(color wrapper was designed on GNU/linux. but, cw is written in ANSI C and has been ported to several other operating systems. (see ./PLATFORM for supported operating systems) what to do: for installing globally(as root): # ./configure && make install for installing in your local home directory(generally non-root): # ./configure && make installlocal for only compiling the binaries: # ./configure && make local after the make "installocal" or "install" has been completed, please view the README if you haven't already. NOTE: if you want to install to /usr/ instead of /usr/local/(default) run "./configure --prefix=/usr". "--prefix" and "--mandir" are the only configure arguments used, despite what the defacto (autoconf) configure help says.