Enable Colorful Terminal in Debian and Ubuntu

11 thoughts on “Enable Colorful Terminal in Debian and Ubuntu”

1. Markus 2014/10/21

   Thanks! But for D. 7 x64 there was no “force_color_prompt” line. Instead there are 5 export, eval and alias lines I had to uncomment. But theres an info above them, so everythings fine 🙂

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   1. Jacob Coleman 2017/01/25

      Make sure you’re not doing it with sudo or root, or that is all it will show.

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2. Jared Null 2015/08/12

   you don’t have to logout, you can just do: source ~/.bashrc

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   1. Scott Miller Post author2015/08/12

      Thanks! Updated.

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3. Alejandro Gomez E 2016/01/11

   Thank’s Good Tip!!!!

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4. wkyp 2016/02/05

   hello guys! what do you mean by uncoment Uncomment the line that says ‘force_color_prompt=yes’ ?

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5. wkyp 2016/02/05

   Hello guys! what do you mean by Uncomment the line that says ‘force_color_prompt=yes’?

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   1. Scott Miller Post author2016/02/05

      Change this line:

      #force_color_prompt=yes
      

      to this:

      force_color_prompt=yes
      

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      1. WKYP 2016/02/08

         omg silly me thanks mate !!!

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6. Rafael Borges 2016/03/03

   sed -i ‘s/#force_color_prompt=yes/force_color_prompt=yes/’ ~/.bashrc

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7. Vesseli Mishev 2016/12/01

   How to setup colors for su – ?

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