Serious Discussion Package Managers for Windows [CLI, FOSS] (Electric, Chocolately, Scoop, Winget, WingetUI)

[Ink]

Windows Package Managers

Electric.sh
GitHub: GitHub - suptejas/electric: A fast, futuristic package manager for Windows.


Chocolatey.org
GitHub: GitHub - chocolatey/choco: Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

• Cons: Pricing plans. Free tier available.

Scoop.sh
Github: GitHub - ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows.


Winget (Microsoft)
GitHub: GitHub - microsoft/winget-cli: Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)


WingetUI (for Scoop and Winget)
GitHub: GitHub - martinet101/WingetUI: WingetUI: a package manager for Winget and Scoop

• The main goal of this project is to create a GUI Store for the most common CLI package managers for Windows, such as Winget and Scoop.

 

[ForgottenSeer 95367]

To search ALL Winget packages -

In PowerShell:

winget search -q `"`" | More

In Command Prompt:

winget search -q "" | More

To search for a specific package by name -

In PowerShell or Command Prompt:

winget search --name "NAME"

example,

winget search --name "Visual Studio"

 

[silversurfer]

WingetUI, which is a third-party GUI utility tool for managing CLI package managers like Winget or Scoop, has received its latest update today. The new update, version 1.5.2, fixes blurry textures on Windows 10, and improves task manager context menu positioning on Windows 11. Aside from these, there are several other improvements and bug fixes like those related to .NET, PNG files, and more.

You can download the latest WingetUI from GitHub where you can also view the detailed changelog.

WingetUI latest update gets improvements for Windows 11 as well as Windows 10, and more

The latest WingetUI update has multiple improvements for both Windows 11 and Windows 10. The WingetUI is a third-party tool that helps to manage CLI package managers like Scoop and Winget.

www.neowin.net

 

[ch4mla]

I would delete Electric.sh from that list. It's not a thing

PS. There are a million package managers available for windows on github. Zero-Install, Just-Install...others. OneGet was getting up there with Choco for a brief period of time but faded. Now the landscape is basically Winget, Chocolatey, Scoop. = )