Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows. It vastly simplifies the installation process for most applications, so it’s a huge time saver. I can’t believe I didn’t start using this sooner.

Remember to run within a command prompt with elevated privileges!

CLI commands

Assume all commands are prefixed with choco.

  • search — string search for a certain package
  • install — string install a given package
  • upgrade — string update a certain package
    • chocolatey — upgrade Chocolatey itself
    • all — upgrade all installed packages.