Right, I’m having trouble figuring out whether this is a packaging issue on debian’s end, a bad-update issue (this system was originally put up with Blender 3.5 and gradually updated through Blender 4.3), something I broke, or a bug with Blender, but I can’t find anything hinting to it.
Formalities, Debian Sid, Plasma 6 (x11), no I don’t know if the assets were ever there, Blender 4.3, x86_64, yes blender_data is installed. Essentials library is present, all items within it are missing.
Since I can’t locate anywhere to grab the essentials library, I’m going to assume this isn’t something that can easily just happen. I went to do some texture painting and spent a few minutes confused as to why I couldn’t select a brush, looked for where they might’ve been moved, and found that they just seem to not be there at all.
Kind of bloated screenshot, trying to demonstrate that nowhere that I should be seeing the essentials library, do I actually see them. There’s a few more places where I understand they should be seen, where I am not seeing them, not in the screenshot.
Suggestions on how to fix this, and whether it seems like a my-end problem or a packaging problem / blender bug, would be appreciated. Already tried seeking out and downloading the essentials to add them as a user library, cannot find them anywhere.