Fish Console Reborn

June 11, 2012

Installing curses: sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev fish is now installed on your system. To run fish, type ‘fish’ in your terminal. To use fish as your login shell: add the line ‘/usr/local/bin/fish’ to the file ‘/etc/shells’. use the command ‘chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish’. To set your colors, run ‘fish_config’ To scan your man pages for completions, run ‘fish_update_completions’ Have fun!

Installing curses:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

fish is now installed on your system. To run fish, type ‘fish’ in your terminal.

To use fish as your login shell:

add the line ‘/usr/local/bin/fish’ to the file ‘/etc/shells’.
use the command ‘chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish’.

To set your colors, run ‘fish_config’ To scan your man pages for completions, run ‘fish_update_completions’

Have fun!