Oh My ZSH does not work

General system Newbie
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I installed oh my zsh in my Endeavour OS as I did in Manjaro and Debian, but when I run the source .zshrc nothing happens.
What’s missing, please?

2

Well, just try this tutorial: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/all-the-fun-with-oh-my-zsh-imported-from-old-forum/3434

3

You may have to deinstall grml-zsh-config package.

4

Thank you for your help :wink:
I tried this way, but still nothing.

5

Thank you for your help.
I tried this way too, however, still nothing.
The real problem is I can’t change the Theme. My present-insistent-unchangeable theme is this one:
insistent-theme

I desinstalled the grml-zsh-config as u suggested, but the result was worse, no theme ;(
Thus I had to reinstall it, but I’m in zsh and there’s a theme, but, for now, inexplicably unchangeable.

But we won’t waste our time trying to fix that. Let’s keep on with more important issues.

Thank you all!

6

Maybe you need to completely remove all .zsh files in order to remove crippled configs. After reinstall of oh my zsh there should be a working config.

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If you are still interested in this, I was successful with the following steps:

Remove grml-zsh-config

sudo pacman -Rs grml-zsh-config

Change shell to zsh

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

Remove existing .zshrc

rm .zshrc

Get oh my zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

.zshrc now should be default config from oh my zsh:

➜  ~ more .zshrc

# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH="/home/csteinforth/.oh-my-zsh"

# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
# See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

# Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random
# Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load
# a theme from this variable instead of looking in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# If set to an empty array, this variable will have no effect.
# ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" )
.....
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This time it ran simply flawlessly :wink:
oh-my-zsh is running correctly.
Thank you very much, @csteinforth.

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