How to install Chocolatey on Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2003+ and download, unzip, un-conpress, packages/software and install them on the fly with choco install package_name command. There are more than 7000 packages available as of January 2020 in the Chocolatey package directory and you can install all of them without visiting software repository page or download page with chocolatey on Windows Desktops and Windows Servers.

Before Installing Chocolatey

Make sure you meet system requirement before start the installation process.

You must have the followings..

Windows 7+
Windows Server 2003 +
PowerShell v2+
.Net Framework 4+

In case, you do not have .Net 4 framework installed on your system, chocolatey will install that for you. However, you must the remaining system requirements.

PowerShell as Administrator

To install chocolatey on Windows, first launch your PowerShell with Admin right.

Get-ExecutionPolicy

This command may return Restricted or Allsigned, in the first case run the following command.

Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned

Install Chocolatey

Finally run this chocolatey installation command to install choco on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2003+

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Chocolatey Installation Errors

If you run into any choco installation error, please visit Chocolatey Individual Installation Page

Chocolatey for Organization

If you are an organization and you use any of the deployment automation software from Ansible, Cetral Management, Chef, Otter, PS DSC, Puppet, and Salt.

Visit Chocolatey Organization Installation page

How to Install Packages with chocolatey

how to install packages and software with chocolatey

You can search, list, install, upgrade, and uninstall packages and software with Chocolatey on Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2003+ with the following command formats.

Just launch CMD or PowerShell with admin right and run the following commands. You can find package and software at https://chocolatey.org/packages

to install package

choco install package_name

to upgrade an existing package

choco upgrade package_name

to uninstall package

choco uninstall package_name

to list available packages

choco list package_name

If you run into any problem, installing/upgrading/uninstalling packages with choco commands, please visit chocolatey.org/packages and search the package you want to install and scroll down to discussion section.