Command line tools installed via winget not available in CMD.exe

[chexo3]

Brief description of your issue

Hello! I've attempted to install a few command line tools via winget. Specifically, aria2c, nano, and ffmpeg. None are available in cmd.exe. I checked my PATH, and they do show up there:

C:\Program Files\Ant\apache-ant-1.10.9\bin
C:\Program Files\Maven\apache-maven-3.9.0\bin
C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-17.0.6.10-hotspot\bin
C:\cc65\bin
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.2\bin
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.2\libnvvp
C:\Program Files\dotnet\
C:\Windows\system32
C:\Windows
C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\HaxeToolkit\haxe
C:\HaxeToolkit\neko
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common
C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.56.1\bin
C:\Program Files\PuTTY\
C:\Program Files\Graphviz\bin
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
C:\Program Files\WireGuard\
C:\Program Files\mpv.net
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
C:\Users\User\go\bin
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.1.4\bin
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\spicetify
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\GNU.Nano_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Rclone.Rclone_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\aria2.aria2_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Steps to reproduce

I'm not sure. I just installed these tools and noticed they didn't work, then went looking in my PATH.

Expected behavior

I expected the tools on my PATH to be found by CMD.exe so I could use them.

Actual behavior

Despite appearing on my PATH, CMD.exe can't find them. This is really confusing, I have no idea how this could have happened.

Environment

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I previously installed these tools via scoop but have since uninstalled scoop and switched to winget. I removed the scoop entries from my user path.

[Masamune3210]

Make sure you restart cmd, it only picks up the environment on process start, so if parts of it, like the path, change afterwards, it's not going to know anything about it otherwise

[chexo3]

Sorry, I should have clarified. I opened a new window and this happened. I already know to open a new terminal window.

[chexo3]

@denelon You've improperly marked that issue as a duplicate of this one. It would be useful, yes, to have the environment updated right away to avoid having to restart the terminal, but I have restarted the terminal and these tools are seemingly on my path, yet Windows cmd.exe won't let me use them regardless.

This is not an issue with me forgetting to restart command. I'm sorry, I should have clarified that at the beginning.

[jonasestevam]

it happened to me after installing ffmpeg with "winget install ffmpeg"

Editing the PATH
from
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe"

to
"C:\Users\Jonas\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ffmpeg-6.0-full_build\bin"

worked for me

[Masamune3210]

Something tells me that the portable manifest might need to have some way to declare where the binaries are stored in the package, since they can have their own folder structure that isn't exactly the most standardized

[mdanish-kh]

Duplicate of #2909

The fix is implemented in a PR and will ship in the next preview release of WinGet

• Fix PATH behavior of non-symlink installations for Portables/Zip #3002

[mdanish-kh]

The fix (PR #3002) has made its way into WinGet v1.5.1081-preview release

cc @denelon