On 21 February 2018 at 09:21, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
