Unpacking Software Livestream

Join our monthly Unpacking Software livestream to hear about the latest news, chat and opinion on packaging, software deployment and lifecycle management!

Learn More

Chocolatey Product Spotlight

Join the Chocolatey Team on our regular monthly stream where we put a spotlight on the most recent Chocolatey product releases. You'll have a chance to have your questions answered in a live Ask Me Anything format.

Learn More

Chocolatey Coding Livestream

Join us for the Chocolatey Coding Livestream, where members of our team dive into the heart of open source development by coding live on various Chocolatey projects. Tune in to witness real-time coding, ask questions, and gain insights into the world of package management. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with our team and contribute to the future of Chocolatey!

Learn More

Calling All Chocolatiers! Whipping Up Windows Automation with Chocolatey Central Management

Webinar from
Wednesday, 17 January 2024

We are delighted to announce the release of Chocolatey Central Management v0.12.0, featuring seamless Deployment Plan creation, time-saving duplications, insightful Group Details, an upgraded Dashboard, bug fixes, user interface polishing, and refined documentation. As an added bonus we'll have members of our Solutions Engineering team on-hand to dive into some interesting ways you can leverage the new features available!

Watch On-Demand
Chocolatey Community Coffee Break

Join the Chocolatey Team as we discuss all things Community, what we do, how you can get involved and answer your Chocolatey questions.

Watch The Replays
Chocolatey and Intune Overview

Webinar Replay from
Wednesday, 30 March 2022

At Chocolatey Software we strive for simple, and teaching others. Let us teach you just how simple it could be to keep your 3rd party applications updated across your devices, all with Intune!

Watch On-Demand
Chocolatey For Business. In Azure. In One Click.

Livestream from
Thursday, 9 June 2022

Join James and Josh to show you how you can get the Chocolatey For Business recommended infrastructure and workflow, created, in Azure, in around 20 minutes.

Watch On-Demand
The Future of Chocolatey CLI

Livestream from
Thursday, 04 August 2022

Join Paul and Gary to hear more about the plans for the Chocolatey CLI in the not so distant future. We'll talk about some cool new features, long term asks from Customers and Community and how you can get involved!

Watch On-Demand
Hacktoberfest Tuesdays 2022

Livestreams from
October 2022

For Hacktoberfest, Chocolatey ran a livestream every Tuesday! Re-watch Cory, James, Gary, and Rain as they share knowledge on how to contribute to open-source projects such as Chocolatey CLI.

Watch On-Demand

Downloads:

3,374

Downloads of v 0.0.1:

3,374

Last Update:

27 Nov 2018

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bcurran3

Tags:

bcurran3 choco cinst nupkg winconfig chocolateasy

(unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config)

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

0.0.1 | Updated: 27 Nov 2018

Downloads:

3,374

Downloads of v 0.0.1:

3,374

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • bcurran3

(unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config) 0.0.1

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
Learn More

Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig
  win_chocolatey:
    name: choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig
    version: '0.0.1'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.0.1'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig
{
    Name     = "choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig"
    Version  = "0.0.1"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig':
  ensure   => '0.0.1',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator gep13 on 29 Nov 2018.

Description

Do you want to install Chocolatey packages from your web browser?

You just found the easy way!

"This is the first package that every new Chocolatey user should install. Works great with Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. WOW!" - Anonymous Chocolatey User

WHO IS THIS FOR?

choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig is designed for those who aren't comfortable with the Command Prompt or just don't like to type much. choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig allows you to install Chocolatey packages by simply downloading them from your web browser. choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig is also useful to support professionals who know the difficulty of getting end users to type in commands correctly, now you can give them a URL to click and have a Chocolatey package installed!

If you like the convienance of this package, you should also check out (unofficial) Chocolatey Shortcuts (Config).

HOW DOES IT WORK?

choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig configures Windows to automatically open Chocolatey packages (.nupkg files) using Chocolatey's cinst.exe ("choco install" shim) program. choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig also sets cinst.exe to always run as administrator which is necessary for most packages.

USAGE INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Browse to chocolatey.org.
  2. Search for a package you want to install.
  3. Click the result link to view the package page.
  4. Find the Package Specific column on the left and click the Download link.
  5. Wait (seconds) for it to download and...
  6. Browser examples: Chrome | Firefox | Opera

Easy peasy, Chocolateasy!

WARNING: Only install one package at a time until such time as Chocolatey v1.x is released. (REFERENCE)

If you find choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig useful, please consider donating:
https://www.paypal.me/bcurran3donations or become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/bcurran3


tools\.SkipAutoUninstaller
 
tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$packageName = 'choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig'
$pp          = Get-PackageParameters

# Set Windows to auto-run .nupkg files with cinst.exe
New-PSDrive -Name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -ea SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
New-Item -Path "HKCR:" -Name ".nupkg" –Force | Out-Null
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:\.nupkg"-Name "(Default)" -Value "nupkg_auto_file"
New-Item -Path "HKCR:" -Name "nupkg_auto_file" –Force | Out-Null
New-Item -Path "HKCR:\nupkg_auto_file" -Name "shell" –Force | Out-Null
New-Item -Path "HKCR:\nupkg_auto_file\shell" -Name "open" –Force | Out-Null
New-Item -Path "HKCR:\nupkg_auto_file\shell\open" -Name "command" –Force | Out-Null
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCR:\nupkg_auto_file\shell\open\command" -Name "(Default)" -Value """$env:ChocolateyInstall\bin\cinst.exe"" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5" | Out-Null

# Set cinst.exe compatibility to "Run this program as an administrator" for all users
Write-Host "  * "$packageName": Configuring for all users of $env:COMPUTERNAME."  -foreground magenta
New-Item -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" -Name "AppCompatFlags" -ea SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
New-Item -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags" -Name "Layers" -ea SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" -Name "$env:ChocolateyInstall\bin\cinst.exe" -Value "RUNASADMIN" | Out-Null
tools\ChocolateyUninstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$packageName = 'choco-install-packages-from-web-winconfig'
$pp          = Get-PackageParameters

New-PSDrive -Name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -ea SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
Remove-Item -Path "HKCR:nupkg_auto_file" -Recurse –Force | Out-Null
Remove-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\" -Name "$env:ChocolateyInstall\bin\cinst.exe" -ea SilentlyContinue | Out-Null

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status

This package has no dependencies.

Discussion for the (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config) Package

Ground Rules:

  • This discussion is only about (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config) and the (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config) package. If you have feedback for Chocolatey, please contact the Google Group.
  • This discussion will carry over multiple versions. If you have a comment about a particular version, please note that in your comments.
  • The maintainers of this Chocolatey Package will be notified about new comments that are posted to this Disqus thread, however, it is NOT a guarantee that you will get a response. If you do not hear back from the maintainers after posting a message below, please follow up by using the link on the left side of this page or follow this link to contact maintainers. If you still hear nothing back, please follow the package triage process.
  • Tell us what you love about the package or (unofficial) Install Chocolatey Packages from your Web Browser (Config), or tell us what needs improvement.
  • Share your experiences with the package, or extra configuration or gotchas that you've found.
  • If you use a url, the comment will be flagged for moderation until you've been whitelisted. Disqus moderated comments are approved on a weekly schedule if not sooner. It could take between 1-5 days for your comment to show up.
comments powered by Disqus