mgbckr · February 22, 2025 13:13 · maximz · May 27, 2020 · mgbckr · May 27, 2020
diff --git a/install_zsh_on_sherlock.sh b/install_zsh_on_sherlock.sh
 # Update 2023-07-20:
 # I've recently switched to installing `zsh` via `conda` which is a lot less hassle.
 # I added it to start automatically in `tmux` with
 # `set-option -g default-shell "~/miniconda3/envs/default/bin/zsh"`
 #
 # # Install Zsh on Sherlock
 # Installs Zsh with Oh-My-Zsh without root privileges 
 # on Stanford's Sherlock (https://sherlock.stanford.edu) for use in tmux
 #
 # ## Instructions
 # 1) bash install_zsh.sh
 # 2) edit .zshrc (add the path to your Zsh binary to the PATH variable, etc.)
 # 3) add `set-option -g default-shell <path to zsh>/bin/zsh` to `~/.tmux.conf`
 # 4) also see comments for potential further notes
 #
 # Elaborating on Step 2, this is what I added to my `.zshrc`:
 # ```
 # # Recently I got a bunch of errors out of the blue (e.g. `colors: function definition file not found`).
 # To fix this I had to add this (source: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/issues/4607):
 # export FPATH=/home/users/mgbckr/services/zsh/share/zsh/5.6.2-test-2/functions:$FPATH
 # ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX=true
 #
 # # If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH, so that we can find the `zsh` executable.
 # export PATH=$HOME/services/zsh/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
 #
 # # to enable sherlock commands like `module`
 # source /share/software/user/open/lmod/lmod/init/bash
 # ```
 #
 # References: https://www.drewsilcock.co.uk/compiling-zsh
 #
 # ## Notes:
 #
 # ### Man pages
 # 
 # We are not installing the man pages. This causes Zsh's make to complain and exit with an error. Ignore this! 
 # If you want man pages, you should probably follow Drews instructions (https://www.drewsilcock.co.uk/compiling-zsh).
 # However, when I tried there were some errors which I did not bother to look at. I got pretty far though using the
 # following notes:
 #   * make sure to use a current gcc: `ml gcc/8.1.0`
 #   * use an "old" icmake; I used the one mentioned by Drew: 7.21.00 (https://gitlab.com/fbb-git/icmake/tags)
 #   * use an "old" yodl; I used 3.04.00 (https://gitlab.com/fbb-git/yodl/tags)
 #   * for icmake run the following (in addition to changing the log files):
 #     * ./icm_prepare /
 #     * ./icm_bootstrap x
 #     * ./icm_install strip all
 # This actually got my to compile icmake correctly. For yodl latex was still missing.
 #
 # ### Ncruses
 #
 # Ncurses is not only required for compilation. If you delete it after the installation
 # the the prompt will constantly break, e.g., when using any of the arrow keys :)
 # Thus, it is integrated into the Zsh installation. 
 #
 # ### Weird prompt and Oh-My-Zsh
 # 
 # When you run Zsh after installing by this script. The shell is not able to parse the default prompt
 # showing a bunch of color encodings and whatnot. I have no idea why this happens. 
 # Any other prompt than the default one seems to work fine. 
 # Using Oh-My-Zsh also fixes this issue.
 # 

 ZSH_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/services/zsh

 # switch to tmp folder
 mkdir tmp; cd tmp

 # get ncurses
 wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
 tar -xf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
 cd ncurses-6.1

 # Set cflags and c++ flags to compile with Position Independent Code enabled which we need for compiling zsh
 export CXXFLAGS=' -fPIC'
 export CFLAGS=' -fPIC'

 ./configure --prefix=$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR --enable-shared
 make

 # don't need this probably
 #cd progs
 #./capconvert
 #cd ..

 # probably don't need this
 #export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo

 # test ncurses (only works with the above)
 #./test/ncurses

 make install
 cd ..

 # Tell environment where ncurses is
 INSTALL_PATH="$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR"
 export PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/bin:$PATH
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 export CFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_PATH/include
 export CPPFLAGS="-I$INSTALL_PATH/include" LDFLAGS="-L$INSTALL_PATH/lib"


 # Zsh

 # Get zsh
 git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh.git

 # Move into root zsh source directory
 cd zsh

 # Produce config.h.in, needed to produce config.status from ./configure
 autoheader

 # Produce the configure file from aclocal.m4 and configure.ac
 autoconf

 # Produce Makefile and config.h via config.status
 ./configure --prefix=$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR --enable-shared

 make
 make install

 cd ..

 # oh-my-zsh

 # clone repository into local dotfiles
 git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh

 # copy template file into home directory
 cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc

 cd ..

