It's helpful to include the version of choco, the version of the OS, and the version of PowerShell (Posh) - the debug script should capture all of those pieces of information. Include screenshots and/or animated gifs whenever possible, they help show us exactly what the problem is. Contri...
When it was initially released, Chocolatey was only available through command-line tools to execute the required actions. However, to attract general Windows OS users, the developers introduced the user-friendly GUI version of the app. Here is how to install it. After installing Chocolatey, relaun...
Screenshot - This section is optional. However, it's always appreciated if you can show how the code added changes/fixes the behavior of the package. Types of changes - What changes have you made in the pull request - have you fixed a bug, implemented a new feature/enhancement, o...
What Is Chocolatey? Chocolatey is a command-line package manager and installer for Windows operating systems. With the NuGet packaging infrastructure and the Windows PowerShell technology at its core, Chocolatey simplifies and automates the process of installing software and keeping it up to date. W...
With all the writing about OneGet that everyone's been doing lately, I thought it might be a good time to explain exactly what OneGet and Chocolatey's relationship is.When we built the OneGet prototype that first shipped with the WMF 5.0 preview last April, the only provider that was even...
And what if you had software like Google Chrome installed and then wanted to upgrade it? What if you could use a command like choco upgrade googlechrome …and get an instant upgrade? That is the power of package management, and that is what the Chocolatey package manager brings to Windows:...
So macOS users have Homebrew, Linux distros all come with their own package manager ( and Homebrew, however I’m not sure how many people are using it on Linux ). What about Windows? FSM EXCLUSIVE DEAL AdGuard AdBlock- 30% offAdGuard VPN - 80% offAdGuard DNS - 20% off ...
Just make sure to make it obvious in a readme file or something similar that running setup.cd is all that needs to be done. Create Your Own Chocolatey Packages Creating a package is super simple. Here’s what you need: Nuspec (nuget specification file for a .nupkg...
Chocolatey provides new commands available from the command prompt. A key one is named cinst. This is what you'll use to install Chocolatey packages.I haven't installed Console2 on this system yet, so let's get it done with the command line and cinst:...
Chocolatey is kind of like apt-get, but for Windows (with Windows comes limitations). It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of nuget command line and the nuget infrastructure. More behind the name "Okay, machine package manager, that's nice. What does that mean tho...