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Install Z-shell (Oh My Zsh) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Santhosh Veer on October 04, 2018

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JT McHorse

exec zsh will also work

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Zulhilmi Zainudin

For AWS Lightsail users, this one worked for me:

sudo chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh $(whoami)

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Ruan

Better post about zsh and oh my zsh that i've ever seen.

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Akash

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

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Rong Sen Ng

Thank you. Straightforward guide ever!

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a_m_dev

chsh -s /bin/bash username

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Suryaa Jha

This is my go-to article whenever I need to set up a machine with Zsh.
Fantastic article

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Ivan dos Reis Andrade

After struggling to have this working on my machines with random guides from the internet... everything is much clearer now.
Very good explanation.

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mohammadreza berneti

great

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Listiananda Apriliawan

Thank you. It works for me.

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Sunday Ezeilo

What a wonderful post. Thanks to the Author.

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landileite

Thank You!