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May 18, 2023

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Cannot Use Newer Version of PowerShellGet in PowerShell 5.1.

I need to install the prerelease commands for MgGraph. To do that I need to use the -allowprerelease parameter for Install-Module, which requires a newer version of PowerShellGet than 1.0.0.1, which...

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Ukiman1014
May 19, 2023
The issue was that the X86 path was before the 64-bit one when I looked at $env:PSModulePath. (There was actually another path in there pointing to my documents folder - no idea where that came from.) So I reset $env:PSModulePath, making sure the 64-bit path was first (I just removed the others), and I'm all set.

So basically because I'm running 64-bit PowerShell, it was installing commands to the 64-bit path, but the environment variable was looking in the x86 folder first. I'm sure all of this had to do with old stuff I had done with PowerShell.

Ukiman1014

Brass Contributor

May 19, 2023

The issue was that the X86 path was before the 64-bit one when I looked at $env:PSModulePath. (There was actually another path in there pointing to my documents folder - no idea where that came from.) So I reset $env:PSModulePath, making sure the 64-bit path was first (I just removed the others), and I'm all set.

So basically because I'm running 64-bit PowerShell, it was installing commands to the 64-bit path, but the environment variable was looking in the x86 folder first. I'm sure all of this had to do with old stuff I had done with PowerShell.