How To Install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7. gnome-colors-icon-theme is GNOME-Colors icon theme

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7.

What is gnome-colors-icon-theme

The GNOME-Colors is a project that aims to make the GNOME desktop as elegant, consistent and colorful as possible. The current goal is to allow full color customization of themes, icons, GDM logins and splash screens. There are already seven full color-schemes available; Brave (Blue), Human (Orange), Wine (Red), Noble (Purple), Wise (Green), Dust (Chocolate) and Illustrious (Pink). An unlimited amount of color variations can be rebuilt and recolored from source, so users need not stick to the officially supported color palettes. GNOME-Colors is mostly inspired/based on Tango, GNOME, Elementary, Tango-Generator and many other open-source projects. More information can be found in the AUTHORS file.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-colors-icon-theme.

Install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-colors-icon-theme using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-colors-icon-theme

Install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-colors-icon-theme using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-colors-icon-theme

How To Uninstall gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gnome-colors-icon-theme package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-colors-icon-theme

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors-icon-theme on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.