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Install WinGet
If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know that I am fan of Chocolatey, I use it to help install packages in bulk or keep them update to without much faff. Whenever I share my love for Chocolatey people ALWAYS ask why I don’t use WinGet. And to be honest, I’ve not looked at it properly, but today is the day. Today I am going to look at installing it on my machine and seeing what it can do.
WinGet was announced at Build in May 2020. And version 1.0 was released in May 2021.
Install Options
There are a couple of options for getting WinGet installed on your machine. As it’s open source, you can clone, build, run deploy from the source code which is in the GitHub repository if you want to go down that route.
The other options for those that aren’t comfortable with that are via the Windows Store or actually downloading the Release file from GitHub.
I went with downloading the latest release file from https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases If you are running Windows 10 find the latest .appxbundle file, download that and install it.
There are some considerations you need to remember when trying to install the WinGet tool, to get the full picture and latest guidance you can head over here.
