How Do I Update Zsh to the Latest Version?
I Recently Switched to Zsh on My Terminal. App on My Os X Machine Successfully. the Version Number of Zsh Is 4.3.11. 3 6 Answers If You're Using Oh-My-Zsh Type...
I recently switched to zsh on my Terminal.app on my OS X machine successfully. The version number of zsh is 4.3.11.
6 Answers
If you have Homebrew installed, you can do this.
# check the zsh info
brew info zsh
# install zsh
brew install --without-etcdir zsh
# add shell path
sudo vim /etc/shells
# add the following line into the very end of the file(/etc/shells)
/usr/local/bin/zsh
# change default shell
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh
Hope it helps, thanks.
If you're not using Homebrew, this is what I just did on MAC OS X Lion (10.7.5):
Get the latest version of the ZSH sourcecode
Untar the download into its own directory then install:
./configure && make && make test && sudo make installThis installs the the zsh binary at
/usr/local/bin/zsh.You can now use the shell by loading up a new terminal and executing the binary directly, but you'll want to make it your default shell...
To make it your default shell you must first edit
/etc/shellsand add the new path. Then you can either runchsh -s /usr/local/bin/zshor go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > right click your user > Advanced Options... > and then change "Login shell".Load up a terminal and check you're now in the correct version with
echo $ZSH_VERSION. (I wasn't at first, and it took me a while to figure out I'd configured iTerm to use a specific shell instead of the system default).
As far as I'm aware, you've got three options to install zsh on Mac OS X:
- Pre-built binary. The only one I know of is the one that ships with OS X; this is probably what you're running now.
- Use a package system (Ports, Homebrew).
- Install from source. Last time I did this it wasn't too difficult (
./configure,make,make install).
A simple script or execute following commands in terminal
# 1. download (currently the latest version is 5.8) and extract
wget -O ./zsh-latest.tar.xz
mkdir zsh-latest
tar -xf zsh-latest.tar.xz -C zsh-latest --strip-components=1
cd zsh-latest
# 2. config, build, install
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
which zsh
PS: If you fail to build, it probably due to missing necessary libraries. Just install libraries as the error message suggests. E.g, I didn't have ncurses:
sudo apt install ncurses-devel # for Ubuntu
sudo yum install ncurses-devel # for CentOS/Redhat
I just switched the main shell to zsh. It suppresses the warnings and it isn't too complicated.
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