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akasolace
akasolace

Reputation: 624

what is the purpose of the following command: choco install chocolatey

In cholocatey gallery, I see the most installed packaged is chocolatey. what is the purpose of "choco install chocolatey" because obvioulsy this command will run only if chocolatey is already installed ... what am I missing? Is it only kind of an alternative to update it ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 761

Answers (1)

Gary Ewan Park
Gary Ewan Park

Reputation: 18981

UPDATE:

As part of a refresh of the Chocolatey website, the choco install chocolatey command is no longer shown on the Chocolatey package. Instead, there is a link to the installation instructions for Chocolatey.

ORIGINAL ANSWER:

You are right, the command choco install chocolatey doesn't actually make any sense. You need to install Chocolatey using the instructions on the site.

However, Chocolatey itself is actually shipped as a Chocolatey package, hosted on chocolatey.org, so once you have it installed, it is possible to use the command choco upgrade chocolatey and it will download and install the latest version.

The command choco install chocolatey appearing on the site is just a side effect of it shipping as a Chocolatey package. There is currently a re-write of chocolatey.org happening, and I believe that this particular side effect is being fixed, so that you won't see this on the site anymore.

Upvotes: 2

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