Installing Chocolatey: The Windows Package Manager

Hi, I am very excited to welcome you back to my blog. We'll be learning today how to install Chocolatey, the most popular package manager for Windows. we'll be following the official docs from the Chocolatey website.

Installation Process

1. Open your Terminal app or PowerShell as an administrator.

2. Now we'll be checking whether Get-ExecutionPolicy is restricted or not.

3. Run Get-ExecutionPolicy on your Terminal. If it returns Restricted, then we should run Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned or Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process.

4. Now copy the following code:

5.     Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
   

6. Paste the command into your Terminal app and hit Enter. Wait for the process to complete.

7. If any error doesn't appear, Chocolatey has been successfully installed. Type choco or choco -? now and have fun!

Now you've successfully installed Chocolatey on your system. It was really quick and easy and trust me it is more easy to get programs using Chocolatey. Hope you loved the article, feel free to share it. Till then have fun, I will catch you up in my next blog.

Thanks :)