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Downloads:

358,647,754

Downloads of v 0.9.8.22-alpha1:

805

Last Update:

09 Nov 2013

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Tags:

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Chocolatey

This is a prerelease version of Chocolatey.

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0.9.8.22-alpha1 | Updated: 09 Nov 2013

Downloads:

358,647,754

Downloads of v 0.9.8.22-alpha1:

805

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds

Chocolatey 0.9.8.22-alpha1

This is a prerelease version of Chocolatey.

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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).
    ======= More? =======
    Check out the WIKI in the project URL for all the details of what you can do with chocolatey!

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Chocolatey 2.3.0 9703384 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Approved
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Chocolatey 2.1.0 6328779 Thursday, June 29, 2023 Exempted
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Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230321 2092 Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Exempted
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Chocolatey 0.12.0 1089417 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.3 5644470 Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.2 6979681 Thursday, September 23, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.1 3908063 Thursday, September 2, 2021 Exempted
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Chocolatey 0.10.15-beta-20190531 1291 Friday, May 31, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14 510643 Thursday, May 30, 2019 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.10.13 7775102 Friday, March 15, 2019 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.10.9 5427123 Sunday, March 25, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.9-beta-20180223 3858 Friday, February 23, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.8 24667223 Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.10.7 18322225 Thursday, June 8, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6.1 847945 Saturday, June 3, 2017 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.9-beta-20150201 787 Sunday, February 1, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.32 263427 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
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See all - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/ReleaseNotes

v0.9.8.22:

BREAKING CHANGES:

FEATURES:

  • Enhancement - Add switch to force x86 when packages have both versions - #365
  • Enhancement - Allow passing parameters to packages - #159

IMPROVEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:


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