PowerShell/docs/installation/linux.md
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Package installation instructions

Supports Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 7.1, and OS X 10.11.

Once the package is installed, powershell will be in your path, ready to be launched from a terminal. It will read ~/.powershell/profile.ps1 for your user profile, and /opt/microsoft/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 for the host profile.

Similarly, it will search ~/.powershell/Modules and /opt/microsoft/powershell/Modules for user and system modules.

To place PowerShell in your path, a symlink to the /opt/microsoft/powershell/powershell executable is placed at /usr/bin/powershell.

Ubuntu 14.04

Using a stock Ubuntu 14.04 image, download the powershell_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb file, and then execute the following:

sudo apt-get install libunwind8 libicu52
sudo dpkg -i powershell_0.4.0-1_amd64.deb

CentOS 7.1

Using a stock CentOS 7.1 image, download the powershell-0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm file, and then execute the following:

sudo yum install powershell-0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm

OS X 10.11

Using an OS X 10.11 machine, download the powershell-0.4.0.pkg file, double-click it, and follow the prompts. Or install it from the terminal:

sudo installer -pkg powershell-0.4.0.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 profile as well.