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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by RougeEric@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

I was fed up with having to keep things like npm, NodeJS and git up to date manually; so I created a little script that keeps things up to date automatically (configurable on a per-app basis) via WinGet.

I know there are already things out there… but they looked like a pain to install, and this is simple enough that I actually understand what it’s doing XD

https://github.com/ELowry/WinGet-Updater

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[-] helix@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, chocolatey can do that, too. https://boxstarter.org/ can even provision new computers.

If winget works for you that's awesome, I just don't get how it's better than chocolatey for this task.

[-] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

How though?

Everything I see online indicates that to have chocolatey handle an app it needs to be installed BY chocolatey; and that the "fix" is to uninstall and reinstall.

[-] helix@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you install something with chocolatey and it's already installed it registers in chocolatey.

[-] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, interesting. I'll look into that at some point.

this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025
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