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description Information about installing PowerShell on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
ms.date 03/12/2026
title Install PowerShell 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Install PowerShell 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

There are multiple package versions of PowerShell 7 that can be installed. This article focuses on installing the latest stable release package. For more information about the package versions, see the PowerShell Support Lifecycle article.

Newer versions of PowerShell 7 replace existing previous versions of PowerShell 7. Preview versions of PowerShell can be installed side-by-side with other versions of PowerShell. Newer preview versions replace existing previous preview versions.

Choose an installation method

On RHEL, you can install PowerShell using the universal .rpm package from the Microsoft package repository or by downloading file from the GitHub release page.

Install PowerShell 7 from the Package Repository

Microsoft builds and supports a variety of software products for Linux systems and makes them available via Linux packaging clients (apt, dnf, yum, etc). These Linux software packages are hosted on the Linux package repository for Microsoft products, https://packages.microsoft.com, also known as PMC.

Installing PowerShell from PMC is the preferred method of installation.

Note

This script only works for supported versions of RHEL that have a package published to the Microsoft package repository.

#!/bin/bash
###################################
# Prerequisites

# Get version of RHEL
source /etc/os-release
if [ ${VERSION_ID%.*} -ge 8 ]
then majorver=8
elif [ ${VERSION_ID%.*} -ge 9 ]
then majorver=9
fi

# Download the Microsoft RedHat repository package
curl -sSL -O https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/$majorver/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

# Register the Microsoft RedHat repository
sudo rpm -i packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

# Delete the downloaded package after installing
rm packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

# Update package index files
sudo dnf update
# Install PowerShell
sudo dnf install powershell -y

Manually download and install PowerShell 7

Download the universal package from the GitHub releases page. Select the URL of the package version you want to install.

  • PowerShell 7.5 universal package
    • https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.5.5/powershell-7.5.5-1.rh.x86_64.rpm
  • PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) universal package
    • https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.14/powershell-7.4.14-1.rh.x86_64.rpm
  • PowerShell 7.6-preview universal package
    • https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.6.0-rc1/powershell-preview-7.6.0-rc1-1.rh.x86_64.rpm

The following shell script downloads and installs the current release of PowerShell. You can change the URL to download the version of PowerShell that you want to install.

sudo dnf install https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.5.5/powershell-7.5.5-1.rh.x86_64.rpm

Start PowerShell 7

After the package is installed, run pwsh from a terminal. If you have installed a Preview package, run pwsh-preview.

  • The location of $PSHOME varies based on the package you installed.
    • For Stable and LTS packages: /opt/microsoft/powershell/7/
    • For Preview packages: /opt/microsoft/powershell/7-preview/
  • The profiles scripts are stored in the following locations:
    • AllUsersAllHosts - $PSHOME/profile.ps1
    • AllUsersCurrentHost - $PSHOME/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
    • CurrentUserAllHosts - ~/.config/powershell/profile.ps1
    • CurrentUserCurrentHost - ~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
  • Modules are stored in the following locations:
    • User modules - ~/.local/share/powershell/Modules
    • Shared modules - /usr/local/share/powershell/Modules
    • Default modules - $PSHOME/Modules
  • PSReadLine history is recorded in ~/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt

The profiles respect PowerShell's per-host configuration, so the default host-specific profiles exists at Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 in the same locations.

PowerShell respects the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Uninstall PowerShell 7

sudo dnf remove powershell

Supported versions of RHEL

[!INCLUDE RHEL support]

Supported installation methods

Microsoft supports the installation methods in this document. There may be other third-party methods of installation available from other sources. While those tools and methods may work, Microsoft can't support those methods.