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Welcome to the Windows Package Managing director Client (aka winget.exe) repository

This repository contains the source code for the Windows Package Director Customer (aka winget.exe).

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The packages bachelor to the client are in the Customs repo.

Installing The Client

The client requires Windows 10 1809 (build 17763) or later at this time. Windows Server 2022 is not supported as the Microsoft Shop is not available nor are updated dependencies. Information technology may be possible to install on Windows Server 2022, this should be considered experimental (not supported), and requires dependencies to be manually installed equally well.

Microsoft Store [Recommended]

The customer is distributed inside the App Installer packet.

Development Releases

There are 2 methods to get development releases:

Install a Windows 10 or Windows xi Insider build.
Join the Windows Parcel Manager Insider program past signing up.

Note: it may take a few days to become the updated App Installer afterwards you receive electronic mail confirmation from joining the Windows Package Manager Insider programme. If you lot make up one's mind to install the latest release from GitHub, and you have successfully joined the insider program, you will receive updates when the next development release has been published in the Microsoft Store.

Once you lot have received the updated App Installer from the Microsoft Store you lot should be able to execute winget features to see experimental features. Some users accept reported problems with the client not being on their PATH.

Manually Update

The same Microsoft Store package will be made available via our Releases. Note that installing this parcel volition give you the WinGet client, but information technology volition non enable automatic updates from the Microsoft Store if you lot have not joined the Windows Bundle Manager Insider plan.

You may need to install the VC++ v14 Desktop Framework Package. This should only be necessary on older builds of Windows x and only if you get an error about missing framework packages.

Troubleshooting

Please read our troubleshooting guide.

Ambassador Considerations

Installer beliefs tin be different depending on whether you are running winget with administrator privileges.

When running winget without administrator privileges, some applications may require summit to install. When the installer runs, Windows will prompt y'all to elevate. If y'all cull not to elevate, the application will fail to install.
When running winget in an Administrator Command Prompt, you volition not come across elevation prompts if the awarding requires it. E'er use circumspection when running your control prompt as an ambassador, and simply install applications y'all trust.

Build your own

You can too build the client yourself. While the client should exist perfectly functional, we are not set to provide total support for clients running outside of the official distribution mechanisms yet. Feel free to file an Issue, but know that it may get lower prioritization.

Build Status

Windows Bundle Manager Release Roadmap

The plan for delivering next Windows Package Director release is described here, and volition be updated as the project proceeds.

Overview of the Windows Package Manager

The Windows Parcel Director is a tool designed to help y'all chop-chop and easily detect and install those tools that make your PC environment special. By using the Windows Package Manager, from one control, y'all can install your favorite tool: winget install <tool>

Overview

Client Repository

This winget-cli repository includes the source code designed to build the client. You are encouraged to participate in the evolution of this customer. We have plenty of backlog features in our Issues. You can upvote the ones y'all want, add more, or even become started on one.

Sources

The customer is built around the concept of sources; a set of packages finer. Sources provide the ability to discover and retrieve the metadata about the packages, so that the client can human action on it.

The default source reflects that information available from the Customs repo.

We plan to amend back up additional sources, and additional types of sources, in the future. For now, additional sources tin can be configured, but only i used at a time.

Package Manager Service

The Package Managing director Service is responsible for blessing Pull Requests. It validates the YAML and manifest spec for spec compliance.

Building the customer

Prerequisites

Windows x 1809 (17763) or afterwards
Programmer Mode enabled
Visual Studio 2022
- Or employ winget to install it ;) (although you lot may need to accommodate the workloads via Tools->Get Tools and Features...)
The following workloads:
- .Cyberspace Desktop Development
- Desktop Development with C++
- Universal Windows Platform Development
The following extensions:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects

Edifice

We currently only build using the solution; command line methods of edifice a VS solution should work as well.

Credit

We would similar to thank Keivan Beigi (@kayone) for his piece of work on AppGet which helped us on the initial project direction for Windows Package Managing director.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require y'all to concord to a Correspondent License Understanding (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and really exercise, grant united states the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com. More information is available in our CONTRIBUTING.md file.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot volition automatically determine whether you demand to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.grand., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to exercise this in one case beyond all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information, please refer to the Code of Bear FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with whatever additional questions or comments.

Data/Telemetry

The winget.exe client is instrumented to collect usage and diagnostic (error) data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve the production.

If you build the client yourself the instrumentation will not be enabled and no information will be sent to Microsoft.

The winget.exe client respects machine wide privacy settings and users can opt-out on their device, every bit documented in the Microsoft Windows privacy statement here.

In short to opt-out, go to Start, and then select Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & feedback, and select Basic.

Run into the privacy statement for more details.