I have a fresh install of Fedora 24, with ZSH successfully installed. /etc/shells shows two instances of ZSH, both are valid.
When I try to do this:
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh
The terminal returns:
zsh: error:command not found
What am I doing wrong?
To install chsh run the following command in Terminal:
sudo dnf install util-linux-user
To change the default shell to the shell of your choice, without using chsh, use
sudo lchsh -i your-user-id
The -i option makes lchsh interactive and it will respond with
Changing shell for ron.
New Shel[/pathto/current/shell]: /pathto/new/shell *## press enter to change shell*
Shell changed. *## Response if change is accepted*
Alternatively, you can change the default shell to the shell of your choice, without using chsh, by using usermod. It is not the best way, but if your chsh or lchsh is not installed, then:
From Terminal
sudo usermod -s yourshell yourlogin
The only other alternative is far more risky and involves editing /etc/passwd, not recommended.
In F23 /usr/bin/chsh and /usr/bin/chfn were included in util-linux, but in F24 they have been moved to a separate package util-linux-user brobably because of their dependencies with libuser. Why this package is not automatically installed with the distribution is another question. I suppose it's a mistake and should be reported on Fedora Bugzilla as a packaging error.
I filed a Bugzilla report on this matter. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
The chsh command is part of the util-linux package which contains a number of other important programs including fdisk. You can get it back by doing this:
sudo dnf reinstall util-linux
Good luck, and let us know how it works.
@sideburns Using sudo dnf reinstall util-linux did not recover chsh. I checked fdisk for man page to verify installation and fdisk is installed, but chsh is nowhere to be found. I have the zsh working and is selected in /etc/passwd correctly for my login. Still amazed that chsh is not installed!
@sideburns There is a (new to me) command sudo lchsh -i which is an interactive way to change shell. It actually is more informative the chsh -s which usually executes without responding in terminal. lchsh -i shows the current and then asks for the new shell with complete path.
@sideburns Finally found the package which installs chsh. Installed util-linux-user and /usr/bin/chsh is now installed. Found the answer on a post about "Rawhide" not installing all of the core shell commands.
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Welcome to ask.fedora. I'm not sure that you're doing anything wrong. Checking, I have zsh installed, but running
chsh -ldoesn't list it. It's possible that it can only use shells listed in/etc/shelland that you'd have to add it to the list, but I'd be very careful about doing that and be sure to back up the original file before making any changes. It's possible that this is a bug, either with the program or with the zsh package.Thinking further, it almost looks like your shell (zsh, I presume) can't find chsh. Try using
whereis chshto make sure that it's installed as/usr/bin/chshas it should be.@sideburnschsh is indeed not installed. I have never experienced this with any Linux installation. How can I solve this? What I have done is modify Terminal preferences to run /usr/bin/zsh on start. That way I can at least use zsh.
@sideburns this is the result of
whereis zshand locatezshThat's very, very odd. Checking, chsh and lchsh seem to do the same thing, but the files have different sizes and modification dates. Try using
ls -l /usr/bin/*chshto see if the program simply isn't executable any more. On my system, its permissions are-rws--x--x.