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So the problem looks like that : I followed all the instructions from https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux , to install oh my posh via brew.

The problem is that I think I putted a wrong path while copy pasting the instruction's code here :

The installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew using sudo if possible and within your home directory at ~/.linuxbrew otherwise. Homebrew does not use sudo after installation. Using /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew allows the use of more binary packages (bottles) than installing in your personal home directory. The prefix /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew was chosen so that users without admin access can ask an admin to create a linuxbrew role account and still benefit from precompiled binaries. If you do not yourself have admin privileges, consider asking your admin staff to create a linuxbrew role account for you with home directory set to /home/linuxbrew.

Follow the Next steps instructions to add Homebrew to your PATH and to your bash shell profile script, either ~/.profile on Debian/Ubuntu or ~/.bash_profile on CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat.

test -d ~/.linuxbrew && eval "$(~/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
test -d /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew && eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
test -r ~/.bash_profile && echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.profile

And when i copy paste this piece of code it works on the actual terminal, but when i close the terminal and open again or open an other tab, and try the command "brew" again for example, it says

zsh: command not found: brew

so for sure I messed up with some path directions. I am not so good in linux, lets say maybe a junior intermediate level, but for this I am stuck, any help would be appreciated thanks

thrig
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Game0verZeus
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zsh does not read .bash_profile nor .profile. You will either need to switch your shell to bash, or instead write the configuration to .zprofile which your shell zsh does read:

echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.zprofile
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thrig
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  • when I paste this in the terminal it says " zsh: command not found: brew " – Game0verZeus Aug 16 '22 at 19:42
  • then you'll need to find where brew got installed to and use /the/full/path/to/brew or to add the brew directory to PATH – thrig Aug 16 '22 at 20:21
  • okay got it, can you maybe give me some tips to how find the full path? after some research yesterday I think it was in /etc/zsh and i have all these folders : newuser.zshrc.recommended zlogin zprofile zshenv newuser.zshrc.recommended.original zlogout zprofile.original zshrc – Game0verZeus Aug 17 '22 at 09:38
  • "The installation script installs Homebrew to ..." so brew is probably under bin in one or the other of those installation directories, assuming those instructions were followed and the documentation is correct. – thrig Aug 17 '22 at 13:13
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I found a solution,

 echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.zshrc

because of lack of knowledges i did it like that before :

~ » echo "eval \"\$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)\"" >> ~/.profile

so it was in .profile instead of .zshrc

Cheers

Game0verZeus
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    This seems to be a duplicate of the accepted answer, apart from writing to another file without reason. The line should really be in ~/.zprofile. – Kusalananda Aug 18 '22 at 15:49