Windows Package Managers: From Chocolatey to Winget

00:00 Intro
00:55 Chocolatey (Install)
02:23 Finding Packages
03:04 Installing a Package
04:14 Installing Multiple Packages
06:12 Viewing Installed Packages
06:39 Upgrading Packages
07:08 Choco Search
08:02 Software Removal
08:37 Export the Configuration
10:41 Restoring Chocolatey Packages
11:21 Chocolatey GUI
13:51 Winget
14:08 Installing Winget
15:50 Getting to Grips With Winget
16:04 Winget Search
16:36 Winget Install
17:11 Winget Show
17:27 Winget List
17:45 Winget Uninstall
18:06 Updating Winget Packages
18:34 Winget Export
19:42 Winget Import
20:34 A Graphical User Interface for Winget?
20:50 winget.run
24:41 winstall
30:40 The End
Take the effort out of Windows software administration with a package manager. Whether its installing and updating apps, removing them, or simply keeping a check on what's residing on your computer, a package manager can help significantly. Indeed, if you've ever used Linux, you're probably already familiar with how useful such a tool can be.
In this video we'll take a look at two options for Windows: Chocolatey and Winget. After covering how to use each of them from the command line, we'll see what graphical solutions exist to ease the task even further.
By the end of the video, not only should you be aware of the main features of each system, but you'll hopefully have decided how best to put one (or even both) of them to work on your Windows machine.
Website links:
Chocolatey
chocolatey.org/
Winget
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...
Windows Package Manager Insiders Program
aka.ms/AppInstaller_InsiderPr...
Create a Microsoft Account
account.microsoft.com/
Winget GitHub Releases
github.com/microsoft/winget-c...
winget.run
winget.run/
winget.run GitHub
github.com/winget-run
winstall
winstall.app/
winstall Github
github.com/MehediH/winstall
Additional credits:
Thanks to www.1001fonts.com/ for the Precious font by BoltCutterDesign
(Original) images sourced from the superb pixabay.com/

[@robertmaxa6631]

Very informative. I learned something. I'm glad Windows decided to adopt a package manager, now, you don't necessarily need a web browser to download an app. Thank you.

[@craigwelch3721]

Awesome tutorial..thanks

[@bytemypi2918]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@craigwelch3721]

@@bytemypi2918 do u have more tutorials

[@bytemypi2918]

@@craigwelch3721 Just what's listed on the Byte My Pi channel. I think its currently up to about 33 videos.

[@sidneyking11]

@ByteMyPi I must say, that is an interesting way of installing software via command prompt. One concern I have is that some software comes with bloatware or even malware. Is the community building these install packages? I am trying to get a better understanding of how the software is installed and not adding bloatware or getting malware if I select the "all" option install. Thank you for creating these interesting videos. looking forward to your reply.

[@bytemypi2918]

You're welcome. It's my understanding that the packages are created by the community, but that they are checked and validated, so security shouldn't be a concern - certainly much safer than downloading a binary file from some random website. The 'all' option during installation is simply to save you having to agree to the prompts individually. Bloatware shouldn't be an issue - this is usually something certain (questionable) websites add to generate extra revenue. Hope that helps :)

[@briankgarland]

Good video. But a suggestion... If someone is comfortable enough with using a computer to be interested in package managers, they most likely don't need instruction on how to cut and paste from Notepad (and other such trivial steps).

[@WhiteError37]

More info is better than a shallow overview. This shows the full process of installing apps with package managers you can always skip. It also shows off the power of these tools by being able to copy and paste commands because that is all these suits do. You're not going to be building from source on Microsoft

[@jujimufi472]

Is there a flag to prevent chocolatey from creating a desktop shortcut?

[@samuelitooooo]

Wow, I wish I knew about this before I, uh, started the effort to move away from Windows and towards Linux. 😅 Is it worth uninstalling the apps I installed manually* to reinstall them with one of these package managers? *assuming I'm okay with starting over and my docs are backed up

[@bytemypi2918]

Its always worth the effort to move towards Linux :) Installing your favourite apps using a package manager (whether on Windows or Linux) will make it much easier to manage things and keep the software up to date. Hope that helps.

[@jothain]

One thing to note too is that Windows Store has finally began to get more activity and there's quite many of good open source software that'll update automatically installable from there too. There's still some lazyness though from many developers. Just installed Kodi and it's lagging one version behind the normal. But the convenience of updates is quite nice.

[@bytemypi2918]

@@jothain Good to hear Microsoft's Store is finally getting better. If it actually becomes useful they'll be closing it!

[@jothain]

@@bytemypi2918 Yeah, they'll likely follow Googles heritage in that. It's such a shame that MS hasn't been able to make it viable place. It's quite disappointing. Well at least it's better than MacOS where you can't find any opensource software in it at all. They're clearly doing something wrong for devs.

[@bytemypi2918]

@@jothain That's because open source software goes against Apple's ethos (they can't charge insane prices for it).