How to Install PowerShell Core in Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure

Today I will show you how you can install PowerShell Core in the Ubuntu Linux VM. If you are from Linux background and want to manage workloads in Azure it’s very important that you should install PowerShell Core in Linux VM and later you can import the Az Module. You can follow this post for those steps.

First, download the Microsoft repository GPG keys

wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Check the downloaded package directory

In next step register the Microsoft repository GPG keys

sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Now Update the list of products

sudo apt-get update

In next step enable the “universe” repositories

sudo add-apt-repository universe

At last Install PowerShell

sudo apt-get install -y powershell

You can see that Powershell has been installed. Enjoy!!!