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arthurfm on Sept 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Announces Windows 10

> some kind of a package manager for programs

Microsoft's Windows Management Framework v5.0 will include PowerShell OneGet [1]. This is probably the closest thing to a package manager in Windows.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/04/16/wha...

cheald on Sept 30, 2014 [–]

https://chocolatey.org/ - apt-get for Windows, basically. It's not as capable as its Linux brethren, but it's perfectly usable, and it takes a lot of pain out of setting up a Windows box. "cinst GoogleChrome" is as painless as you'd expect.

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