The following error occurs with zsh installed via yum on CentOS 5 systems:
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precmd: vcs_info: function definition file not found
It seems vcs_info cannot be used unless you are on version 4.3.6 or later.
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vcs_info is available since zsh-beta, version 4.3.6-dev-0+20080929-1 or later
Checking the version
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$ /bin/zsh --version
zsh 4.2.6 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
So we need to update the zsh version.
Downloading and building zsh 5.2
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$ cd /usr/local/src $ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsh/files/zsh/5.2/zsh-5.2.tar.gz/download $ tar xvjf zsh-5.2.tar.gz $ cd zsh-5.2 $ ./configure && make && sudo make install
Checking the installed zsh version
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$ /usr/local/bin/zsh --version
zsh 5.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
Switching the shell to the newly downloaded zsh
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$ echo "/usr/local/bin/zsh" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells $ chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh
Even so, this error still shows up…
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precmd: vcs_info: function definition file not found
Delete .zcompdump and re-run zsh
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$ rm ~/.zcompdump $ exec zsh
.zcompdump is a file that contains the list of definitions for commands and their completion functions.
