fish is now installed on your system. To run fish, type 'fish' in your terminal. It is advised not to set fish as a default login shell. see https://bugs.gentoo.org/545830 for more details. Executing fish using ~/.bashrc is an alternative see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fish#Caveats for details To set your colors, run 'fish_config' To scan your man pages for completions, run 'fish_update_completions' To autocomplete command suggestions press Ctrl + F or right arrow key. Please add a "BROWSER" variable to fish environment pointing to the browser of your choice to get acces to fish help system: BROWSER="/usr/bin/firefox" If you have issues with cut'n'paste in X-terminals, install the x11-misc/xsel package. Have fun!