Package manager for Windows

poisson

Today I learn that there is the equivalent of apt, yum, dnf, and pkg for Windoze. It is called Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/

So, you can totally do stuff like:

choco install notepadplusplus --force --force-dependencies
choco install nodejs.install --version 0.10.35
choco upgrade notepadplusplus googlechrome atom 7zip
choco uninstall nodejs.install --all-versions

Abdullah

I learned it today too.

CyberneticTitan

There's also one coming from Microsoft: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

AlwaysSkint

There may be bloatware ahead..

yoursunny

I deployed Chocolatey last year. It simplified software updates significantly. No more clicking through multiple pages of the installer, or reading the never ending license agreement.
I wish ALL software can be installed via Chocolatey, including those industrial control software and paid Microsoft products (prompt for license key on first run).

Murv

Check out Scoop too. It's a great package manager for CLI stuff.

havoc

@CyberneticTitan said:
There's also one coming from Microsoft: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

There was a ton of drama about their stuff basically copying a FOSS implementation. (And unfortunately they could - license used was permissive)

bugrakoc

@havoc said:

@CyberneticTitan said:
There's also one coming from Microsoft: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/

There was a ton of drama about their stuff basically copying a FOSS implementation. (And unfortunately they could - license used was permissive)

I mean why shouldn't they copy? Wouldn't you? It's a stupid thing to complain about. If they didn't want this to happen they should've used a different licence like GPL or something.

Everyone's a Free Software person until Micro&Soft copy your code.