Pythonbrew install ZSH on Ubuntu

Question

Can anyone shed any light on how to have pythonbrew / pythonz install when my shell is ZSH. I am on ubuntu 12.04.

I have followed the standard install of curl and then adding the line to ~/.bashrc but it will return an unknown command in a new zsh terminal.

[[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc ]] && source $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '13 at 23:41

The bashrc file does not work with zsh unfortunately.

Take python2.5 as an example, this seems to work:

sudo ~/.pythonbrew/bin/pythonbrew install 2.5

Then to invoke python2.5:

~/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.5/bin/python

For convenience set:

$PATH=$HOME/.pythonbrew/pythons/Python-2.5/bin:$PATH

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '12 at 12:00

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zsh does not read ~/.bashrc - try putting the same code in ~/.zshrc

answered Aug 15 '12 at 12:00

Dan Stowell

adding that to ~.zshrc still results in zsh not seeing pythonbrew. sayth@sayth-TravelMate-5740G[~] [9:04]:pythonbrew list zsh: correct 'pythonbrew' to '.pythonbrew' [nyae]? n zsh: command not found: pythonbrew – sayth Aug 17 '12 at 23:06
Also tried altering the initial command to curl -kL http://xrl.us/pythonbrewinstall | zsh but also no go. – sayth Aug 17 '12 at 23:08

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '15 at 05:37

You can try the emulate command in your zshrc.

emulate sh -c '[[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc ]] && . $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc'

I have a different setup (my emulate calls a functionrc that has functions available to bash and zsh), but I think this is going to work.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 28 '17 at 09:15

In case anyone stumbles across this old question:

As I write this (late 2017), pythonbrew is unmaintained and pythonz appears to be in maintenance-only mode.

At this time I would strongly suggest users switch to the actively maintained pyenv instead.

And just for the record, pyenv fully supports bash, zsh and fish.

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