What is Your Chocolatey List

Dashrender

Anyone used KiTTY here yet?

 choco install kitty.portable

scottalanmiller

I feel like @thanksajdotcom does. I've always been pretty happy with standard PuTTY.

scottalanmiller

Although check out ConEMU. It can be pretty cool.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

I feel like @thanksajdotcom does. I've always been pretty happy with standard PuTTY.

I'm getting an error installing it with chocolatey.

StrongBad

Same error as I saw on another thread?

Dashrender

@StrongBad said:

Same error as I saw on another thread?

yeah.

DustinB3403

Is chocolatey a capable tool for auto updating software on Windows.

Being a package manager I'd imagine it is, just reading a bit about and I'm seeing possibilities.

mlnews

It is but only for the software in its repository. Which is a lot, but it is not going to work for MS Office, Windows itself, ad hoc third party proprietary software, etc.

DustinB3403

@mlnews It's all of the common crap with day 0 exploits that I'm thinking about...

A rapid update solution.

scottalanmiller

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller and that is awesome!

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.

Not a bad idea...

Dashrender

I'm surprised. installing things with Chocolatey puts them in the add/remove programs.

Dashrender

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised. installing things with Chocolatey puts them in the add/remove programs.

Although I just tried to use Choco uninstall lastpass (Lastpass was causing IE 11 to crash) and it failed to remove it with errors.

scottalanmiller

You seem to be having a lot of issues. You should add that to one of your threads.

JaredBusch

So has anyone here setup their own list?

Jason

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.

Not a bad idea...

Except they tend to take a while to approve it. I can get the stuff out with a custom GPO msi faster than Choco gets things approved.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.

is the CUP command listed earlier in this thread no longer in use?

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said:

So has anyone here setup their own list?

Talk about a pain, having to roll your own packages and then update them all...

Dashrender

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.

Not a bad idea...

Except they tend to take a while to approve it. I can get the stuff out with a custom GPO msi faster than Choco gets things approved.

yeah, that could be an issue. Ninite seems to update very rapidly.