Chocolatey Package Manager
Delight in Chocolatey, a Linux-style package manager that makes it much simpler to install Windows. See why developer Tony Patton has jumped on the Chocolatey bandwagon.
Package Manager For Windows
In 2013 I asked the questions ' As with nearly all my blog posts, the comments are better than the post itself.;) Now it's 2015 and many of us are. One of the little gems in Windows 10 that no one is talking about (yet) is. You can read. It's easy (and wrong) to just say that One-Get is Apt-Get for Windows. It's more clever and cooler than that. It's a package manager manager.
OneGet is a Manager of Package Managers Go out to you Windows 10 PowerShell prompt now and type 'Get-PackageProvider' and you'll see the package managers you have registered with OneGet today. C: > Get-PackageProvider Name Version ---- ------- Programs 10.0.4 msu 10.0.4 msi 10.0.4 PSModule 1.0.0.0 Usually programs are installed with things like MSIs, for example, so there's a provider for that.
Chocolatey Package Manager Windows
You can type 'Get-Package' and see the programs AND packages on your machine: C: > Get-Package Name Version ---- ------- 123D Design R1.6 1.6.41 Suara bel sekolah. Windows Driver Package - Ge. Windows Driver Package - Ge. How to download pes 2015. Windows Driver Package - FT. JRuby 1.7.19 1.7.19 Windows Driver Package - ST. EPSON NX410 Series Printer. Intel Edison Device USB driver 1.2.1 Since it's PowerShell, you can sort and filter and what-not to your heart's delight.
Chocolatey List All Installed Packages
OneGet isn't Microsoft's Chocolately is an open source apt-get-like machine-wide package manager that you can use today, even if you don't have Windows 10. OneGet isn't Microsoft's version of Chocolately. But there is a beta/preview Chocolatey provider that plugs into OneGet so you can use OneGet to get Chocolatey packages and install them. Other things worth noting, even though OneGet is in the box for Windows 10, you can still run it on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Plus, isn't done and it's open source so there's lots of cool possibilities. Oh, and an important naming point. Just like 'Chromium' is the open source browser and 'Chrome' is the Google packaged instance of that project, 'OneGet' is the open source project and what ships with Windows 10 is just generically 'PackageManagement.'
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