Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for Windows software. Run it from an elevated PowerShell (PowerShell Cheat-Sheet). For per-user installs also consider winget.

Project Homepage: Chocolatey Homepage

Installation #

Check the Execution Policy

Run Get-ExecutionPolicy. If it returns Restricted, then run Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned or Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process.

Install Chocolatey

powershell
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'))

Review the script first at https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1 before piping it to iex.

Check if you install chocolatey

powershell
choco -?

Install software package #

powershell
choco install <package>

Commands #

COMMAND	DESCRIPTION
`choco search <TERM>`	Search the community repository
`choco install <PKG> -y`	Install without prompts
`choco install <PKG> --version=<VER>`	Install a specific version
`choco install <PKG1> <PKG2> -y`	Install several packages
`choco list --local-only`	Installed packages (use `choco list -l` on v1)
`choco outdated`	Packages with updates
`choco upgrade <PKG> -y`	Upgrade one package
`choco upgrade all -y`	Upgrade everything
`choco uninstall <PKG> -y`	Remove a package
`choco pin add -n=<PKG>`	Hold a package at its version
`choco info <PKG>`	Package details
`choco source list`	Configured sources
`choco feature enable -n=allowGlobalConfirmation`	Always answer yes

Install from a File #

packages.config:

xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="git" />
  <package id="vscode" />
  <package id="7zip" />
  <package id="powershell-core" />
</packages>

powershell
choco install packages.config -y