Unboxing

Chocolatey and WinGet offer full-fledged package management on Windows, but which is best for your environment?

Evgenij Smirnov

Installing and uninstalling applications in Windows traditionally involves running a graphical wizard. Unattended installs that depend on this type of installer are often troublesome. In comparison, installing an application on Linux is usually a piece of cake: Package managers such as Apt, Yum, and Zypper make sure that the sources are always up to date and resolve dependencies, and they usually do not require any parameters apart from the package name. However, Windows users also have some practical command-line interface (CLI) based package management tools. In this article, I look at two solutions for full-fledged package managers on Windows: Chocolatey and Microsoft’s WinGet. Unique Installs If you want to install a simple Windows program such as 7-Zip, Green-Shot, or Notepad++, you usually download and launch the installer (EXE or MSI)…

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