Install ZSH shell on Ubuntu

Install ZSH shell on Ubuntu « Soham's Blog

April 21, 2011

Setup ZSH as your default terminal with oh-my-zsh

• Install ZSH

   

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zsh

  You can download ZSH tutorial from here

• Setup oh-my-zsh

   

  wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O – | sh

• Make ZSH default

   

  chsh -s /bin/zsh

• Restart your system.

Note*
If you are a rails developer and using RVM, make sure you have added the following line at the end of your .zshrc file.

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . “$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm”