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I installed zsh, but I realized I miss the basic/default terminal look. How can I get back to the default shell?

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    How did you install zsh ? sudo apt-get purge zsh – Panther Sep 21 '17 at 16:51
  • someone recommended me this shell, but didn't like it. Thanks – Stefan Sep 21 '17 at 17:09
  • Yes, you need to configure it for sure. I use these 2 files http://bodhizazen.com/Tutorials/zshrc and http://bodhizazen.com/Tutorials/envrc (save them as ~/.zshrc and ~/.envrc ) – Panther Sep 21 '17 at 17:11

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You can remove it completely with the following command.

sudo apt-get --purge remove zsh

If zsh was your default shell (see How to check which shell am I using? and What is default shell for terminal?), Do Not forget to change it to any other shell before purging, e.g. to bash like this with root access. 

chsh -s /bin/bash YOUR_USERNAME

Or below with your login user.

chsh -s /bin/bash
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    FYI, I've had to logout/login for the chsh change to be visible – Arnaud P Oct 23 '18 at 14:49
  • Would add a comment to arshin's answer but I cant: sudo apt-get --purge remove zsh zsh-* Do not forget about removing zsh-*! if you changed folders like /usr/share/zsh then reinstalling zsh without reinstalling zsh-commons will end up with a broken installation! – Lucas Alonso Jan 21 '19 at 22:11
  • @ArnaudP Thank you from my heart, I've wasted lots of time and I couldn't know what was I missing, I thought of restarting the PC but I totally ignored this out of laziness, thank you – Ahmed I. Elsayed Sep 13 '20 at 19:19
  • If you like me purge zsh without set other default shell, you need to copy content from .bashrc.save to .bashrc with some editor – Jonatas Eduardo Dec 05 '20 at 20:50