Installation of zsh (z-shell) with oh-my-zsh in Arch Linux

Preparation

You would like to install the package manager yay instead of pacman first:

Yay installation

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

You can find support at https://github.com/Jguer/yay

Installation

yay oh-my-zsh

Configuration

Copy the file smd.zsh-theme of this repository to the themes directory, like

sudo wget -P /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/themes https://git.kuschel.at/public/smd.zsh-theme/releases/download/1.0/smd.zsh-theme

Then copy the zsh template zshrc to your home directory

cp /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc

Now you have to edit this file with e.g. nano -cl ~/.zshrc an` replace the line with ZSH_THEME to:

ZSH_THEME="smd"

In addition, I like to replace the HIST_STAMPS to:

HIST_STAMPS="yyyy-mm-dd"

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