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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).

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Forks: 1.8k
Open beginner issues: 6
Indexed issues: 1.3k
Avg merge: 1d 11h
Merged PRs (30d): 15

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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1,264 open issues indexed

GPO (Group Policy Object) for requiring signed configuration files Open

Area-GPO Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4078 · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Support signed configuration files Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4077 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Dependency evaluation with `--scope` parameter Open

Dependencies Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4075 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Virtual Packages Open

Dependencies Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4074 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 17, 2024
Silent uninstallation not working for packages with AppsAndFeaturesEntries Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4068 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 15, 2024
"Ghost" installations of certain apps Open

Issue-Bug Side-by-Side

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4067 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 14, 2024
Validate manifest fields are present in the correct file Open

Command-Validate Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4061 · Opened Jan 11, 2024
Add support for pinning to the COM API Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4058 · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 10, 2024
UI shell output improvments - refer nala (apt-get alternative) Open

Area-Output Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4057 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 10, 2024
Wrong locale used by winget-cli Open

Area-Localization Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4056 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2024
Include `PortableCommandAlias` in `--commands` filter Open

Command-Search Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4054 · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 10, 2024
Browsers test or canary versions have always hash problem Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4048 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2024
Change `Command line alias added: "<alias>"` to `Package added to PATH environment variable` when installing portable software without admin rights in user scope Open

Area-Output Issue-Feature Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4043 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 8, 2024
winget configure can not install ubuntu for multiple users Open

Area-External Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4036 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2024
Ability to download multiple packages in a single command Open

Command-Download Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4028 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 4, 2024
winget install wrong pacakge from msstore Open

Issue-Bug msstore

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4025 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2024
Installers should be able to inherit and merge dependencies from package Open

Area-Manifest Dependencies Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4023 · Opened Jan 3, 2024
winget search doesn't find msstore by name only by ID Open

Issue-Bug msstore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4010 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 26, 2023
Portable application executable is renamed despite absence of rename argument Open

Issue-Bug Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4006 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 22, 2023
Repair-WinGetPackageManager outputs noise in PowerShell transcripts Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4005 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 22, 2023
Add ability to list installed packages by `--installer-type` with `winget list` Open

Command-List Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#4003 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 20, 2023
InstallerSwitches field for Agreements Open

Area-Manifest Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3997 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 19, 2023
winget configure with Registry resource unable to write to HKLM:\SOFTWARE\### from admin shell Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3996 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 19, 2023
winget list --exact matches incorrectly for similar packages Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3994 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2023
`winget pin add` can't find packages found by `winget list` if ID is an UUID Open

Area-External Area-User-Interface Command-Pin Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3991 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Installer Type in winget identify Powershell type as exe but actually it is wix Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3989 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Winget on fresh Windows 11 for Arm 64 install does not work and cannot be updated through the release .msix Open

Area-Architecture Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3971 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2023
winget doesn't automatically understand machine-scope MSI installers Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3969 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2023
Wrong translation en: targeting de: Zielgruppenadressierung Open

Area-Localization In-PR Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-cli#3966 · 6 comments · 9 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 11, 2023
winget pin won't pin packages with unknown version Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3965 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2023
winget using outdated user account path from registry Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3961 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Microsoft.Winget.DSC/ApplyConfiguration - Nested Configurations Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3960 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Microsoft.WinGet.DSC/WinGetAdminSettings throws Error Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3959 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 8, 2023
When upgrades cannot respect installed package, throw a warning and require --force Open

Breaking-Change Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3942 · Opened Dec 1, 2023
WinGet COM Server denies installation of non-UWP apps in Microsoft Store Open

Issue-Bug msstore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3936 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2023
Receive `Specified method is not supported.` for multiple module cmdlets under SYSTEM context. Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3935 · 16 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 29, 2023
`winget install --no-upgrade` is broken for some packages Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3931 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 28, 2023
Winget error 0x80070002 Open

Issue-Docs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3930 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 28, 2023
[New Feature]: Replace "Installer failed with exit code: 0x80073d06" with a more user-friendly message Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6391 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2023
Recommended Packages Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3928 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 26, 2023
Cannot add new source in winget Open

Command-Source Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3927 · 12 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2023
Cannot install a windows store app for all users : The current system configuration does not support the installation of this package Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3923 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 23, 2023
cannot update apps installed with machine scope using winget in the system context Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3921 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2023
Unable to search for a specific package Open

Command-Search Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3919 · Opened Nov 21, 2023
ShellExecute installer failed: 3010 despite this being marked as a success code. Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3911 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2023
Winget says package is already installed, when it isn't Open

Area-External Area-Matching Issue-Bug Side-by-Side

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3910 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2023
FileContentDsc fails in winget configure Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3904 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Some packages are ignored when removing multiple packages with `winget uninstall` Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3903 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2023
Updating winget issues Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3902 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2023
`winget list --scope machine` fails with an error Open

Command-Source Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#3898 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 15, 2023

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