Windows Packager

Ever imagined how nice it would be to install packages instead of running random setup.exe on your Windows system?¹

wpkg is your solution!

Download now!²

Version 1.0.0 is Available!

Known Bugs

1. We also support Ubuntu and Darwin and the system compiles and runs under many other Unices.

2. You can also get the source code from our UniGW GIT repository on SourceForge.net.

Windows Packager News

wpkg 1.0.0 is Available (Sep 17, 2015)

wpkg 0.9.4 available (Jul 28, 2014)

wpkg 0.9.3 available (Jun 19, 2014)

pkg-explorer 0.3.0 available (Oct 4, 2013)

wpkg 0.9.2 available (Sep 16, 2013)

Support & Bug Reports

Please go to the project Unix GNU Windows on SourceForge.net to post any support requests, bug reports, and otherwise discuss about wpkg.

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wpkg --running-copy ...

Submitted by Alexis Wilke on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 06:10

The special (and hidden as it is considered internal) --running-copy option is used by wpkg whenever it auto-upgrades itself. This is available for the MS-Windows operating system because the file systems (FAT/NTFS) do not support overwriting an executable which is currently running. wpkg palliates to this problem by making a copy of itself and then run the copy before the extraction of the wpkg package contents.

In order for wpkg to detect/know that it is running as a copy, the system sets this option when executing the copy.

You should never make use of this option. Actually, when used it prevents wpkg from upgrading itself because it will prevent the write to the wpkg.exe binary and restore all the other files. So you could actually use this option as a way to prevent upgrades of wpkg.