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Seems to be an upstream bug, fixed in package()

https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme/issues/1401

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=========== ERROR LOG ===========



Error: Invalid CSS after "$GNOME_SHELL:": expected expression (e.g. 1px, bold), was ";"
        on line 1:13 of src/main/gnome-shell/_shell-base-temp.scss
        from line 3:1 of src/main/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-Dark.scss


$GNOME_SHELL: ;


------------^



=========== ERROR INFO ==========
FOUND  :



install.sh
••••     >>> lib-core.sh
lib-install.sh
SNIPPET:
sassc ${SASSC_OPT} "${THEME_SRC_DIR}/main/gnome-shell/gnome-shell${color}.scss" "${TARGET_DIR}/gnome-shell.css"
TRACE  :
signal_error
install_shelly
install_themes
main



=========== SYSTEM INFO =========
DISTRO  : rolling;arch
SUDO    : no
DESKTOP : plasma
REPO    : 2026-05-25T07:19:29+0200

install: impossible d'évaluer 'src/other/plank/theme-Dark/*': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom

English (translated) :

Unable to evaluate 'src/other/plank/theme-Dark/*': No file or directory with that name

@t3pfaffe I couldn't fix it with your prepare(), I had to remove the "--libadwaita" flag

@HunabKu Can you retry to install it now?

The themes no longer appears on /usr/share/themes/. but it appears with no -git version (whitesur-gtk-theme)

I've been running into issues updating this pkg, the ./install.sh command complains about --libadwaita being run as root and seemingly soft failing the installation as a result. I had to change the PKGBUILD around to avoid using sudo by adding a prepare() function and stripping any sudo calls from within the ./install.sh script before running it. It appears to have worked, although it's a very hacky solution, so your mileage may vary.

This seems to be a new issue with the installation script, as several issue threads on the matter have popped up over the past day within the upstream repo. I have attached the patch for my changes below, in-case anyone runs into the same problem:

From 5bd28eea8ebba8073c0ccc23288447b34ed3c3a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Pfaffe <t3@pfaffe.me>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:22:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: allow --libadwaita under fakeroot by patching install.sh

---
PKGBUILD | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 1c096c1..7388c91 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -20,11 +20,25 @@ provides=("${pkgname%-git}")
conflicts=("${pkgname%-git}")
options=('!strip')
source=(git+$url.git)
-b2sums=('SKIP')
+sha256sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
  cd WhiteSur-gtk-theme
-  git describe --long --tags | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
+  git describe --long --tags \
+    | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
+}
+
+prepare() {
+  cd WhiteSur-gtk-theme
+
+  # remove any sudo invocations
+  sed -i 's/\bsudo\b//g' install.sh
+
+  # make the libadwaita guard always true
+  sed -i 's/if \[\[ "\$UID" != '\''0'\'' \]\]/if true/' install.sh
+
+  # drop the “do not run --libadwaita as root” prompt
+  sed -i '/prompt -e "Do not run '\''--libadwaita'\'' option with sudo!"/d' install.sh
}

package() {
-- 
2.49.0

With pleasure

@HunabKu Thank you, I updated the PKGBUILD with your fix!

Hi, i have this error on the last commit :

ERROR: Unrecognized installation option '--icon'.

ERROR: Unrecognized installation option 'arch'.

Just comment "--icon arch" not works, need to remove it and make on one line :

./install.sh --alt all --theme all --libadwaita --dest "$pkgdir/usr/share/themes"

This package installs files to /usr/share/docs. The path should be usr/share/doc (no trailing s). Can confirm path by running pacman -Fl | grep 'usr/share/doc/'