I get thos fance shell prompt if installing an appropriate powerline font in Windows and configuring the terminal tool accordingly.
After adding some lines in .bashrc, I noticed that the prompt is very slow. Some investigation revealed that compiling the Python scripts with the help of a C compiler would possibly fix this problem. When installing powerlin using the command above and add --verbose I can see that the install script searched for a folder named “cc”.
I guess it is looking up for a C compiler, then. My question: is it possible to install such a tool on IPFire?
Replying myself:
Since I did not have a C compiler within IPFire, I tried to find the necessary binaries that would run on IPFire, too. I’ve found them here on the right side within the archive: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/powerline/ using link “download from mirror”.
After downloading I’ve replaced the file /usr/bin/powerline with the one from the archive and since then, all runs smooth.
Explanation: the previously installed powerline file in /usr/bin was just a slow running Python script which is now replaced by a binary file.
