How to update InstallLocation for an existing manifest file

[krishna-santosh]

I submitted a portable exe to winget, but it is asking for admin privileges to install it via winget. I had to open powershell/cmd as admin to install it.

I did some lookup and found that adding InstallLocation: "%APPDATA%" to the manifest file can solve this issue.
How do I add this to my existing manifest file ?

I tried wingetcreate update <PackageID> but it throws an error.

Current Manifest: Windows-Spotlight

[Trenly]

Portable exe files make use of the PortablePackageUserRoot setting and the PortablePackageMachineRoot setting. By setting the install location, you would be manually overriding these for all users. More than likely, the issue you were experiencing around it asking for admin privileges is due to the fact that it is a portable exe file, and winget cannot create symlinks without admin mode. Some changes have been made to the CLI around this behavior, but I don't recall if it has been fully resolved yet.

[krishna-santosh]

Thank you @Trenly.

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