Microsoft has developed a new Command-Line program for Windows. The program is designed to become an integrated environment for access to environments such as PowerShell, CMD, and WSL (Microsoft’s Linux subsystem). Microsoft is also adding functionalities such as support for multiple tabs in the new terminal, as well as customization for developers who want to upgrade the terminal. Windows Terminal supports GPU Based Text Rendering. In this article, we are going to teach you How to Install Windows Terminal on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. You can see the packages available in Eldernode if you want to buy a Windows VPS server.
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Tutorial Install Windows Terminal on Windows 10 | Server 2019
Windows has placed its terminal emulator as an open-source on GitHub. In this tutorial, we’ll use the Chocolatey package manager for this installation. Stay tuned for the rest of this article.
How to Install Chocolatey on Windows
First, you should ensure that you are using an administrative shell. Run PowerShell as administrator:
Then, Type and run the command below:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
In the next section, the installation begins. Wait for the installation to complete:
You should not receive any errors, because your installation process is done correctly. Use Getting Started to use the following commands:
choco
or
choco -?
It’s time to use choco to install the Windows terminal.
Install Windows Terminal on windows 10 | server 2019
After you were able to successfully install Chocolatey on Windows in the previous section, now we want to discuss how to install the Windows terminal. To do this, just follow the steps below.
Run PowerShell and type the following command:
choco install microsoft-windows-terminal
After executing the above command, the installation process begins.
After installing the program, search for Windows Terminal from the search section in Windows.
To upgrade Windows Terminal using Chocolatey, run the following command:
choco upgrade microsoft-windows-terminal
You can now easily use the Windows Terminal app in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.
Conclusion
In this article, we tried to teach you to step by step How to Install Windows Terminal on Windows 10 | Server 2019. You can refer to the article How to Use Chocolatey Package Manager on Windows if you wish.