# Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a Powershell tool to install programs. As they say themselves:

> Chocolatey is software management automation.

## Key Commands

* `choco upgrade all`
  * Upgrade all install packages (and Chocolatey itself)
* `choco install <package name>`
* `choco list --local-only`
  * List local installed packages
  * (DEPRECATED: will be default for list in v2.0.0)

## Packages

* git
* poshgit
* powertoys
* terraform
* firefox
* python3
* sourcodepro
* jq
* whois
* sysinternals
* 7zip

## Links

* [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/)
* [Choco packages](https://community.chocolatey.org/packages)
* [.install, .portable package differences](https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/faqs#what-is-the-difference-between-packages-no-suffix-as-compared-to.install.portable)
* [Choco compares to Scoop](https://dev.to/bowmanjd/chocolatey-vs-scoop-package-managers-for-windows-2kik)


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