- Now, Don't Get Confused...
- Setting Up Package Repositories
- Using the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery
- Installing and Uninstalling Packages
- Creating and Using a Private Repository
- Conclusions
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Installing and Uninstalling Packages
Let’s get a run of all Chocolatey-hosted packages and display them in grid view. Figure 2 shows the output.
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Figure 2 Browsing the Chocolatey repository for interesting PowerShell packages.
We already know that the WinRAR archiver exists in the repo; let’s take advantage of the PowerShell pipeline to install it on our local system:
Find-Package -Name WinRAR | Install-Package -Verbose VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Install Package" on target "Package ’winrar’ v’5.20.1’ from’chocolatey’". The package ’winrar’ comes from a package source that is not marked as trusted. Are you sure you want to install software from ’chocolatey’? [Y] Yes [N] No [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
If you want to keep the Chocolatey repository as untrusted, you can either press Enter to continue at the prompt, or supply the -Force parameter.
As Figure 3 shows, WinRAR is indeed installed. (This is the evaluation copy, of course; you don’t get fully licensed commercial software free from Chocolatey.)
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Figure 3 We installed this graphical application in mere seconds with Windows PowerShell.
We use Get-Package to verify installed software. If you run Get-Package with no parameters, you’ll see all the software on your system. Let’s get a better view:
Get-Package -ProviderName Chocolatey Name Version Status ProviderName Source Summary ---- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------- winrar 5.20.1 Installed Chocolatey C:\Chocolatey... WinRAR is a powe...
To remove a package, we’ll combine the pipeline with the Remove-Package cmdlet:
Get-Package -Name winrar | Uninstall-Package -Force