winget-cli: Can't install anything, from any source

Brief description of your issue

Everything I’ve tried to install via winget, even from different sources, has led to an error like this:

I’ve tried disabling antivirus (eset) altogether, no difference. If I go find the installer in my temp folder and double-click it, it runs just fine. I’ve tried running winget as a regular user and as administrator.

I have to assume I’m missing something fairly basic?

Steps to reproduce

winget install slcaktechnologies.slack or winget install discord.discord or winget install discord --source msstore

Expected behavior

I expected the installer to run

Actual behavior

Installer is blocked

Environment

Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.3.692-preview
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Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22000.613
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.18.692.0

Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir

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About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 20 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I think that the location of the downloaded artifact may be the problem - changing the environment variable TMP to point at another temp location (C:\tmp), I could install things just fine. It would seem that perhaps winget should rather use a folder outside of the special %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp location as it’s being screened differently.

to re-iterate: setting the TMP environment variable, at the user level, was enough to bypass the installation issue.

fluffynuts on May 31, 2022

The default source is typically msstore

This will only happen if the company you work at configured the default source to be msstore via Group Policy.

So that is where winget tries to install from if you don’t specify a different source.

WinGet’s default source is still winget but ever since the msstore source rolled out to everyone you now need to be more specific on what package you want to install if you see the “Multiple packages found matching input criteria. Please refine the input.” message.

Previously if you did winget install Ruby it’ll install Ruby from the winget source but since there’s a random app called “RubyGo” you will now need to do winget install RubyInstallerTeam.Ruby which will allow you to download Ruby from the winget source instead of a random app called “RubyGo” from the msstore source.

ItzLevvie on Apr 27, 2022