Chocolatey¶

Chocolatey is a machine-level package manager and installer for software packages, like Homebrew for macOS. It is an execution engine using the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to provide an automation tool for installing software on Windows machines, designed to simplify the process from the user perspective. The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".

Install Chocolatey¶

Installing chocolatey is done by opening a PowerShell window as an administrator and run the following command, which checks if the PowerShell profile exists, if not it creates it. Then it installs Chocolatey and refreshes the environment variables.

Set-Location $env:USERPROFILE
If ( ! ( Test-Path $PROFILE ) ) { New-Item -Force -ItemType File -Path $PROFILE; Add-Content -Path $PROFILE -Encoding UTF8 -Value "# Powershell Profile"; }
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
RefreshEnv.cmd

PowerShell Auto-Completion¶

Chocolatey provides PowerShell auto-completion for the choco command. To enable it, run the following command in PowerShell:

echo "
# Chocolatey
`$ChocolateyProfile = ""`$env:ChocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyProfile.psm1""
if (Test-Path(`$ChocolateyProfile)) {
    Import-Module ""`$ChocolateyProfile""
}
" | Out-File $PROFILE -Encoding UTF8 -Append