Feature request : Add winget install support to windows fork.dev

[ccecvb]

Currently, to install fork on windows you need to go to the website, download the client and install it.

It would be nice if we could automate this using winget install e.g.

winget install fork.dev

As far as I understand adding fork to the MS store would make this possible, personally I don't care about installing through MS store, but maybe both could be done in a single effort.

Related links

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#sources

[DanPristupov]

Somehow there are people who use that already https://github.com/fork-dev/TrackerWin/issues/1822#issue-1603226755

[ccecvb]

Great, I can confirm

winget install fork.fork

works

thanks

[Otiel]

@ccecvb Don't use winget to upgrade Fork though, as the installer will reset your settings. Or backup them before upgrading.

[w5l]

@ccecvb Don't use winget to upgrade Fork though, as the installer will reset your settings. Or backup them before upgrading.

That just bit me, bad. First I thought maybe winget installed fork in a different location and that's why the settings were gone. But nope, it simply overwrote my entire settings.json with a default one.