chocolatey – Accidents Happen https://ah.thameera.com In the dark Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:15:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 56521109 Chocolatey brings package management to Windows https://ah.thameera.com/chocolatey-brings-package-management-to-windows/ https://ah.thameera.com/chocolatey-brings-package-management-to-windows/#respond Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:15:59 +0000 http://noisythameera.wordpress.com/?p=90 Chocolatey is the topic in the town these days. When it comes to installing software, Windows is far behind most Linux distributions. Chocolatey is a package manager like apt-get on Debian and Ubuntu. Install it by entering the command

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘http://bit.ly/psChocInstall’))” && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%chocolateybin

(yes, in a Windows command prompt) and you’re good to go. The list of available packages can be found here. There’s no huge list of apps like in apt-get as yet though. If you want to install, say, expresso, just type 

cinst expresso

in the command prompt. It’s said Chocolatey works in Cygwin as well, but I’m yet to try that out.

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