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winget show "Total Commander"
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It might be important for some people to know that the installation path can not be customized in an easy path. You can give it as parameter when installing but you can't give a different default installation path for normal applications, only for portable applications. At least, it seemed that way to me when I tried to "fix" the default installation path.
It might be important for some people to know that the installation path can not be customized in an easy way. You can give it as parameter when installing but you can't give a different default installation path for normal applications, only for portable applications. At least, it seemed that way to me when I tried to "fix" the default installation path.

Latest revision as of 11:14, 23 May 2024

winget is like apt-get but for Windows. If you are using a normal Win-10 you should already have it.

Show installed and recognized tools:

winget list

Show installed tools which can be updated via winget:

winget list --upgrade-available

Upgrade/update via winget:

winget update calibre

Search for a tool:

winget search "Total Commander"

Install a tool:

winget install "Total Commander"

Show information about a tool:

winget show "Total Commander"

It might be important for some people to know that the installation path can not be customized in an easy way. You can give it as parameter when installing but you can't give a different default installation path for normal applications, only for portable applications. At least, it seemed that way to me when I tried to "fix" the default installation path.