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Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.

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Chocolatey
Original authorsChocolatey Software, Inc.
DevelopersChocolatey Software, Inc.
Initial release23 March 2011 (2011-03-23)
Stable release
2.7.21 Edit this on Wikidata / 12 May 2026 (12 May 2026)
Preview release
2.3.0-beta-202405282 Edit this on Wikidata / 29 May 2024 (29 May 2024)
Written inC#,34 XML,3 shell script3 Edit this on Wikidata
Operating systemWindows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 and later
TypePackage management system
LicenseApache License 2.05
Websitechocolatey.org Edit this at Wikidata
Repositorygithub.com/chocolatey/choco

Chocolatey6 is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.7

The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".8

The choco command is used to start the Chocolatey command-line package manager.91011

Compatible package manager

In April 2014, Microsoft debuted OneGet (renamed PackageManagement on March 20, 2015) alongside PowerShell 5. It is a free and open-source package-provider manager, which provides a way to integrate other package managers into PowerShell. OneGet was pre-configured to browse the Chocolatey repository.1213

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Release 2.7.2". 12 May 2026. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
  2. "Release 2.3.0-beta-20240528". GitHub. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. "The Chocolatey Choco Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page". Open Hub. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  4. "Github-Ranking/Data/github-ranking-2025-07-06.csv". 6 July 2025.
  5. "Chocolatey license". Chocolatey.org. 14 December 2021.
  6. "Chocolatey Gallery". Chocolatey.org. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  7. Hanselman, Scott, "Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?", Hanselman, Scott, 28 May 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  8. "Where Chocolatey Comes From", GitHub.com, 25 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  9. Doguhan Uluca. "Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications". 2018. p. 8
  10. Piotr Tylenda. "Hands-On Kubernetes on Windows". 2020. p. 188.
  11. Gineesh Madapparambath; Russ McKendrick. "The Kubernetes Bible". 2024.
  12. Snover, Jeffrey, "Windows Management Framework V5 Preview" Archived 2022-08-17 at the Wayback Machine, Microsoft TechNet Windows Server Blog, 3 April 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  13. Hoffman, Chris (3 August 2015). "How to Use PackageManagement (aka OneGet) on Windows 10". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
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