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Chocolatey - Wikipedia

Chocolatey

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Chocolatey1 is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.2

The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from “nougat”) “because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat”.3

The choco command is used to start the Chocolatey command-line package manager.456

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Footnotes

  1. “Chocolatey Gallery”. Chocolatey.org. Retrieved 7 March 2015. ↩

  2. Hanselman, Scott, “Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?”, Hanselman, Scott, 28 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014. ↩

  3. “Where Chocolatey Comes From”, GitHub.com, 25 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2014. ↩

  4. Doguhan Uluca. “Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications”. 2018. p. 8 ↩

  5. Piotr Tylenda. “Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows”. 2020. p. 188. ↩

  6. Gineesh Madapparambath; Russ McKendrick. “The Kubernetes Bible”. 2024. ↩

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