Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Abhishek Ghosh

By Abhishek Ghosh April 14, 2015 12:35 am Updated on April 14, 2015

Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Here is Step by Step Guide For Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) Including Managing the Python Path From Oh My ZSH dot File. Previously, we summarized how to install iTerm2, Homebrew and ZSH on OS X 10.8, for natural reason; some stuffs might give error if you try to install Powerline.

Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10 : Managing Python Installation

OS X by default is shipped with own versions of some UNIX softwares including Python. You should not try to uninstall them. OS X Python is located at for Global usage, Homebrew Python will get install at /usr/local/lib/. The most important step is to run brew linkapps python command.

If you have installed Python via Homebrew and forgotten what you did, remove it first. When we will System’s Python, we will use zsh by typing zsh at Terminal. We will only add the needed for powerline part :

## needed for powerline starts
source /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  # for Python
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH
## needed for powerline ends
# sample zsh config
ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh
  # zsh theme
ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=10
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"
  # zsh plugin
plugins=(git colored-man colorize github jira vagrant virtualenv pip python brew osx zsh-syntax-highlighting cake git-flow git-extras npm node theme web-search battery)
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
  # go
export CC=clang
GOPATH=/usr/local/bin/go
GOROOT=/usr/local/bin
source /Users/abhishekghosh/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh
  # Ruby
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"

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## needed for powerline starts

source /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

# for Python

launchctl setenv PATH $PATH

## needed for powerline ends

# sample zsh config

ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# zsh theme

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

export UPDATE_ZSH_DAYS=10

COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# zsh plugin

plugins=(git colored-man colorize github jira vagrant virtualenv pip python brew osx zsh-syntax-highlighting cake git-flow git-extras npm node theme web-search battery)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# go

export CC=clang

GOPATH=/usr/local/bin/go

GOROOT=/usr/local/bin

source /Users/abhishekghosh/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh

# Ruby

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"

Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Add the lines missing to .zshrc, but do not source it.
First and foremost important points are to rightly fix Homebrew and update, set Python path rightly and then install Python, update Pip etc. via Homebrew :

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brew install python

1	brew install python

If you face problem in the next steps, that is usually due to error in the above setup. It is really painful to fix, last option is re-installing Homebrew when Python gets fully abnormal – which python is returning /usr/local/bin/python but running pip install is installing stuffs on System Python’s path. Do not try to remove the System’s OS X related Python. Do whatever with Homebrew.

We hope that you have updated Xcode command line tools.

Steps For Installing Powerline on OS X 10.10

Next need is to install a set of patched Font :

https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts # copy url in text editor first

1	https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts # copy url in text editor first

Very easy. From iTerm’s iTerm > Preferences… menu, change the Font to any patched Font. Next, you need to do these :

brew install vim --with-python --with-ruby --with-perl
brew install macvim --env-std --override-system-vim

1 2	brew install vim --with-python --with-ruby --with-perl brew install macvim --env-std --override-system-vim

If you work in this way, in future it is unlikely that you will ever call us bad names after learning vi, in case you are not mastered vim yet. We have no .vimrc file. We need no such.

Next is Powerline :

pip install powerline-status
## below is dev version
# pip install --user git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline

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pip install powerline-status

## below is dev version

# pip install --user git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline

More Powerline specific guide is here :

http://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html # copy url in text editor first

1	http://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html # copy url in text editor first

First do a cat :

cat /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh

1	cat /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh

If it returns something then source .zshrc :

source .zshrc

1	source .zshrc

We added the needed lines on .zshrc before. If you dislike Powerline or want to “pause” usage, then uncomment the source /usr/local/lib/python...zsh/powerline.zsh line and source the .zshrc.
The text editor shown in screenshot is using our nano syntax highlighting repo. Whether you’ll use tmux or vi; this is not possible to predict. This is the basic setup.

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