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Installed Programs: zsh and zsh-5.9 (hardlinked to each other)
Installed Libraries: Numerous plugin helper modules under
/usr/lib/zsh/5.9/
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,share}/zsh and /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
zsh-5.9
Introduction to zsh
The zsh package contains a command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles ksh but includes many enhancements.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 182e37ca3fe3fa6a44f69ad462c5c30e
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 48 MB (includes documentation and tests)
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; includes documentation and tests)
Additional Downloads
Optional Documentation: https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
Documentation MD5 sum: 8db53446f613521fb4f9b0bd9f6adda1
Documentation download size: 3.0 MB
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Note
When there is a new zsh release, the old files shown above are moved to a new server directory: https://www.zsh.org/pub/old/.
zsh Dependencies
Optional
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zsh
Installation of zsh
If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with the following command:
tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-5.9-doc.tar.xz
Install zsh by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh \
--enable-cap \
--enable-gdbm &&
make &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html -o Doc/html &&
makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers -o Doc/zsh.htmlIf you have texlive-20220321 installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing the following command:
texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
the following commands as the
root user:
make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9/html install.html && install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install
it by issuing the following command as the
root user:
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.9
Command Explanations
--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh and
--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh: These parameters are
used so that all the zsh configuration files
are consolidated into the /etc/zsh
directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical
compatibility by having all the files located in the
/etc directory.
--enable-cap: This option enables
POSIX capabilities.
--enable-gdbm: This option enables the
use of the GDBM library.
--enable-pcre: This option allows zsh to use
the PCRE regular expression library in shell
builtins.
Configuring zsh
Config Files
There are a whole host of configuration files for
zsh including
/etc/zsh/zshenv,
/etc/zsh/zprofile,
/etc/zsh/zshrc,
/etc/zsh/zlogin and
/etc/zsh/zlogout.
You can find more information on these in the
zsh(1) and related manual pages.
The first time zsh is executed, you will be prompted by messages asking
several questions. The answers will be used to create a
~/.zshrc file. If you wish to run these questions
again, run zsh
/usr/share/zsh/5.9/functions/zsh-newuser-install -f.
There are several built-in advanced prompts. In the
zsh shell, start advanced prompt support with
autoload -U promptinit, then
promptinit. Available prompt names are listed with
prompt -l. Select a particular one with
prompt <prompt-name>.
Display all available
prompts with prompt -p. Except for the list and
display commands above, you can insert the other ones in
~/.zshrc to be automatically executed at
shell start, with the prompt you chose.