Chocolatey Package Manager

Chocolatey: A guide to windows package management

Introduction

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows that automates the process of installing, updating, and managing software. It simplifies the software management process by providing a command-line interface to handle package installations and updates. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics of Chocolatey.

Package managers allow you to:

• Download and install software without having to go to different web pages.
• Verify packages have not been tampered with so that you don’t end up with malware from MITM attacks.
• Install multiple packages for you and even make sure to install other software that an app may require.
• Upgrade and remove packages Search for packages.

Installation

To get started with Chocolatey, you first need to install it. Open apowershell with administrative privileges and run the following command:

Set it to require all scripts to be signed

Get-ExecutionPolicy
Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned

Install Chocolatey

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

check the chocolatey version

choco --version

Chocolatey tutorial

Installing Packages:

choco install packageName

Installing Multiple Packages:

choco install packageName1 packageName2

Updating Packages:

choco update packageName

Updating all Packages:

choco upgrade all

pdating Packages:

choco uninstall packageName

Searching for Packages:

choco search searchQuery

Viewing Installed Packages:

choco list 

Viewing Chocolatey Version:

choco --version

Install Chocolatey GUI

choco install ChocolateyGUI