5 Best Windows package manager to use via command line

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Chocolatey Landing Page
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Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Official Pricing
Chocolatey works for both Windows 10 and 7, it released in 2011, thus it has been around for quite some time now. This makes it one of the largest online repository to download and install various open source and closed source software packages for Windows OS. It offers both community and enterprise solutions. The best thing, one can easily visit the official website of Chocolatey Windows Package Manager to search through hundreds of packages and the commands to install them. Of course, we can do that from the command line interface as well.

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Scoop Landing Page
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Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
Furthermore, we don’t need admin rights to use Scoop, I mean no evaluated Powershell or Command prompt to install packages as we do in Chocolatey. However, when it comes to the range of packages available in its repository it couldn’t compete with Choco, moreover, the gist of using Scoop is different. Most of the users use it to get mostly command-line tools such as MongoDB, MySQL, Python, Perl, etc.

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AppGet Landing Page
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AppGet

Free and Opensource package manager for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
To start with it just download the installation file of AppGet from its official website.

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win-get Landing Page

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win-get

win-get is an installer and software repository for Microsoft Windows, like apt-get in Linux.

The best thing will be the users don’t have to install any third-party script or solution to enable Winget, it comes pre-install with Windows 10 1709 (16299) or later, therefore, if you on the latest version then you already have the Winget. Here is the tutorial to know how to use Winget on Windows 10.

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Ninite Landing Page

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Ninite

Ninite is the easiest way to install software.

Unlike others we have mentioned above, the Ninite is not a command-line based package installer, instead of a Graphical user interface. I know CLI is not a cup of tea to everyone, therefore, in that case, one can go for Ninite for installing popular Windows applications. It works on Windows 10, 8, 7…

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