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Andrew Schwartzmeyer 2260cf7469 Improve Linux installation instructions
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Package installation instructions

Supports Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 7.1, and OS X 10.11. All packages are available on our GitHub releases page.

Once the package is installed, powershell will be in your path, ready to be launched from a terminal.

  • User profiles will be read from ~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1.
  • User modules will be read from ~/.local/share/powershell/Modules
  • PSReadLine history will be recorded to ~/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
  • System profiles will be read from /opt/microsoft/powershell/profile.ps1.
  • System modules will be read from /opt/microsoft/powershell/Modules

The profiles respect PowerShell's per-host configuration, so the default host-specific profiles exists at Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 in the same locations.

On Linux and OS X, the XDG Base Directory Specification is respected.

Note that to place PowerShell in your path, the packages create a symlink from /usr/bin/powershell to the /opt/microsoft/powershell/powershell executable.

Ubuntu 14.04

Using Ubuntu 14.04, download the Debian package powershell_6.0.0-alpha.7-1_amd64.deb from the releases page onto the Ubuntu machine.

Then execute the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libunwind8 libicu52
sudo dpkg -i powershell_6.0.0-alpha.7-1_amd64.deb

Please note that that Ubuntu 16.04 is not yet supported, but coming soon!

CentOS 7

Using CentOS 7, download the RPM package powershell-6.0.0_alpha.7-1.x86_64.rpm from the releases page onto the CentOS machine.

Then execute the following in the terminal:

sudo yum install powershell-6.0.0_alpha.7-1.x86_64.rpm

Please note that we have not tested this package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

OS X 10.11

Using OS X 10.11, download the PKG package powershell-6.0.0-alpha.7.pkg from the releases page onto the OS X machine.

Either double-click the file and follow the prompts, or install it from the terminal:

sudo installer -pkg powershell-6.0.0-alpha.7.pkg -target /

Note that because OS X is a derivation of BSD, instead of /opt, the prefix used is /usr/local. Thus, powershell lives at /usr/local/microsoft/powershell, and the symlink is placed at /usr/local/bin/powershell. This affects the system modules and profiles as well.