Installing ZSH, Oh-my-Zsh on Ubuntu, MacOS

Oh-My-Zsh is a framework for Zsh, the Z shell.

1. Install and set up zsh as default

The recommended terminal for MacOs is iTerm2. You can download here

With Iterm2, your default shell is zsh.

2. Install oh-my-zsh and Powerline fonts

To continue installing software on MacOS Homebrew need to be installed. Homebrew is a package manager that allows you to easily install, manage, and update software on macOS.

To get started with Homebrew, you can install it using the following command in the terminal:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Once installed, you can use commands like:

• brew install to install a package.

• brew update to update Homebrew and its package database.

• brew upgrade to upgrade all installed packages.

• brew uninstall to remove a package.

Homebrew is widely used for managing command-line tools and applications on macOS.

Homebrew installation

Installing Powerline fonts

Copy and paste these commands to your terminal.

brew install --cask font-source-code-pro-for-powerline

3. Change to a brighter colors

You can use my colors profile. You can get it HERE

After that, go to Iterm2 Settings -> Gerneral -> Settings and Import All Settings and Data...

Import Settings

If you want to choose your color, select the Profiles tab then edit the color in ANSI colors by your favorite. (Set ANSI blue color to a brighter color. )

Select Colors Presets ( Solarized Dark is recommended)

• Set ANSI blue color to a brighter color. If you want to choose your color, select the Profiles tab then edit the color in ANSI colors by your favorite. Three main colors you can see simultaneously with the change in the terminal are:

  • Text color

  • Cursor color

  • Command color

  

  My Color Profile

4. Using a fancy theme for zsh

Open .zshrc file using nano editor

nano ~/.zshrc

Find the line ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell" and replace robbyrussell with the agnoster theme in the .zshrc File. After that, press CTRL + X and Enter to save.

3. Install the most useful plugins for zsh

The most useful plugins for zsh are syntax highlighting and autosuggestions.

brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions

Add the plugin to the list of plugins for Oh My Zsh to load (inside ~/.zshrc):

nano ~/.zshrc

Find the line of enable plugins and add zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting

plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Ctrl+X to close nano editor with key Y to save changes. After all, reload zsh to enable plugins with command

source ~/.zshrc

If for some reasons, plugins could not install, do it manually by downloading them and putting them in the correct path.

COPY

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

• Install Powerline fonts

• Change the default font of the terminal to Powerline font

• Set ANSI blue color to a brighter color

✅If the username and host always display at the beginning of the prompt make you feel annoyed, you can remove it permanently by following these steps:

COPY

nano ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/agnoster.zsh-theme

Go to the bottom of file and comment out the line "prompt_context"

Reload the shell and enjoy!

source ~/.zshrc

Resources:

• https://gist.github.com/stramel/658d702f3af8a86a6fe8b588720e0e23