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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY zsh-download-http "https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-&zsh-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY zsh-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY zsh-md5sum "182e37ca3fe3fa6a44f69ad462c5c30e">
10 <!ENTITY zsh-size "3.2 MB">
11 <!ENTITY zsh-buildsize "48 MB (includes documentation and tests)">
12 <!ENTITY zsh-time "1.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; includes documentation and tests)">
13
14 <!ENTITY zsh-doc-md5sum "8db53446f613521fb4f9b0bd9f6adda1">
15 <!ENTITY zsh-doc-size "3.0 MB">
16]>
17
18<sect1 id="zsh" xreflabel="zsh-&zsh-version;">
19 <?dbhtml filename="zsh.html"?>
20
21 <sect1info>
22 <date>$Date$</date>
23 </sect1info>
24
25 <title>zsh-&zsh-version;</title>
26
27 <indexterm zone="zsh">
28 <primary sortas="a-zsh">zsh</primary>
29 </indexterm>
30
31 <sect2 role="package">
32 <title>Introduction to zsh</title>
33
34 <para>
35 The <application>zsh</application> package contains a command
36 interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as
37 a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells,
38 <application>zsh</application> most closely resembles
39 <application>ksh</application> but includes many enhancements.
40 </para>
41
42 &lfs112_checked;
43
44 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
45 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
46 <listitem>
47 <para>
48 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-http;"/>
49 </para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-ftp;"/>
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download MD5 sum: &zsh-md5sum;
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Download size: &zsh-size;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Estimated disk space required: &zsh-buildsize;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>
73 Estimated build time: &zsh-time;
74 </para>
75 </listitem>
76 </itemizedlist>
77
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
79 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
80 <listitem>
81 <para>
82 Optional Documentation: <ulink
83 url="https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-&zsh-version;-doc.tar.xz"/>
84 </para>
85 </listitem>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88 Documentation MD5 sum: &zsh-doc-md5sum;
89 </para>
90 </listitem>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>
93 Documentation download size: &zsh-doc-size;
94 </para>
95 </listitem>
96 </itemizedlist>
97
98 <note>
99 <para>
100 When there is a new <application>zsh</application> release, the old
101 files shown above are moved to a new server directory:
102 <ulink url="https://www.zsh.org/pub/old/"/>.
103 </para>
104 </note>
105
106 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">zsh Dependencies</bridgehead>
107
108 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
109 <para role="optional">
110 <xref linkend="pcre"/> and
111 <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
112 </para>
113
114 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
115 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/zsh"/></para>
116
117 </sect2>
118
119 <sect2 role="installation">
120 <title>Installation of zsh</title>
121
122 <para>
123 If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with
124 the following command:
125 </para>
126
127<screen><userinput>tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-&zsh-version;-doc.tar.xz</userinput></screen>
128
129<!-- <note>
130 <para>
131 Using a script to build with "su -c script" may produce a funny
132 configure error message: "no controlling tty". If this happens, add
133 the switch -\-with-tcsetpgrp to configure.
134 </para>
135 </note>
136-->
137 <para>
138 Install <application>zsh</application> by running the following
139 commands:
140 </para>
141
142<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
143 --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
144 --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh \
145 --enable-cap \
146 --enable-gdbm &amp;&amp;
147make &amp;&amp;
148
149makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt &amp;&amp;
150makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html -o Doc/html &amp;&amp;
151makeinfo Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers -o Doc/zsh.html</userinput></screen>
152
153 <para>
154 If you have <xref linkend="texlive"/>
155 installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing
156 the following command:
157 </para>
158
159<screen remap="doc"><userinput>texi2pdf Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf</userinput></screen>
160
161 <para>
162 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
163 </para>
164
165 <para>
166 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
167 </para>
168
169<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
170make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info &amp;&amp;
171
172install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html &amp;&amp;
173install -v -m644 Doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html &amp;&amp;
174install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>
175
176 <para>
177 If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
178 the following commands as the
179 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
180 </para>
181
182<screen role="root"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html install.html &amp;&amp;
183install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>
184
185 <para>
186 If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install
187 it by issuing the following command as the
188 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
189 </para>
190
191<screen role="root"
192 remap="doc"><userinput>install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>
193
194 </sect2>
195
196 <sect2 role="commands">
197 <title>Command Explanations</title>
198
199 <para>
200 <parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh</parameter> and
201 <parameter>--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh</parameter>: These parameters are
202 used so that all the <application>zsh</application> configuration files
203 are consolidated into the <filename class='directory'>/etc/zsh</filename>
204 directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical
205 compatibility by having all the files located in the
206 <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> directory.
