/usr/share/icons/gnome/*x*/places does not exist

[Greg Toombs]

I was getting these any time I tried to do anything with apt:

Setting up gnome-colors-common (5.5.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/places/gnome-colors.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/start-here.png.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/start-here-24.png: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gnome-colors-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
           dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-brave-icon-theme:
 gnome-brave-icon-theme depends on gnome-colors-common; however:
  Package gnome-colors-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-brave-icon-theme (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

It turns out that apt was expecting there to be "places" subdirectories where there were none(i.e. /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/places) when it was trying to make "alternatives" symlinks.

This seems to me to be some sort of dependency or package misconfiguration...

[Greg Toombs (greg-toombs)]

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

uname -a:
3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:23:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

apt-cache policy gnome-colors-common
gnome-colors-common:
  Installed: 5.5.1-1
  Candidate: 5.5.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.5.1-1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status