(on Wikipedia)
https://chocolatey.org/

A Linux-style package manager for Windows.

Stuff I likely installed using Chocolatey: /tag/software+chocolatey+live

• 2017-10-05 – 0.10.8 – 0.10.8 on Windows 10 64bit

• 2017-10-04 – 0.10.3 on Windows 10 64bit

  • I’ve had it for some time now, but haven’t actively used it.
• 2016-10-17 – 0.10.3 on Windows 10 64bit

• I had used this a little earlier, on Windows 10 64bit

  • No notes were taken.

Notably:

choco install vcredist-all

Commands ∞

https://docs.chocolatey.org/docs/commands-reference ^[ 1 ] was https://chocolatey.org/docs/commands-reference

chocolatey has a shortform choco

• list – List packages.

  • Alias clist . Defaults to remote
  • choco list --localonly or even more short: clist -l

• upgrade – Upgrades packages from various sources.

  • Incredibly slow.
  • choco upgrade all and append -y to auto-accept.

• search – searches remote or local packages

  • (alias for list)

• info – retrieves package information.

  • Shorthand for choco search pkgname --exact --verbose
• install – installs packages from various sources
• pin – suppress upgrades for a package

• outdated – retrieves packages that are outdated.

  • Similar to upgrade all --noop
• uninstall – uninstalls a package
• pack – packages up a nuspec to a compiled nupkg
• push – pushes a compiled nupkg
• new – generates files necessary for a chocolatey package from a template
• sources – view and configure default sources
• config – Retrieve and configure config file settings
• features – view and configure choco features

• setapikey – retrieves or saves an apikey for a particular source

  • alias for apikey
• apikey – retrieves or saves an apikey for a particular source
• unpackself – have chocolatey set it self up

• download – downloads packages

  • optionally downloading and internalizing all remote resources (recompiling)

2017-10-05 – 0.10.8 ∞

Upgrading from 0.10.3 to 0.10.8 was odd..

choco upgrade chocolatey

Chocolatey v0.10.3
Upgrading the following packages:
chocolatey
By upgrading you accept licenses for the packages.
chocolatey is not installed. Installing...

A script to install applications ∞

@ECHO OFF

NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL & IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
  ECHO Right-click and run this as administrator.
  PAUSE
  EXIT /B
)

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choco install sumatrapdf