microsoft/winget-cli on Hacker News

…"potentially unwanted" but so far it's just been a discussion with no actual changes proposed yet. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/6107

comment by wolrah · 2026-04-08 · in Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Windows package manager is down

story by nreece · 2025-10-28 · 0 comments

Winget seems to finally do something similar for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli Although the "repo" is a list of manifest files that include third-party download sources. So even if there is an approval process it seems…

comment by RamRodification · 2025-03-03 · in Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data

Microsoft seems to use a similar bot themselves, not sure how it is called or whether it is OSS: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4765#issuecom...

comment by smarx007 · 2025-01-19 · in GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search

…oriented approach of PowerShell nor follows the PowerShell guidelines for cmdlets. For instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3820 or https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3231 . Also, even though it does not…

comment by feldrim · 2024-07-05 · in Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

…they only work in PowerShell 7. If you don’t even have them in there, you can install them from https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli (which is bad UX, but if you just need them on one system it’s a way to do it).

comment by easton · 2024-07-04 · in Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

…--- PACKAGE AUTOMATION - Windows Package Manager "winget" command-line tool (winget.exe): https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli On both Windows 10 and 11, every application and system package on my devices gets batch-installed, as winget…

comment by daviddever23box · 2024-06-10 · in Ask HN: What Windows apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

Have you heard about WinGet? It's the official package manager for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by madspindel · 2024-03-25 · in Mutt on Windows Without WSL

It's also on the official microsoft package manager (winget). https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by dopa42365 · 2023-11-18 · in Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0

It certainly can. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/

comment by lenkite · 2023-08-18 · in Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2956#issuecom... We updated the certificate about an hour before this post. It takes 6 - 8 hours for the certificate to fully propagate.

comment by Suirtimed · 2023-02-12 · in Microsoft failed to rotate certificates for winget CDN on time

We're working on renewing the certificate. It looks like this is the first report: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2956

comment by Suirtimed · 2023-02-12 · in Microsoft failed to rotate certificates for winget CDN on time

…but that fizzled out. The guy that wrote that one seems to be totally on board with this though: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/discussions/186 . I think that the guy that wrote OneGet had it mostly right, but it seems (as a…

comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-01-20 · in Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible?

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Failed in attempting to update the source: winget

story by alisonatwork · 2022-11-07 · 0 comments

…upgrade —-all` from a command line (assuming your Windows is reasonably up-to-date, otherwise, https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli to get the latest release manually)

comment by easton · 2022-09-28 · in KeePassXC: Beware of unofficial Microsoft Store listing

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/182#issuecomm...

comment by password4321 · 2022-06-19 · in Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

Windows now has a first-party package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli It positively surprised me when I did `sudo winget upgrade` (I first did `winget install gerardog.gsudo` in an admin prompt) and it detected and…

comment by nick__m · 2022-02-19 · in Nix: An idea whose time has come

…to the startups he's trying to promote. So congratulation to him for the free advertising! [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://github.com/appget/appget [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...

comment by 908B64B197 · 2022-02-18 · in The Day AppGet Died (2020)

…you want to upgrade to preview temporarily it will still automatically update to stable releases. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/tag/v1.3.43... https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/pull/1765

comment by easton · 2022-02-18 · in The Day AppGet Died (2020)

And now windows has a packages manager "winget" [1]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by faisal_ksa · 2022-01-21 · in 5 Honest Reasons to Avoid Switching to Linux

Note that Windows now has an official package manager called WinGet ( https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli ), which worked very well when I tried it a few months ago; Skype and OneDrive can now be uninstalled without an external tool;…

comment by joconde · 2021-11-15 · in If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

…the purchasing decision. Then they gave him a regular PM interview and it seems he failed it. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://github.com/appget/appget

comment by 908B64B197 · 2021-10-11 · in Windows Package Manager 1.1

winget? https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by smusamashah · 2021-10-10 · in Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once

…but it seems like it's still a ways away from being fully ready. Still making progress, though. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by dvlsg · 2021-10-04 · in Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge

Yes: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/

comment by mminer237 · 2021-09-28 · in Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind... Uninstallation is now "experimental", and dependency support is still missing. The latter is what I'd consider a core functionality of a package manager, so my original…

comment by userbinator · 2021-06-25 · in Microsoft announces Windows 11

…for a reason, I have other drives. Visual Studio’s installer is another big culprit here. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/201

comment by signal11 · 2021-05-26 · in Windows Package Manager 1.0

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Windows Package Manager v0.4.11391 Preview

story by thunderbong · 2021-05-21 · 0 comments

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by teuna · 2021-05-08 · in Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)

Apparently they’re working on an official package manager, open source even: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/

comment by suprfnk · 2021-05-02 · in Windows Terminal Quake Mode

schema spec: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/schemas/...

comment by blondin · 2021-04-23 · in Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview

…But guess what it had baked in since day one (literally the third commit) [1]? Telemetry. [0]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/140 [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/commit/67800b07618b5...

comment by siproprio · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

Looking at https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/ and https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/milestone/5 (seven months late and that's just 0.3) with a nod at https://i.imgur.com/gADLhSW.jpg I'd say someone recognized the lack of package…

comment by chx · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

Indeed, taking a look at the roadmap there's lots coming: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind...

comment by cosmic_quanta · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

…is not a package manager. (never was, and probably never will be) this 'old' thread still nails it: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/discussions/223 it's just sad. use Chocolatey, if you can't for some reason try Scoop.

comment by schusterfredl · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

After following this issue[0] closely, I am not surprised. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353

comment by neatze · 2021-04-17 · in WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

…Microsoft, it's only the latter that cares deeply about the developer experience on their platform. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by augustl · 2021-02-05 · in Homebrew 3.0

…was "Choose Default Apps by File Type" [1] https://chocolatey.org/ [2] https://appget.net/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by syshum · 2021-02-01 · in GitHub Should Start an App Store

Did you try winget [1]? [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by quyleanh · 2021-01-30 · in Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup

Isn't it? https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by steveklabnik · 2021-01-22 · in Rust for Windows

…These are all on the v1 roadmap [1], but for the foreseeable future I'm sticking with scoop. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind...

comment by mark_and_sweep · 2020-12-25 · in Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

…for useful applications. Managing and keeping all software updated takes a lot of manual work. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://scoop.sh https://chocolatey.org/

comment by vips7L · 2020-12-01 · in macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS

The official package manager of windows is winget. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli I like scoop though personally. https://scoop.sh

comment by vips7L · 2020-12-01 · in macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS

You can use WinGet which is official as well https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

comment by kyriakos · 2020-11-08 · in WSL Isn't Linux

There technically is a “Windows package manager” https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli , though it doesn't manage installed packages yet (that seems to be planned for v1.0 sometime next year https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/ma…

comment by boogies · 2020-07-28 · in Porting a macOS Clojure Dev Setup to Windows WSL2

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Windows Package Manager CLI (a.k.a. Winget)

story by hestefisk · 2020-06-17 · 1 comment

He responded to the blog post and seems satisfied [1]. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353#issuecomm...

comment by lazeebee · 2020-06-02 · in Winget Install Learning

…up, 3 thumbs down. This is in a thread where people are showing a lot of support for @kayone. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353#issuecomm... Side note: It's amusing that @aclinick doesn't have an avatar on GitHub, given…

comment by benatkin · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

…is a step in the right direction. It's not what is typically considered to be a non-apology. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353#issuecomm...

comment by benatkin · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology

…ideas that were implemented in AppGet. Can you point out exactly what was "ripped off" here? - https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli - https://github.com/appget/appget They're not even written in the same language. And everything done in…

comment by wayneftw · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology