{"id":1412,"date":"2016-11-05T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2016-11-05T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:07:56","slug":"how-to-install-powershell-on-ubuntu-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2016\/11\/how-to-install-powershell-on-ubuntu-16-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Powershell on Ubuntu 16.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tried installing the latest Alpha of Powershell (Alpha 12) on the newly released Ubuntu 16.10 and discovered that the install failed because of a dependency on the library libicu55 which has been replaced in the new version of Ubuntu (libicu57). Actually, the whole .Net Core install fails because of this.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately this is easy to fix by manually installing the old library from http:\/\/cz.archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/i\/icu\/libicu55_55.1-7_amd64.deb<\/p>\n<p>Then you can download the latest Powershell version (Alpha 12 as of this writing) from https:\/\/github.com\/PowerShell\/PowerShell\/releases<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the creators of the Powershell packages will release an updated version that is natively compatible with Ubuntu16.10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tried installing the latest Alpha of Powershell (Alpha 12) on the newly released Ubuntu 16.10 and discovered that the install failed because of a dependency on the library libicu55 which has been replaced in the new version of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2016\/11\/how-to-install-powershell-on-ubuntu-16-10\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[310,240,309],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-linux","tag-powershell","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}