Installing the Microsoft Store version of Windows Terminal via the winget command-line
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/26
In the continuing series of Chocolatey/Scoop/winget related posts, this one is about Windows Terminal.
There are basically two ultimate sources you can install it from:
- The Microsoft Store at [Wayback1/Wayback2/Archive1/Archive2] aka.ms/terminal/Get Windows Terminal – Microsoft Store manually, or via winget:
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winget install --id 9N0DX20HK701 --source msstore --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements --silent
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- GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!, manually, or via winget or Chocolatey:
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winget install --id=Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
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choco upgrade microsoft-windows-terminal
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You can configure the Microsoft Store to automatically install updates as per [Wayback/Archive] Turn on automatic app updates (on my system this was the default):
Microsoft Store – Auto-Updates is turned on by default
Select the Start ⊞ screen, then select Microsoft Store. In Microsoft Store at the upper right, select the account menu (the three dots) and then select Settings. Under App updates, set Update apps automatically to On.
As a backgrounder, here some articles on Windows Terminal, ConPTY and the Windows Console from the [Wayback/Archive] DevBlogs – Microsoft Developer Blogs:
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Command-Line: Backgrounder | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Command-Line: The Evolution of the Windows Command-Line | Windows Command Line
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Command-Line: Inside the Windows Console | Windows Command Line
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Command-Line: Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPTY) | Windows Command Line
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Command-Line: Unicode and UTF-8 Output Text Buffer | Windows Command Line
More on (pseudo)terminals in general containing [Wayback/Archive] “ConPTY” – Search results – Wikipedia:
More on using the Windows Terminal:
- [Wayback/Archive] Windows Terminal installation | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline, Nerd Fonts, Cascadia Code, WSL, and oh-my-posh – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
- [Wayback/Archive] It’s time for you to install Windows Terminal – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
- [Wayback/Archive] Take your Windows Terminal and PowerShell to the next level with Terminal Icons – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
- [Wayback/Archive] Adding Predictive IntelliSense to my Windows Terminal PowerShell Prompt with PSReadline – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
- [Wayback/Archive] My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
My related blog posts:
- On my reading list: Windows Console and PTY
- Installing Windows OpenSSH from the command-line on Windows 10 and 11
–jeroen
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