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Install Oh My Zsh on CachyOS

A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 180+ optional plugins and over 120 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

From the official CachyOS repo. Install with pacman, no AUR helper needed.

Reviewed Nov 2, 2026 · independent guide

How do I install Oh My Zsh on CachyOS?

Run this in a terminal:

sudo pacman -S oh-my-zsh-git

oh-my-zsh-git is in the cachyos repo, the CachyOS project's own package repository, so pacman installs it directly with no AUR helper and no build script. The package is signed with the CachyOS repository key, and pacman checks the signature before it installs.

What should I do after installing Oh My Zsh?

  1. Run pacman -Ql oh-my-zsh-git to see every file it installed.
  2. Run pacman -Qi oh-my-zsh-git to see the installed version and the optional dependencies.

How do I update or remove Oh My Zsh?

Update:

sudo pacman -Syu

Remove:

sudo pacman -Rns oh-my-zsh-git

What is Oh My Zsh?

A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

Package description: A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 180+ optional plugins and over 120 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community

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    ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh · ★ 190,283 stars · last commit Nov 1, 2026

    Real issues opened by users on the project's GitHub, shown as written with a link to each one. 10 most reacted issues opened in the last two years plus the 5 newest issues, bots, pull requests, non English and political posts skipped, capped at 15 per repo. Fetched Nov 1, 2026.

    1. zcompdump files should prrobably be stored in $ZSH_CACHE_DIROpen

      oh-my-zsh.sh defines a $ZSHCACHEDIR that uses XDGCACHEHOME (awesome) But then later in this file this is not used by zcompdump (which feels like it fits the definition of cache file) Cleaning up by home directory

      @evert · · 11 reactions · 2 comments · View on GitHub

    2. Compinit runs every time I open shell which slows it downClosed

      I noticed my shell being slow starting up. After debugging source files I found that the problem was in the oh my zsh source file and that the line that initializes the completion system is the culprit compinit -i -d "$ZSHCOMPDUMP". This compinit shouldn't run unless the OMZ…

      @Sraq-Zit · · 9 reactions · 5 comments · View on GitHub

    3. Add ruff pluginClosed

      ruff plugin Add a plugin for ruff that provides autocomplete and aliases PR: #13604

      @gorewilliams · · 7 reactions · 1 comments · View on GitHub

    4. Broken theme jonathanClosed

      The jonathan theme in the ghostty terminal is broken. Install theme jonathan in .zshrc. The theme is displayed normally Arch Linux 5.9 ghostty None

      @2eg01nd · · 7 reactions · 12 comments · View on GitHub

    5. Today's upgrade broke my setupClosed

      Following today's upgrade which introduced a78d006faa022a5104b542d7dec5a3439e72046e, my asdf install broke and I couldn't use any of my asdf installed binaries anymore. In the end, the fix was as simple as installing the latest asdf binary but I feel like a special warning…

      @bsouty-imb · · 6 reactions · 4 comments · View on GitHub

    6. Bluesky social media accountClosed

      Hey! Bluesky's user base exploded twice recently, mostly with Twitter refugees. I noted that some oh-my-zsh users are staying on Twitter or hopping between Bluesky and Twitter primarily because they want to get update notifications for software they use and don't want to create…

      @bpavuk · · 5 reactions · 7 comments · View on GitHub

    7. Very slow response on git repository.Open

      I'm using ohmyzsh in iTerm2 of Mac. I'm suffered very slow response while entering the directory cloned with git repository. Even if I don't use git plugin, using a theme that shows a git status in the prompt response very slowly. And some completion that seems to read git…

      @hayarobi · · 5 reactions · 3 comments · View on GitHub

    8. OMZ horrendously slow on latest Tahoe 26.3.1 on MacOSClosed

      After upgrading my Mac to Tahoe 26.3.1, OMZ started working horrendously slow. It happens in the following situations after curl-ing to external endpoint it takes about 5 seconds to display the shell prompt. It sits there showing only > symbol for a few seconds and then displays…

      @jedrekdomanski · · 4 reactions · 20 comments · View on GitHub

    9. asdf plugin broke with 0.16.x of asdfClosed

      the ASDF team rewrote asdf if golang intead of bash. As such 0.16.x doesn't work with the current plugin 1. ensure asdf 0.16.x is installed 2. enable the asdf plugin 3. try and use a ruby version or nodejs version that is installed with asdf it should point the correct shim, but…

      @jwhitcraft · · 3 reactions · 2 comments · View on GitHub

    10. Introduce versioningOpen

      This issue supersedes: #9216 #10468 ---- Steps: ---- We have chosen Calendar Versioning, while keeping in line with semantic versioning. We will have the following version schema: YY0M.MINOR.PATCH YY0M (e.g. 2603): they will act as "major" in SemVer, i.e. a change will signify…

      @mcornella · · 3 reactions · 2 comments · View on GitHub

    11. Replace compctl with compsys / _argumentsOpen

      mvn The legacy compctl mechanism: this is an ancient completion control command from early Zsh. fzf-tab is built on top of the modern Zsh dynamic completion system (compsys / arguments), and it cannot intercept or take over completions driven by compctl -K at all. The legacy…

      @q2587218416 · · 0 comments · View on GitHub

    12. Make encode64 work with BSD/macOS base64 and quote argumentsOpen

      encodefile64 is broken on macOS and the BSDs, and it reports success even when nothing was encoded. The positional FILE operand is GNU-coreutils-only: base64(1) documents base64 [OPTION]... [FILE], whereas the BSD/macOS synopsis is base64 [-h | -D | -d] [-b count] [-i inputfile]…

      @hugojosealmeida · · 0 comments · View on GitHub

    13. Run the existing test suites in CI and fail on any test errorClosed

      The repo ships six self-contained test suites, but no CI workflow ever runs them. The tests job in .github/workflows/main.yml installs zsh and only loops zsh -n over plugin/theme files (a pure syntax check), and .github/workflows/installer.yml only smoke-tests tools/install.sh.…

      @hugojosealmeida · · 1 comments · View on GitHub

    14. archlinux plugin: pacmansignkeys, auownloc and auownls only work with a single argument (unquoted $@ is joined into one word in zsh)Closed

      Three functions in the archlinux plugin silently do the wrong thing when given more than one argument: pacmansignkeys KEY1 KEY2 only tries to import/sign a single key literally named KEY1 KEY2, and neither key actually gets imported or signed. auownloc file1 file2 / auownls file1…

      @rahul05ranjan · · 1 comments · View on GitHub

    15. extract: .deb members are extracted double-nested (control/) and data/ only survives by coincidenceOpen

      master (2100c63, 2026-10-23), zsh 5.9.2, GNU tar + binutils ar, Linux The extract plugin's .deb arm pre-creates control/ and data/ under the extract directory, then recurses into extract ../control.tar. and extract ../data.tar. from inside those directories. The inner extract…

      @ShahabAhmed01 · · 0 comments · View on GitHub

    Oh My Zsh on CachyOS: questions

    Is Oh My Zsh in the official CachyOS repo?

    Yes. The oh-my-zsh-git package is in the cachyos repo, version r7823.b37dd49ca-1, built 2026-07-23. Install it with sudo pacman -S oh-my-zsh-git.

    Do I need an AUR helper for Oh My Zsh?

    No. It comes from the cachyos repo, so plain pacman installs and updates it, and sudo pacman -Syu keeps it current.