试想一下,每次重装系统,都要安装一堆常用的小软件,7zip, notepad++, filezilla, winrar等等,每次都要搜索下载地址,下载,安装,摆明了是木兰要从军一般,“东市买骏马,西市买鞍鞯,南市买辔头,北市买长鞭”,当然Windows现在也有各种软件管家之类的软件,但很多是流氓软件,要带各种全家桶的,我宁愿自己来一次木兰从军记。

大家都喜欢Linux的包管理,比如apt-get,而OSX也有homebrew,可以brew install一大票Unix-like的软件,而Windows用户只有羡慕的份,上面提到的流氓软件管理,当然也是装不了Unix-like软件的,所以我们羡慕,我们妒忌,外加恨!


今天要跟大家介绍一个为windows设计的包管理器,Chocolatey,有了它,你也能choco install wget, choco install docker这样装软件了,不用再羡慕水果用户,不用再木兰从军般装软件了。

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get or yum but for Windows). It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer.

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Guangchuang Yu

a senior-in-age-but-not-senior-in-knowledge bioinformatician

Postdoc researcher

Hong Kong