I somehow broke beautyline

So beautyline is stopping me from running any updates.
I have tried to reinstall beautline to no avail. This is what happens if i run pacman -Syu

It downloads all the packages and then this happens. and had to delete half of them to make this fit

beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-network.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-open.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-orange.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-pictures.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-print.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-private.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-publicshare.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-red.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-root.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-script.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-sound.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-tar.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-temp.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-templates.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-text.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-videos.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-violet.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder-yellow.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/folder.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/globe.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/mail-folder-inbox.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/mail-folder-outbox.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/mail-folder-sent.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/mail-message.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/network-server-database.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/network-workgroup.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/user-desktop.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/user-home.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/user-trash-full.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/16/user-trash.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-documents.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-download.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-games.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-movies.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-music.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-pictures.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-publicshare.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-recent.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-templates.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder-videos.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/folder.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/user-desktop.svg exists in filesystem
beautyline: /usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/places/48/user-home.svg exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Did you do a manual install of BeautyLine in the past?

If that the full output of the errors it is probably safe to use --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/* as a parameter to pacman.

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i did actually. it kept saying that the package was broken and wouldnt do any updates so i tried to install it from th repo and then aur

If you are going to install manually(not from the repos or AUR), you need to install them into you home directory or some non-system location. If you don't, this happens.

Either way, the solution above still should work.

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got ya. so now what do i do to fix it

sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/*
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sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/*
fish: No matches for wildcard “usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/*”. See `help expand`.
sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/*

Type

bash
sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/*
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Ugh....fish....

Try

sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/share/icons/BeautyLine/\*
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