Chocolotey - Package Manager for Windows

Chocolotey - Package Manager for Windows

On Linux/*nix, we have apt-get to manage packages and softwares.
On Mac, we have brew.
Is there any equivalent for Windows?
Yes, it’s chocolatey.
With chocolatey, finding a package or software is no longer prohibitive in Windows, and also no need to worry about malwares or viruse.

Install

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Start Powershell as administrator and run the following command:

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Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

After install, run choco to test if it’s successful.

Install packages

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Find and install packages at https://community.chocolatey.org/packages.

Author

Chendongtian

Posted on

2022-10-19

Updated on

2023-08-04

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