Winget-cli: Can't install anything?

[coreyog]

Brief description of your issue

I've tried installing multiple apps from multiple different developers but have received similar errors for everything.

This is a personal machine that I have complete control and access to. I'm a power user and probably made a change in group policy or UAC that is resulting in these failures.

Steps to reproduce

1. Change a mystery setting somewhere
2. winget install <any valid package>
3. Get error

Expected behavior

Installation succeeds or at least a hint towards how to fix the error.

Actual behavior

C:\Users\corey> winget install speccy
Found Speccy [Piriform.Speccy]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.ccleaner.com/spsetup132.exe
██████████████████████████████ 6.57 MB / 6.57 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Installing ...
Installer failed with exit code: 2

I also received a popup saying "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid." while the console prompt said "Installing" and had a rotating indicator.

C:\Users\corey> winget install "Google Play Music Desktop Player"
Found Google Play Music Desktop Player [SamuelAttard.GooglePlayMusicDesktopPlayer]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/releases/download/v4.7.1/Google.Play.Music.Desktop.Player.Setup.exe
██████████████████████████████ 57.3 MB / 57.3 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Installing ...
Installer failed with exit code: 4294967295

I also received a popup saying "Installation has failed - Unable to write to C:\ProgramData\corey - IT policies may be restricting access to this folder" while the console prompt said "Installing" and had a rotating indicator.

C:\Users\corey> winget install Atom
Found Atom [GitHub.Atom]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.45.0/AtomSetup-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 179 MB / 179 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Installing ...
Installer failed with exit code: 4294967295

I received an identical popup to the Google Play Music package.

I would expect that these installations would work properly on a freshly installed system but somewhere I have a settings change that is impacting winget and I do not know what setting I need to fix.

I noticed that C:\ProgramData\corey didn't exist. After creating it, the github installers updated their path for example the GooglePlayMusicDesktopPlayer showed the path C:\ProgramData\corey\SquirrelTemp in it's popup but curiously there was a second popup that says "Installation has failed Failed to extract installer". The command prompt then claims success with "Successfully installed!" This seems to be a permission issue of some sort.

Environment

[winget --info]
Windows Package Manager v0.1.41331 Preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19041.207
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.0.41331.0

Links:
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  Homepage:          https://aka.ms/winget

[blacklightpy]

Have you tried running the terminal as admin?

[coreyog]

@blacklightpy Just tried it. No difference.

[pragmat1c]

Running in powershell as Administrator worked for me.

[coreyog]

I don't doubt that the problem is probably something I've done to my system and that my situation probably isn't a common case that people will run into. But with error messages like "Make sure your temp folder is valid" fixing this is going to be a shot in the dark.

[denelon]

We may be able to determine more helpful dialog for this situation.

[DCCoder90]

I am running into the same issue. When running the command

winget install Insomnia.Insomnia
I get the error message that is displayed in the original post to this issue. If I run it as Administrator in Powershell I get

An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
rename: Access is denied.: "C:\Users\DCCoder\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\WinGet\Insomnia.Insomnia.2020.3.3", "C:\Users\DCCoder\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\WinGet\Insomnia.Insomnia.2020.3.3.exe"

Update

I tried
winget install vim
in Administrator Powershell and got the error message in OP, I immediately reran it and it succeeded. Seems like it may be an intermittent issue?