2017-05-07-InstallingChocolateyOnWindows10.md

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Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get or yum but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your computer.

Installing Chocolatey

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We can use the snippet below to install Chocolatey, this must be run as an administrator

Invoke-Expression ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Now that Chocolatey is installed we can use the choco command to install all types of packages. We will dive more into Chocolatey later, when we setup our own Chocolatey feed.

choco install $PackageName

Upgrading Chocolatey

We can use the snippet below to upgrade Chocolatey, this must be run as an administrator

choco upgrade chocolatey

Credit

• Chocolatey Documentation: Install Chocolatey