Software:Chocolatey

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Chocolatey
Screenshot
Chocolatey running in the Windows Terminal
Original author(s)Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Developer(s)Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Initial release23 March 2011; 14 years ago (2011-03-23)
Repositorygithub.com/chocolatey/choco
Operating systemWindows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 and later
TypePackage management system
LicenseApache License 2.0[1]
Website{{{1}}}

Chocolatey[2] is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.[3]

The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".[4]

The choco command is used to start the Chocolatey command-line package manager.[5][6][7]

Compatible package manager

In April 2014, Microsoft debuted OneGet (renamed PackageManagement on March 20, 2015) alongside PowerShell 5. It is a free and open-source package-provider manager, which provides a way to integrate other package managers into PowerShell. OneGet was pre-configured to browse the Chocolatey repository.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. "Chocolatey license". 14 December 2021. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/blob/master/LICENSE. 
  2. "Chocolatey Gallery". https://chocolatey.org/about. 
  3. Hanselman, Scott, "Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?", Hanselman, Scott, 28 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  4. "Where Chocolatey Comes From", GitHub.com, 25 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  5. Doguhan Uluca. "Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications". 2018. p. 8
  6. Piotr Tylenda. "Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows". 2020. p. 188.
  7. Gineesh Madapparambath; Russ McKendrick. "The Kubernetes Bible". 2024.
  8. Snover, Jeffrey, "Windows Management Framework V5 Preview" , Microsoft TechNet Windows Server Blog, 3 April 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  9. Hoffman, Chris (3 August 2015). "How to Use PackageManagement (aka OneGet) on Windows 10". https://www.howtogeek.com/224111/how-to-use-packagemanagement-aka-oneget-on-windows-10/.