#HOMEBREW CASK INSTALL POWERSHELL HOW TO#

Within a PowerShell session, you can check the version of PowerShell by running the following. brew cask install powershellĪwesome! Now, to launch a PowerShell session in macOS, enter the following in terminal. Run the following command to do so and enter your password when prompted. Great! With the prerequisites complete, it’s time to install PowerShell Core 6.0.1. Now, the next step is to install Homebrew-Cask and per its sites installation notes, copy and paste the following command into a terminal window. It will also check if Xcode command line tools are installed, and if not, it will download and install it for you before completing the installation of Homebrew. This will prompt you to press Enter to continue and the prompt you to enter your password. Per the instructions on the Homebrew site, copy and paste the following command into a terminal window to install Homebrew. Homebrew-Cask – extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to macOS applications and large binaries alike.Homebrew – Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t.There are a few prerequisites needed before PowerShell can be installed on macOS which I will cover, and they are as follows:

#HOMEBREW CASK INSTALL POWERSHELL HOW TO#

In this post, I am going to show how to install both on to a macOS system. Alongside this release came the release of VMware PowerCLI 10.3 which is VMware’s own “PowerShell-like” utility. Just a few days ago, PowerShell Core v6.0 was released for Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

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