Error in loading of zenburn theme

[quux00]

Hi, I am on emacs 23.3.1 and unable to load the zenburn theme. I am on Xubuntu Linux and have installed color-theme (via the Debian package) and I am able to install other custom color themes. When I try to load the zenburn theme, I get this error message:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable zenburn-yellow\,)
  (list (quote :background) zenburn-yellow\, (quote :foreground) zenburn-red)
  (list class (list (quote :background) zenburn-yellow\, (quote :foreground) zenburn-red))
  (list (list class (list ... zenburn-yellow\, ... zenburn-red)))
  (list (quote whitespace-indentation) (list (list class ...)))
  (\` (whitespace-indentation (...)))
  (custom-theme-set-faces (quote zenburn) (quote (button ...)) (\` (link ...)) (\` (link-visited ...)) (\` (default ...)) (\` (cursor ...)) (\` (escape-glyph-face ...)) (\` (fringe ...)) (\` (header-line ...)) (\` (highlight ...)) (\` (compilation-column-face ...)) (\` (compilation-enter-directory-face ...)) (\` (compilation-error-face ...)) (\` (compilation-face ...)) (\` (compilation-info-face ...)) (\` (compilation-info ...)) (\` (compilation-leave-directory-face ...)) (\` (compilation-line-face ...)) (\` (compilation-line-number ...)) (\` (compilation-message-face ...)) (\` (compilation-warning-face ...)) (\` (grep-context-face ...)) (\` (grep-error-face ...)) (\` (grep-hit-face ...)) (\` (grep-match-face ...)) (\` (match ...)) (\` (isearch ...)) (\` (isearch-fail ...)) (\` (lazy-highlight ...)) (\` (menu ...)) (\` (minibuffer-prompt ...)) (\` (mode-line ...)) (\` (mode-line-buffer-id ...)) (\` (mode-line-inactive ...)) (\` (region ...)) (\` (secondary-selection ...)) (\` (trailing-whitespace ...)) (\` (vertical-border ...)) (\` (font-lock-builtin-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-comment-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-comment-delimiter-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-constant-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-doc-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-doc-string-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-function-name-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-keyword-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-negation-char-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-preprocessor-face ...)) (\` (font-lock-string-face ...)) ...)
  (let ((class ...) (zenburn-fg "#dcdccc") (zenburn-fg-1 "#656555") (zenburn-bg-1 "#2b2b2b") (zenburn-bg-05 "#383838") (zenburn-bg "#3f3f3f") (zenburn-bg+1 "#4f4f4f") (zenburn-bg+2 "#5f5f5f") (zenburn-bg+3 "#6f6f6f") (zenburn-red+1 "#dca3a3") (zenburn-red "#cc9393") (zenburn-red-1 "#bc8383") (zenburn-red-2 "#ac7373") (zenburn-red-3 "#9c6363") (zenburn-red-4 "#8c5353") (zenburn-orange "#dfaf8f") (zenburn-yellow "#f0dfaf") (zenburn-yellow-1 "#e0cf9f") (zenburn-yellow-2 "#d0bf8f") (zenburn-green-1 "#5f7f5f") (zenburn-green "#7f9f7f") (zenburn-green+1 "#8fb28f") (zenburn-green+2 "#9fc59f") (zenburn-green+3 "#afd8af") (zenburn-green+4 "#bfebbf") (zenburn-cyan "#93e0e3") (zenburn-blue+1 "#94bff3") (zenburn-blue "#8cd0d3") (zenburn-blue-1 "#7cb8bb") (zenburn-blue-2 "#6ca0a3") (zenburn-blue-3 "#5c888b") (zenburn-blue-4 "#4c7073") (zenburn-blue-5 "#366060") (zenburn-magenta "#dc8cc3")) (custom-theme-set-faces (quote zenburn) (quote ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) (\` ...) ...))
  eval-buffer(#> nil "/home/midpeter444/.emacs.d/site-lisp/color-theme-zenburn.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 26219
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/midpeter444/.emacs.d/site-lisp/color-theme-zenburn.el" "/home/midpeter444/.emacs.d/site-lisp/color-theme-zenburn.el" nil t)
  require(color-theme-zenburn)
  eval-buffer(# nil "/home/midpeter444/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 10275
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/midpeter444/.emacs" "/home/midpeter444/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[nil "�\205\264

More Background:
I downloaded zenburn-theme with wget https://raw.github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs/master/zenburn-theme.el to my site-lisp dir (on my default load-path) and put this in my .emacs:

(require 'color-theme-zenburn)
(color-theme-zenburn)

I tried everything above (and a few more things) two or three times, always with same result.

Thanks for looking into this,
Michael

[bbatsov]

The zenburn-theme file is for use with Emacs 24's new theming infrastructure based on deftheme. You should use the other color-theme-zenburn.el file.

[quux00]

OK. Thanks. You might want to just put that statement in your README so it's clear to others (I see now that it is implied, but not clearly stated). In any case - thanks for providing this nice theme!