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This is the simple one-liners to download and run the Chocolatey online installer on Windows 10.

Using cmd¶

• Open a command prompt as administrator.

• Install chocolatey using the command prompt:
  

  @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin" 
  

Using PowerShell¶

• Open a powershell session as administrator.

• Check the script execution policy:
  

  Get-ExecutionPolicy
  

• If the policy is Restricted, set the execution policy to Bypass to disable the execution policy:
  

  Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
  

  • NOTE: If you a secure environment is needed set the execution policy to AllSigned:
    

    Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned
    

• To install chocolatey using PowerShell:
  

  iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
  

Resources¶

• https://chocolatey.org/install
• https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1