Install Oh My Zsh on a Vagrant Box as part of the bootstrap process

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Alan Quigley picture Alan Quigley · Sep 10, 2014 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I'd like to add Oh My Zsh to my Vagrant bootstrap process, but a straight install isn't working.

via curl:

curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh

via wget:

wget --no-check-certificate http://install.ohmyz.sh -O - | sh

Answer

Alan Quigley picture Alan Quigley · Sep 10, 2014

Found the solution:

# Added zsh shell.
sudo apt-get install zsh
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh 
sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh vagrant
zsh

As an nice addition, so that your terminals don't look too similar on the different boxes

# Change the oh my zsh default theme.
sed -i 's/ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"/ZSH_THEME="3den"/g' ~/.zshrc

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