How to make dotnet globally accessible in windows powershell?

Question

I've installed .NET Core SDK on Windows 10 machine using dotnet-install scripts with the powershell command

./dotnet-install.ps1 -Channel Current

SDK was installed to default location C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\dotnet and the only way I can use it from another location is

C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\dotnet\dotnet.exe

How to make it global to use just dotnet anywhere?

Answer 1

When you install it via scripts use key -InstallDir for change directory. To use exe file from everywhere just change Environment variable (add path to exe). For add it to your user PS profile:

Add-Content -Path $Profile.CurrentUserAllHosts -Value '$Env:Path += ";C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\dotnet\dotnet.exe"'