Wana an EXE or MSI installer for WinDbg-Preview
UEFI-code opened this issue · 5 comments
I want to install WinDbg-Preview on Windows Server 2019, which has no Store Environment. Provide EXE or MSI installer would be a good idea.
We are actively investigating non-Store alternatives to installing WinDbg-Preview and we'll update this issue when we have an update.
Do you have an update for this? Would be excellent for creating base images.
We do - announced last week: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/
A more direct link (installs via appinstaller that will automatically check for updates): https://aka.ms/windbg/download
Alternatively, you can run winget install Microsoft.WinDbg
One other option - which doesn't run any installers, is to download the msixbundle and unzip. I wrote a PowerShell script to help with that, see my comment on a related issue.
The Store install is not the latest anymore and fails for some people. The download from "https://aka.ms/windbg/download" runs but then fails with a generic "Access Denied" error. ARG!!!! I guess packaged installations have issues and policies. Fortunately the Powershell script works. Thank you for that Uzybkr. THANK YOU! But yes, please, for the love of mental sanity, make a simple install available, or better, a portable downloadable version that does not require installation. A zip file you can download and extract and then run without installation would be perfect. Avoid stores and packages and things that fail.