Re: Where is gtk-update-icon-cache ... ?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

荒井吉則 <address@hidden> writes:

> I found /gnu/store/...-gtk+-3.24.0-bin/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache. Also
> found /gnu/store/...-glibc-2.28/bin/locale.
>
> Why not these command make symlink to ~/.guix-profile/bin ?

There will be a lot of files in /gnu/store that are not linked to any
profile.  That’s on purpose.

If you want to install gtk-update-icon-cache you need to install the
“gtk+:bin” package to a profile, e.g. by doing

    guix package -i gtk+:bin

> And  I did gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data
> ~/.guix-profile/share/icons/hicolor.
> It return permission error that is directory read only.

This is also by design.  ~/.guix-profile is read-only because it lives
in /gnu/store (via a series of symlinks).  Nothing in /gnu/store can be
changed; you can only add to it by using the “guix” commands.

The is usually no need to run gtk-update-icon-cache manually as it is
run in a profile hook when building a new generation of a profile.

-- 
Ricardo