Oh-My-Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and few things that make you shout… “OH MY ZSHELL!”.
Fig 1 above show oh-my-zsh running in Terminator
Install ZSH
oh-my-zsh should work with any recent release of zsh, the minimum recommended version is 4.3.9.
First you need to install ZSH. If not installed just fire up your terminal and do now.
Fedora:
sudo yum install zsh
sudo pacman -S zsh
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian:
sudo apt-get install zsh
Install Oh-My-Zsh
Automatic Installation
This can be done via `curl` or `wget`.
Open Terminal,
via `curl`:
curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh
via `wget`:
wget --no-check-certificate http://install.ohmyz.sh -O - | sh
Manual Installation
1. Clone the repository
git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
1.a. If you already have an existing ~/.zshrc file, create a backup:
cp ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.orig
3. Create a new zsh config by copying the zsh template we’ve provided.
cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
4. Set zsh as your default shell:
chsh -s /bin/zsh
5. Restart ZSH.
Also take a look the various themes and plugins to make your terminal look good.
Enjoy.
Source: OH-MY-ZSH
