What is Chocolatey?
Chocolatey or Choco as it is sometimes referred to, is a free, open-source package manager for windows servers that is very similar to Apt or DNF in the Linux realm. In other words, this is a program used for installing software via the Windows command line. It downloads a program, installs it, then it will check for the updates, and installs those updates automatically if needed.
Prerequisites
- Windows 7 or later / Windows Server 2003 or later
- PowerShell v2 or later
Installation
First, we need to run the Get-ExecutionPolicy. If it returns Restricted, then we need to run one of the two commands below.
Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned
or
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process
Now run the following command in the Windows shell.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
If there are no errors, Chocolatey will be installed. We can verify the installation using the choco command.
Verify Installation
C:\WINDOWS\system32>choco
You will get to see the below output.
Chocolatey v0.10.15
Please run 'choco -?' or 'choco -?' for help menu.
Excellent! Chocolatey is installed!
Installing Git
choco install git
Verify Git Version
git --version
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