Ubuntu 10.04 with ‘old’ theme

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. Works a treat, but that new theme… I don’t like it much and preferred the old theme (call me crazy but I do). So I headed for ‘Appearance’ and was about to select the old theme.. except… it is no longer part of the default installation.

If you have a machine with, say, Ubuntu 9.10 around, fixing this is fairly simple. Just plugin a USB stick on the old Ubuntu machine and go ahead:

cd /usr/share/themes
cp -R Human* /media/USBSTICK

Then remove the USB stick and insert into the 10.04 machine and continue:

sudo cp -R /media/USBSTICK/Human* /usr/share/themes
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/share/themes/Human*

Then, go to System > Preferences > Appearance and select the Human-Clearlooks theme.