List installed Apps

As a user I want to be able to see what winget has installed on my machine and if an update is available so I don't have to manually do updates for each program.

Experimental Feature
winget list - displays installed packages (includes programs in Add/Remove Programs).
winget list -? - displays help for the list command.
winget list <package> - displays installed packages filtered by <package>.

Note: upgrade depends on list also being enabled.

winget features - displays all experimental features and their status
winget settings - launches settings.json to configure settings like experimental features

Edited: experimental status

I will once again suggest apt syntax:

winget list # lists apps installed by winget
winget list --upgradable # lists only installed apps with available updates

I have an early draft started of the spec.
#397

Do you care about differentiating packages installed by winget vs packages installed outside of it? I don't see the value in treating them differently. I could potentially see value in this for upgrade, but it would make more sense to provide a way to pin a package to a specific version, preventing it from being upgraded. This could apply to any package.

Does anyone have a use case that requires explicitly tracking everything installed by winget?

When this feature is coming out? Any date?

Mubashir Hassan (@mhm13dev)

Mubashir Hassan (@mhm13dev) we do not have a date identified, but it is targeted for v0.3.x. For reference, the v0.2.x is targeted as support for installing store apps. That work is in progress, so this will be coming soon. Any dates on milestones are just used to help with sorting and do not reflect an actual target release date.

Does anyone have a use case that requires explicitly tracking everything installed by winget?

Chocolately can do this. More than that, knowing which software was installed if a bunch of things were installed with winget and even more importantly, knowing which ones need an update is helpful. I do think there should be a separate flag for checking if a winget package is update-able. Also this helps if you need to migrate to a new machine/VM/cloud instance so you don't forget what to install. Ideally we could take the output and put in a text file. A followup could be using that text file on the new machine to grab the packages.

Mubashir Hassan (@mhm13dev)

Mubashir Hassan (@mhm13dev) this feature is in the current version in an experimental mode.

So this is maybe not the proper forum for me to ask this, but since it's related to installation and uninstallation, I'll mention it.

Do things installed with WinGet need to be "installed" at all? I have become a true fan of .zip distribution of software, whenever it's possible to do that. Download a .zip, extract that to a folder, run the .exe within, which is not an installer, but the application itself. I'm free to move that folder around at will, and nothing breaks. I don't understand why software needs to be "installed" at all, anymore. It is arbitrary, adds all kinds of complexity, and provides no solid benefits over "a folder with an application in it" that I can see. I'll admit that I don't know what info this installation system does actually make available.

There can still be a central list of software that you have, where you can go to remove something if you like, but you could also just delete the folder with the application and it would be removed from the central list.

I know that installers aren't going anywhere, and a new software installation and maintenance system is being developed here; does it HAVE to continue to do things the same way? This is, potentially, an opportunity to do things a new way. There's nothing that could be improved or simplified?

Hope you have checked out Scoop.

Jeremiah Johnson (@naikrovek)

Jeremiah Johnson (@naikrovek) Windows can be a complex ecosystem to maintain. We are looking at adding support for .zip #140 and portable/standalone (loose) .exe #182 packages in the Windows Package Manager. It's likely we will include registering the package via Add / Remove Programs to support upgrade and uninstall scenarios. Unfortunately, that also likely means we become dependent on the location the files are initially placed. If a user moves them after the fact, we would essentially loose track of them.

OneDrive knows when I move files vs deleting them from one location and then putting new files in a new location. Surely these wonderful Turing-complete computers that we have can solve issues like this.

Demitrius Nelon (@denelon)

Demitrius Nelon (@denelon) should I make a separate issue for listing hidden apps?

Code. (@superusercode)

Code. (@superusercode), yes please. Sorry I missed this one. I recently scrubbed all of the features for other scope, and sadly I missed this.

Code. (@superusercode)

Code. (@superusercode), yes please. Sorry I missed this one. I recently scrubbed all of the features for other scope, and sadly I missed this.

now listed at #977

Squashed 'src/Valijson/valijson/' changes from 7a52fc88..2dfc7499

hello,
I would like to show list of all installed software from specific source
winget list --source winget
and I get list of software that is installed from all source why?

Martin (@hubertsvk)

Martin (@hubertsvk) take a look at #1155

How do I list packages by install date? [descending or(/and) ascending]

I added "sort" to:

Enhancements to list command #1155

I added "sort" to:

Enhancements to list command #1155

Would #977 be in-scope for that issue?

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