I encountered the following issue when attempting to use Winget (the Windows package manager) to install "Windows Terminal Preview" on an Azure-hosted Windows 11 virtual machine.

Winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal.Preview.

The error message says. The installer failed with exit code: 0x80073cf3. This package has a dependency missing from your system. Just a note, windows terminal preview is a terminal window that allows the users to open command line terminals with multiple shells. In other words, you can open one shell with Windows Power Shell, another tab with Bash, and another tab with Ubuntu shell, etc. More about the Windows terminal can be learned from the references section.

Reason
When trying to install “Windows Terminal Preview” using Winget, Winget tries to look for dependencies on your system, if not found it will get the required software from the app store and try to install just like the NuGet package manager. The issue here is that Winget is trying to get the older version of dependency software Microsoft.UI.XAML which isn’t supported by Windows Terminal Preview.

Fix
The fix is to get the latest version of dependency software which is Microsfot.UI.XAML 2.8 and install it first and proceed with the Windows Terminal Preview using Winget. Below are the commands and the screen capture for reference.

winget install Microsoft.UI.xaml.2.8
winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal.Preview