Getting oh-my-zsh to work in Ubuntu

zsh.md

Prereq:

apt-get install zsh
apt-get install git-core

Getting zsh to work in ubuntu is weird, since sh does not understand the source command. So, you do this to install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

and then you change your shell to zsh

chsh -s `which zsh`

and then restart

sudo shutdown -r 0

This problem is explained in depth in this issue

it looks like you're changing the shell to bash, instead of zsh. is this because of some thing oh-my-zsh does, or is this a typo?

changed. thanks.

Worked perfectly, thanks!

Thanx for share. Worked perfectly n i loved the git friendly default theme !!

Worked perfectly thanks

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You have to have "zsh" installed on Ubuntu first... Then it works :)

apt-get install zsh

You also need to have git installed obviously

Sometimes it is difficult to make it run in ubuntu, so I use
curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh
then
chsh -s which zsh
and after that restart it
sudo shutdown -r 0

Thanks for your method! It's what i needed!

on one of the machines had to run
sudo apt-get install zsh
before following these footstepts

Thank you very much. It works as expected :-). If you don't have git installed it should be installed as well:
sudo apt-get install git

Hey, I just needed to run firstly sudo apt-get update
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For whatever reason, chsh -swhich zsh``didn't work for me butchsh -s /bin/zsh did. It might have just been a coincidence, but give it shot if you are having trouble.

Thanks! It works well..
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Thanks for this!

Any reason you chose to include a "restart" step in this? You seem to have properly fixed it in https://gist.github.com/tsabat/1498393/422c7e4488c5dfc616b8e9c58f142c9d2cb44621 but then changed it back to restart. I don't really see why this would be necessary and it kind of promotes bad practice.

awesome !! worked like a charm.. thanks for sharing the information..

Thanks

We have some revised install instructions now on http://ohmyz.sh/

Thanks!

Thanks!

rebooting the machine is not necessary. just log out and back in!

Can you give the exact details? I can't find them on the ohmyzsh site.

:) Thanks!

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n1 :)

Thanks! This is working on Raspbian - Debian Wheezy too.

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Thank you!

Great resource! 10/10, would curl again.

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It's perfect! Works like a charm!

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Perfect 👍

Thanks (y)

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It's worked, thanks! ✌️

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For some odd reason i can't change directory with it.

么么哒~

nice thanks

nearly 2 years later, this approach still works.

many thanks :)

If you need to setup zsh for concrete user you can run:

sudo chsh -s $(which zsh) username

http://superuser.com/a/231736

Great! Also works on Raspberry Pi 2

thanks a lot! 👍

Thanks!

thanks, been on that for a while

Thank you! Thumbs up!!!

Thanks 👍

Thank you!

Thanks

love you ! !!!

Awesome!

Thanks 👍

man, you don't need to reboot, just to relogin after chsh /facepalm

This was all I needed to do.

apt-get install -y zsh git-core
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

thanks & Love u <3 !!

Thank you! Worked perfectly!

Thanks!

Thank you. :)

Cool, Thanks 👍

It works with Xubuntu.

Note that I got an error when I typed: wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

But I ignored the error and went on. It ended up working.

This is a pretty good YouTube clip on how one guy uses Zsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07MiM6rmMc

Thanks for the nice Gist

Thanks

Worked like a charm, thanks a ton!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks!

But，In the fact, It did not need to use sudo shutdown -r 0 to reboot. Just Logout then Login.

Thanks!

I couldn't change directory and then I ran this and everything worked fine.

apt-get install -y zsh git-core
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Thanks!!!

@adnnn - this worked like a charm - thanks!

Just as a side note, if you don't want to restart your machine (last step), you should be able to execute zsh with exec zsh

Thanks Captain !!!

for anyone who has a problem with chsh -s 'which zsh', this answer will work fine
http://askubuntu.com/a/660014

Thanks, works in Raspbian (Raspberry Pi)

Oh man. It works! Thank you so much!

Thanks man!

Just in case if someone else is trying to add this in a "Vagrant bootstrap file"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25763017/install-oh-my-zsh-on-a-vagrant-box-as-part-of-the-bootstrap-process

Awesome! Thanks. Works on Ubuntu Mate 16.04.1

Works great!

great job!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Excellent!

Thanks! Installed on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

If you are hear to replace zsh with default bash IN WINDOWS 10, add this to your ./bashrc file:

# Launch Zsh
if [ -t 1 ]; then
exec zsh
fi

Thanks!

Works like a charm! :)

Many thanks ! Works perfectly !

For docker debian based:

bash -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Thanks the author and everyone here!
I need to have git and zsh installed before doing so. Plus, log out does not work for me, but restart does well.
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Worked like a charm. Thanks!

How to rollback to "vanilla bash" :) ?

well done mate, nice tutorial, simple and useful

Thanks:)

Thanks! Works in Ubuntu Gnome 17.04

You don't need any of this. Go to official sites and read people. It is simpler and explains well.
http://ohmyz.sh/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChangingShells

Good one. Thank you. 👍

Thanks!

Thank you !

Champion!

for AMI Linux, chsh -s $(which zsh) ec2-user

棒棒的！！

Thanks!

@Naatan the reason he probably does that is that window managers don't always pick up the changes automatically. Saying reboot rather than adding a procedure to install each window manager makes the instructions easier to follow.

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