Backup Your Terminal/Shell Environment

Backing up files

The first thing we’ll do is backup your existing terminal setup.

There are a lot of ways that your terminal can be set up, determined by different configuration files.

We want to remove the old ways so we can start with a clean slate.

Make back ups of the files listed below. You may get a No such file or directory error for some of them. That’s ok.

Run these commands:

• mv ~/.bashrc .bashrc.bak
• mv ~/.bash_profile .bash_profile.bak
• mv ~/.profile .profile.bak
• mv ~/.zprofile .zprofile.bak
• mv ~/.zshrc .zshrc.bak

Install Z Shell

Run the following command:

• sudo apt-get install zsh

After installing, run the command:

• zsh

Zsh will ask you to choose some configuration. We will do this later by installing oh-my-zsh. Chose option 0 now to create the config file (prevent this message from showing again).

Now, let’s move on to getting our development applications installed.

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