Chocolatey Linux' Appget for Windows

Chocolatey Brings Lightning Quick, Linux-Style Package Management to Windows

I found this nice article about an appget variant for windows.


Chocolatey puts all of your favorite Windows programs right at your fingertips. With just a few keystrokes, you can have a program up and running on your system without ever needing to open a browser, double-click on an installer, or go through any menus. To install Chocolatey, just run the following command in a Command Prompt:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('http://bit.ly/psChocInstall'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin 

Then, you can search the chocolatey database for any program using the clist command. For example, clist windirstat will let you know whether WinDirStat is in Chocolatey's database (it is), after which you can install it by typing in cinst windirstat. You may need to say "Yes" to a UAC prompt, but that's all it takes—you'll have WinDirStat up and running on your system in no time. You can even install multiple programs at once, or use Chocolatey in your favorite alternate shell like Cygwin.

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Usage
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chocolatey [install [packageName [-source source] [-version version] | pathToPackagesConfig]  | installmissing packageName [-source source] | update packageName [-source source] [-version version] | l
ist [packageName] [-source source] | help | version [packageName] | webpi packageName | gem packageName [-version version] |uninstall packageName]

example: chocolatey install nunit
example: chocolatey install nunit -version 2.5.7.10213
example: chocolatey install packages.config
example: chocolatey installmissing nunit
example: chocolatey update nunit -source http://somelocalfeed.com/nuget/
example: chocolatey help
example: chocolatey list (might take awhile)
example: chocolatey list nunit
example: chocolatey version
example: chocolatey version nunit
example: chocolatey uninstall

A shortcut to 'chocolatey install' is 'cinst'
cinst [packageName  [-source source] [-version version] | pathToPackagesConfig]
example: cinst 7zip
example: cinst ruby -version 1.8.7
example: cinst packages.config