Lol how has chocolatey been for your environment? About to roll it out at one college at our university. Another uses Ansible which is more complex/higher than chocolatey. But they can work together, chocolatey just hosting packages for Ansible . Ansible you can make playbooks like "all PCs in X should have office version Y installed". And it checks and makes sure
brother, you have shown me the light. That's insane. Chocolatey will officially replace Ninite for me soon as I verify it has the same programs. I might teach myself batch programming just so I can simplify this even further and have the ultimate "new windows install" script
Took me a minute to figure out that you should actually be using powershell, which is why checking execution policy wasn't working... But otherwise, good video! Gave me the confidence to give it a shot even if I ran into some issues that weren't addressed.
This is an incredible video. Thank you for showing us how to use Chocolatey. I have always wanted a package manager like this on Windows. Looks like Microsoft is moving in that direction. This is awesome.
this such a great tool to have under your belt. I've been using it lately to install some programs and I'm staggered to see how easy it is to install software with it. thanks for the vid!
Chocolatey repo works for Linux, not that Linux needs a new package manager as it's always has them and windows is catching up as most windows users are used to a setup.exe or msi file, and not a package. I use a 3rd party package repository for internal use that can be installed on Linux or windows and work with chocolatey either way. Almost went with *nix but kept everything winblows for now in the test environment. If I had to run it long-term I'd prob choose *nix with no gui as my private repo. The repo I use supports not just nuget (chocolatey), but apt and other repos native to *nix, so you could do that too
I agree with you. Ninite is easier to use. With Chocolatey, I found it is best to create a text file that can be used with multiple computers. That makes it easy to use.
nice vid. but i have two questions: 1) what means "do you want to run the script"? Whats behind the script? 2) how can i change install options (for example some installers will have a ticked checkbox to install yahoo startpage; or i will have the options to check/uncheck file extensions to be connected with the software to be installed; or other install options...)
1- it does that I agree the terms stuff and choosing install directory 2- I'm using this for notepad++, steam, chrome, mpc-hc, codeblocks, winrar etc. And these installers normally don't have bloatware anyway but you have to check the website if you're unsure, I mean the package is sometimes different than the regular installer so package creator could easily remove bloatware.
Excellent video and another new utility to test and hopefully add to my toolbox. Thankyou. One question / thought : As these are community maintained, what is in place from a security perspective to ensure there are no "malevolent" packages ?
I understand your concern. All packages are moderator reviewed. As with anything, there could be mistakes. Chocolatey does provide a moderator queue to see what is pending approval. Go to packages, select "Normal View" and change to "Moderator Queue". I feel comfortable with their process.
The command line part isn't that intimidating. I don't like that I don't get to examine the installers for size and bundled libraries and save the packages for later use. I feel like I'm asked to trust the provider too much. Windows software usually spoils and the latest version isn't always the best. If I don't care to have the absolute latest, then installing setup.exe from local storage on a new computer is quick too.
This is exactly what I am thinking. I want a competent package updater, ideally with a GUI, not because command line is intimidating me which I regularly use anyways, but because I like having a visual glance over my settings and anything else. I can probably count the installers that I let proceed with default settings on one hand. :D That's why I'm now trying out SUMO. It lets you update, not install.
Yes. You can change the default install location, although the method is not very user friendly. Instead of posting the entire instructions. Here is a link to the wiki page. github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted
You can install and upgrade multiple programs at the same time, which is easier and saves time over doing each program individually. This is especially useful with fresh installs on new computers.
after i am done installing a program. how do i run the program. i installed neko, the virtural machine program and i dont know how to run it. i pressed the windows key and typed "neko" and the chocolatey logo popped up and said run command or something like that and when i clicked on open nothing happened. i also clicked on run as administrator.
Thanks for the video. I'm looking for a similar piece of software, but I want the software to install about 15 programs one after the other, that I have stored on a USB stick and add the licence keys automatically as well. So I don't want software that will download the programs off of the internet first. I just need it to automatically execute .exe on my USB stick and go through the wizard on it's own. Also I need it to install fonts. Does anyone know of a piece of software that will do this for me?
i just dont get it. it there something difficult about just going and getting it. everything has to be converted into PS/CMD/BASH lines in order to do it? if you have to go and SEE what packages you can get and their commands, then you can just go and download what you want from its source. can I just "Choco update GeForce"? much like you can do with Apt-Get? not that there is a need to because this is readily available when you open GFE
There is no difference. Sometimes .install is used for discovery. There is no need for you to add the .install into the command prompt window. So if you see "choco install 7zip.install", you can just enter "choco install 7zip".
Things I don't like about Choco: 1. It doesn't set any start menu shortcuts. 2. Synchroniser is only available in Pro, so I need to manually map all previously installed application.
I have issue like this : Exception calling "DownloadString" with "1" argument(s): "The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel." At line:1 char:1 + iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('chocol ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
Finding viewer and editors is easy. I would like to do a video on PDF creators that are as good or better than Adobe Acrobat, but so far all the alternatives have been disappointing. Anyone that knows of a really good PDF creator, let me know.
If you want the GUI version you can use install it by running choco install chocolateygui to use in cmd or powershell just type choco search [blank] or choco install [blank]
so these programs show up on window Programs list? Can you Uninstall a program from there or only from choco? Also can you run a batch file to do all of this, that would essentially give you a 1 click install if you could
Uninstalling Choco programs can be a little tricky. Sometimes the programs will show up in the system "Programs and Features", sometimes they don't. For example: In this video, I installed Maxthon and Notepad++. Notepad++ shows up in "Programs and Features", Maxthon does not. So Maxthon would need to be uninstalled using Choco only.
you didn't say how to run the installed packages and most important where are they installed... like I will find them in ProgramFiles ? or under a choco folder something ?
When installing apps directly, you can use the options in the installer to customize how the app should behave. In Chocolately you get none of these options, it just straight installs the app using default settings. This is not cool!
How do you know you can trust the software that some else has packaged. Surely, they could embed malware in the package that could spy on your pc. Would anyone use this on their corporate network?
I don't like it ... no GUI, you need to buy Pro version to have an option to install software to different location (i mean WTF ? that is basic funtion), hard to know if install is outdated .... Npackd 64 is better for me IMO.
Hello DANGER I downloaded WinMerge from Chocolatey which worked as expected. HOWEVER, now when using RoboCopy in my own Powershell Scripts, it's Parameter are reversed. This means every new backup justs resets my code. I did a system restore and the problem was temporily solved. The problem has remerged. Has anybody any suggestions how to resolve the problem. I dont know who is responsible for this malicious BUG To whoever this is Im not amused, Ha Ha very funny.
