Chocolatey
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For the food product, see Compound chocolate.
Chocolatey[3] is a machine-level, command-line package manager and installer for software on Microsoft Windows. It uses the NuGet packaging infrastructure and Windows PowerShell to simplify the process of downloading and installing software.[4]
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Original author(s) | Chocolatey Software, Inc. |
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Developer(s) | Chocolatey Software, Inc. |
Initial release | 23 March 2011; 13 years ago (2011-03-23) |
Stable release | |
Preview release | |
Repository | github |
Written in | C# |
Operating system | Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 and later |
Type | Package management system |
License | Apache License 2.0[2] |
Website | chocolatey |
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The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".[5]