 # delete tmp folder
 #rm -rf tmp
	# Update 2023-07-20:
	# I've recently switched to installing `zsh` via `conda` which is a lot less hassle.
	# I added it to start automatically in `tmux` with
	# `set-option -g default-shell "~/miniconda3/envs/default/bin/zsh"`
	#
	# # Install Zsh on Sherlock
	# Installs Zsh with Oh-My-Zsh without root privileges
	# on Stanford's Sherlock (https://sherlock.stanford.edu) for use in tmux
	#
	# ## Instructions
	# 1) bash install_zsh.sh
	# 2) edit .zshrc (add the path to your Zsh binary to the PATH variable, etc.)
	# 3) add `set-option -g default-shell <path to zsh>/bin/zsh` to `~/.tmux.conf`
	# 4) also see comments for potential further notes
	#
	# Elaborating on Step 2, this is what I added to my `.zshrc`:
	# ```
	# # Recently I got a bunch of errors out of the blue (e.g. `colors: function definition file not found`).
	# To fix this I had to add this (source: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/issues/4607):
	# export FPATH=/home/users/mgbckr/services/zsh/share/zsh/5.6.2-test-2/functions:$FPATH
	# ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX=true
	#
	# # If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH, so that we can find the `zsh` executable.
	# export PATH=$HOME/services/zsh/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
	#
	# # to enable sherlock commands like `module`
	# source /share/software/user/open/lmod/lmod/init/bash
	# ```
	#
	# References: https://www.drewsilcock.co.uk/compiling-zsh
	#
	# ## Notes:
	#
	# ### Man pages
	#
	# We are not installing the man pages. This causes Zsh's make to complain and exit with an error. Ignore this!
	# If you want man pages, you should probably follow Drews instructions (https://www.drewsilcock.co.uk/compiling-zsh).
	# However, when I tried there were some errors which I did not bother to look at. I got pretty far though using the
	# following notes:
	# * make sure to use a current gcc: `ml gcc/8.1.0`
	# * use an "old" icmake; I used the one mentioned by Drew: 7.21.00 (https://gitlab.com/fbb-git/icmake/tags)
	# * use an "old" yodl; I used 3.04.00 (https://gitlab.com/fbb-git/yodl/tags)
	# * for icmake run the following (in addition to changing the log files):
	# * ./icm_prepare /
	# * ./icm_bootstrap x
	# * ./icm_install strip all
	# This actually got my to compile icmake correctly. For yodl latex was still missing.
	#
	# ### Ncruses
	#
	# Ncurses is not only required for compilation. If you delete it after the installation
	# the the prompt will constantly break, e.g., when using any of the arrow keys :)
	# Thus, it is integrated into the Zsh installation.
	#
	# ### Weird prompt and Oh-My-Zsh
	#
	# When you run Zsh after installing by this script. The shell is not able to parse the default prompt
	# showing a bunch of color encodings and whatnot. I have no idea why this happens.
	# Any other prompt than the default one seems to work fine.
	# Using Oh-My-Zsh also fixes this issue.
	#

	ZSH_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/services/zsh

	# switch to tmp folder
	mkdir tmp; cd tmp

	# get ncurses
	wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
	tar -xf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
	cd ncurses-6.1

	# Set cflags and c++ flags to compile with Position Independent Code enabled which we need for compiling zsh
	export CXXFLAGS=' -fPIC'
	export CFLAGS=' -fPIC'

	./configure --prefix=$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR --enable-shared
	make

	# don't need this probably
	#cd progs
	#./capconvert
	#cd ..

	# probably don't need this
	#export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo

	# test ncurses (only works with the above)
	#./test/ncurses

	make install
	cd ..

	# Tell environment where ncurses is
	INSTALL_PATH="$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR"
	export PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/bin:$PATH
	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
	export CFLAGS=-I$INSTALL_PATH/include
	export CPPFLAGS="-I$INSTALL_PATH/include" LDFLAGS="-L$INSTALL_PATH/lib"


	# Zsh

	# Get zsh
	git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh.git

	# Move into root zsh source directory
	cd zsh

	# Produce config.h.in, needed to produce config.status from ./configure
	autoheader

	# Produce the configure file from aclocal.m4 and configure.ac
	autoconf

	# Produce Makefile and config.h via config.status
	./configure --prefix=$ZSH_INSTALL_DIR --enable-shared

	make
	make install

	cd ..

	# oh-my-zsh

	# clone repository into local dotfiles
	git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh

	# copy template file into home directory
	cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc

	cd ..

	# delete tmp folder
	#rm -rf tmp