What is Chocolatey?
Every time you work on a Linux machine, you can quickly install applications using apt-get or yum. When you switch to Windows and have to install an application like Notepad++ or 7-Zip, you go to the website, find the right version, download the file and go through the installation.
Imagine if you are setting up a new computer, you would have to install multiple applications. On any computer, you typically install applications like Google Chrome, Firefox, Adobe Reader, 7-Zip, Skype, etc. You would have to go to multiple websites, download the installers and install them one at a time. Now imagine if you were to set this up on multiple computers. Chocolatey is an answer for these issues.
Chocolatey is a package management solution for Windows.
How to install Chocolatey?
- Open PowerShell Window as an Administrator and run the script below
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'))
- Upgrade the chocolatey version
choco upgrade chocolatey
How to install an application?
To install Notepad++, run the following command.
choco install notepadplusplus
For more information, please visit Chocolatey at https://chocolatey.org/