asheroto

Good info. Has anyone confirmed if this is a valid workaround for installing on winget on Server Core? If so, I can update the script to run the command and...

Any update on this?

If anyone has time to check out how to get winget working on Windows Server Core, let us know! :-) Likely involved adding dependencies manually.

The `-AlternateInstallMethod` does just that, though. It installs both of those you mentioned, and yet it the install still fails on server core. I haven't looked into why, though. ChatGPT...

Also, take a look at this article that describes which packages are not included. If you can find a way to add them through PowerShell, it might work. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/server-core/what-is-server-core I...

Oops I just reread @jantari 's post: ```` No need for Appx, you just extract Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8 and Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop and the Microsoft AppInstaller (winget) MSIX package all into the same folder....

Got it. I can recreate that and put the logic in to winget-install. It currently uses the [DesktopAppInstaller_Dependencies.zip](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/download/v1.11.430/DesktopAppInstaller_Dependencies.zip) available on the [winget-cli releases page](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases). Have you tried using that? I...

Hey all, I've been very busy at my day job, but this is still on my radar to integrate. If someone is willing to edit the script and make a...

@jantari I finally had a chance to look at this. I've added detection for `Server Core` and the creation of a portable winget folder. It also registers the path. Take...

You can test with this: ```powershell $url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asheroto/winget-install/c4fda4d7e7f659e9766391da1e9fad7403f2cf07/winget-install.ps1" &([ScriptBlock]::Create((irm $url))) -Force -Wait -Debug ```