PowerShell became Open Source and it is available for Linux and MAC OSX


Good news for all technical guys. Microsoft has made PowerShell available in Linux and MAC operating systems. In more specific powershell is available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Cent OS 7 and MAC OSX 10.10.11. Installation procedure is very simple. We all know Mr. Satya Nadella CEO of Microsoft had said that Microsoft Loves Linux. After few days of this prologue Microsoft has made PowerShell open source. This proves Satya Nadella’s words were not just words.

From the beginning of testing I could realize Microsoft has done a decent work to make PowerShell work in other operating systems and lot of cmdlets has been included. In future we hope Microsoft will provide us more control over Linux and MAC operating systems through PowerShell and SCCM agent. As of now SCCM agent is available for all operating systems. But we have very less control over Linux and MAC operating systems with SCCM such as hardware and software inventory. There is no way to install applications remotely on Linux and MAC like we do on Windows with the help of SCCM. However, the release of PowerShell for all platforms is giving us a hope that one day it will be possible.
You can download the PowerShell packages from GitHub. Download URL is right here.
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powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb for Ubuntu 14.04 64Bit
powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb for Ubuntu 16.04 64Bit
powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm for CentOS 7 and RHEL 7
powershell-6.0.0-alpha.9.pkg for MAC OSX

Installation is very simple.

On Ubuntu 16.04 run the below commands
sudo  apt-get  install  libunwind8  libicu55
sudo  dpkg  -i /pathofthedeb/powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_amd64.deb
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On Ubuntu 14.04 run the below commands
sudo  apt-get  install  libunwind8  libicu52
sudo  dpkg  -i /pathofthedeb/powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb
On CentOS 7, run the below command
sudo yum install /pathoftherpm/powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
On MAC OSX, we can install PowerShell in GUI. We just need to double click the .pkg and kick off the installation.
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Launching PowerShell in these OSs is even easier. Just open the terminal and type PowerShell as a command. This will switch terminal to PowerShell mode. As of now Microsoft has made lot of common cmdlets available in PowerShell open source. In future we hope Microsoft will make it a perfect replacement for native terminals in these operating systems.
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