

We typically recommend organizations depending Chocolatey look to managing their own packaging as opposed to using the Community Package Repository ( ) - packages there are not 100% reliable due to distribution rights with publicly available packages (which causes a major failure point). Then Why Chocolatey Can I use Chocolatey at my organization?Ībsolutely! The licensing is very business friendly (plus we have paid options to better help organizations - hint, hint). Great question! See The purpose of Chocolatey How does Chocolatey work?įirst a story. Nearly exactly what you may already be doing, except wrapped up into a package file that allows you to modularize and easily manage order with dependencies on other packages. Yes, in a nutshell that is what Chocolatey does. choco upgrade all -y I need a tool that manages software - using scripts to work with those unattended installs.

How about updates? Wouldn't it be nice to update nearly everything on your machine with a few simple keystrokes? We think so, too. What does that mean though?" It means you can simply install software with a few keystrokes and go get coffee while your co-workers are downloading and running an install manually (and I do mean something like an MSI). "Okay, machine package manager, that's nice. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of nuget command line and the nuget infrastructure. What is Chocolatey?Ĭhocolatey is kind of like apt-get, but for Windows (with Windows comes limitations). Feel free to reach out to us on Chat or on the email distribution list / forum.
