Set up OhMyZsh on Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu Server 14.04

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1. Connect to your EC2 instance
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 ubuntu : sudo vim /etc/passwd
4. Look for ubuntu user, and replace bin/bash by bin/zsh
5. Install OhMyZsh : sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"
6. Disconnect from your instance and reconnect it.

And use "yum" instead of apt-get if running it on their linux OS :)

Thanks for this, chsh -s /bin/zsh didn't work and I was looking for an alternative.

Thanks because the chsh for root didn't work for me too

Thanks for this, chsh -s /bin/zsh didn't work and I was looking for an alternative.

You can run sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh ubuntu to change the user ubuntu's default shell. Replace 'ubuntu' with your username. You will have to logout and log back in (or change source manually) to see the change take effect

Combining the original solution with instance user data, you can add the following script to the instance's user-data, and then you'll have zsh installed when the instance is ready.

Very handy when using EC2 Launch Template

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y zsh && \
sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh ubuntu && \
sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Thanks, for this.

Added an updated version here: https://gist.github.com/sandiprb/771bcbd100a3ebf53682903a627a40df

Thanks for this!

this works on Oracle VPS too, thanks.