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Pythonbrew install ZSH on Ubuntu

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

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Solution

  • 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