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

This package provides the base theme (without tweaks) as configured for the upstream tagged releases.

@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/'

@elamperti Seems pamac has problems with the spinner animation the installer script uses. But that's only a guess because i didn't looked further in it. I noticed it works with yay and that was fine for me.

@Sharky009 You are right indeed! Tried an update directly from yay and it works. Any clue on why this error happens? This should work regardless of client preferences...

@elamperti and @Tio,

This only happens if you use a client like pamac. If you use yay for example it works very well and as expected.

A tip for the future: Use the graphic client to search something (if that's more comfy to you) and yay to install the things.