How do I find out more information about xml-rpc for powershell?
PS /home/nicholas>
PS /home/nicholas> Update-Help
PS /home/nicholas>
PS /home/nicholas> Get-Help Send-XmlRpcRequest
Get-Help: Get-Help could not find Send-XmlRpcRequest in a help file in this session. To download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help topic in the TechNet library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116. PS /home/nicholas> PS /home/nicholas> Get-Host | Select-Object Version Version -------
7.1.0
PS /home/nicholas>
PS /home/nicholas> exit
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
nicholas@mordor:~$
As I ran Update-help I'd expect to find more information.
perhaps add a module?
I tried:
nicholas@mordor:~/powershell$
nicholas@mordor:~/powershell$ pwsh hello.ps1
Import-Module: /home/nicholas/powershell/hello.ps1:1
Line |
1 | import-module RPC-Client
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| The specified module 'RPC-Client' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.
hello
nicholas@mordor:~/powershell$
nicholas@mordor:~/powershell$ cat hello.ps1
import-module RPC-Client
"hello"
nicholas@mordor:~/powershell$
How do I add that into powershell core?
I tried to install as:
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Find-Module -Name Xml
Version Name Repository Description
------- ---- ---------- -----------
7.0 Xml PSGallery A module providing converters for HTML to XML, vario…
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Find-Module -Name Rpc
Find-Package: /snap/powershell/149/opt/powershell/Modules/PowerShellGet/PSModule.psm1:8879
Line |
8879 | PackageManagement\Find-Package @PSBoundParameters | Microsoft …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'Rpc'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all
| available registered module repositories.
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Find-Module -Name foo
Find-Package: /snap/powershell/149/opt/powershell/Modules/PowerShellGet/PSModule.psm1:8879
Line |
8879 | PackageManagement\Find-Package @PSBoundParameters | Microsoft …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'foo'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all
| available registered module repositories.
PS /home/nicholas/powershell> Find-Module -Name Rpc-Client
Find-Package: /snap/powershell/149/opt/powershell/Modules/PowerShellGet/PSModule.psm1:8879
Line |
8879 | PackageManagement\Find-Package @PSBoundParameters | Microsoft …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'Rpc-Client'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all
| available registered module repositories.
PS /home/nicholas/powershell>
but perhaps need to "download" it first? Something like:
sudo powershell -Command {Install-Module -Name AzureRM.Netcore}
or at least along those lines.
There is no XML-RPC functionality built into PowerShell.
Providing such functionality therefore requires third-party code.
In your case, it seems your script requires the XmlRpc module, available from the PowerShell Gallery here (which means you can install it with Install-Module XmlRpc).
However, this module was last updated more than 5 years ago, predating PowerShell's cross-platform edition, PowerShell (Core), so you'll have to find out yourself if it works on a Unix-like platform such as Ubuntu.