PowerShell fails to install on Debian-9

Steps to reproduce

Try installing PowerShell on Debian-9 using the instructions for Debian-8.

Expected behavior

Not sure. 😃 I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that it doesn’t install, in case you hadn’t gotten around to testing it yet.

Actual behavior

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 powershell : Depends: libssl1.0.0 but it is not installable
              Depends: libicu52 bit it is not installable

For libssl, Debian stretch has libssl1.0.2 installed. I’m not sure about the other library though.

Environment data

root@myserver:/# cat /etc/debian_version
9.0

[lgomezgonz]

Just edit your apt sources:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft.list deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/debian/stretch/prod stretch main

[michaelsync]

@iSazonov Sorry. I missed that out. The issue was that I don’t have those libraries pre-installed. Not sure if apt-get-install -f will install those dependenceis.

I have used the following steps that don’t require me to apt-get install -y powershell and it works for me.

# install the requirements
sudo apt-get install -y \
        less \
        locales \
        ca-certificates \
        libicu63 \
        libssl1.1 \
        libc6 \
        libgcc1 \
        libgssapi-krb5-2 \
        liblttng-ust0 \
        libstdc++6 \
        zlib1g \
        curl

# Download the powershell '.tar.gz' archive
curl -L  https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.1.0/powershell-7.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz -o /tmp/powershell.tar.gz

# Create the target folder where powershell will be placed
sudo mkdir -p /opt/microsoft/powershell/7

# Expand powershell to the target folder
sudo tar zxf /tmp/powershell.tar.gz -C /opt/microsoft/powershell/7

# Set execute permissions
sudo chmod +x /opt/microsoft/powershell/7/pwsh

# Create the symbolic link that points to pwsh
sudo ln -s /opt/microsoft/powershell/7/pwsh /usr/bin/pwsh

# Start PowerShell
pwsh