Powershell: K.I.S.S. for Powershell installs

Created on 12 May 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: PowerShell/PowerShell

Why is finding the download for powershell so difficult? I literally had to click through 20 pages to finally get to the download. Please keep this simple for end users. I should not have to wade through GitHub to find a download of powershell.

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There's a, in my opinion, pretty simple matrix on the front page with direct downloads. Are you by chance being linked here from the Microsoft Docs?

Because I see their documentation does link directly to the releases page.

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There's a, in my opinion, pretty simple matrix on the front page with direct downloads. Are you by chance being linked here from the Microsoft Docs?

Because I see their documentation does link directly to the releases page.

I just use the Install-PowerShell script on GitHub:

On Windows just do this:

# Download PowerShell 7 installation script
Set-Location C:\Foo
$URI = "https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1"
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URI | 
  Out-File -FilePath C:\Foo\Install-PowerShell.ps1
# install
c:\foo\install-powerShell.ps1 -useMSI -Quiet

@kennetherland Do you have a more specific suggestion?

I think he wants to list the one-click download and installation script on the homepage.

E.g

bash <(curl -s -L https://raw.../install.sh)
...
or 
yum install xxx
...
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