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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!

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Chocolatey Community Coffee Break

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Chocolatey and Intune Overview

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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!

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Chocolatey For Business. In Azure. In One Click.

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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.

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The Future of Chocolatey CLI

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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!

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Hacktoberfest Tuesdays 2022

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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.

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Downloads:

360,414,468

Downloads of v 0.9.6.1:

1,064

Last Update:

23 Aug 2011

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Tags:

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0.9.6.1 | Updated: 23 Aug 2011

Downloads:

360,414,468

Downloads of v 0.9.6.1:

1,064

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Chocolatey 0.9.6.1

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Please visit our documentation to learn how to install/uninstall Chocolatey.

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This package was approved as a trusted package on 02 Jan 2015.

Description

Chocolatey - think executables/application packages (like apt-get for Windows), not library packages. This is what the Chocolatey NuGet goodness is for.
Chocolatey allows you to install application nuggets and run executables from anywhere.
||Executable Nuggets| For example, say you have an executable in the tools folder of your package named bob.exe. Then you can type
'chocolatey install yourPackageName [-source source] [-version version]' OR 'cinst yourPackageName [-source source] [-version version]'
and when it finishes you can type
'bob'
and it will run your application executable.
||Application Nuggets - Full on double rainbow|| For example, say you type
'chocolatey install 7zip [-source source] [-version version]' OR 'cinst 7zip [-source source] [-version version]'

  • when it finishes you will have installed 7zip on your machine (in your add/remove programs).

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.

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Chocolatey 2.4.0 2426076 Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Approved
Chocolatey 2.3.0 9828227 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Approved
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Chocolatey 2.1.0 6328807 Thursday, June 29, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.1.0-alpha-20230614 2256 Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.1.0-alpha-20230608 1048 Thursday, June 8, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0 9676894 Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230426 4176 Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Exempted
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Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230321 2101 Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Exempted
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Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230221 1215 Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230124 1241 Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.4.3 841 Monday, February 10, 2025 Approved
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Chocolatey 1.3.1 5214716 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.3.0 3246488 Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Exempted
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Chocolatey 1.1.0 8372694 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Exempted
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Chocolatey 0.11.1 3908071 Thursday, September 2, 2021 Exempted
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