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How To Install Chocolatey on Windows

ByWSL Admin June 15, 2022July 5, 2022

This is a guide on how to install Chocolatey on Windows.

Chocolatey is a Package Manager for Windows allows to manage software packages on your system, with simple ‘choco’ commands. Choco makes keeping software up to date, and also helps with automating server builds, ensuring they are ready and on the latest stable software versions available.

In this post we will install Chocolatey, and we’re also installing an optional GUI to view all locally installed packages.

# Install Chocolatey on Windows (Using PowerShell)
# Install Chocolatey GUI (Optional)

Install Chocolatey on Windows (Using PowerShell)

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

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Install Chocolatey on Windows (Using PowerShell)

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