winget fails to install 'Microsoft.AppInstaller'

[eabase]

Relevant area(s)

WinGet CLI

Relevant command(s)

winget install

Brief description of your issue

winget fails to install new update of package Microsoft.AppInstaller.

Steps to reproduce

# Running as admin:
# winget install -e --id 'Microsoft.AppInstaller'

Found an existing package already installed. Trying to upgrade the installed package...
Found App Installer [Microsoft.AppInstaller] Version 1.27.440.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
This package requires the following dependencies:
  - Packages
      Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.14 [>= 14.0.33728.0]
      Microsoft.VCLibs.14 [>= 14.0.33519.0]
      Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8 [>= 1.8.0]
(1/2) Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 UWP Runtime Package [Microsoft.VCLibs.14] Version 14.0.33519.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
  ████████████████████████████▌   95%
Successfully installed. Restart the application to complete the upgrade.

(2/2) Found Windows App Runtime 1.8 [Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8] Version 1.8.3
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://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.8/1.8.251106002/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████   101 MB /  101 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
  ████████████████████████████▌   95%
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x800704c7 : The operation was canceled by the user.

# Checking Error message:
# err 0x800704c7

# No results found for hex 0x800704c7 / decimal -2147023673
# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_WIN32 (0x7), Code 0x4c7
# for hex 0x4c7 / decimal 1223
  ERROR_CANCELLED                                                winerror.h
# The operation was canceled by the user.
# 1 matches found for "0x800704c7"

Expected behavior

That installing new updates works, or at least gives a sensible error message

Actual behavior

Fails

Environment

# winget --info

Windows Package Manager v1.12.350
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26100.7462
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.27.350.0

Winget Directories
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
Configuration Modules              %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Configuration\Modules

Links
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Privacy Statement   https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement   https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage            https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale

Admin Setting                             State
--------------------------------------------------
LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disabled

[florelis]

Sounds like a duplicate of #4283, which is being addressed in #5972

[mdanish-kh]

Yep this is tracking the same bug

Duplicate of #4283

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