what winget was missing

I have always been a user of #windows for personal PC but never been a Taliban, so I liked a lot a tool like #yum (or its cousins) for managing updates. For those not familiar with them, these are tools that can update both the operating system and user-installed applications. And in an unattended way.

It's easy to understand that, especially if you use dozens of #programs, it becomes a boring and time-consumin activity to go around all the sites, download the new version and launch the update.

Some time ago #microsoft provided the #winget tool that promises to do the same, at least for the installed part (it does not in fact replace #windows #update). You can read more about how it works here.

The problem I had encountered is that the "update everything" command given via winget works best if the programs were installed with winget and not via the classic .exe or .msi. In particular I remember #keepass which, if installed in the traditional way and updated by winget, ended up duplicating itself.

So just install everything with winget no? Yes, but the hard part, at least for me, was finding how to do the installation. Today I found the solution on this site: winget.run. For example, to install SQL Management studio, all I had to do was type the name in the search field to get the command line to be copied and pasted into the terminal, with a choice of previous versions and a brief summary of what you are going to install: https://winget.run/pkg/Microsoft/SQLServerManagementStudio

As Frank with the red tie says: Follow me for further advices!