What is the definitive way to install/upgrade/set the default version of ZSH?
macos, osx-mountain-lion, terminal, zsh
Solution
You have to set your default shell in OSX with:
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh $USER
Relogin to OSX and it should work!
Homebrew way
I recommand you to use homebrew. It makes things much easier. Install homebrew, like described on Link .
Homebrew installs your stuff in /usr/local/bin, so make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin .
Add the following line in ~/.zshrc and ~/.bashrc :
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
Install zsh:
brew install zsh
Set your default shell to zsh:
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh $USER
Finally set permission to use zsh from brew installation. Add "/usr/local/bin/zsh" to "/etc/shells" file to allow zsh. Else you'll get an error "You are not authorized to run this application. The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value."
echo "/usr/local/bin/zsh" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
I recommand to fix the zsh environment bug in OSX. Rename /etc/zshenv to /etc/zshrc
sudo mv /etc/{zshenv,zshrc}
Relogin to OSX and it should work!
If you have trouble, type:
brew doctor
Problem
OSX Mountain Lion ships with ZSH 4.3.1 in /bin/zsh. After downloading, `./configure, make, make check,` and `make install`-ing version 5.0.0, `which zsh` still returns `/bin/zsh/` and `zsh --version` still returns `zsh 4.3.11 (i386-apple-darwin12.0)` Items of note to help answerers: I had no errors running the install commands. In `/usr/local/bin`, I have these 3 files: `-rwxr-xr-x 2 kevinsuttle admin 622K Aug 20 00:59 zsh` `-rwxr-xr-x 2 kevinsuttle admin 622K Aug 20 00:59 zsh-5.0.0` `-rwxr-xr-x 1 kevinsuttle admin 622K Aug 20 00:50 zsh.old` My `$PATH` `$ echo $PATH` `/Users/kevinsuttle/.rbenv/shims:/Users/kevinsuttle/.rbenv/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin` Questions I need answered: 1. What is the cleanest way to install ZSH? (From git, homebrew, curl-ing source?) 2. Does it matter where you run the install commands? 3. How do I upgrade or override the version of ZSH that ships with Mountain Lion? 4. Is this why people end up using oh-my-zsh?