Tag: Chocolatey

Install git on windows machine using chocolatey

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Git (for Windows) – Git is a powerful distributed Source Code Management tool. If you just want to use Git to do your version control in Windows, you will need to download Git for Windows. You can choose to jump through several urls to find and download the right version or you can use the easier way. I’m going to explain the latter in this blog. For this post, you need to have Chocolatey installed on the machine. You can check here on how to do so.

Once you have done this, open a PowerShell prompt and run Read More »

Install oracle virtual box using PowerShell

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Oracle virtual box  is a cross-platform virtualization application. It installs on existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. You can choose to jump through several urls to find and download the right version or you can use the easier way. I’m going to explain the latter in this blog. For this post, you need to have Chocolatey installed on the machine. You can check here on how to do so.

Once you have done this, open a PowerShell prompt and run below Read More »

Install Chocolatey on a windows machine

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As you know, Chocolatey is a very known and useful package manager for windows. Chef, Puppet, Boxstarter, PowerShell DSC, Ansible, Saltstack, Microsoft, etc all have ways for using Chocolatey to ensure the state of a computer and packages installed. If you don’t know about package manager, see my blog post here.

There are more than few ways to install it.One of the easiest ways is to use the built in package management inside PowerShell:

Install-Package chocolatey
Initialize-Chocolatey

You can also use NuGet command lineRead More »