[Misdetech of the version]: Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6

[TheBossMagnus]

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• [X] I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• [X] I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Other

Brief description of your issue

The version detected by Winget is 6.0.5 Anyway, the installed and lastest is 6.0.7

Steps to reproduce

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Actual behavior

If i upgrade the app get reinstalled for no reason

Expected behavior

..

Environment

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22621.317
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.18.2091.0

Screenshots and Logs

WinGet-2022-07-27-16-58-26.048.log WinGet-2022-08-01-16-18-59.865.log

[denelon]

if you winget list .NET are both versions present?

[TheBossMagnus]

no one is listed

[denelon]

I missed the "<" indicating "less than 6.0.5". We didn't have a manifest for the version installed on the system, so it was determined to be less than the earliest manifest. I'm not sure why 6.0.17 isn't showing up in list.

[denelon]

@mthalman do you have any ideas on this one?

[mthalman]

Be aware of the difference in major version here between what is installed and the upgrade version. It's showing 5.0.17 as installed and 6.0.7 as the upgrade version. Those are different major versions. It shouldn't attempt to recognize that as an upgrade because they have different package IDs: Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5 versus Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6.

@denelon - Why would it be crossing package IDs like this?

[denelon]

It's likely that we don't have the manifests for the older versions with the "AppsAndFeatures" keys, so heuristics are trying to detect which package might match. @johnMcPMS can you confirm or deny?

[mthalman]

There is a manifest for the 5.0.17 version: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/m/Microsoft/DotNet/DesktopRuntime/5/5.0.17/Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5.installer.yaml. It was the one and only version of it that was published before becoming EOL.

[Trenly]

no one is listed

What about under winget list "Desktop Runtime"?

[TheBossMagnus]

no one is listed

What about under winget list "Desktop Runtime"?

[Trenly]

I'm wondering if this is an artifact from before the packages were split out into the new identifiers. @THEBOSSMAGNUS - Can you try manually uninstalling the desktop runtime 5, then re-installing it using winget install Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5

[TheBossMagnus]

I'm wondering if this is an artifact from before the packages were split out into the new identifiers. @THEBOSSMAGNUS - Can you try manually uninstalling the desktop runtime 5, then re-installing it using winget install Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5

fixed

[denelon]

Great call @Trenly!

[TheBossMagnus]

Sorry for reopening, but, as you can see, the issues repeat appearing for each update.

[Trenly]

Sorry for reopening, but, as you can see, the issues repeat appearing for each update.

I think that is a different issue entirely. If you look closely, it is downloading and installing the x64 package, when it is the x86 package that is reporting an upgrade is available. This new behavior seems to be very similar to microsoft/winget-pkgs#2243

As a workaround, try running winget upgrade Microsoft.Dotnet.Runtime.6 --architecture x86

[TheBossMagnus]

[Trenly]

maybe install instead of upgrade? Forgot upgrade doesn't have the --architecture switch

[TheBossMagnus]

Same as before.

[Trenly]

Same as before.

Oops; Looks like I messed up the command itself facepalm. It isn’t Microsoft.DotNet.Runtime.6, it's Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6

[denelon]

Related to:

• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/2129

[TheBossMagnus]

Sorry for the late response... I executed winget install Microsoft.Dotnet.DeskTopRuntime.6 --architecture x86 and it no longer appears on winget upgrade.

Now I'm unable to uninstall Microsoft.DotNet.Runtime.6 package. It appears in List and upgrade. Also, have the seme issue of desktop runtime (Keep appearing in winget update).

[finn-cz]

I'm having a similar problem – winget is mixing up two completely different versions of .NET runtime, I have both in their latest versions (3.1.28 and 6.0.8 respectively):

λ winget upgrade
Name                                             Id                                Version      Available   Source
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MultiCommander (x64)                             MathiasSvensson.MultiCommander    11.4.0.2831  11.5.0.2842 winget
VeraCrypt                                        IDRIX.VeraCrypt                   1.24-Update7 1.25.9      winget
7-Zip 21.07 (x64 edition)                        7zip.7zip                         21.07.00.0   22.01       winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.28 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6 < 6.0.5      6.0.8       winget
MSYS2 64bit                                      msys2.msys2                       20200903     20220603    winget
5 upgrades available.```

[vinixwu]

I have the same issue with @finn-cz :

