Coming back to this - again no symbols, but I still got ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols installed - even reinstalled it, to no avail. I’d love to have my symbols back 
If I remember correctly you still have to configure your terminal emulator to use that font family. After installing that package you would have to find out what the family name is of that font and the style of that font, you can do that by running this.
fc-list | grep -i nerd | grep -i symbol
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/SymbolsNerdFont-Regular.ttf: Symbols Nerd Font:style=Regular
Then you will see that the name is “Symbols Nerd Font” and the style is “Regular”, you will have to define that in your terminal emulator config or select them in your config for those icons to work.
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That’s right, although I believe it is sufficient to configure the font of your terminal to be any nerd font. I don’t think the symbol package needs to be explicitly declared anywhere.
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It might depend on what terminal emulator you use, I have the following font installed.
local/ttf-dejavu-nerd 3.1.1-1 (nerd-fonts)
Patched font Dejavu Sans Mono from nerd fonts library
I’m using Alacritty and I needed to define the following for those icons to work.
[font.normal]
family = “DejaVu Sans Mono”
style = “Book”
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I tested it out, you are right it is enough to configure the font family since I commented out the style to check if my icons would still work. I guess it’s more for me that if I configure the font family I might as well also configure that style, that makes it feel more complete to me. 
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Yeah that was it, somehow the font family of Konsole must have changed (maybe the KDE6 upgrade?) and was not set on nerd-font anymore. I do not remember to set it up in Konsole settings the last time, so this hit me unprepared and without knowledge - thanks for sharing yours! This forum does not stop to simply own everything with ease!
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I noticed this as well. I think with the update, it was set back to default font type. I had to reset mine as well. For some reason, my konsole profile got corrupted with the update to 6, so I had multiple things to fix.
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More details here (and there’s also a thread in this forum):
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