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WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

74 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 9 stories, 65 comments · first 2020-05-19 · latest 2026-04-08

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  1. …"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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …--- 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?
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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)
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. …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?
  13. …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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. …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)
  17. …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)
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. …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
  21. winget? https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
    comment by smusamashah · 2021-10-10 · in Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once
  22. …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
  23. Yes: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/
    comment by mminer237 · 2021-09-28 · in Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released
  24. 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
  25. …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
  26. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
    comment by teuna · 2021-05-08 · in Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)
  27. 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
  28. schema spec: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/schemas/...
    comment by blondin · 2021-04-23 · in Windows Package Manager v0.3 Preview
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. …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
  33. 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
  34. …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
  35. …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
  36. 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
  37. Isn't it? https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
    comment by steveklabnik · 2021-01-22 · in Rust for Windows
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. …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
  45. …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
  46. …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
  47. WinGet is open source under the MIT License, which I believe keeps them in the clear: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli . In practice, I've never heard of any legal problems when a derivative project is also open source under a…
    comment by scott_s · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology
  48. …for the apology not being upto the mark, I think we can say that the apology missed the mark. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353#issuecomm...
    comment by dman · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology
  49. …both Andrew and Keivan have started talking, and it seems then they took it to a private convo: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/353 Disclaimer: I opened that issue
    comment by franciscop · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft now credits maker of AppGet but offers no apology
  50. …copy the source code but they uses a bit similar yaml format. I also agree he should credited more. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/appget/appget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...…
    comment by fomine3 · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer