Installing PowerShell on MacOS

 

Wait… what ??!??

 

You can have PowerShell on MacOS ???!???

 

Yep, and on Linux, too 🙂

 

Head over to github, and go get… github.com/powershell/powershell/releases

 

For MacOS, download the file that ends in .pkg, and then install as you would from any .pkg file. You’ll be pwsh-tastic in no time.

 

Couple gotchas, though:

 

1. You need to be root to install modules. Ho hum.

 

2. You need to trust the PSGallery repo to install modules

 

3. You might want to update PowerShellGet while you’re there…

 

 

Starting Powershell can be then done either from the Launcher icon, or by opening a terminal window and executing ‘pwsh’

 

 

Trusting the PSGallery is simples, though.

 

In your pwsh window (as root), run:

 

Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted

 

..wait a few seconds, then you should be able to

 

Install-Module PowerShellGet -Force

 

And also..

 

Install-Module SQLServer

 

I’m assuming something similar for Ubuntu 16.04: Get the .deb, install, trust, install-module (s), but I’ve not got that far. Too excited 🙂

 

Happy PWSHing !

 

Back soon..

 

Posted on May 1, 2018Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Installing PowerShell on MacOS