Questions tagged [winget]
The winget tag has no usage guidance.
25
questions
0
votes
1
answer
80
views
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/...
- 7,266
0
votes
2
answers
55
views
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:
@echo ...
- 23.1k
13
votes
1
answer
21k
views
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 ...
CommunityBot
- 1
32
votes
4
answers
31k
views
How to know where winget installed a program?
I had installed Zotero using winget install Zotero.Zotero and it installed fine in C:\Program Files (x86)\Zotero. But when I run winget upgrade, it shows two Zotero versions, like so:
Name Id ...
- 123
1
vote
1
answer
430
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
3
answers
4k
views
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 ...
- 158k
3
votes
2
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 19k
3
votes
2
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 51
10
votes
2
answers
33k
views
how to change install location of "winget"?
I want to change the install path of winget (the package manager for windows) to D:\Program Files\{insert folder name}. This is the command I was told to use on the documentation
winget install --id {...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 1,883
1
vote
2
answers
4k
views
How can I see and/or change the "geographic region" that is sent when using winget?
When I run winget upgrade winget on Windows, among the output it says "The source requires current machine's geographic region to be sent to function properly." (Emphasis by me.)
I don't ...
- 2,375
-1
votes
1
answer
3k
views
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 ...
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
How to get 'winget' command in windows 11
I am running into this problem when I try to execute 'winget' in power shell.
❯ winget
winget: The term 'winget' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
...
- 4,082
0
votes
0
answers
1k
views
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 ...
- 1
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Why doesn't the winget package of python include python3.exe?
The community-accepted solution for including a shebang line for Python seems to be to use #!/usr/bin/env python3. However, when I install Python 3 using the winget package (i.e. winget install --id ...
3
votes
0
answers
642
views
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
...
5
votes
1
answer
7k
views
How to remove/uninstall corrupted winget package?
When I run winget list python I get that Python.Python.3 is installed by winget; however, running python says the executable is missing.
winget uninstall --id Python.Python.3 runs the uninstaller but ...
- 123
1
vote
0
answers
380
views
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 ...
- 251
0
votes
1
answer
100
views
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 ...
0
votes
1
answer
398
views
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 ...
- 7,266
2
votes
1
answer
2k
views
List of CDN URL's used for Winget
I am currently trying to roll Microsoft Store app (new) via Intune, but it looks like some of the CDN URLs are being blocked by our web filtering software (Forcepoint)
I would like to know where ...
- 1
4
votes
2
answers
410
views
How can I add configuration file to Nano obtained from WinGet on WIndows?
I have installed this version of Nano using:
winget install GNU.nano
Now, I'm trying to figure out where to put the config files for nano to read them. Below is the list of places where I've tried ...
- 2,375
3
votes
3
answers
5k
views
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 ...
- 7,266
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
MSYS2 cannot be updated in winget
winget v1.4.10173
While performing winget upgrade --all I got the folowing result:
Name Id Version Available Source
--------------------------------------------------------...
- 103
2
votes
1
answer
683
views
Preferences reports wrong version for some installed apps
For a few of my apps, the preferences/apps control panel shows an incorrect (outdated) version. winget reports the same thing. For example, I have installed OBS Studio 28.0.2, but winget thinks it's ...
- 1