Powershell: Add PowerShell to Ubuntu Repositories

[Maltysen]

Right now to install it on ubuntu, you have to download the .deb and then use dpkg -i. This is what apt-get is meant to not make you do. Can you guys make your own PPA and put it on that?

[RobCannon]

Why would anyone down-vote this? I should be able to apt-get powershell.

[dragon788]

This might be solved. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/installation/linux.md

[SteveL-MSFT]

As @dragon788 pointed out, you can apt-get (and yum) install PSCore6 today via the Microsoft repository, getting into the official Ubuntu repository will be more difficult until after 6.0.0 is out I would believe

[joeyaiello]

Given the fact that we support packages.microsoft.com, and that Ubuntu is highly unlikely to take our packages until we've reached a stable state, I'm moving this out to 6.1.0 (meaning "post-6.0.0").

[chalbersma]

@SteveL-MSFT If getting into the official repos is tough, what about a PPA?

[SteveL-MSFT]

@chalbersma what is PPA?

[chalbersma]

PPA are a semi-sanctioned way to create & host packages for ubuntu. Generally it's used to provide newer or development packages straight from maintainers or to provide packages that aren't in the ubuntu base repos.

[dragon788]

It should also be possible to just create a regular repository at Bintray
or other repository hosting services, as this does not necessarily have to
be a Launchpad PPA (which I believe requires using Bazaar to host the code
being compiled).

On Jun 13, 2017 6:48 PM, "Christopher R Halbersma" [e-mail]
wrote:

PPA https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas are a semi-sanctioned way to
create & host packages for ubuntu. Generally it's used to provide newer or
development packages straight from maintainers or to provide packages that
aren't in the ubuntu base repos.

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[SteveL-MSFT]

We've already been publishing to the official Microsoft Linux repository packages.microsoft.com so it's not clear to me the value of publishing to another repository other than the distro's official one?

[chalbersma]

@SteveL-MSFT It gives a standard way to publish and subscribe to the repos and it will help you build repositories for all Ubuntu Releases (like 17.04).

[SteveL-MSFT]

@chalbersma got it, this is something we can look into, but I don't think it's something that's high priority for the 6.0.0 release, leaving as 6.1.0 work item

[chalbersma]

@SteveL-MSFT Fair enough. Thanks for considering it.

[iSazonov]

As I mentioned here we could publish packages only for LTS versions.

[pcgeek86]

Although I prefer to use Docker containers to obtain PowerShell, I agree that this would be a valuable add to the official Ubuntu repositories.

[SteveL-MSFT]

Now that PSCore6 is published as a snap and Ubuntu 18.10 install includes option to install snaps as part of install (and PSCore6 does show up there), I consider this closed.