[Package Issue]: Package.Identifier Error while installing Winget on Windows Server 2012 R2

[SathishkumarG3]

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• I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

We are encountering an error when trying to install Winget on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system. Below are the details of the error and the steps we have taken so far:

Steps to reproduce

Error Message:

System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forInspection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
Steps to Reproduce:

Attempt to install WingError Message:

System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forInspection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)

Actual behavior

Expected Behavior:
Winget should install without errors on the system.

Expected behavior

Error Message:

System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forInspection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
Steps to Reproduce:

Attempt to install WingError Message:

System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyName fileName, String codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, IntPtr pPrivHostBinder, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean forInspection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)

Environment

Environment:

OS: Windows Server 2012 R2
Attempted: Installation of Winget

Additional Information:

Is it possible to install Winget on Windows Server 2012 R2?
We are also looking to install Winget on Windows 10 in a server environment. Any specific guidance for both OS versions would be appreciated.

Screenshots and Logs

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[MagicAndre1981]

winget requires at least Windows 10 (10.0.17763.x) or Server 2019 (10.0.17763.x), 2012 R2 is Windows 8.1 based (6.3.9600.x) and too old.

TargetDeviceFamily Name="Windows.Universal" MinVersion="10.0.17763.0" MaxVersionTested="10.0.22621.0"/>

[Trenly]

[Policy] Needs Author Feedback

[stephengillie]

This should probably be moved to winget-cli, if it remains open. It's basically a feature request to support older OSes.

[Trenly]

This should probably be moved to winget-cli, if it remains open. It's basically a feature request to support older OSes.

I doubt this will remain open -

• Support for LTSB 1607 winget-cli#1008 (comment)
• Add Windows7 support winget-cli#1686 (comment)

@​Qiangong2 we have some OS dependencies that are not supported in Windows blow 1809. Many of these are enterprise level concerns like Delivery Optimization. I don't know if there is enough demand on earlier versions of Windows to justify making OS level changes. I'm not going to close this issue at this point so others have the ability to add their 👍 and to provide some context.

Originally posted by @denelon in microsoft/winget-cli#1008 (comment)

[stephengillie]

Oh, so it's a duplicate.