- The Windows Package Manager is a tool designed to help you quickly and easily find, display, and install packages. How simple? Using a winget install <tool> command you can install your favorite tool.
- Everything works through GitHub. The developers list their apps in a GitHub repository and the package manager gets and installs them right away.
- Did you have a chance to see the Microsoft Build event? Read all the news about it in our Microsoft Build 2020 category.
- If you are a developer or just starting out, you should take a look at our Developer Tool Center for information.
Today during Microsoft Build 2020, we got the first preview of the new Windows Package Manager .
The Windows Package Manager is a tool designed to help you quickly and easily find, display, and install packages. How simple? Using a command, winget install <tool> can install your favorite tool.
Contents index
- How does the Windows Package Manager work?
- Where do I download the Windows Package Manager from?
- Winget commands
How does the Windows Package Manager work?
Everything works through GitHub. The developers list their apps in a GitHub repository and the package manager gets and installs them right away.
It’s as simple as that.
So while for the preview version you can search, display and install packages, they plan to update Windows Package Manager with uninstall, list and update.
Where do I download the Windows Package Manager from?
You can download and install the preview for Windows Package Manager annually from GitHub releases .
However, you can also get it through automatic Microsoft Store updates that contain the client, but for that, you will have to install a build of Windows 10 Insider and join the Preview flight ring by signing up for the insider program.
Winget commands
If you install Windows Package Manager, these are winget commands and options for preview:
- install Install the given app
- show Shows information about an application
- font Manage application fonts
- search Find and display basic application information
- Hash Installation File Helper Hash
- validate Validate a manifest file
- –Help Provides command line help
- –Info Provides additional information useful for troubleshooting.
- –Version Provides the version of the client.