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Microsoft's Windows Package Manager: This Command-Line Tool Can Install All Your Apps

posted by chromas on Monday May 25 2020, @08:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the Stacker-j'-vu dept.

aristarchus writes:

Seems like the takeover of free software continues apace, in the land of Redmond, where the Blue Screens lie.
From ZDNet,

The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe command-line tool are now available in public preview for everyone to test. Winget comes with the preview version of Windows App Installer for sideloading apps on Windows 10.

While Windows 10 users can install apps from the Microsoft Store, the Windows Package Manager will help developers install tools that aren't necessarily available in the store, such as Win32 software products that haven't been converted to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps in the store.

win-get? As the Operative said in "Serenity", "Bastards aren't even changing course!" Microsoft not even changing the name of the utility. At least with Stacker, they changed the name to DoubleSpace.

The tool can help users get their apps by typing 'winget install' followed by the program name into the command line or create a script that automatically installs all necessary tools.

The package manager is available to users in Microsoft's Windows Insider testing program after installing Microsoft's App Installer program.

Microsoft has aimed to create a repository of trusted applications, from which the package manager can install apps that have been vetted with its SmartScreen technology and cryptographically verified.

While the package manager does provide an alternative to the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store, Microsoft says it changes nothing for the store.

What is this "store" they speak of?

The key difference between the Microsoft Store and Windows Package Manager is that the store is all about commerce while the package manager is not.

"The Windows Package Manager is a command-line interface, no marketing, no images, no commerce. Although we do plan on making those apps installable too," said Demitrius Nelon, a senior program manager at Microsoft.

Seems that they copied that from free software, specifically Debian, as well. "bash:~& sudo win-get remove --purge Windows --extreme-prejudice" Adm. Akbar says: "It's a trap!"

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by turgid on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:51PM (1 child)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:51PM (#999932) Journal

    I believe it was Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Expert. And we've had quite enough of experts.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @08:56AM (#1000101)

    And we've had quite enough of experts.

    Yeah! So-called "experts" are *always* incompetent losers.

    That's why Jake down at my local bar is doing my root canal next week. I have to wait until Saturday, as he has his regular job (garbage man, and a damn good one too!) and the super of my building is performing spinal fusion surgery on me next week.

    Medical school! Fah! Waste of money!

    I had my nine year-old run a new 220 line into the house for my brand new 3d printer. After the funeral, I'm going to make a huge statue of him with it.

    Experts! Who needs 'em?