Let's examine how Chocolatey works.

Firstly, Chocolatey is a package manager for windows. You can install and uninstall software that you need easily from Command Line Interface.

https://chocolatey.org/

By the way, there are more than 4000 packages in Chocolatey

https://chocolatey.org/packages

Installing Chocolatey

To install Chocolatey on your computer, you can follow below link.

https://chocolatey.org/docs/installation

or open a Command Promt as administrator

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

Installing Chocolate with proxy

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH="%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

Upgrading Chocolatey

to install the latest release of Chocolatey

choco upgrade chocolatey

Using Chocolatey package manager, you can accelerate development environment.

In order to see all command references of Choco, use below link

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsReference

Installing package

Let's say that you need to use a no sql database (Redis or Mongo, etc.)

choco install redis

choco install mongodb

choco install sysinternals

choco install notepadplusplus googlechrome atom 7zip

choco install notepadplusplus --force --force-dependencies

choco install notepadplusplus googlechrome atom 7zip -dvfy

choco install git --params="'/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoAutoCrlf'" -y

choco install nodejs.install --version 0.10.35

choco install git -s "'https://somewhere/out/there'"

choco install git -s "'https://somewhere/protected'" -u user -p pass

Reinstalling package

choco install nodejs –force

Listing locally installed packages

chocolatey list -localonly

chocolatey list -lo

clist -lo

Listing packeges

choco list –page=0 –page-size=25

Uninstalling package

If you want to uninstall one package, use below;

choco uninstall git

choco uninstall ruby --version 1.8.7.37402

choco uninstall nodejs.install --all-versions

Upgrading Package

If you want to upgrade package, use below;

choco upgrade chocolatey

choco upgrade notepadplusplus googlechrome atom 7zip

choco upgrade notepadplusplus googlechrome atom 7zip -dvfy

choco upgrade git --params="'/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoAutoCrlf'" -y

choco upgrade nodejs.install --version 0.10.35

choco upgrade git -s "'https://somewhere/out/there'"

choco upgrade git -s "'https://somewhere/protected'" -u user -p pass

choco upgrade all

choco upgrade all --except="'skype,conemu'"

Some examples are below, just copy one of them to cmd.exe

choco install ruby

choco install python

choco install python3

choco install nodejs

choco install javaruntime

choco install jre8

choco install jdk8

choco install dotnet3.5

choco install dotnet4.0

choco install dotnet4.5

choco install wget

choco install git

choco install github

choco install svn

choco install sourcetree

choco install curl

choco install cygwin

choco install fiddler

choco install googledrive

choco install notepadplusplus

choco install googlechrome

choco install winrar

choco install firefox

choco install adobereader

choco install vlc

choco install skype

choco install powershell

choco install filezilla

choco install silverlight

choco install putty

choco install virtualbox

choco install teamviewer

choco install dropbox

choco install sublimetext3