WingetPosh Files

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Demo

https://youtu.be/A45vW0GuduM

A small set of functions to help using winget.

It's TUI (Terminal User Interface) entirely written in Powershell. It has one dependenciy : Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools

For now, it't only tested with Windows Terminal runnning the latest (7.2.6) Powershell Core

The availablle functions are : - Show-WGList - Search-WGPackage "name (or part) of the package" [-Interactive] [-Install] - Show-WGUpdatables - Update-WGPackage - Install-WGPackage - Uninstall-WGPackage [-Interactive]

Installation

  Install-Module -Name wingetposh -Scope CurrentUser

History

0.5.1 :

• Fixed the show-WGList bug when there is no updatable packages to show.

0.5.2 :

• Removed the "-Interactive" switch to search-WGPackage.
• Removed the search parameter from search-WGPackage.
• Allowing multiple selection in uninstall-WGPackage.
• Removing crash brug when no package is found in search-WGPackage.
• Removing the "-Interactive" switch to updage-WGPackage. If no Object is passed through the pipeline, it will automatically display an interactive grid
• Update readme.md

0.5.4 :

• Addind a license file.

0.5.5 :

• Adding license acceptance when installing module

0.5.6 :

    - Adding headless functions : Get-WGList and Get-WGUpdatables

0.6.0 :

    - Removing "Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleGuiTools" dependance to add Powershell 5.1 compatibility
    - Rewriting the TUI in full powershell (some flickering still to fix)
    - Adding "Invoke-Winget" funtion to add generic call to Winget

0.6.1 :

    - Fix -Install switch of Install-WGPAckage
    - Rename Show-WGUpdatables to Update-WGPackages
    - Add a switch -Update to Update-WGPackages

Remark :

To install in powershell 5.1, you need to install the latest "PowershellGet"

Install-Module PowerShellGet -AllowClobber -Force

Examples

  Show-WGList

This function allows multiselection. When at least one package is selected, when the function is exitted with "Return", an Object list is returned.

When Hit return .....

Of course, we can use this object collection to extract some usefull data .....

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Search and install a package

The -Install parameter will launch the installation of the selected package(s).

  Install-WGPackage -Install

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Select and update an installed package

  Update-WGPackages -update

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Select and uninstall an installed package

  Uninstall-WGPackage

Generic function to convert winget results to PSCustomObject

  $list = Invoke-Winget "winget list"