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I have downloaded and installed a new theme before in my fedora machine.

However, I got this warning when I load gvim, nautilus every time.

(gvim:4629): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(gvim:4629): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "equinox",

How can I download this theme engine?? and remove this warning?

Braiam
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On Ubuntu 13.10 the command i needed was:

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

I know the question is about fedora but I ended up here where one of the answers pointed me in the right direction.

Just in case it would be helpful to others.

cYrixmorten
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Install gtk-engines package from your distro's repository. If there's not a gtk-engines package, search for a package with a similar name, you shall find one.

For ubuntu the package name is gtk2-engines. You may need to reinstall the package:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall gtk2-engines
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MilanorTSW
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  • I am using fedora, how can i Download that from distro? I am a linux new bie :( – TheOneTeam Sep 20 '11 at 13:46
  • AFAIR, Fedora uses Yum to get packages, if so, try running "yum install gtk-engines" from your terminal. – MilanorTSW Sep 20 '11 at 14:40
  • Alternatively, try downloading an rpm package for your architecture from here: http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gtk-engines and install it using "rpm -i ". – MilanorTSW Sep 20 '11 at 14:47
  • i reinstalled (with the mentioned command), and the error repeated. (i'm actually trying to run a Qt4 on Mint 17) – Berry Tsakala Dec 21 '15 at 13:32
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If it's unable to find the engine, it means you haven't installed them yet. Simply do someting like this:

sudo yum install gtk2-engines gtk-murrine-engine gtk-equinox-engine
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Stann
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People experiencing this problem with, eg Acrobat Reader on 64bit installs should try this:

sudo apt-get install gkt2-murrine-engine:i386

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  • could u elaborate Usage of gkt2murrine engine? – BlueBerry - Vignesh4303 Aug 30 '13 at 07:58
  • I've no idea what it does under the hood, just that Acrobat Reader complains if it's missing, and doesn't if it's present. There are accounts of problems with older versions of vmware-player requiring gtk2-murrine-engine as well. – John Morton Sep 01 '13 at 02:15
  • I think the key for me was `gtk2-engines-murrine:i386` and `gtk2-engines:i386` . Ubuntu 18.04 running Acrobat Reader 9.5.5 so fillable PDFs work. – studog May 15 '22 at 05:01
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If none of the other answers solved your problem, you can also try

sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev

This worked for me (Ubuntu 14.04 x64, Gnome 3.12). I already had the gtk2-engines-murrine installed (both i386 and x64), and changing the GTK_MODULES didn't do anything for me.

Gui Ambros
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I installed sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-dev But gives that error again.Then I download murrine-0.90.3.tar.gz and 

tar -xvf murrine-0.90.3.tar.gz
cd murrine-0.90.3
./configure
make
make install

now works. no errors.hope this helps someone.

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For Ubuntu 20.04, it is sudo apt-get install murrine-themes to solve the warning.

biocyberman
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The following command is what I needed to solve this problem on Arch Linux.

sudo pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine
VENOM-InstantDeath
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How about installing package gnome-themes-standard. Try sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-standard or similar command in the corresponding way depending on what linux package management used.

Life
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This worked for me: Using Synaptic, search for 'gnome-themes' As a side-effect that will also list an entry gtk2-engines So just install gtk2-engines, i.e. Mark for installation and Apply

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