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#Installing PowerShell on Fedora 24

November 2, 2016

Needed this for some testing.

Basically followed this post from the Hacker News.

First, downloaded the latest official Microsoft rpm for 64-bit CentOS from Github. I know, that sounds weird, doesn't it?

Next, install these dependencies:

dnf install icu lldb lldb-devel lttng-tools lttng-ust

Download these necessary obsolete packages from Fedora 17 and 19:

Install the Microsoft package with deps turned off:

rpm -ivh --nodeps powershell-6.0.0_alpha.11-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

Create a directory to hold the obsolete libraries:

mkdir /opt/microsoft/powershell/lib

Extract the contents of the two obsolete rpms:

rpm2cpio openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
rpm2cpio libicu-50.1.2-5.fc19.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

Copy all files and folders from the resulting lib64 and usr/lib64 to /opt/microsoft/powershell/lib.

Create a shell script named powershell (no file extension) under /usr/local/bin.

Contents of shell script:

#!/bin/bash
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/microsoft/powershell/lib /usr/bin/powershell

Here's the prompt:

[me@mine ~]$ powershell
PowerShell 
Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS /home/me>