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

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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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Downloads:

359,197,020

Downloads of v 0.9.8.24-beta1:

1,613

Last Update:

03 Apr 2014

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds
  • The Chocolatey Team

Tags:

Chocolatey

This is a prerelease version of Chocolatey.

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0.9.8.24-beta1 | Updated: 03 Apr 2014

Downloads:

359,197,020

Downloads of v 0.9.8.24-beta1:

1,613

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds
  • The Chocolatey Team

Chocolatey 0.9.8.24-beta1

This is a prerelease version of Chocolatey.

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

To upgrade Chocolatey, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

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

Description

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer.

Chocolatey is brought to you by the work and inspiration of the community, the work and thankless nights of the Chocolatey Team (https://github.com/orgs/chocolatey/members), and Rob heading up the direction.

You can host your own sources and add them to chocolatey, you can extend chocolatey's capabilities, and folks, it's only going to get better.

== Commands ==
There are quite a few commands you can call - you should check out the command reference at: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/CommandsReference

  • Search - choco search something
  • List - choco list -lo
  • Install - choco install baretail
  • Update - choco update baretail
  • Uninstall - choco uninstall baretail

More advanced commands and switches listed on the command reference, including how you can force a package to install the x86 version of a package.

== Create Packages? ==
We have some great guidance on how to do that. Where? I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with sticky! https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/CreatePackages

In that mess there is a link to the Helper Reference - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/HelpersReference

== Chocolatey gods? ==
Humor related to playing off of tiki gods. We like humor. Don't take life so seriously, you will never get out alive.


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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 2.4.1 3783661 Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Approved
Chocolatey 2.4.0 2426072 Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Approved
Chocolatey 2.3.0 9787363 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Approved
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Chocolatey 2.2.0 3347542 Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.1.0 6328795 Thursday, June 29, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.1.0-alpha-20230614 2253 Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.1.0-alpha-20230608 1047 Thursday, June 8, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0 9676862 Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230426 4174 Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230412 1795 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230321 2094 Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230307 1377 Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230221 1213 Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230124 1238 Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.4.3 805 Monday, February 10, 2025 Approved
Chocolatey 1.4.1 236 Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.4.0 2851873 Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.3.1 5214705 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.3.0 3246485 Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.2.1 6479449 Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Approved
Chocolatey 1.2.0 1776497 Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Approved
Chocolatey 1.1.0 8372654 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.0.1 1055950 Thursday, March 24, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.0.0 872911 Monday, March 21, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.12.1 4191366 Tuesday, January 25, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.12.0 1089436 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.3 5644519 Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.2 6979687 Thursday, September 23, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.1 3908067 Thursday, September 2, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.10.16-beta-20200806 15246 Thursday, August 6, 2020 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.15 71794303 Monday, June 3, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.15-beta-20190531 1295 Friday, May 31, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14 510652 Thursday, May 30, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190418 5706 Thursday, April 18, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190402 3152 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190321 2684 Friday, March 22, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.13 7775173 Friday, March 15, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12 152588 Friday, March 15, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12-beta-20181011 15460 Friday, October 12, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12-beta-20181009 1001 Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.11 29157944 Friday, May 4, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.10 2954520 Thursday, April 12, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.9 5427131 Sunday, March 25, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.9-beta-20180223 3863 Friday, February 23, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.8 24667232 Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.8-beta-20170806 5368 Monday, August 7, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.7 18322230 Thursday, June 8, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6.1 847953 Saturday, June 3, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6 413418 Thursday, June 1, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6-beta-20170531 1122 Thursday, June 1, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6-beta-20170503 8343 Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.5 18050596 Thursday, March 30, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.4 174403 Thursday, March 30, 2017 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.10.4-beta1-20170323 859 Thursday, March 23, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.3 25541879 Friday, October 7, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.2 686159 Friday, September 30, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.1 2005731 Monday, September 19, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.0 3816179 Thursday, August 11, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10.3 1920616 Thursday, June 23, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10.1 1019 Saturday, June 18, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10 2503 Friday, June 17, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-rc1 756 Monday, June 13, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160612 749 Sunday, June 12, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160531 716 Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160524 736 Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160509 846 Monday, May 9, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160506 736 Friday, May 6, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160505 685 Thursday, May 5, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160503 719 Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160422 1115 Friday, April 22, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160411 1293 Monday, April 11, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160402 1197 Saturday, April 2, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160330 739 Thursday, March 31, 2016 Exempted
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160325 913 Friday, March 25, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160323 966 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160322 710 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160320 935 Sunday, March 20, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160302 1094 Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160205 1154 Friday, February 5, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.9.12 387329 Friday, March 18, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.9.11 8574181 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.9-rc5 1163 Monday, February 9, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.9-rc4 825 Sunday, February 8, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.9-rc1 804 Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.9-beta2-20150202 818 Monday, February 2, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.9-beta-20150201 789 Sunday, February 1, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.32 263430 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.8.31 190617 Wednesday, January 7, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.31-beta1 730 Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.28-alpha1 821 Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Approved
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