%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ 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 version of ZSH does not work properly with multibyte locales (e.g., UTF-8). A development version is available that addresses many, but not all, locale related issues. You can download the development version from the ZSH Sourceforge Download Page and use the following BLFS instructions to build and install. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &zsh-md5sum; Download size: &zsh-size; Estimated disk space required: &zsh-buildsize; Estimated build time: &zsh-time; Additional Downloads Optional Documentation: MD5 sum: &zsh-doc-md5sum; ZSH Dependencies Optional User Notes: If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it the same way you would the source tarball. The documentation will unpack into the Doc directory of the source tree. Install ZSH by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \ --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh && make If you downloaded the optional documentation, and you have installed, you can build additional formats of the documentation by issuing any or all of the following commands: texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf && texi2html Doc/zsh.texi --output=Doc/zsh_1file_t.html && makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers \ -o Doc/zsh_1file_m.html && makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install && make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user: make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html install.html && install -v -m644 Doc/*.{ps,dvi} /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; If you built any additional formats of the documentation, install them by issuing the following command as the root user: install -v -m644 Doc/{zsh_1file*,*.{pdf,txt}} \ /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; --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. 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. /etc/zsh/zshenv /etc/zsh/zprofile /etc/zsh/zshrc /etc/zsh/zlogin /etc/zsh/zlogout Update /etc/shells to include the ZSH shell program names (as the root user): cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF" /usr/bin/zsh /usr/bin/zsh-&zsh-version; EOF Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories zsh and zsh-&zsh-version; Numerous plugin helper modules /etc/zsh, /usr/lib/zsh, /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; and /usr/share/zsh Short Description zsh is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features. zsh