You might need to install some more dependencies depending of your type of CentOS install.
(./configre will report what you are missing)
Open a terminal
# FIX DEPENDENCIES su - root yum install enchant-aspell enchant-develiso-codes-devel exit # DOWNLOAD AND EXTRACT SOURCES cd ~ wget http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/2.28/gedit-2.28.4.tar.gz tar -xzf gedit-2.28.4.tar.gz cd gedit-2.28.4 cd plugins wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/symbol-browser/files/symbol-browser/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin/gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz tar -xzf gedit-symbol-browser-plugin-0.1.tar.gz # EDIT MAKE AND CONFIGURE FILES sed -i 's/SUBDIRS =/SUBDIRS = \t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am sed -i 's/DIST_SUBDIRS =/DIST_SUBDIRS =\t\\\n\tsymbolbrowser\t/g' Makefile.am cd .. sed -i 's/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[/AC_CONFIG_FILES(\[\nplugins\/symbolbrowser\/Makefile/g' configure.ac # BUILD THE PLUGIN autoconf automake ./configure cd plugins/symbolbrowser make # COPY TO HOME FOLDER cp symbolbrowser.gedit-plugin .libs/libsymbolbrowser.so ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/ cp -r symbols ~/.gnome2/gedit/