PS C:\Windows\system32> winget list .NET
名稱                                                  識別碼                                 版本          可用  來源
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft ASP.NET Core 6.0.8 - Shared Framework (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.6          6.0.8               winget
paint.net                                             {31D05AC5-4242-433C-A002-9DB22D740F8C} 4.3.11
Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0.400 (x64) from Visual Studio   {E90155B5-8B75-4892-A27D-D85D131A8E43} 6.4.22.37103
Microsoft .NET Core Runtime - 3.1.28 (x64)            Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.6          < 6.0.5       6.0.8 winget
Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0.303 (x64)                      {d05385f1-b9cc-4bbd-aa12-f6b5e6f0fe38} 6.3.322.36818
Microsoft ASP.NET Core 6.0.8 - Shared Framework (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.6          6.0.8               winget
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget upgrade
名稱                                       識別碼                        版本    可用  來源
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft .NET Core Runtime - 3.1.28 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.6 < 6.0.5 6.0.8 winget
1 有可用的升級。

Besides I also had the issue that winget trying to upgrade Microsoft ASP.NET Core 6.0.8 - Shared Framework (x86) by downloading x64 version. I solved it by downloading and installing x86 version manually.

Since some old projects may need 3.x, uninstall is not an option.

[sanyer]

I'm also facing something around this:

PS C:\Windows\system32> winget list .NET
Name                                                   Id                                  Version    Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft .NET Runtime - 7.0.0 (x64)                   Microsoft.DotNet.Runtime.7          7.0.0      winget
Microsoft ASP.NET Core 5.0.17 - Shared Framework (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.5       5.0.17     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.0 (x64)        Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7   7.0.0      winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.11 (x64)       Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6   6.0.11     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64)       Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5   5.0.17     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.31 (x64)       Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.3_1 3.1.31     winget

but winget upgrade and winget list "Desktop Runtime" show this:

PS C:\Windows\system32> winget list "Desktop Runtime"
Name                                             Id                                Version Available Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.0 (x64)  Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.0             winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.31 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.11 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0     winget

PS C:\Windows\system32> winget upgrade
Name                                             Id                                Version Available     Source
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0         winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.31 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0         winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.11 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.0         winget
3 upgrades available.
3 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined. Use "--include-unknown" to see all results.

[KAGEYAM4]

is this issue that i am having related ?

Winget again and again keep showing update for DesktopRuntime in the screenshot evenafter updating them. Currently i have updated then 5 times.

[vulpicastor]

I can confirm that this issue is still present whenever .NET updates are installed through Windows Update rather than winget. This is what my installation currently shows:

winget upgrade
Name                                             Id                                Version Available Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.14 (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.14 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget

As you can see, the older .NET runtimes are misidentified as Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 when they should've been detected as Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6, Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5, etc.

Additionally,

winget list dotnet
Name                                             Id                                Version Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.5 5.0.17  winget

winget list 'desktop runtime'
Name                                             Id                                Version Available Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.3 (x64)  Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.3             winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.14 (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.14 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.3     winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.3 (x86)  Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.3             winget

[Trenly]

@denelon - this is for winget-cli, Area-matching

[treysis]

Happens again. All my DesktopRuntime versions are recognized as Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6.

[TheBossMagnus]

Happens again. All my DesktopRuntime versions are recognized as Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6.

Same, bc it got updated

[de-served]

winget list Desktop
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x86)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           < 6.0.5                 6.0.19   winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 8.0.0 Preview 5 (x86) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.Preview     8.0.0-preview.5.23302.2          winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x64)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           < 6.0.5                 6.0.19   winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.19 (x86)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           6.0.19                           winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.17 (x64)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           < 6.0.5                 6.0.19   winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 8.0.0 Preview 5 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.Preview     8.0.0-preview.5.23302.2          winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 3.1.32 (x86)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           < 6.0.5                 6.0.19   winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.8 (x86)           Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           > 6.0.19                         winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.19 (x64)          Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           6.0.19                           winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.8 (x64)           Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6           > 6.0.19                         winget

Same boat.

[MagicAndre1981]

Happens again. All my DesktopRuntime versions are recognized as Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6.

I also see always an upgrade, but 6.0.20 is now latest 6 version:

C:\Windows\system32>winget upgrade
Name                                             ID                                Version Verfügbar Quelle
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.20 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 < 7.0.0 7.0.9     winget

List shows correct 6 and 7 identifier:

C:\Windows\system32>winget list dotnet
Name                                             ID                                Version Quelle
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.9 (x64)  Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.9   winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 6.0.20 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6 6.0.20  winget

But on a different Window 10 system it works fine