I want to install many packages on Windows and I want to write an executable script to install these packages from Windows repo. How can I write Ubuntu-like sudo apt-get install <name> command?
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Chocolatey
Chocolately is a package manager for Windows that works like apt-get. For example, choco install git. It has a wide variety of programs to choose from including Notepad++, Sublime Text, Chrome, 7zip, and others.
To sweeten the deal, they have a copy-paste command available here that will download and install Chocolatey, easy as pie.
The perfect icing for this chocolatey cake is Cmder. Cmder is a command line emulator that comes packaged with all of those Unix commands that you've come to know and love.
[ Disclaimer : Chocolatey's repository of packages isn't nearly as extensive as apt-get's ]
5Microsoft is actually creating their own app , albeit open source. It is called winget and you need to be part of the Windows Insider's program:
Which is supposed to be loosely based on Appget:
1The three main contenders at the moment are:
