Unable to install paper icons theme [E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)] 18.04.3 XFCE
I tried installing the paper icon theme to get a better looking xfce DE after an r/unixporn post I liked however following the insructions at this link returns this and I really don't know how dpkg works and what could be wrong with it, already tried rebooting, deleting the Paper folder or following a couple of commands I found googling for dpkg returned an error code(1) but nothing seemed to work
ubuntu@RPi4:~$ sudo apt install paper-icon-theme
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed: paper-icon-theme
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/41.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 78.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 198269 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../paper-icon-theme_1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking paper-icon-theme (1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/paper-icon-theme_1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/Paper/cursor.theme', which is also in package paper-cursor-theme 1.4+r696~daily~ubuntu18.04.1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/paper-icon-theme_1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)What can I do to get this theme working?
The command
apt-cache policy paper-cursor-theme paper-icon-theme
ubuntu@RPi4:~$ apt-cache policy paper-cursor-theme paper-icon-theme paper-cursor-theme: Installed: 1.4+r696~daily~ubuntu18.04.1 Candidate: 1.4+r696~daily~ubuntu18.04.1 Version table: *** 1.4+r696~daily~ubuntu18.04.1 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
paper-icon-theme: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1 Version table: 1.5.723-201905252133~daily~ubuntu18.04.1 500 500 bionic/main arm64 Packages1 Answer
It looks like you got conflict between paper-cursor-theme and paper-icon-theme packages.
The ppa:snwh/ppa PPA description contains the info that cursors and icons are provided with it:
This PPA contains packages for the projects from snwh.org (by Sam Hewitt) including:
...
- Paper icon and cursor themes
...
So to resolve the conflict you need to remove paper-cursor-theme package with:
sudo apt-get remove paper-cursor-themeand then install paper-icon-theme with:
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme
