How do I install PSCX Powershell module?
powershell, powershell-2.0
Solution
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.
Problem
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?