How to install gnome-color-chooser for Fedora

Gnome-color-chooser is a tool which allows you to control the colors used in GNOME with a lot more granularity than the default “Appearance” app.

Unfortunately, Fedora does not have a repository with a gnome-color-chooser rpm, so you will need to compile it yourself.

Here are the instructions, tested with gnome-color-chooser v. 0.2.5 and Fedora 13/14:

su
yum install wget gcc-c++ glib-devel intltool gtkmm24-devel libglademm24-devel libgnomeui-devel libgnome-devel libxml2-devel
 
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnomecc/gnome-color-chooser/0.2.5/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5.tar.gz
 
tar -xzvf gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5.tar.gz
 
mv gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5 /opt/gnome-color-chooser
 
cd /opt/gnome-color-chooser/
 
./configure
 
make
 
make install

After installing, you can find it under System -> Preferences -> Gnome Color Chooser.

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5 comments


  1. trm96
    February 21, 2011 at 6:31 am

    Awesome thanks! Works like a charm!

  3. David
    June 11, 2012 at 4:34 am

    Thank you very much. Works perfect on CentOS-6

  4. Daniel
    June 14, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    tested under Fedora 16 – works

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