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Installed PSScriptAnalyzer but cannot use it #2117

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I installed PSSA with
Install-Module -Name PSScriptAnalyzer -Scope CurrentUser

Looks fine:

Get-InstalledModule

Version    Name                                Repository           Description
-------    ----                                ----------           -----------
5.4.1      Pester                              PSGallery            Pester provides a framework for running BDD styl...
0.14.2     platyPS                             PSGallery            Generate PowerShell External Help files from Mar...
1.0.5      PSDeploy                            PSGallery            Module to simplify PowerShell based deployments
1.24.0     PSScriptAnalyzer                    PSGallery            PSScriptAnalyzer provides script analysis and ch...

But now I cannot load the module and its commands are not available through auto-completion.

> Import-Module PSScriptAnalyzer -Verbose
Import-Module : The specified module 'PSScriptAnalyzer' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any
module directory.
At line:1 char:1
+ Import-Module PSScriptAnalyzer -Verbose
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (PSScriptAnalyzer:String) [Import-Module], FileNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Modules_ModuleNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportModuleCommand


> Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer : The term 'Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script
file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct
and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Any ideas what is going wrong here?
Thanks

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