Questions tagged [winget]
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winget not finding OpenSSL
I want to install OpenSSL using winget and am following https://winget.run/pkg/ShiningLight/OpenSSL (installing Git is not an option, I have gone through https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50625283/...
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Packages being skipped when installing using winget sequentially
I have a bootstrap script which does a lot of things to setup a new Windows installation. It calls other scripts within that script, including this one which installs some packages using winget:
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Failed to install or upgrade Microsoft Store package. Error code: 0x80073d05
I am using Winget to install Quick Share because I can't install any app through the MS Store.
but keep getting the same error on Winget and MS Store.
Failed to install or upgrade Microsoft Store ...
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WingetUI: 'the server certificate did not match the expected values' - Kaspersky Protection changes the certificate that wingetUI expects
The tool I use for updating all my apps on Windows 11 called wingetUI recently throws:
0x8a15005e : The server certificate did not match any of the expected values.
and it does not update the ...
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Cannot install a Windows store app for all users : The current system configuration does not support the installation of this package
I'm trying to install this Windows Store app on Windows 10 for all users :
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget install --accept-package-agreements --id 9NF8H0H7WMLT --scope machine
The `msstore` source ...
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WINGET - out of control in Windows 10?
As other users have already experienced, the winget process is consuming way more processor capacity than anything else here, causing my fans to spin up and the hard disks to chatter loudly. I never ...
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WinGet COM Server is consuming 25% of cpu
last days i heard the laptop's fan kicking in, and i discovered a process called "WinGet COM Server" which is consuming CPU cycles. i uninstalled WinGet from apps, but it appearded once ...
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Best method for setting permanent aliases in powershell?
When I install something like ffmpeg with winget, it sets permanent aliases for ffmpeg, ffplay, & ffprobe.
winget install gyan.ffmpeg
It doesn't look like it's adding anything to my path ...
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Winget: works from limited user but not admin
Windows machine has one administrative account and one limited user account. Windows's package manager, winget, works as expected from the limited user account that, IIRC, installed the app. It does ...
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Remove package from winget package list without uninstalling
Synopsis: I used Winget to install an application that had an auto
updater, such as Discord. The issue here is that if the Discord app
upgrades itself,the Winget will be unable to detect the change in
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Winget renamed Microsoft.Teams into Microsoft.Edge
I was experimenting with winget, looking what Windows components I could easily remove with its help.
I ran winget install --id Microsoft.Teams, and then uninstalled it with winget uninstall --id ...
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Where does wingetcreate save new manifests to?
I created and submitted a new winget package manifest to Microsoft's winget-pkgs github repository using Microsoft's official CLI tool WinGetCreate by typing wingetcreate new and filling out the ...
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Is WinGetUI necessary for using WinGet?
I use Chocolatey for doing some installations. I've decided I'd also add WinGet to my machine. During the process of installing WinGet it also suggested I install WinGetUI. I thought that meant ...
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How do you programmatically check if there are updates to your installed programs with winget?
I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to make use of winget.
If I simply run winget upgrade, or winget upgrade <package> for each program I care about, it not only checks if there is an ...
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Does "winget" just trust whatever each program's installer has selected by default?
I recently learned about the amazing (in theory) command "winget", built into Windows 10.
But something about it worries me: a lot of software has all kinds of user-hostile defaults selected ...
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