Package manager for Windows. Chocolatey

The most popular package manager for Windows is Chocolatey.

1 Resources

• Homepage: https://chocolatey.org/
• Repository: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco

2 Installing Chocolatey

• The installation procedure is described on the page https://chocolatey.org/install.
• Installation is performed in PowerShell.
• PowerShell must be run with administrator rights.
• The easiest way to launch it is with the key combination Win+X.
• The installation command is located on the page https://chocolatey.org/install.

3 Additional settings

• To install without asking for confirmation, you can configure the following:

choco feature enable -n=allowGlobalConfirmation

• You can re-enable the confirmation request with the command:

choco feature disable -n=allowGlobalConfirmation

4 Packages

• The list of packages is on the page https://chocolatey.org/packages.
• List of packages:

choco list

5 Working with software

5.1 Service functions

• Information on command line switches:

choco --help

• List of packages in the repository:

choco list

• List of installed packages:

choco list --local-only

5.2 Installing a package

• To install a package, run the command:

choco install package_name

• To install without asking for confirmation, add the y switch:

choco install package_name -y

5.3 Removing a package

• To remove a package, run the command:

choco uninstall package_name

5.4 Updating packages

• To update a package, run the command:

choco upgrade package_name

• To update all installed packages, run the command:

choco upgrade all -y

5.5 Updating packages automatically

• To update packages automatically, use the choco-upgrade-all-at package:

choco install choco-upgrade-all-at

• You can update using the command:

choco-upgrade-all

• To set the update time, you need to install with certain parameters:
• if you do not specify any parameters, choco-upgrade-all-at will run by default every day at 2 am and stop at 4 am;
• run choco upgrade all -y daily (by default) at 23:00 and abort at 1:00 (by default ABORTTIME is +2 hours):

choco install choco-upgrade-all-at --params "'/TIME:23:00'"

• run choco upgrade all -y daily at 4:00 and abort at 8:00:

choco install choco-upgrade-all-at --params "'/DAILY:yes /TIME:04:00 /ABORTTIME:08:00'"

• run choco upgrade all -y every Sunday at 1:00 and abort at 3:00:

choco install choco-upgrade-all-at --params "'/WEEKLY:yes /DAY:SUN /TIME:01:00'"

• You can edit the parameters by running the command:

choco-upgrade-all -EditConfig