powershell on macos using homebrew upgrade to 7.6

[Jor]

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The homebrew project migrated powershell from "cask" to "fomula" mode in the upgrade from 7.5.6 to 7.6.0.
This means that the install instruction with "--cask" does not install the correct version. The old "cask" version is already deprecated and will be removed soon.

The correct way to install powershell 7.6 (and later) is:

brew install --formula powershell

The correct way to upgrade from previous (cask based) installations to the latest (formulae based):
brew remove --cask powershell brew install --formula powershell

Please update your documentation accordingly.
HTH,
Juergen Meier

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/alternate-install-methods?view=powershell-7.6

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs/blob/main/reference/docs-conceptual/install/alternate-install-methods.md

Author

Sean Wheeler (@sdwheeler)

Platform Id

3c850702-3566-fa22-47e4-1934ef0ec70c

Document Id

de52bf12-bfdf-d860-ae4e-9a4334ec8c50

[Jor]

The code segment ate my newline... UPgrade must be two lines:
brew remove --cask powershell
followed by
brew install --formula powershell

[sdwheeler]

The instructions are correct in the article. brew remove is the same as brew uninstall. To install the formula you don't need to specify the --formula.