Application installation screen should be smarter about already installed apps

[localden]

Notice that I have Python already installed, at the exactly the same version.

The same view also suggests I install Visual Studio 2022 Community, when I already have the Enterprise edition installed.

It did detect VS Code, though.

[denelon]

@localden does winget list python show the same version installed and "winget" in the source column.

I'm trying to determine if this is a bug in WinGet or something with how the package is installed or reported in the registry for Windows Apps & Features.

[localden]

@denelon

Python 3.11 that I have installed on my box is not from WinGet.

[denelon]

How was it installed?
It looks like it might have something to do with the matching logic in WinGet, or the source of the original install.

[localden]

Directly from the Python website.

[denelon]

Can you share the URL so we can test?

[localden]

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.4/python-3.11.4-amd64.exe

[denelon]

I linked the Issue over at the WinGet community repository. It might be a simple case, of not having the latest version of Python.

[denelon]

I just noticed in the screenshot it looks like it's reporting 3.11.3 and the URL provided is 3.11.4. One of the WinGet community repository members already has a PR for the new version in the linked issue. Once that publishes, we can test and see if that resolves the issue, or if we need to dig in a bit further to see why we're not able to correlate based on the metadata in the registry keys behind Windows Apps & Features.

[cinnamon-msft]

I think this may be resolved. I'm not seeing apps I already have installed appearing in the popular apps list. I'm going to close as fixed, but let us know if you're still seeing this!