# Windows Package Manager installing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Development & Design\ **Created:** [February 4, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/windows-package-manager-installing/418 "2023-02-04T09:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thadguidry](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/thadguidry/32/653_2.png) [@thadguidry](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/thadguidry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/windows-package-manager-installing/418/1 "2023-02-04T09:17:03Z")
We have various issues on making it easier to install/uninstall on Windows. But I wanted to also note something of interest since we are paying for a Linux packaging guru to help us simplify installations on Linux systems. For Windows, it seems Microsoft has finally moved in a good direction with their **own** [Windows Package Manager](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/explore-windows-package-manager-tool/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004737) Which is slowly obsoleting Chocolatey, Scoop, and others. On Windows 10 and 11, the experience of `winget` is quite nice since nothing else needs to be pre-installed (unlike Jbang)! I think our Windows users within institutions will appreciate eventually having easy management like this, since `winget` is already there on all Windows 10 and 11 systems. This works even with Windows Store applications, should we also later offer that option. Anyways, the first step is ensuring that we have a decent Windows Package to begin with (.exe or .msi) and optionally available on the Windows Store. Then later, users could use `winget` to install/uninstall from systems. ```auto C:\Users\thadg>winget Windows Package Manager v1.3.2691 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The winget command line utility enables installing applications and other packages from the command line. usage: winget [] [] The following commands are available: install Installs the given package show Shows information about a package source Manage sources of packages search Find and show basic info of packages list Display installed packages upgrade Shows and performs available upgrades uninstall Uninstalls the given package hash Helper to hash installer files validate Validates a manifest file settings Open settings or set administrator settings features Shows the status of experimental features export Exports a list of the installed packages import Installs all the packages in a file For more details on a specific command, pass it the help argument. [-?] The following options are available: -v,--version Display the version of the tool --info Display general info of the tool More help can be found at: https://aka.ms/winget-command-help C:\Users\thadg>winget search openrefine The `msstore` source requires that you view the following agreements before using. Terms of Transaction: https://aka.ms/microsoft-store-terms-of-transaction The source requires the current machine's 2-letter geographic region to be sent to the backend service to function properly (ex. "US"). Do you agree to all the source agreements terms? [Y] Yes [N] No: Y No package found matching input criteria. C:\Users\thadg> ``` For those developers interested, you can poke around in Microsoft’s GitHub Repositories such as the [winget-pkgs](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs) repo and the [winget-cli](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli) repo. ---
**Author:** ![antonin\_d](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/antonin_d/32/32_2.png) [@antonin\_d](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/antonin_d)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/windows-package-manager-installing/418/2 "2023-02-04T10:33:18Z")
Thanks Thad! That seems indeed like a move in the right direction, although they seem to be primarily aiming for command-line savvy users. In my opinion OpenRefine should be installable without touching any command line on Windows. If you have any hints about who could help us improve our Windows packaging, do point them to the blog post of course: > **[Looking for help with Windows and MacOS packaging | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/blog/2022/09/30/windows-macos-packaging)** > > OpenRefine's packaging for MacOS and Windows could be improved in many ways, and we are looking for help in this front. ---
**Author:** ![thadguidry](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/thadguidry/32/653_2.png) [@thadguidry](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/thadguidry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/windows-package-manager-installing/418/3 "2023-02-04T10:50:23Z")
Oh? I thought that you and Sandra had already identified someone to help out with that, perhaps from Wikimedia land? (and I certainly can help a bit and test as well) But if you haven’t pinned down someone, sure, I’ll put out the word into my network. Yes, certainly we want an .msi and .exe installer package for ease by Windows users. Institutions, trainers, DevOps, power users, would likely use `winget` for systematic installation. I was just posting this topic to let you and others know about Windows Package Manager now which is an official part of the OS tooling instead of 3rd party hacks. And feel free to move this topic to whichever category or tags you think help. ---
**Author:** ![thadguidry](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/thadguidry/32/653_2.png) [@thadguidry](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/thadguidry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/windows-package-manager-installing/418/4 "2023-02-04T14:28:41Z")
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