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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: @echo ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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 {...
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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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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 ...
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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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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. ...
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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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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 ...

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