Command-line utility Chocolatey lets you quickly download and install other applications. Chocolatey is a free command-line application that tries to make it easier to obtain, install, and update ...

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Unlike Windows, Linux has always enjoyed a variety of package managers. A Package Manager is a piece of software that lets you install other software on your operating system from the command line or ...

If you've been around Linux, you've undoubtedly heard of apt-get or portage, and enjoyed their usefulness. For a great while, Windows users have had to deal without such a useful utility. Wouldn't it ...

Looking for a tool to automate installing, configuring, upgrading and uninstalling software packages on Windows systems? Time to check out Chocolatey. I’ve administered both Windows and Linux systems ...

Most Windows users don’t pay much attention to how desktop programs are installed on their system. For years we’ve been trained to seek out a website, download an EXE or MSI file, and then click, ...

Linux has spoiled me over the last 26 years concerning installing applications, as it has had a command-line package installation program (apt-get) since 1999. Apt-get made it incredibly easy to ...