‣ Automating Software Installation on windows

Written By: Ahsan Ahmed

Chocolatey is a great software installation management tool by which any open source software can be installed. It saves you time and extra headache for searching and downloading the software files. It’s mostly free, simple and time consuming. Chocolatey installs the software silently. 

Requirement: the minimum operating system support is Windows 7+/Windows 2003+. It also requires PowerShell v2+ and .NET Framework 4+ to be installed in PC. 

Installing Chocolatey:

2. Click on “Run as Administrator”   

3. Once PowerShell is opened as administrator, install the “chocolatey” by pasting below and click enter to run the command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

• Or If using command prompt (cmd) as administrator, paste the following and click enter

@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"

4. Paste the following and enter for installing all essential base tools at once (if needed)

choco install -y --allow-empty-checksums 7zip winrar ccleaner evernote notepadplusplus fileoptimizer curl wget bind-toolsonly winscp malwarebytes paint.net windirstat

• Paste the following and enter for installing all essential dev tools at once (if needed) 

choco install -y --allow-empty-checksums git fiddler vagrant visualstudiocode mls-software-openssh

choco install -y --allow-empty-checksums launchy slack pgadmin3 mysql.workbench  vmwareworkstation

5. Paste any of the command (e.g: choco install adobereader) and enter to install any particular application