Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine packaging manager for Windows, which makes it very easy to install tools such as cygwin and many others on Windows platform.

To install Chocolatey, open powershell in administrator mode and run the following command:

iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

To use Chocolatey for installing tools such as vagrant and virtualbox, run the following command in powershell:

cinst vagrant virtual

To install Cygwin, run the following command in powershell:

cinst cyg-get


Link: https://chocolatey.org/