Chocolatey: A package manager for Windows

11 May 2016 chocolatey, package-manager, windows-package-manager

Chocolatey is an awesome package manager for Windows (based on NuGet) which I have been using since a couple of years now. Every developer and hacker should have it on their Windows machines.

A package manager is a tool which makes it easy to install, configure and update a software from the command line.

Chocolatey is like apt-get on Linux or homebrew on Mac.

Installing and updating software is a breeze with Chocolatey using very simple commands.

Install a package
```
C:\> choco install notepadplusplus
```
Search for a package
```
C:\> choco search notepadplusplus
```
List all installed packages
```
C:\> choco list --localOnly
```
Upgrade chocolatey using chocolatey ;)
```
C:\> choco upgrade chocolatey
```

You can find more usage at Chocolatey’s Wiki.