207 </para>
208
209 <para>
210 <parameter>--enable-cap</parameter>: This option enables
211 POSIX capabilities.
212 </para>
213
214 <para>
215 <parameter>--enable-gdbm</parameter>: This option enables the
216 use of the <application>GDBM</application> library.
217 </para>
218
219 <para>
220 <option>--enable-pcre</option>: This option allows zsh to use
221 the <application>PCRE</application> regular expression library in shell
222 builtins.
223 </para>
224 </sect2>
225
226 <sect2 role="configuration">
227 <title>Configuring zsh</title>
228
229 <sect3 id="zsh-config">
230 <title>Config Files</title>
231
232 <para>
233 There are a whole host of configuration files for
234 <application>zsh</application> including
235 <filename>/etc/zsh/zshenv</filename>,
236 <filename>/etc/zsh/zprofile</filename>,
237 <filename>/etc/zsh/zshrc</filename>,
238 <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogin</filename> and
239 <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogout</filename>.
240 You can find more information on these in the
241 <filename>zsh(1)</filename> and related manual pages.
242 </para>
243
244 <para>
245 The first time zsh is executed, you will be prompted by messages asking
246 several questions. The answers will be used to create a
247 <filename>~/.zshrc</filename> file. If you wish to run these questions
248 again, run <command>zsh
249 /usr/share/zsh/&zsh-version;/functions/zsh-newuser-install -f</command>.
250 </para>
251
252 <para>
253 There are several built-in advanced prompts. In the
254 <command>zsh</command> shell, start advanced prompt support with
255 <command>autoload -U promptinit</command>, then
256 <command>promptinit</command>. Available prompt names are listed with
257 <command>prompt -l</command>. Select a particular one with
258 <command>prompt <literal>&lt;prompt-name&gt;</literal></command>.
259 Display all available
260 prompts with <command>prompt -p</command>. Except for the list and
261 display commands above, you can insert the other ones in
262 <filename>~/.zshrc</filename> to be automatically executed at
263 shell start, with the prompt you chose.
264 </para>
265
266 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
267 <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshenv">/etc/zsh/zshenv</primary>
268 </indexterm>
269
270 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
271 <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zprofile">/etc/zsh/zprofile</primary>
272 </indexterm>
273
274 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
275 <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshrc">/etc/zsh/zshrc</primary>
276 </indexterm>
277
278 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
279 <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogin">/etc/zsh/zlogin</primary>
280 </indexterm>
281
282 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
283 <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogout">/etc/zsh/zlogout</primary>
284 </indexterm>
285
286 </sect3>
287
288 <sect3>
289 <title>Configuration Information</title>
290
291 <para>
292 Update <filename>/etc/shells</filename> to include the
293 <application>zsh</application> shell program names (as the
294 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):
295 </para>
296
297<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/shells &lt;&lt; "EOF"
298<literal>/bin/zsh</literal>
299EOF</userinput></screen>
300
301 </sect3>
302
303 </sect2>
304
305 <sect2 role="content">
306 <title>Contents</title>
307
308 <segmentedlist>
309 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
310 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
311 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
312
313 <seglistitem>
314 <seg>zsh and zsh-&zsh-version; (hardlinked to each other)</seg>
315 <seg>Numerous plugin helper modules under
316 /usr/lib/zsh/&zsh-version;/</seg>
317 <seg>/usr/{lib,share}/zsh and /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</seg>
318 </seglistitem>
319 </segmentedlist>
320
321 <variablelist>
322 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Description</bridgehead>
323 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
324 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
325
326 <varlistentry id="zsh-prog">
327 <term><command>zsh</command></term>
328 <listitem>
329 <para>
330 is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling
331 correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with
332 autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features
333 </para>
334 <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-prog">
335 <primary sortas="b-zsh">zsh</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 </variablelist>
341
342 </sect2>
343
344</sect1>
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