source: postlfs/shells/zsh.xml@ b7c5379

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY zsh-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/zsh/zsh-&zsh-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY zsh-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY zsh-md5sum        "0539d0a590e545ad8c40ff8c97e94538">
  <!ENTITY zsh-size          "2.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY zsh-buildsize     "49 MB (includes installing all documentation)">
  <!ENTITY zsh-time          "0.8 SBU">

  <!ENTITY zsh-doc-md5sum    "b3a026cf02471b66454a2b241a4d92a4">
]>

<sect1 id="zsh" xreflabel="ZSH-&zsh-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="zsh.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>ZSH-&zsh-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="zsh">
    <primary sortas="a-ZSH">ZSH</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to ZSH</title>

    <para>The <application>ZSH</application> package contains a command
    interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as
    a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells,
    <application>ZSH</application> most closely resembles
    <application>KSH</application> but includes many enhancements.</para>

    <note>
      <para>This version of <application>ZSH</application> is a development
      release.  The BLFS staff has determined that it provides a stable
      program which works properly with multibyte locales (e.g., UTF-8).
      To find the current stable release, refer to the
      <ulink url="http://www.zsh.org/">ZSH home page</ulink> and compile
      <application>ZSH</application> with the same instructions.</para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&zsh-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &zsh-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &zsh-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &zsh-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &zsh-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Optional Documentation: <ulink
        url="&sourceforge-repo;/zsh/zsh-&zsh-version;-doc.tar.bz2"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>MD5 sum: &zsh-doc-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">ZSH Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pcre"/> and
    <ulink url="http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/">libcap</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/zsh"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of ZSH</title>

    <para>If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with
    the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-&zsh-version;-doc.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>ZSH</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --bindir=/bin \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
            --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you have <xref linkend="tetex"/> installed, you can build
    additional formats of the documentation by issuing any or all of
    the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>texi2pdf  Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf &amp;&amp;
texi2html Doc/zsh.texi --output=Doc/zsh_1file_t.html &amp;&amp;
makeinfo  Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers \
                       -o Doc/zsh_1file_m.html &amp;&amp;
makeinfo  Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing
    the following commands as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;/html install.html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you built any additional formats of the documentation, install
    them by issuing the following command as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 Doc/{zsh_1file*,*.{pdf,txt}} \
        /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh</parameter> and
    <parameter>--enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh</parameter>: These parameters are
    used so that all the <application>ZSH</application> configuration files
    are consolidated into the <filename class='directory'>/etc/zsh</filename>
    directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical
    compatibility by having all the files located in the
    <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> directory.</para>

    <para><parameter>--bindir=/bin</parameter>: This parameter places the
    <command>zsh</command> binaries into the root filesystem.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-cap</parameter>: This parameter enables
    POSIX capabilities.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-pcre</parameter>: This parameter allows to use
    the <application>PCRE</application> regular expression library in shell
    builtins. Note: Linking <application>ZSH</application> dynamically against
    <application>PCRE</application>, produces a runtime dependency on
    <filename class='libraryfile'>libpcre.so</filename>. If
    <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename> is a separate mount point and
    <command>zsh</command> needs to be available at boot time, either you
    have to statically link <application>ZSH</application> against
    <application>PCRE</application> (you can examine the
    <filename>config.modules</filename> file on how to link statically the
    module), or move the library to <filename class='directory'>/lib</filename>
    as follows:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib/ &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so</userinput></screen>

    <para><parameter>--disable-gdbm</parameter>: This parameter disables the
    use of the <application>GDBM</application> library. Note: This is only
    necessary if you use multiple partitions as <application>GDBM</application>
    resides in <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename> and 
    <command>zsh</command> will be installed to <filename class='directory'>/bin
    </filename></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring ZSH</title>

    <sect3 id="zsh-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>There are a whole host of configuration files for
      <application>ZSH</application> including
      <filename>/etc/zsh/zshenv</filename>,
      <filename>/etc/zsh/zprofile</filename>,
      <filename>/etc/zsh/zshrc</filename>,
      <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogin</filename> and
      <filename>/etc/zsh/zlogout</filename>.
      You can find more information on these in the <filename>zsh(1)</filename>
      and related manual pages.</para>

      <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshenv">/etc/zsh/zshenv</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zprofile">/etc/zsh/zprofile</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zshrc">/etc/zsh/zshrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogin">/etc/zsh/zlogin</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-zsh-zlogout">/etc/zsh/zlogout</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>Update <filename>/etc/shells</filename> to include the
      <application>ZSH</application> shell program names (as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/shells &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>/bin/zsh
/bin/zsh-&zsh-version;</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>zsh and zsh-&zsh-version;</seg>
        <seg>Numerous plugin helper modules</seg>
        <seg>/etc/zsh, /usr/lib/zsh, /usr/share/doc/zsh-&zsh-version; and
        /usr/share/zsh</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Description</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="zsh-prog">
        <term><command>zsh</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>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.</para>
          <indexterm zone="zsh zsh-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-zsh">zsh</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>