Chocolatey

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Chocolatey
Original author(s) Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Developer(s) Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Initial release23 March 2011;14 years ago (2011-03-23)
Stable release
2.5.1 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 3 September 2025;8 days ago (3 September 2025)
Preview release
2.3.0-beta-20240528 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 29 May 2024;15 months ago (29 May 2024)
Repository github.com/chocolatey/choco
Written inC#, [3] [4] XML, [3] shell script, [3] Ruby [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Operating system Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 and later
Type Package management system
License Apache License 2.0 [5]
Website chocolatey.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Chocolatey [6] 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]

Contents

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. [9] [10] [11]

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. [12] [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 2.5.1". 3 September 2025. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Release 2.3.0-beta-20240528". GitHub. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "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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