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Install-Module for PSScriptAnalyzer Occasionally failing for version 1.23.0

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by running the reported PowerShell Install-Module command for PSScriptAnalyzer 1.23.0 repeatedly, then capture the missing $PSVersionTable data and full error details. Compare successful and failed attempts to determine whether the intermittent PowerShell Gallery download failure is reproducible; done means identifying a reliable cause and a verified installation outcome.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Steps to reproduce

Run the command

Install-Module -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -RequiredVersion 1.23.0 -Force -Scope CurrentUser

Expected behavior

The PSScriptAnalyzer module should install without issue.

Actual behavior

Occasionally I'm hitting the following exception (occurs roughly 1 out of every 20 times):

WARNING: Source Location 
'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/package/PSScriptAnalyzer/1.23.0' is 
not valid.
PackageManagement\Install-Package : Package 'PSScriptAnalyzer' failed to 
download.
At C:\Program 
Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:1809 
char:21
+ ...          $null = PackageManagement\Install-Package @PSBoundParameters
+                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (C:\Users\Contai...tAnalyze 
   r.nupkg:String) [Install-Package], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PackageFailedInstallOrDownload,Microsoft.PowerSh 
   ell.PackageManagement.Cmdlets.InstallPackage

If an unexpected error was thrown then please report the full error details using e.g. $error[0] | Select-Object *

Environment data

> $PSVersionTable

TBD - need to get this info injected into our build pipeline where we're seeing this issue (not really an issue seen locally)

> (Get-Module -ListAvailable PSScriptAnalyzer).Version | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString() }

N/A (module hasn't been installed yet)

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