created by the user. In fact, I checked other subdirectories (bin, etc, games, include, lib, man, sbin, src) and they are all empty, except for a couple files I manually created in 'sbin' and 'lib'.

But, as I was almost sure that the 'share' dir specifically was _not_ empty before I started messing with it, I just ran 'pacman -Qkq' and it reported '/usr/local/share/man' missing. This was promptly fixed by reinstalling the 'filesystem' package.

But this has me wondering if there was something more important which resides there. Perhaps something generated by an application or script.

None of my backups include that directory, so I'm afraid this makes me impossible to check for myself, other than installing/configuring everything from scratch.

Can you guys clarify this for me?

In case it's relevant, my desktop stack has Cinnamon, LightdDM, networkManager, Samba and other less important packages on top of a standard Arch Linux setup.

Thank you, Marc /usr/share that a lot of stuff in it. Quoting directly from `man hier` "This directory contains subdirectories with specific application data, that can be shared among different architectures of the same OS. Often one finds stuff here that used to live in /usr/doc or /usr/lib or /usr/man."

I would recommend you reinstall every package you currently have installed. Just to add here, looking at my own local folder, I have only two entries: "man" (which is a symlink to /usr/local/man) and "applications" which contains just a few .desktop files for some locally installed applications I have that didn't come from the official repos originally (vmware-workstation, teamviewer and spotify).

You might not be as bad off as you think! --dan

I belive that /usr/local is used for things that would normally go into /usr, or are overriding things that are already in /usr so /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin should show all (super) binaries that override those /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/share/bin:/usr/share/sbin ~ hasld [ D877A4BD345C85445CA3675EBBB05F0D58E3E018 ] 2018.02.21-T-09:29:01 ~ Ismael Bouya sent:

hello,

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But this has me wondering if there was something more important which resides there. Perhaps something generated by an application or script.

manually installed ca certificates? programs installed with make install? if programs in /usr/local/bin work correctly then there was nothing important :)

for distribution packages, you may check pacman -Qo /usr/local or /usr/local/share, but I think the list is almost empty -- Ismael Email had 1 attachment: + signature.asc 1k (application/pgp-signature)