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Announcing Chocolatey Central Management 0.10.0

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Thursday, 06 October 2022

We recently released our largest update to Chocolatey Central Management so far. Join Gary and Steph to find out more about Chocolatey Central Management and the new features and fixes we've added to this release.

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Chocolatey and Intune Overview

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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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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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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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Chocolatey Product Spotlight: Chocolatey 1.2.0 and Chocolatey Licensed Extension 5.0.0

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Join Paul and Gary for this months Chocolatey product livestream where we look at the latest release of Chocolatey 1.2.0, Chocolatey Licensed Extension 5.0.0 and shine a spotlight on the new hook scripts functionality. This opens up so many possibilities for Chocolatey CLI users!

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Chocolatey Coding Livestream

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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Join Josh as he adds the ability to manage Chocolatey GUI config and features with the Chocolatey Ansible Collection.

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Introduction into Chocolatey with Veeam

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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Join Gary, Paul, and Maurice as they introduce and demonstrate how to use Chocolatey! Questions will be answered live in an Ask Me Anything format.

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Downloads:

288,643,981

Downloads of v 0.9.8.28-alpha2:

1,458

Last Update:

01 Aug 2014

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds
  • The Chocolatey Team

Tags:

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Chocolatey

This is a prerelease version of Chocolatey.

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0.9.8.28-alpha2 | Updated: 01 Aug 2014

Downloads:

288,643,981

Downloads of v 0.9.8.28-alpha2:

1,458

Software Author(s):

  • Rob Reynolds
  • The Chocolatey Team

Chocolatey 0.9.8.28-alpha2

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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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
  • Install ruby gem - choco install compass -source ruby
  • Install python egg - choco install sphynx -source python
  • Install windows feature - choco install IIS -source windowsfeatures
  • Install webpi feature - choco install IIS7.5Express -source webpi

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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Chocolatey 2.0.0-beta-20230321 1949 Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230307 1246 Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230221 1060 Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 2.0.0-alpha-20230124 1094 Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.3.1 5212968 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.3.0 3245617 Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.2.1 6475795 Tuesday, December 6, 2022 Approved
Chocolatey 1.2.0 1705622 Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Approved
Chocolatey 1.1.0 8350177 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.0.1 1055441 Thursday, March 24, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 1.0.0 872399 Monday, March 21, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.12.1 4190340 Tuesday, January 25, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.12.0 1088809 Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.3 5641321 Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.2 6979201 Thursday, September 23, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.11.1 3907883 Thursday, September 2, 2021 Exempted
Chocolatey 0.10.16-beta-20200806 14928 Thursday, August 6, 2020 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.15 70693188 Monday, June 3, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.15-beta-20190531 1098 Friday, May 31, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14 510368 Thursday, May 30, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190418 5499 Thursday, April 18, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190402 2906 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.14-beta-20190321 2400 Friday, March 22, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.13 7770268 Friday, March 15, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12 152398 Friday, March 15, 2019 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12-beta-20181011 15277 Friday, October 12, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.12-beta-20181009 806 Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.11 29150941 Friday, May 4, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.10 2954285 Thursday, April 12, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.9 5426857 Sunday, March 25, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.9-beta-20180223 3653 Friday, February 23, 2018 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.8 24666240 Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.8-beta-20170806 5148 Monday, August 7, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.7 18321317 Thursday, June 8, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6.1 847746 Saturday, June 3, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6 413204 Thursday, June 1, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6-beta-20170531 904 Thursday, June 1, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.6-beta-20170503 8110 Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.5 18049832 Thursday, March 30, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.4 174180 Thursday, March 30, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.4-beta1-20170326 799 Sunday, March 26, 2017 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.4-beta1-20170323 648 Thursday, March 23, 2017 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.10.2 685932 Friday, September 30, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.1 2005458 Monday, September 19, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.10.0 3815665 Thursday, August 11, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10.3 1920415 Thursday, June 23, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10.2 2884 Sunday, June 19, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10.1 787 Saturday, June 18, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10 2263 Friday, June 17, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-rc1 630 Monday, June 13, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160527 623 Friday, May 27, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160524 606 Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160509 667 Monday, May 9, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160506 599 Friday, May 6, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160505 559 Thursday, May 5, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160323 754 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160322 538 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160320 724 Sunday, March 20, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160318 625 Friday, March 18, 2016 Approved
Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160314 770 Monday, March 14, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160302 917 Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.10-beta-20160205 962 Friday, February 5, 2016 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.9-rc5 1034 Monday, February 9, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.33 1795027 Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.31 190497 Wednesday, January 7, 2015 Approved
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Chocolatey 0.9.8.31-beta1 587 Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Approved
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