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I have installed several icon sets, e.g. faenza via the equinox PPA.
However, they do not appear in GNOME Tweaks > Appearance > Icons.

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I have done both ALT-F2 + R and reboot, still not showing.

I cannot activate/use them. There is not really much that can be done wrong when installing them via PPA. So what am I missing?

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It was a problem related to permissions.

This output shows the folders exist but as you can see they are not accessible by users other than root.

drwx------ 11 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza/
drwx------  4 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Ambiance/
drwx------  9 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Dark/
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Darker/
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Darkest/
drwx------  4 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:07 Faenza-Radiance/

Change the rights of the folders by executing the command sudo chmod 755 -R /usr/share/icons/Faenza and restart GNOME shell using Alt+F2 and then type r and press Enter. faenza now shows in icon themes.

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