How To Install gcolor3 on Fedora 34

gcolor3 is A simple color chooser written in GTK3 (like gcolor2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcolor3 on Fedora 34.

What is `gcolor3`

Gcolor3 is a color selection dialog written in GTK+ 3. It is much alike Gcolor2, but uses the newer GTK+ version to better integrate into your modern desktop. It has the same feature set as Gcolor2, except that recent versions of Gcolor3 use an .ini style file to save colors (older versions use the same file as Gcolor2).

We can use yum or dnf to install gcolor3 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gcolor3.

Install gcolor3 on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gcolor3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gcolor3

Install gcolor3 on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gcolor3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gcolor3

How To Uninstall gcolor3 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gcolor3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gcolor3

gcolor3 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gcolor3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/254789432d9871cd8e5de04399e31c62118380
/usr/share/applications/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gcolor3
/usr/share/doc/gcolor3/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gcolor3
/usr/share/licenses/gcolor3/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gcolor3.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gcolor3.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3.appdata.xml

References

gcolor3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcolor3 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.