Let's setup Powerline to make our prompts look like this in CentOS!

How to do this?  Follow the set of steps below to configure this within a non-privilidged user account without having to modify many target server root-owned files or install any packages in the target UNIX systems.

• Install gcc and glibc.  This will ensure powerline is compiled into a binary, not the slow python version.
   
• (Recommended) Install powerline using pip3 but sourcing the files from Github:

   

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :($ pip3 install --user git+https://github.com/powerline/powerline.git@master
  Collecting git+https://github.com/powerline/powerline.git@master
    Cloning https://github.com/powerline/powerline.git (to master) to /tmp/pip-moyw5ssr-build
  Installing collected packages: powerline-status
    Running setup.py install for powerline-status ... done
  Successfully installed powerline-status-2.7
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$

  This gives the best chance that the C ELF binary get's compiled.  Python version, per discussion with the maintainers, is slow due to the Python3 Socket Implementation in the code.  
   

• (Deprecated) Install powerline using pip3 Python 3 installer:

   

   

   

   

   

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$ pip3 install –user powerline-status
  Collecting powerline-status
    Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9c/30/8bd3c62642778af9ad813a526c6ff7dd20ad6fab94ca389265/powerline-status-2.7.tar.gz
  Installing collected packages: powerline-status
    Running setup.py install for powerline-status … done
  Successfully installed powerline-status-2.7
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$
   

• Find the installed powerline direcctories. This is needed to configure .bash_profile 

   

   

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$ pip3 show powerline-status
  Name: powerline-status
  Version: 2.7
  Summary: The ultimate statusline/prompt utility.
  Home-page: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
  Author: Kim Silkebaekken
  Author-email: kim.silkebaekken+vim@gmail.com
  License: MIT
  Location: /n/mds.xyz/tom/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
  Requires:
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$
  ?

• Next, add the following lines to your .bash_profile.  It's ok to leave the previous .bash_profile settings in place.  They'll be overwritten.

   

   

   

   

   

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$ cat .bash_profile |tail -n5
  export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Library/Python/2.7/bin
  powerline-daemon -q
  POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
  POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1
  . ./.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$
   

• If running on an X Windows system, such as Gnome or KDE, install a set of fonts in the home folder of the user:

   

   

   

   

   

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :)$ wget https://github.com/powerline/fonts/archive/master.zip
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~] :($ unzip master.zip

  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~/fonts] :)$ ./install.sh
  Copying fonts…
  Powerline fonts installed to /n/mds.xyz/tom/.local/share/fonts
  [tom@mds.xyz@awx01:~/fonts] :)$
   

• This next part occurs in Windows 10.  Grab the set of fonts below and install them in Windows 10.  https://github.com/powerline/fonts :  A few examples:

   

   

   

   

   

  Adding Croscore fonts for Powerline (Chrome OS core fonts)
  https://github.com/powerline/fonts/blob/master/Arimo/

  DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline 
  https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree/master/DejaVuSansMono

  Droid Sans Mono for Powerline
  https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree/master/DroidSansMono
   

• Select the installed fonts in PuTTy:

  Within PuTTy (Putty Configuration) -> Window -> Apearance -> Font settings -> Change

  Select above-installed fonts.

• Login to a host.

• Enjoy your new command line!

BONUS

Below is a one line ansible command to update the .bash_profile as root:

ansible 'awx01*' -i /ansible/infra -m shell -a "yum install python3 -y" -become -u root

ansible 'awx01*' -i /ansible/infra -m shell -a "pip3 install –user powerline-status" -become -u root

ansible 'awx01*' -i /ansible/infra -m shell -a "if ! grep -q powerline ~/.bash_profile; then echo -ne \"export PATH=\\\$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin/\\npowerline-daemon -q\\nPOWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1\\nPOWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1\\n. /root/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh\\n\" >> ~/.bash_profile; fi" -become -u root

Modify the host parameter to just '*' once you feel comfortable with the commands. This is how it looks when done:

Have Fun!
TK