Linux

Set up your terminal

Oh My Posh uses ANSI color codes under the hood, these should work in every terminal, but you may have to set the environment variable $TERM to xterm-256color for it to work.

info

To display all icons, we recommend the use of a Nerd Font.

Installation

homebrew

A Homebrew formula is available for easy installation. When installing Homebrew for Linux, be sure to follow Next steps instructions to add Homebrew to your PATH and to your bash shell profile script.

brew install jandedobbeleer/oh-my-posh/oh-my-posh

This installs two things:

• oh-my-posh - Executable, added to $(brew --prefix)/bin
• themes - The latest Oh My Posh themes

If you want to use a standard theme, you can find them in $(brew --prefix oh-my-posh)/themes, referencing them as such will always keep them compatible when updating Oh My Posh.

Update

brew update && brew upgrade oh-my-posh

tip

In case you see strange behaviour in your shell, reload it after upgrading Oh My Posh. For example in zsh:

brew update && brew upgrade && exec zsh

manual

Oh My Posh can also be installed manually by downloading the release. Depending on your distro, this may or may not work (please refer to the homebrew installation in case it doesn't work).

Download Oh My Posh

sudo wget https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/posh-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/oh-my-posh

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/oh-my-posh

Download the themes

mkdir ~/.poshthemes

wget https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/themes.zip -O ~/.poshthemes/themes.zip

unzip ~/.poshthemes/themes.zip -d ~/.poshthemes

chmod u+rw ~/.poshthemes/*.json

rm ~/.poshthemes/themes.zip