Running PowerShell on your RaspberryPi

2018-12-06 1 min read Linux Powershell Erwin Bierens

For many years PowerShell was a Windows-only thing that was part of the closed Windows ecosystem. Now a days PowerShell is open source up at https://github.com/PowerShell with lots of docs and scripts, also open source.

PowerShell is supported on Windows, Mac, and a half-dozen Linux distros.

While running PowerShell on your RaspberryPi is still experimental and only supported for Raspbian Stretch it’s running pretty smoothly.

Installing

Install the prerequisites

	sudo apt-get install libunwind8

Grabbing the latest tar.gz

	wget https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.1.0/powershell-6.1.0-linux-arm32.tar.gz

Make folder to put powershell in mkdir ~/powershell

Unpack the tar.gz file to the powershell folder

	tar -xvf ./powershell-6.1.0-linux-arm32.tar.gz -C ~/powershell

Starting PowerShell

	~/powershell/pwsh

Create a symbolic link

Start PowerShell from bash with sudo to create a symbolic link

	sudo ~/powershell/pwsh -c New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path ``"/usr/bin/pwsh"`` -Target ``"\$PSHOME/pwsh"`` -Force

Alternatively you can run following to create a symbolic link sudo ln -s ~/powershell/pwsh /usr/bin/pwsh

Now to start PowerShell you can just run “pwsh”

Deleting PowerShell

	rm -rf ~/powershell