Security News > 2020 > November > Managing Windows 10 apps with the Chocolatey package manager
2020-11-07 12:30
Chocolatey is a Windows package manager that lets you quickly install new software or prep a new Windows 10 installations with your favorite applications, all from the command line.
Like every other package manager, Chocolatey is entirely a command-line tool where you have to type in the commands you wish to execute.
The purpose of a package manager is to be able to easily install applications in Windows.
To install apps using Chocolatey, you have to use choco install command and follow it with the supported package name.
Just like you can install Windows 10 applications with Chocolatey, you can also uninstall them with the choco uninstall [package] command.
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