No Applicable App Licenses Found Windows Package Manager (Winget)

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No Applicable App Licenses Found

In some cases, you get this error when open Windows Package Manager (winget) on Windows 10/11.

No Applicable App Licenses Found Windows Package Manager (Winget)

Even the package was installed successfully.

Get-AppxPackage -Name "Microsoft.Desktop*" | select Name, Version, Status
Name                          Version     Status
----                          -------     ------
Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller 1.21.3482.0     Ok

1️⃣ To fix it, you need to download the .XML license file and the .msixbundle installer from Microsoft GitHub https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases and then re-add the package.

No Applicable App Licenses Found Windows Package Manager (Winget)

2️⃣ Open Windows PowerShell or Windows Terminal admin then navigate to the Downloads folder. Run dir command to verify the files are downloaded.

PS C:\Windows\system32> cd C:\Users\admin\Downloads\
PS C:\Users\admin\Downloads> dir

    Directory: C:\Users\admin\Downloads

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        9/29/2022   2:43 PM           2688 7b91bd4a0be242d6aa8e8da282b26297_License1.xml
-a----        9/29/2022   2:43 PM       14587619 Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

3️⃣ Run the following commnad to readd the winget package into your computer.

Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online`
 -PackagePath .\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle`
 -LicensePath .\7b91bd4a0be242d6aa8e8da282b26297_License1.xml

5️⃣ Run winget command to verify it works.

PS C:\Users\admin\Downloads> winget
Windows Package Manager v1.3.2091
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The winget command line utility enables installing applications and other packages from the command line.

usage: winget [<command>] [<options>]

The following commands are available:
  install    Installs the given package
  show       Shows information about a package
  source     Manage sources of packages
  search     Find and show basic info of packages
  list       Display installed packages
  upgrade    Shows and performs available upgrades
  uninstall  Uninstalls the given package
  hash       Helper to hash installer files
  validate   Validates a manifest file
  settings   Open settings or set administrator settings
  features   Shows the status of experimental features
  export     Exports a list of the installed packages
  import     Installs all the packages in a file

Comments (1)

  1. I have been trying for two days to install Winget on my Win 10 LTSC 2018 (1809) machine. Being an old man, and not ‘au fait’ with Powershell; I have had to scour the Web for the info. I found your fix above and, after downloading the relevent latest files for 30th march 2024 from Github etc. and changing the info of the file names, to make a ‘one liner’ command (no spaces returns or inverted commas etc. “Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath .\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle -LicensePath .\30fe89a9836a4cfbbd3fedce72a58680_License1.xml” command……. it worked !!!!
    THANK YOU !!!!!! Saved me much gnashing of teeth and stress at 68 years old.

    Reply

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