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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: help with installing and correctly configuring zsh on an amd 64 box running gentoo stable
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:35:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMq4xZupAjkS6jSQbQtwmABKc4u-n_xSap5cT=btXye=4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc=Sd3RzCy3HiodS4SBk0FOH8GfJbcHyTzjSjTRZTH=09O77A@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:22 PM Michael Fothergill
<michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I used the standard manual install instructions and it ended up in the
> /root directory.  When I put that path into the .zshrc and ran exec zsh as
> a user powerlevel 10k began to run.

It seems like you are doing something unusual. Unless you have a
strong reason, I would advise against copying or sourcing anything
from /root. Better yet, don't log in as root, don't execute `sudo su`,
don't change the root's login shell, don't modify or create any files
under /root, etc. I don't know about Gentoo but when you install
Ubuntu you log in straight away as a regular user. Stay as that user.
If Gentoo doesn't create a regular user for you during installation
and logs you in as root, create a regular user with sudo privileges,
switch to that user and never again log in as root.

Now, supposing that you managed to log in as a regular user, you can
proceed with the installation of software following the standard
installation instructions. Sometimes you'll need to run commands via
`sudo`. That's fine. Only add `sudo` when the command wouldn't work
without it.

Roman.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-12 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-09 10:06 Michael Fothergill
2020-06-09 10:11 ` Roman Perepelitsa
     [not found]   ` <CANc=Sd1W4ZtzJSGfmfdpgNx6n_9cEjxjnxsQZxxz8AJH+RDNKA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-09 10:26     ` Roman Perepelitsa
     [not found]       ` <CANc=Sd2wUomQRuVvWu5A07_JWjLeJnDviTrWm00GqVamEKqvMA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-09 10:33         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-10 11:06       ` Michael Fothergill
2020-06-10 11:56         ` david rayner
2020-06-11 11:38           ` Michael Fothergill
2020-06-11 11:48         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-11 12:21           ` Michael Fothergill
2020-06-12 16:20             ` Michael Fothergill
2020-06-12 16:35               ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]

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