Configuring WinGet
Join the Windows Insider Program
Open the Windows Store and Install “App Installer” then logoff and back in.
It will now show in app execution aliases
Quick fix: Add the winget path to your environment variables.
Check your shell for winget –version to make sure you can invoke it.
Now that winget is ready you can search for apps via the command line. If searching by name be sure to use quotations when app names have spaces like the Brave Browser search below.
I like the show command so you can see Publisher and software licensing information, download source and hash.
Now we can use it to install apps. Be careful with UAC since it might prompt on non-admin scenarios
As mentioned in the intro, winget is still under development and I recommend checking and contributing to the issues tab in Github (link below). I am already using so that when it reaches GA I can integrate this into my pipelines so that I can further simplify the tasks by not having to configure chocolatey. I recommend to check hashes, sources and do AV scans after installations to make sure files are clean.
Sources:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/