[gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
Gentoo.

I did not find a PowerShell package in the portage
directories and I did not find anything by Google. Is there
a package at all (maybe somewhere in the overlays) and I did
just miss to enter the right search terms?

Thanks in advance.

Bertram Scharpf


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Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 12 Nov 2016 23:20:06 Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
> PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
> that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
> installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
> Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
> something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
> Gentoo.
> 
> I did not find a PowerShell package in the portage
> directories and I did not find anything by Google. Is there
> a package at all (maybe somewhere in the overlays) and I did
> just miss to enter the right search terms?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Bertram Scharpf

You could running PowerShell in Wine:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8049

Alternatively, you could install MSWindows in a VM, e.g. using VirtualBox, and 
launch this within your Gentoo session without having to logoff/on every time.

Also, if you don't need the complete MSWindows desktop and you have a server 
handy, you could run the MSWindows VM there and access the PowerShell 
application remotely with RemoteApp.

HTH.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:20:06 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> I did not find a PowerShell package in the portage
> directories and I did not find anything by Google. Is there
> a package at all (maybe somewhere in the overlays) and I did
> just miss to enter the right search terms?

You can download the source from
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases and compile it yourself.

Alternatively, grab one of the RPM packages and use rpm2tgz to create a
tarball you can unpack in /.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

And on the seventh day God said :wq and then make

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Sunday, 13. Nov 2016, 13:05:24 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:20:06 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> 
> > I did not find a PowerShell package in the portage
> > directories and I did not find anything by Google. Is there
> > a package at all (maybe somewhere in the overlays) and I did
> > just miss to enter the right search terms?
> 
> You can download the source from
> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases and compile it yourself.

The build suite is something completely different than the
standard configure-make procedure. It's first step says:
"Gentoo is not supported!" They only support CentOS and
Ubuntu.

> Alternatively, grab one of the RPM packages and use rpm2tgz to create a
> tarball you can unpack in /.

There seem to be dependency problems.

Thanks anyway,

Bertram


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Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:31:52 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> > You can download the source from
> > https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases and compile it
> > yourself.  
> 
> The build suite is something completely different than the
> standard configure-make procedure. It's first step says:
> "Gentoo is not supported!" They only support CentOS and
> Ubuntu.

Not supported is not the same as doesn't work. It just means you're more
or less on your own. However, the suggestion of a container would be
simpler, provided you don't actually need to run PowerShell in your
Gentoo environment.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
 -- Robert Heinlein

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Monday, 14. Nov 2016, 09:21:25 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:31:52 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> 
> > > You can download the source from
> > > https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases and compile it
> > > yourself.  
> > 
> > The build suite is something completely different than the
> > standard configure-make procedure. It's first step says:
> > "Gentoo is not supported!" They only support CentOS and
> > Ubuntu.
> 
> Not supported is not the same as doesn't work. It just means you're more
> or less on your own.

That's what I meant. I'm just fed up with reading loads of
docs about a very non-standard build process.

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On 11/14/2016 05:06 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> On Monday, 14. Nov 2016, 09:21:25 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:31:52 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>>
>>>> You can download the source from
>>>> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases and compile it
>>>> yourself.  
>>>
>>> The build suite is something completely different than the
>>> standard configure-make procedure. It's first step says:
>>> "Gentoo is not supported!" They only support CentOS and
>>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> Not supported is not the same as doesn't work. It just means you're more
>> or less on your own.
> 
> That's what I meant. I'm just fed up with reading loads of
> docs about a very non-standard build process.
> 
> Bertram

That's the standard build system for .NET projects. You'll probably
need Microsoft's .NET implementation [1] to get it working. I have
ebuilds for an early version [2] but back then you couldn't even build
the corefx (.NET's standard library) on Linux so it's not much use. I
will update them when I get time.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet
[2]
https://github.com/fernando-rodriguez/portage-overlay/tree/master/dev-dotnet/coreclr

-- 

Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Jeremi Piotrowski]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
> PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
> that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
> installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
> Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
> something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
> Gentoo.

This is the perfect use case for running containers on your development
machine. Just set up lxc/lxd/docker on your gentoo machine and start up an
ubuntu container in any of the runtimes. Works flawlessly, and you don't
have to reboot or run a heavyweight VM. Lxc/lxd are more suitable for long
running containers, docker would be great for containers that you spin up
and tear down whenever you need.

Give it a try.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Sunday, 13. Nov 2016, 22:21:33 +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> > for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
> > PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
> > that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
> > installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
> > Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
> > something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
> > Gentoo.
> 
> This is the perfect use case for running containers on your development
> machine. Just set up lxc/lxd/docker on your gentoo machine and start up an
> ubuntu container in any of the runtimes. Works flawlessly, and you don't
> have to reboot or run a heavyweight VM. Lxc/lxd are more suitable for long
> running containers, docker would be great for containers that you spin up
> and tear down whenever you need.
> 
> Give it a try.

I will consider this if I have to do with PowerShell for a
longer time.

Thanks for the hint!

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Bertram Scharpf
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
> PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
> that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
> installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
> Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
> something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
> Gentoo.
>
Assuming that you plan to keep Ubuntu, why not use its PowerShell from
Gentoo, via chroot?

Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a PowerShell package?

[Bertram Scharpf]

On Monday, 14. Nov 2016, 10:20:39 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Bertram Scharpf
> <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> > for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts
> > PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know
> > that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one
> > installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my
> > Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try
> > something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on
> > Gentoo.
> >
> Assuming that you plan to keep Ubuntu, why not use its PowerShell from
> Gentoo, via chroot?

This is an excellent idea that fits exactly the expense of
time I wanted to invest on the task. I'm almost ashamed I
did not have this idea myself.

Thank you!

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
http://www.bertram-scharpf.de