Instructions for installing winget in windows sandbox no longer work

[Skgland]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

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The instructions to install winget in Windows Sandbox appear to no longer work.

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1. Save the instructions as install-winget.ps1 and copy the file into windows sandbox

$progressPreference = 'silentlyContinue'
Write-Host "Installing WinGet PowerShell module from PSGallery..."
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force | Out-Null
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client -Force -Repository PSGallery | Out-Null
Write-Host "Using Repair-WinGetPackageManager cmdlet to bootstrap WinGet..."
Repair-WinGetPackageManager
Write-Host "Done."

2. Open a PowerShell Window

3. Run powershell -command "& {Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine -Force}" to allow running the script

4. Run .\install-winget.ps1

PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop> powershell -command "& {Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine -Force}"
PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop> .\install-winget.ps1
Installing WinGet PowerShell module from PSGallery...
Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005
(E_ACCESSDENIED))
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:6146 char:22
+ ... connected = Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection -Computer ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Test-Connection], UnauthorizedAccessException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.TestConnectionCommand

Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005
(E_ACCESSDENIED))
At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:6146 char:22
+ ... connected = Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Test-Connection -Computer ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Test-Connection], UnauthorizedAccessException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.TestConnectionCommand

Using Repair-WinGetPackageManager cmdlet to bootstrap WinGet...
Repair-WinGetPackageManager : The term 'Repair-WinGetPackageManager' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\install-winget.ps1:6 char:1
+ Repair-WinGetPackageManager
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Repair-WinGetPackageManager:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Done.
PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop>

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/package-manager/winget/#install-winget-on-windows-sandbox

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/blob/docs/hub/package-manager/winget/index.md

Author

@mattwojo

Document Id

b49c32ea-2efa-b090-7123-87c31d10279b

[Skgland]

If I remove -Repository PSGallery from the script, it works again.

 $progressPreference = 'silentlyContinue'
 Write-Host "Installing WinGet PowerShell module from PSGallery..."
 Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force | Out-Null
-Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client -Force -Repository PSGallery | Out-Null
+Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client -Force | Out-Null
 Write-Host "Using Repair-WinGetPackageManager cmdlet to bootstrap WinGet..."
 Repair-WinGetPackageManager
 Write-Host "Done."