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Reputation: 4726

How do I update zsh to the latest version?

I recently switched to zsh on my Terminal.app on my OS X machine successfully. The version number of zsh is 4.3.11.

Upvotes: 317

Views: 303605

Answers (7)

Kapil Jituri
Kapil Jituri

Reputation: 1261

omz update gave me following error:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

This is an issue with git, where after upgrading to Mac OS Ventura (13.0.1). git command gave me above error.

Solution:

  • Download and install the 'Command Line Tools' package to fix 'git'
xcode-select --install

This will pop a dialogue box. Select "Install". More details here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/254381

omz update worked successfully after this for me

Upvotes: 2

Mike Li
Mike Li

Reputation: 3406

If you have Homebrew installed, you can do this.

# check the zsh info
brew info zsh

# install zsh
brew install --without-etcdir zsh

# add shell path
sudo vim /etc/shells

# add the following line into the very end of the file(/etc/shells)
/usr/local/bin/zsh

# change default shell
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh

Upvotes: 195

Hao Liu
Hao Liu

Reputation: 123

A simple script or execute following commands in terminal

# 1. download (currently the latest version is 5.8) and extract
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/files/latest/download -O ./zsh-latest.tar.xz
mkdir zsh-latest
tar -xf zsh-latest.tar.xz -C zsh-latest --strip-components=1
cd zsh-latest

# 2. config, build, install
./configure
make -j4
sudo make install
which zsh

PS: If you fail to build, it probably due to missing necessary libraries. Just install libraries as the error message suggests. E.g, I didn't have ncurses:

sudo apt install ncurses-devel # for Ubuntu
sudo yum install ncurses-devel # for CentOS/Redhat

Upvotes: 3

ayush narula
ayush narula

Reputation: 11653

If you're using oh-my-zsh

Type omz update in the terminal

Note: upgrade_oh_my_zsh is deprecated

Upvotes: 1089

theX
theX

Reputation: 1124

I just switched the main shell to zsh. It suppresses the warnings and it isn't too complicated.

Upvotes: -2

aidan
aidan

Reputation: 9576

If you're not using Homebrew, this is what I just did on MAC OS X Lion (10.7.5):

  1. Get the latest version of the ZSH sourcecode

  2. Untar the download into its own directory then install: ./configure && make && make test && sudo make install

  3. This installs the the zsh binary at /usr/local/bin/zsh.

  4. You can now use the shell by loading up a new terminal and executing the binary directly, but you'll want to make it your default shell...

  5. To make it your default shell you must first edit /etc/shells and add the new path. Then you can either run chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh or go to System Preferences > Users & Groups > right click your user > Advanced Options... > and then change "Login shell".

  6. Load up a terminal and check you're now in the correct version with echo $ZSH_VERSION. (I wasn't at first, and it took me a while to figure out I'd configured iTerm to use a specific shell instead of the system default).

Upvotes: 16

simont
simont

Reputation: 72527

As far as I'm aware, you've got three options to install zsh on Mac OS X:

  • Pre-built binary. The only one I know of is the one that ships with OS X; this is probably what you're running now.
  • Use a package system (Ports, Homebrew).
  • Install from source. Last time I did this it wasn't too difficult (./configure, make, make install).

Upvotes: 5

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