ChocolateyManager

Manage Chocolatey

Why?

I was tired of manually running chocolatey updates.

How does it work?

There are a few different scripts I threw together.

Choco_createScheduletedTask.ps1
  * Creates a scheduled task and runs updates once a week on a given day time. 

Choco_uninstall.ps1
  * Allows the user to uninstall one or all choco packages 

Choco_installs.ps1
  * Installs any app that you place in the ChocolateyApps.txt file 

Choco_Update.ps1
  * Does what you think. Updates all choco apps installed

Install_chocolatey.ps1
  * Runs the commands to install chocolatey from source.

How to use

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force 

1. Install chocolatey - .\Install_Chocolatey.ps1
2. Open a new powershell window as admin
3. Update the apps file
4. Run .\Choco_installs.ps1
5. Run .\Choco_CreateScheduledTask.ps1

If you run the update script from windows task scheduler you will get a nice toast message when your updater runs.

Usage

Variables that can be passed to docker img.

$TaskName = "ChocoUpdateApps"       # Scheduled task name 
$PackageName = "ChocolateyManager"  # Ransome folder name 
$ChocoManagerPath = "C:\Users\$env:USERNAME\Appdata\Local" # Path for files and logs 
$logFile = "$ChocoManagerPath\$PackageName\log.txt" # Log file 
$ScriptName = "ChocoUpdateApps.ps1" # script name for sched task
$FullScriptPath = "$(Get-location)\$ScriptName"

Example

Coming soon

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT

mikedhanson / ChocolateyManager