Oh My Zsh Installation

Oh-my-zsh Installation¶

Dependencies 1. curl 2. git

Step 0: Install zsh shell For this plugin to work, we need zsh shell to be installed in the system. Use the following command,

sudo apt install zsh

Step 1: Install Oh-My-Zsh using Curl :

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

Step 2: Install zsh-autosuggestions by running:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Step 3: Install zsh-syntax-highlighting by running:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Step 4: Use your preferred text editor. Here Vim is used

vim .zshrc

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

Change zsh Theme

By default the robbyrussel is installed. It can be changed to any other theme by replacing the robbyrussel to agnoster

ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Make zsh default shell

Use the following command in Terminal to make zsh your default shell.

chsh -s $(which zsh)