MrPowerShell

Raspberry Pi Bootstrap

PowerShell is pretty awesome on the Raspberry Pi.

Here's a script to get PowerShell installed on the Pi.


#! /bin/sh
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# Prerequisites

# Update package lists
sudo apt-get update

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install jq libssl1.1 libunwind8 -y

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# Download and extract PowerShell

# Grab the latest tar.gz
bits=$(getconf LONG_BIT)
release=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/latest)
package=$(echo $release | jq -r ".assets[].browser_download_url" | grep "linux-arm${bits}.tar.gz")
wget $package

# Make folder to put powershell
mkdir ~/powershell

# Unpack the tar.gz file
tar -xvf "./${package##*/}" -C ~/powershell


chmod +x ~/powershell/pwsh
# Start PowerShell

~/powershell/pwsh