Setting up OhMyZsh on a rapsberry Pi

readme.md

1. Connect to your raspberry Pi with SSH
2. Install zsh : sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zsh
3. Edit your passwd configuration file to tell which shell to use for user pi : sudo vim /etc/passwd and change /bin/bash and /bin/zsh
4. Reconnect to your raspberry, and check that zsh is the shell with echo $0.
5. Switch to root : sudo su
6. Install OhMyZsh : sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"
7. Disconnect from your instance and reconnect it.

Why does this point to robbyrussell instead of the official repo?

@tomholford that's the original maintainer of the ohmyzsh repo; it was moved to the ohmyzsh repo at some point

@joshjohanning Thanks

thank you all!

I found this didn't work for the current logged in user if I switched to root, so I just ran #6 without sudo su

For some reason, I get illegal instruction

raspberrypi% sudo su
root@raspberrypi:/home/infinitecoder# sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"
--2023-11-04 17:33:57--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, 185.199.111.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.108.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18209 (18K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                         100%[=====================================>]  17.78K  --.-KB/s    in 0.01s

2023-11-04 17:33:57 (1.80 MB/s) - written to stdout [18209/18209]

Cloning Oh My Zsh...
Illegal instruction
/home/infinitecoder
Error: git clone of oh-my-zsh repo failed
root@raspberrypi:/home/infinitecoder#

@InfiniteCoder01 What version of git is it using? It looks like a git error.

Try updating it.

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/107533/my-apt-is-broken-illegal-instruction

I've reinstalled my system and it worked

You can also do step 3 as:
#chsh -i /bin/zsh
Logout of the session and then log back in it should have changed.