Re: zsh 5.0.7

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Oct 11, 11:53am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} I installed the latest 5.0.7 and it seems to have made two copies of 
} itself in /usr/local/bin:
} 
}      -rwxr-xr-x 2 693K 2014-10-11//11:07:41 zsh-5.0.7*
}      -rwxr-xr-x 2 693K 2014-10-11//11:07:41 zsh*

Not two copies, note the link count of 2.  Two hardlinks to the same file.

} But even after a reboot:
} 
}      $ zsh --version
}      zsh 5.0.6 (i586-pc-linux-gnu)
} 
} This in spite of "VERSION=5.0.7" in the sources.

That just means there's another $^path/zsh before /usr/local/bin/zsh.

} Following the pointers:
} 
} /usr/bin/zsh ends up being /bin/zsh5, which seems to be the '5.0.6' version.

That was probably installed by your OS distribution.

} It sounds easy to fix, but I wonder what I did wrong.

You didn't do anything wrong; zsh's default install is designed to avoid
stepping on files from the OS that may be under control of a package
manager.