Chocolate Package Now Available

A Chocolatey package is now available for installing PowerShell Core on WIndows 8 and 10.

To request improvements to the package, please file an issue here (please mention the package name as the repo covers multiple packages): https://github.com/DarwinJS/ChocoPackages/issues

Some notable considerations:

• chocolatey does not run on Nano - so the package has not been setup to handle it.
• the package is “pre-release” (by semantic versioning standards) and therefore WILL NOT show up in chocolatey searches. You can view it directly at http://chocolatey.org/packages/powershell-core
• because it is pre-release you will need to use the “-pre” chocolatey switch to get it to install - including if you are installing a specific version, like this: ‘’''choco install powershell-core -pre -confirm```
• If you only want one version installed when upgrading, you will have to issue choco uninstall for the version you currently have installed.
• If you give the package a -force to have it install, previous versions are not removed
• if the the version you are trying to install with chocolatey is already present, the package exits with success without installed - use “-force” if you want to actually re-write the binaries.

[kilasuit]

@SteveL-MSFT - Are there any plans for this package to become owned by the PowerShell Team and therefore have it managed and released to chocolatey just like the other package managers for linux systems.

If not currently then in my opinion it should be transferred to be be owned by your release process for consistency

[kilasuit]

@DarwinJS I know that it is as I use it however from what @SteveL-MSFT was saying it sounded like they were looking not to use this one and to make use of their own PowerShell Chocolately repository instead. Or at least that’s how it read to me.

Perhaps would be best to see what @edyoung says on this if it would be owned by him/his team.