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Installation using 'winget' won't work (solution included)

Open zorohakobyan opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Hi, I've noticed an issue after installing ipinfo with winget and decied to share my thoughts (solution) here.

At this point of time the installation path is: "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\ipinfo.ipinfo_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe" (this location is added to PATH, so no worries for that)

Executable name is: "ipinfo_3.3.1_windows_amd64.exe"

Solution: Rename that file to "ipinfo.exe" and restart your terminal/PowerShell

zorohakobyan avatar Oct 07 '25 19:10 zorohakobyan

To Reproduce:

  1. Run winget install ipinfo.ipinfo
  2. Reboot or open a new terminal
  3. Run ipinfo 1.1.1.1
  4. Observe the error: ipinfo is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.

Expected behavior: The ipinfo command should be available immediately after installation if the install directory is in the PATH.

zorohakobyan avatar Oct 07 '25 20:10 zorohakobyan