Important Note

If you were familiar with the PowerShellGet 3.0 project, we renamed the module to be PSResourceGet, for more information please read this blog.

If you would like to open a PR please open an issue first so that necessary discussion can take place. Please open an issue for any feature requests, bug reports, or questions for PSResourceGet. Please note, the repository for PowerShellGet v2 is available at PowerShell/PowerShellGetv2. The repository for the PowerShellGet v3, the compatibility layer between PowerShellGet v2 and PSResourceGet, is available at PowerShell/PowerShellGet.

Introduction

PSResourceGet is a PowerShell module with commands for discovering, installing, updating and publishing the PowerShell resources like Modules, Scripts, and DSC Resources.

Documentation

Documentation for PSResourceGet is currently under its old name PowerShellGet v3, please Click here to reference the documentation.

Requirements

• PowerShell 5.0 or higher.

Get PSResourceGet Module

Please use the PowerShell Gallery to get the latest version of the module.

Get PowerShellGet Source

Steps

• Obtain the source

  • Download the latest source code from the release page (https://github.com/PowerShell/PSResourceGet/releases) OR
  • Clone the repository (needs git)

  git clone https://github.com/PowerShell/PSResourceGet

• Navigate to the local repository directory

PS C:\> cd c:\Repos\PSResourceGet
PS C:\Repos\PSResourceGet>

• Build the project

# Build for the net472 framework
PS C:\Repos\PSResourceGet> .\build.ps1 -Clean -Build -BuildConfiguration Debug -BuildFramework net472

# Build for the netstandard2.0 framework
PS C:\Repos\PSResourceGet> .\build.ps1 -Clean -Build -BuildConfiguration Debug -BuildFramework netstandard2.0

• Publish the module to a local repository

PS C:\Repos\PSResourceGet> .\build.ps1 -Publish

• Run functional tests

PS C:\Repos\PSResourceGet> Invoke-PSPackageProjectTest -Type Functional

• Import the module into a new PowerShell session

# If running PowerShell 6+
C:\> Import-Module C:\Repos\PSResourceGet\out\PSResourceGet

# If running Windows PowerShell
C:\> Import-Module C:\Repos\PSResourceGet\out\PSResourceGet\PSResourceGet.psd1