A PowerShell wrapper around Chocolatey.
Mostly for fun, but I also got tired of parsing raw output of Chocolatey commands in my deployment scripts. I figured having each command outputs a standardized PowerShell object would help somehow.
This module is available in PowerShell Gallery:
Install-Module ChocoManOr, download it from here and save all of the files somewhere in your $PSModulePath.
Before using this package, you need to make sure that Chocolatey is installed on your device.
You can valide this with the choco --version command.
PS C:\> choco --version
2.1.0You can also install it using this module with the Install-Choco command.
PS C:\> Install-Choco
Chocolatey v2.1.0 installedFirst things first, you need to import it Import-Module ChocoMan
The activity indicator can be hidden by setting the ProgressPreference variable to SilentlyContinue
PS C:\> Set-Variable ProgressPreference SilentlyContinue ; Get-ChocoOutdated
Here's the status of each functions:
| Command | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Get-ChocoApiKey | ✅ | Retrieves, saves or deletes an API key for a particular source |
| Get-ChocoConfig | ✅ | Retrieves the chocolatey configuration |
| Get-ChocoFeature | ✅ | Retrieves the chocolatey features |
| Get-ChocoOutdated | ✅ | Get the list of outdated chocolatey packages. |
| Get-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Get a specific locally installed chocolatey package. |
| Get-ChocoSources | ✅ | Get the list of chocolatey sources. |
| Get-ChocoVersion | ✅ | Get the version of chocolatey. |
| Get-ChocoManVersion | ✅ | Get the version of ChocoMan. |
| Get-ChocoPackageInfo | ✅ | Get information on an existing package. |
| Set-ChocoApiKey | ✅ | Edit API keys |
| Set-ChocoConfig | ✅ | Edit chocolatey configuration |
| Search-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Search for a chocolatey package. |
| Add-ChocoApiKey | ✅ | Adds a new API. Aliases to Set-ChocoApiKey. |
| Add-ChocoSource | ✅ | Adds a new chocolatey source |
| Install-Choco | ✅ | Install chocolatey. |
| Install-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Installs a chocolatey package. |
| Uninstall-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Uninstalls a chocolatey package. |
| Update-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Updates a chocolatey package. |
| Remove-ChocoSource | ✅ | Removes a chocolatey source. |
| New-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Generates files necessary for a chocolatey package from a template. |
| Export-ChocoPackage | ✅ | Packages nuspec, scripts, and other Chocolatey package resources into a nupkg file. |
| Publish-ChocoPackage | 🔜 | Pushes a compiled nupkg to a source. |
There is plenty of help to read. Get started here