The installer creates a shortcut in the Windows Start Menu.

Once downloaded, double-click the installer file and follow the prompts. I will note that the Install-Module commands don’t work quite yet so adding things like PowerCLI and AzureRM modules won’t be super easy to accomplish yet. To install PowerShell on Windows, use the following links to download the install package from GitHub. The example below I ran “get-host” to find the PowerShell version that was installed. Once you do this, you’ll be able to execute PowerShell commands. If the pattern matches, then Rudder will suppose that the software is already installed. Once the install is complete, open a Terminal Window and run “powershell”. Using a given Powershell command and a pattern to match its output. When the installation is finished click Close.

Select the installation location and click Install.Įnter in the administrative credentials to install the software and click Install Software. Select the Destination Disk and click Next. This will start the installation process. Once the file is downloaded you’ll need to find the download and right click and choose open. I mean, now I don’t even need to fire up my Windows virtual machine just to run PowerShell! This will help to draw attention to the individual steps and also the different PowerShell constructs involved. The aim of the tutorial is to use PowerShell to install Firefox as an example. It’s pretty easy to accomplish but having a great scripting language like PowerShell available for Mac is really cool and deserves a blog post. A common use case for Windows users is need to install various pieces of software on a running Windows Server. It’s a weird thing to say, but we can install PowerShell on Mac after the announcement from Microsoft that PowerShell will be available for both Macintosh and Linux.

Use powershell to install software