Microsoft Windows Package Manager client aka winget

Microsoft Windows has recently launched a package manager (preview) that lets you install the applications from command line just like apt in Linux.

How to install winget

There are two ways at the moment:

1. Microsoft Store

The default app installer does not install the winget. In order to install winget via Microsoft store you need to follow one of the two options:

• Install a Windows 10 Insider build
• Join the Preview flight ring by signing up

2. Manually Update

The same Microsoft Store package will be made available in the Releases. The catch with this step is that you don’t get the automatic updates of the winget.

How to install the applications

Its simple! Just type winget show this command will list out all the available packages that can be installed using winget. Once you see the package you are looking for just execute winget install <packagename>. For example,

winget install vscode