{"id":5997,"date":"2021-09-15T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2023-10-27T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:02:17","slug":"package-management-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/package-management-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Package management on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just reset my PC and need to re-install my packages. A package manager with an offline database would be cool, like the MS store, but for those apps not on the store, there needs to be a different answer. Here are my notes.<\/p>\n

I did some work on this when looking at how to jump start windows<\/a>, but for the consumer, this looks less than easy.<\/p>\n

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I have found the following resources, but the reality is I am reinstalling by hand. (I also f’d up and have lost my password store from the browsers – bugger!)<\/p>\n

On installing wt.exe, I discover I want\/need bash. This takes me to this on installing the WSL<\/a>, and this<\/a> on the store for the bash implementation. (So yet another software source).<\/p>\n

Google found me, an article on installers\/uninstallers<\/a>, by Hongkiat and I rather liked, the look of ninite<\/a>, although it is operates off a closed list of packages, although so does apt. NInite has a good list, but not acroread, nor ccleaner.<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/npackd.appspot.com\/ claims to have over 1000, packages and repo extensibility.<\/li>\n
  2. I found, “Apt-Get for Windows – OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10<\/a>” by Scott Hanselman, OneGet it seems is a windows feature, using the name Package Manager<\/a>? Their documentation point at winget<\/a>. OneGet claims to be a manger of managers and is opensource<\/a>; this is what how to geek has to say about it<\/a>. It’s an opensource project.<\/li>\n
  3. I have found Cholatey<\/a> before, I used on my n-2<\/em> build. Is it’s repo big enough today? I wasn’t keen last time.<\/li>\n
  4. ccleaner offers a package updater, but only what it knows about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Microsoft have incorporated OneGet into Windows Package Manager<\/a><\/em><\/span>, Techrader comments<\/a>, as does Windows Central<\/a>. I remain unsure what the equivilant commands to apt-cache and add-repository are, although this<\/a> suggests they are sub-commands of winget.<\/p>\n

    See also<\/p>\n

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    1. https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/mucking-around-until-it-breaks\/<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/my-newest-w10-build\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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