win-get-updates

This repo has been archived. See fwgu for further development.

Third party CLI frontend for winget update runs. It lets you interactively choose which package to install.

Requirements

Windows with winget installed. Supposed to run on cmd.exe.

Install

npm install -g win-get-updates

Run

Global

wgu

Local development

node src\cli.js

Ignore File

wgu supports ignoring specific packages from the update list using an ignore file.

Default Location

By default, wgu loads package IDs to ignore from ~/.wguignore (in your home directory). If this file doesn't exist, all packages will be shown.

Custom Ignore File

You can specify a custom ignore file using the --ignore-file option:

wgu --ignore-file C:\path\to\myignore.txt

Format

The ignore file should contain one package ID per line. Package IDs are matched case-insensitively.

Example .wguignore:

# Packages I want to update manually
Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
Node.js

# System packages
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

• Lines starting with # are treated as comments and ignored
• Empty lines are ignored
• Leading and trailing whitespace is automatically trimmed

Update dependencies

• Run once:

npm install -g npm-check-updates

• Run every time:

ncu -c 3 --peer -ui