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tom
tom

Reputation: 2195

installing ohmyzsh claims zsh not installed

I have installed zsh with homebrew, and am now trying to install oh-my-zsh.

% brew install zsh
...

Warning: zsh-5.3.1 already installed

That installs zsh, and sets my $SHELL variable to /usr/local/bin/zsh

% which zsh
/usr/local/bin/zsh
% echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/zsh

But when I try and install oh-my-zsh from the github source, I'm told that zsh has not been installed.

% curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh
Zsh is not installed! Please install zsh first!

Looking at the install script, it appears that zsh has not been added to my etc/scripts file.

% grep zsh /etc/shells | wc
0 0 0

Why is homebrew not "correctly" installing zsh? How can I update my /etc/shells file to include the necessary information?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2755

Answers (1)

tom
tom

Reputation: 2195

After looking at the contents of my /etc/shells file, it appeared that something had damaged that file. Very strange.

Rewriting the /etc/shells to the following fixed the issue for me.

/usr/local/bin/zsh
/bin/bash

Then I can change shells as I would expect and installing oh-my-zsh works.

Upvotes: 4

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