Hey everyone. So as we are discussing about
package managers for Linux based
operating systems.
Do you also know that we have package managers
for Windows operating system as well?
So you must be surprised to see this because generally
we do not use any package managers
to install programs for us in
Windows based home workstations.
We instead simply download those from their websites
then we install it the normal way that we usually do
but we have a package
manager for Windows, which is known as chocolatey.
The name may sound little bit chocolaty here
in this case. But yes, this is
what we have. So chocolatey is one of the
package managers which would work exactly
the same.
that we use in our Linux based operating systems like
apt
So what it does basically?
It helps us install remove upgrade
and update packages in
our computer. It says that it basically simplifies
the complex processes and saves
our time for installing and removing
programs.
This looks really very awesome. Let's see. How can
we get started installing packages? And what
are the packages actually supported by the community
of chocolaty or maybe the repository
of chocolatey?
So here you can see in total 4,125 are
package numbers are being supported.
So actually that's a big count.
Here we can also see the tools. For example
Google Chrome Flash Player, Java Mozilla
Firefox.
Microsoft Visual C
Notepad plus plus 7zip VLC media player
python. So here I can see the usual
most necessary available tools are
already there into the repository. So how do
we install it? So let's assume I need to
install the VLC media player latest version. So I just
need to copy this command which is choco install VLC
and paste it on my terminal it
would then install the tool
for me similarly python choco install
python.
And this way it would install it for me
in my computer. I do not need to go to the
website. Try to open python.org search.
Where is the download field and download
the compatible version for me?
This looks very very easy and has
simplified our process.
Now, how do we install chocolatey in
our computer that again is very super simple as per
the documentation with Powershell. You
can install it in very very easy manner.
You just need to follow this command and you need to paste that command onto
your Powershell terminal and it would install
it for you. Now. I do not have a Windows based
operating system setup currently with me so I
would not be doing this but you if you
guys want you can try it yourself and install
chocolatey in your computers and explore that
how it works for you.
So I hope you guys understood and maybe you got a new
information this time that yeah, you can also install a
package manager, which is built in for Windows that
can maybe help you and minimize your effort
for installing various tools. Thank you.