meet Chocolatey the apt-get for Windows (kind of)

• Well I got pretty excited when I first tried Chocolatey

• here is how you install it. paste the following into a cmd shell. NOT a powershell

$  @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('http://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin

the above powershell script will only execute from a cmd shell *

• Chocolatey will download and install itself.

then you can browse their package gallery and from cmd

$ cinst packageName

to update Chocolatey itself you type from cmd

$ cup

or to update all packages

$ cup all

or to update a specific package

$ cup packageName

• the github wiki page for Chocolatey cinst command

• and the github wiki page for all the chocolatey commands

• the only thing that I wish is that you could use it like apt-get and

$ apt-get package1 package2 otherPackage yetAnotherPAckage

-the only thing that comes close with Chocolatey is you can make a install package that downloads and installs several packages at once.

• I really like it, for Windows it's the closest thing to apt-get

Enjoy.