Where does WinGet install portable packages?

[Mr Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (beedell-roke)]

I've installed marticliment.com/unigetui/share?id=GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono&sourceName=winget. However, because of microsoft/winget-cli#2299 (comment), I have no idea of how to invoke it.

[Kaleb Luedtke (Trenly)]

You can use winget --info to list out where the portable packages are installed on your machine. Where each specific package is installed will depend on if it is x86 or x64, and if it was installed with machine or user scope

[Mr Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (beedell-roke)]

#184459 (comment)

Kaleb Luedtke (@Trenly), winget has no --info flag for me, and microsoft/winget-cli#2298 (comment) appears to indicate that this functionality doesn't actually exist...

• 1. #!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
     #Requires -PSEdition 'Core'
     #Requires -Version 7.5
     If ($IsWindows) { winget --info 'GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono' }

  2. Found a positional argument when none was expected: 'GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono'

• 1. #!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
     #Requires -PSEdition 'Core'
     #Requires -Version 7.5
     If ($IsWindows) { winget --show 'GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono' }

  2. Argument name was not recognized for the current command: '--show'

[Mr Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (beedell-roke)]

#184459 (reply in thread)

Apologies, Kaleb Luedtke (@Trenly), for I should have read the error properly, for merely winget --info works:

1. #!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
   #Requires -PSEdition 'Core'
   #Requires -Version 7.5
   If ($IsWindows) { winget --info }

2. PS C:\Users\rokej> winget --info
   Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.9.2411-preview
   Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
   
   Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26100.2152
   System Architecture: X64
   Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.24.2411.0
   
   Winget Directories
   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
   User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
   Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
   Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
   Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
   Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
   Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
   Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

Examples

Per that, it was trivial to ascertain that Godot was installed into:

#!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
#Requires -PSEdition 'Core'
#Requires -Version 7.5
If ($IsWindows) { Start-Process "$Env:SystemDrive\Users\$([Environment]::UserName)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\GodotEngine.GodotEngine.Mono_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe" }

Likewise, for the Media Creation Tool:

#!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
#Requires -PSEdition 'Core'
#Requires -Version 7.5
If ($IsWindows) { Start-Process "$Env:SystemDrive\Users\$([Environment]::UserName)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Microsoft.MediaCreationTool_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe" }

It would have been nice if there were a PowerShell commandlet for this, though. Perhaps I'll request one. Got any ideas for a name?