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Re: How do I make 5.8 the login shell???



On 2020-07-10 9:30 p.m., Frank Gallacher wrote:

Greetings,

Is there a trick to installing 5.8,  I downloaded the tarball, decompressed it, then did a ./configure and a make followed by “make install”


Why not try Roman's pre-compiled version?  The first time I tried to build zsh it took me days of effort and  research.  Pages of notes helped after that but still things tended to go wrong for one reason or another.  About  as fun as going for a colonoscopy mostly. Roman's production simply drops in and works.  No more looking for -- nuts I can't remember what that silly dependency is but Debian offers 15 versions of it and you hafta have the right one and no help choosing.  'cursing' or sumit, and you do end up cursing quite a bit.



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