Anyone who needs more control over the installation options will quickly note that when Winget uses the default installation options when installing packages. Winget is by default available on any up to date Windows 10/11 machine and in basic usage very accessible.

Successful installation! Reference material and useful linksĪnd this is it for the basic usage of Winget. Result of ‘winget search 7zip’ commandĪs you can see both Git and VSCode got installed successfully. As shown in the next screenshot, it works like expected. Me being curious I decided to also check out the search command winget search. Result of ‘winget VScode’ and ‘winget install –id Git.Git’ commands Using the following lines lets give ‘winget install’ a go:Īs shown in the next screenshot, by running these commands VSCode got installed directly but for Git I had to use winget install -id Git.Git as ‘Git’ term returned multiple hits. Other fields can be used by passing their appropriate option. By default, the query must case-insensitively match the id, name, or moniker of the package. The install command winget install -help looks more promising as it says: Installs the selected package, either found by searching a configured source or directly from a manifest.

Based on the available commands pulled up via winget -help I should either search for the packages using winget search or proceed to installing by using winget install. In my current case I only need to have Git The result is shown in the next screenshot. To do so I simply opened Command Prompt and typed: winget -help The very first step was to have a look at all the available commands for winget. Winget basic commands, install and search And also make sure you have the latest version by going into the Microsoft store and looking for any updates for the ‘App Installer’. In case it’s missing on your machine, simply download it via the Microsoft store

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