Install winget without the Microsoft App Store

If you are unable to access the Windows Store app and wish to install winget, you can easily do so by following these steps:

  • First download the latest version of winget: https://aka.ms/getwinget
  • Then use this Powershell command to install winget
Add-AppxPackage -Path Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

Probably you will get this error:

Windows cannot install package Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.19.10173.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework “Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7” published by “CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US”, with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 7.2109.13004.0, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name “Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7” currently installed are: {}

The reason is that you miss the dependency Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7

Now you have to go to the nuget website and download the nuget package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.UI.Xaml/2.7.3

Then you have to rename the file extension of the downloaded file to .zip

Open the zip file and go to tools > AppX > X64 > Release and extract the Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7.appx file

Install the extracted appx file

Add-AppxPackage -Path .\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7.appx

You may also get this error when you try to install winget

Windows cannot install package Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.19.10173.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because this package depen
ds on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework “Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop” published by “CN=
Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US”, with neutral or x64 processor architect
ure and minimum version 14.0.30704.0, along with this package to install. The frameworks with name “Microsoft.VCLibs.14
0.00.UWPDesktop” currently installed

You can download Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop here: https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx

Install Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop with this command:

Add-AppxPackage -Path .\Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx

And now you should install the winget application without errors:

Add-AppxPackage -Path .\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

Happy installing 🙂

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