How To Install PowerShell on CentOS 7

PowerShell on CentOS 7

PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.

Table of Contents

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

Step 2. Installing PowerShell on CentOS 7.

 

Prerequisites

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step install PowerShell Microsoft on CentOS 7 server.
Install PowerShell on CentOS 7

Step 1. First let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum -y install epel-release
yum -y update

Step 2. Installing PowerShell on CentOS 7.

Method 1.

PowerShell Core for Linux is published to official Microsoft repositories for easy installation:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo

Install PowerShell using following command:

sudo yum install -y powershell

Start PowerShell:

pwsh

Method 2.

Install PowerShell using RPM package:

yum install https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0/powershell-6.0.0-1.rhel.7.x86_64.rpm

Then execute the following in the terminal:

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

PowerShell is installed, launch it with the help of following command:

powershell

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed PowerShell on CentOS 7. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing PowerShell Microsoft on CentOS 7 systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official PowerShell web site.

How To Install PowerShell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Install PowerShell on Ubuntu 16

PowerShell Core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Microsoft PowerShell on a Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) server.

Install PowerShell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1. First make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Installing PowerShell on Ubuntu 16.04.

Method 1.

First, download the Debian package to your Ubuntu server:

wget https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0/powershell_6.0.0-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb
dpkg -i powershell_6.0.0-1.ubuntu.17.04_amd64.deb

Install PowerShell using following command:

apt-get install -f

Method 2.

Install PowerShell using official Ubuntu Microsoft Repository:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft.list

Then execute the following in the terminal:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y powershell

After installation, you can run the powershell, by just issuing this command “pwsh” in the prompt:

pwsh

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed PowerShell. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing latest stable version of Microsoft PowerShell on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official PowerShell web site.