Chocolately
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I am having a hard time understanding it. Does it install the programs normally, or in a directory?
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If I update a program outside of chocolatey, does that mean chocolatey can't manage it anymore?
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Its just a package manager. Its bacily the same thing as installing with silent .MSI files.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
If I update a program outside of chocolatey, does that mean chocolatey can't manage it anymore?
That is possible. Don't do that.
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Chocolatey is like RPM for CentOS or APT for Ubuntu. It's a package manager and a repo manager. It installs to its own directory by default to improve management.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Chocolatey is like RPM for CentOS or APT for Ubuntu. It's a package manager and a repo manager. It installs to its own directory by default to improve management.
As a non linux user, could you break that down a bit more?
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For windows most all of them install to their default path.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Chocolatey is like RPM for CentOS or APT for Ubuntu. It's a package manager and a repo manager. It installs to its own directory by default to improve management.
As a non linux user, could you break that down a bit more?
It is how you would hope software would be handled. You install from a central GUI or the command line, updates are managed centrally and all software comes from a central, verified repository. It's how everyone but Windows has handled the bulk of software for way more than a decade. It is what the App Store concept is based on, except no store, just the central handling of packages and updates and removals. Makes installing, acquiring, updating, uninstalling, monitoring and reporting far easier.
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I read you guys talking about it before, but haven't had the time to dig into it.
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@Dashrender Best comparison I know that you might be familiar with (though it's not super close) is Ninite which is a sweet program. You can create one installer that's ~150kb and it'll go to the web and download & install all your commonly used programs with one click and one UAC auth. Not only is it awesome for a fresh windows install, it'll also update all the same programs if they're already installed.
Chocolately is kinda like that, but command line
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@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender Best comparison I know that you might be familiar with (though it's not super close) is Ninite which is a sweet program. You can create one installer that's ~150kb and it'll go to the web and download & install all your commonly used programs with one click and one UAC auth. Not only is it awesome for a fresh windows install, it'll also update all the same programs if they're already installed.
Chocolately is kinda like that, but command line
Ninite pro has command line and remote deploy as well. But they aren't quite the same.
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Chocolately is really trying to emulate the Linux package managers. It works surprisingly well for being a windows application.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Ninite pro has command line and remote deploy as well. But they aren't quite the same.
Didn't know that it had CLI! Sweet! Yeah they're pretty close though, as close as I could think of
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Ninite pro has command line and remote deploy as well. But they aren't quite the same.
Didn't know that it had CLI! Sweet! Yeah they're pretty close though, as close as I could think of
Yeah I used it to update Flash, Java, Chrome, Reader on our non-domain public kiosk computers at the county. I just had a batch file that would run every week and during a time when DriveVaccine was set to unlocked and then would save the updates in the baseline.
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@thecreativeone91 Yup, I have the same hit-list for our computers here, but we do firefox and VLC in addition
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for the last few posts, are you talking about Ninite or Cholocately?
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@Dashrender said:
for the last few posts, are you talking about Ninite or Cholocately?
You could easily script Chcolately too, so they would work for either. I assume @thecreativeone91 is talking about Ninite though.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
for the last few posts, are you talking about Ninite or Cholocately?
You could easily script Chcolately too, so they would work for either. I assume @thecreativeone91 is talking about Ninite though.
Yeah it was Ninite pro.
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I'm not sure how legal some of Cholocately's packages are especially in regards to Adobe Flash, And Reader. You have to have a license to distribute those and they have to be tied to a company. Even when using the MSI to push out to a domain I apply for a distribution license.
