On 21 February 2018 at 09:26, Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I misread /usr/local/share for /usr/share. You can disregard what I said.
