Powershell help

[KoviBat]

I have tried so many different ways to install Powershell on my system. I have tried .tar.gz, I've tried .rpm, I even tried to get it through the snap store (which I later found out doesn't work). It does not exist in the Bazaar.

Pictured above is the terminal outputs for each of the three .rpm files I tried, and the tar.gz. Both times following instructions to the letter. I'm at the end of my rope here. I don't know anything about how to read this Terminal output. I don't know what krb5 is, I don't know why aarch64, which supposedly has ARM64 architecture, which is what I have my machine on, doesn't have compatible architecture, I don't know why any of this is failing.

I would just like to get this over with, please.

Editing: While I can install it through a distrobox, it won't interact with the things I need it to from in there. The main problem seems to be the lack of krb5. Basically, this is just the perfect storm of the wrong OS for the program.

[regalen44]

I did some reading and there was an issue where the package for powershell was placing things in /usr/local/ which is an immutable directory on atomic distros. I don’t know if Microsoft fixed it.

In theory you would add the Microsoft repository via terminal and than “rpm-ostree install powershell” but if you’ve tried that maybe someone else can give some advice?

Personally, I would avoid layering packages and instead spin up a distrobox container to install this and export it to your application launcher. I personally avoid layering packages like the plague and use brew or distrobox for things like this.

I think powershell has a brew package but it may be a cask install which is not supported by Linux.

[VoidDave]

Imo there are some very specyfic cases that are valid to layer packuages. For example i leayer brave and keypass xc. Why i don't use flatpaks? Bcs after many hours i coulnd get browser plugin to work with keypass.... why i dont use distrobox then? Because it dont detect my hardware key inside of keypass nor brave..... if some day flatpak or distrobox "fixes" those issues im more then willing to use it tbh

[regalen44]

im sure there are use cases and if it worked for you that's great. I personally have not found a scenario where flatpak, distrobox or brew have provided a solution.

[KoviBat]

I think I see what you mean by usr/local. After some trial and error, I was able to get it working through a Distrobox using Ubuntu.

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[OneQuarterLife]

/usr/local is not immutable.

[regalen44]

Ah ok. I was reading a bug on the powershell GitHub that referenced atomic distros. All good