This is the snap for PowerShell, "PowerShell for every system". It works on Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and other major Linux distributions.
sudo snap install powershell --classic
sudo snap install powershell-preview --classic
- Ubuntu 20.04 is not working with the
powershell
package.- The work around is to use the
powershell-preview
package.
- The work around is to use the
- Some native libaries cause incompatible libarires to be loaded. Because the snap file system the readonly, there is no real workaround for this.
libmi
always causes for this type of issue and is responsible for:- PowerShell remoting commands that don't invole
-Hostname
- PowerShell remoting commands that don't invole
- Run
whereis pwsh-preview
if,/snap/bin/pwsh-preview
is not returned, Snap has not created the alias. - If Snap has created the alias, and it is not working, you may need to reboot (or logout and back in) before it will work.
- If Snap has not created the alias, you can create the alias with
sudo snap alias <packagename> <aliasname>
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