Cannot install Visual Studio from PowerShell script

Question

I'm trying to install visual studio through PowerShell, works fine on local computer, but I keep getting errors when I run it on our AWS windows server 2012R2. I've attached my code and error below. Thank you

powershell script

error

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

$here = pwd
$software = "Microsoft Visual Studio Installer";
$installed = (Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Where { $_.DisplayName -eq $software }) -ne $null



#If VSCode was not installed before, it will be download required files and install it.

If(-Not $installed)

{

Write-Host "'$software' is NOT installed.";

wget https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe -outfile “vs.exe”

.\vs.exe install --quiet --norestart

}
#If VSCode was installed before, it will try to update it to the newer version, if available.

#If no updates available, it will do nothing.

else

{

Write-Host "'$software' is installed."

if ( Test-Path -Path $here\vs.exe )

{

.\vs.exe update --quiet --norestart

}

else {

wget https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe -outfile "vs.exe"

.\vs.exe update --quiet --norestart

}

}

Answer 1

You have used the option -outfile vs.exe but this is not how you tell wget to rename the downloaded file. What this actually does is the following:

1. downloads the file to vs_community.exe (because that's the filename in the original URL)
2. writes a log file to utfile
3. ignores the vs.exe parameter

The wget option to direct the downloaded content to a named file is actually -O , not -outfile (which is the equivalent of -o utfile , which writes the log to utfile ).

To specify the correct output filename, use:

-O vs.exe

Or simply execute wget https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe and then execute the downloaded file, which is named vs_community.exe .