====== Chocolatey ======

**Chocolatey** is a [[wp>package manager]] for Windows. It's a bit slow, but it's really handy if you want to keep your program installations and upgrades organised. I imagine it's especially great if you've a new computer and want to install a whole bunch of favourite programs.

You install stuff from a command prompt, with commands like ''choco'' ''install''/''search''/''upgrade all'', etc (And there are shorter versions too, eg: ''cinst'').

You can also give it a file which lists everything you want to install, autoconfirm prompts, and let it do it's thing;

<file xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
	<package id="firefox" />
	<package id="foobar2000" />
	<package id="notepadplusplus" />
	<package id="steam" />
</packages>
</file>

===== Useful Commands =====

  * In [[wp>Windows PowerShell]], ''set-executionpolicy [unrestricted|restricted]''

  * ''search''
  * ''install'' / ''cinst''
  * ''uninstall'' / ''cuninst''
  * ''upgrade all'' / ''cup all''
  * ''list -localonly''

===== Shortcut =====

I would keep this batch file on my desktop so I can run an update whenever:

<code batch>
PowerShell -NoProfile -NoExit -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell.exe 'choco upgrade all' -Verb RunAs}"
PAUSE
</code>

You could also just run a [[powershell]] script directly, but I keep my ''executionpolicy restricted'' setting on, so scripts can't get through. Maybe that's paranaoid...

===== See Also =====
  * [[wp>chocolatey]]
  * [[https://chocolatey.org/|chocolatey.org]]
    * [[https://chocolatey.org/packages|chocolatey.org/packages]]

{{tag>software Windows}}