Setting up Powershell on Tumbleweed

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Hello everyone.
What’s the best way to install powershell in openSUSE Tumbleweed? I tried following this but none of these work on Tumbleweed, it says that I’m missing libssl when I try to run it installed from tarballl. I also tried installing it through snap, but I’d rather avoid that if possible (if not, that’s fine), and it tells me that I cannot mount squashfs image using squashfs. I tried what people are recommending online but it isn’t working.
I kinda need powershell for work, I can’t work without it. Does any of you have it set up and how did you do it?

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Nothing is going my way today…
I tried following this PowerShell - openSUSE Wiki

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@Xolik Hi, I just use the tarball version and run pwsh from the extracted tarball…

powershell-7.5.1-linux-x64> chmod 0755 pwsh
powershell-7.5.1-linux-x64> ./pwsh
PowerShell 7.5.1
PS /powershell-7.5.1-linux-x64>
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What version of PowerShell are you trying to install? I installed the 7.5.1 release rpm ignoring the libssl requirement. Running pwsh brings the Powershell prompt happily working. It seems to be just a package naming issue since libssl is installed on Tumbleweed.

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I guess both of your solutions would work, but I ended up installing it as .rpm and it works, thanks guys! I was downloading 7.2.3, I misread that the docs were edited in May 2025 and didn’t even think twice about the version. So 7.5.1 works, thanks again!

PEBKAC, as always :sweat_smile:

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