How do I install PSCX Powershell module?

15
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I'm running Windows 7 with PowerShell 2 installed.

I've downloaded version 2.1 from here - http://pscx.codeplex.com/releases

The Release notes say

  • unblock the zip file - {which I did}
  • extract the contents of the ZIP file to your $env:Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules folder

I was unsure what $env:Home was so a bit of searching determined that the release notes are expecting an environment variable called Home which doesn't exist on my machine.

A bit more searching says use what is defined as ~ on my machine. So in a PS prompt I run cd ~

Which on my machine led to a network drive U:

I created the following directories U:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules and copied the extracted Pscx-2.1.0 to the Modules folder. Opened a PowerShell prompt and typed Get-Module -ListAvailable. This didn't give me Pscx in the results.

The above steps actually gave me this folder tree U:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pscx-2.1.0\Pscx-2.1.0

So I copied the files up a level and tried again with U:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pscx-2.1.0\ and also tried with U:\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pscx\

I also tried all of the above with this path U:\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pscx-2.1.0\

I'm guessing that the Modules aren't actually supposed to be in this directory, so a bit more searching leads to this command. (Get-ChildItem Env:\PSModulePath).Value

which gives the following result

C:\Users\my.name\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\

So I copy the Pscx-2.1.0 folder to here C:\Users\my.name\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pscx-2.1.0

And still no luck.

What step am I missing?

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5 Answers

12
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I hadn't actually completed the last step of my above question completely which turned out to be the answer.

Here is that answer for completeness

  • Unblock the zip file you have downloaded
  • extract the zip file - this will likely give a folder structure of Pscx-2.1.0/Pscx-2.1.0/{lots of files}
  • rename the child folder to Pscx - ie - Pscx-2.1.0/Pscx/{lots of files}
  • In Powershell prompt run (Get-ChildItem Env:\PSModulePath).Value and note the modules folder location.
  • Copy the child Pscx folder to the Modules folder location given above.
  • In Powershell prompt run Get-Module -ListAvailable to see the Pscx module available.
7
votes

In PowerShell 5.0, you can do:

Find-Package pscx | ? ProviderName -eq PSModule | Install-Package -Force

The -Force parameter will cause it to upgrade if an older version is already installed.

In PowerShell 5.1, you'll need:

Find-Package pscx | ? ProviderName -eq PowerShellGet | Install-Package -Force

or

Find-Package pscx -ProviderName PowerShellGet | Install-Package -Force

or just 

Install-Package pscx -Force
4
votes

Just run

choco install pscx

See chocolatey.org for a one-liner to get the choco command.

Keep in mind you may still have to call this in your scripts before running their commands:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser #allows scripts to run from the interwebs, such as pcsx
2
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Update: Looks like PsGet is no longer maintained, but source is still available on github.

You can also use PsGet to easily search and install PowerShell modules.

You can check which modules have been added to PsGet by browsing for all modules:

> Get-PsGetModuleInfo *

Or locate this one specfically:

> Get-PsGetModuleInfo pscx

Then you can install based on that information:

> Install-Module pscx
0
votes

After spending lot of time searching here and there, i found this blog has very clear steps to solve. try it may helps u ..

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/07/18/install-the-pscx-and-80-new-cmdlets-to-ease-powershell-use.aspx