Chocolatey - RPM style package management for Windows

While I was researching how to deal with Forms Based Authentication from a script perspective, for my Audiocodes backup script(s), I stumbled upon Chocolatey. Chocolatey NuGet (love the name) is a Machine Package Manager similar to what RPMs are for Linux. This allows crazy simple install and uninstall of software from PowerShell... silently.

There are currently 1872 unique packages available and they install with a simple command like:

     cinst sysinternals

Simple, eh?

If you want to install Chocolatey just go to their home page and run the install command from within a cmd window. Then search for packages that are interesting to you...

Here are some that are my favorites so far:

Sysinternals
http://chocolatey.org/packages/sysinternals

PuTTY
http://chocolatey.org/packages/putty

Fiddler
http://chocolatey.org/packages/fiddler

cURL
http://chocolatey.org/packages/curl

Wireshark
http://chocolatey.org/packages/wireshark

Anyway... you get the idea... now go have some fun!