![]() ![]() Your ChocolateyGUI is now installed, and your command line days are now behind you, if you want them to be! If you don’t want to be bothered by this again in the future, you can type in You’ll need to select Y to finalize the installation. This will start downloading and installing the GUl program you’ll need to visually manage Chocolatey. In the Powershell admin window, type or paste in.If you want to stick to the GUl, though, you’ll only have to mess around with the nerdy stuff one more time. Once it’s finished, you’re good to go! Chocolatey is installed and now commands like choco install and choco upgrade will allow you to manage programs in the command line (cmd or Powershell). You’ll see some installation text scroll by. ![]() Now you’ll need to paste in the install command:.If you see it return “Restricted,” you can paste in Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned or Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process. Next, paste in Get-ExecutionPolicy and hit Enter.The easiest way to do this is pressing Win + X and selecting Windows Powershell (Admin). I’m using the Powershell instructions here, as I’ve found they work more reliably than the cmd method, but both methods are explained pretty well on the Chocolatey site. They have instructions on their website, which you may need to refer to if you don’t have administrative rights on your machine, but the following steps should work for most people with Windows 7 or above. Okay, you do have to use the command line a little bit to get Chocolatey up and running, but after that, it’s GUI all the way. Installing Chocolatey and ChocolateyGUI # For a time, Chocolatey was only available through the command line, which limited its potential audience to people who weren’t scared off by that, but its GUI has been getting steadily better, making it accessible to just about anyone. Package managers are a little like app stores in that they allow you to manage and update all of your programs through a single interface rather than having to wrangle them all individually.
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