How do I install PSCX Powershell module?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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