Chocolatey

For the food product, see Compound chocolate.

Chocolatey^[5] 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.^[6]

Chocolatey

Original author(s)	Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Developer(s)	Chocolatey Software, Inc.
Initial release	23 March 2011; 14 years ago (2011-03-23)
Stable release	2.4.3[1]  / 27 February 2025; 2 months ago (27 February 2025)
Preview release	2.3.0-beta-20240528[2]  / 29 May 2024; 11 months ago (29 May 2024)
Repository	github.com/chocolatey/choco
Written in	C#,[3] XML,[3] shell script,[3] Ruby[3]
Operating system	Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008R2 and later
Type	Package management system
License	Apache License 2.0[4]
Website	chocolatey.org

The name is an extension on a pun of NuGet (from "nougat") "because everyone loves Chocolatey nougat".^[7]

Compatible package manager

In April 2014, Microsoft debuted OneGet (renamed PackageManagement on March 20, 2015) alongside PowerShell 5. It is a free and open-source package-provider manager, which provides a way to integrate other package managers into PowerShell. OneGet was pre-configured to browse the Chocolatey repository.^[8][9]

See also

• Windows Package Manager