Chocolatey

Installing Chocolatey

In PowerShell, with Adminstrator privileges, chocolatey can be installed like so:

$ua = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$installScript = $ua.DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')
invoke-expression $installScript

After installing Chocolatey, its executables are found in the directory %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin. This path is added to the PATH environment variable by the downloaded install.ps1 script.

TODO: Modified PowerShell profile

The installation also seems to add the followig snippet to the PowerShell profile whose filesystem path is stored in $profile:

# Chocolatey profile
$ChocolateyProfile = "$env:ChocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyProfile.psm1"
if (Test-Path($ChocolateyProfile)) {
  Import-Module "$ChocolateyProfile"
}

The value of the environment variable ChocolateyInstall seems to point to the directory C:\ProgramData\chocolatey.

Update the entire system

choco upgrade all -y

Editions

Chocolatey comes in 4 editions:

Open Source
Pro
Architect
Busines (C4B)

Deprecation of shims

The following shims («shortcuts») are deprecated with version 1.0.0 and will be removed with version 2.0.0: chocolatey, cinst, clist, cpush, cuninst and cup.

Misc / TODO

Environment variables

	Default value
`ChocolateyInstall`	`C:\ProgramData\chocolatey`
`ChocolateyLastPathUpdate`
`ChocolateyToolsLocation`	`C:\tools`

Default package source repository

The default package source repository (aka «Community Package Repository») is located at https://chocolatey.org/packages.

The documentation indicates that the community package repository is located at https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/, however, this link returns an XML document that is meaningles to me.

Compare with the output of choco source list.

Auto completion

PS C:\> import-module %ProgramData%\chocolatey[$env:ChocolateyInstall\\helpers\chocolateyProfile.psm1

choco … <tab>

Links

Chocolatey.

Hong/topbug.net: A Simple Tutorial: Create and Publish Chocolatey Packages