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Ben Sinclair

I installed Chocolatey the other day because it's the distribution method for VSCodium.

It's a hassle to install and even following the instructions I couldn't get it to work after closing and opening the terminal. I assume it puts something in the path but doesn't configure the global PATH setting, but that bit's not documented.

Seems pretty rough compared to more mature package managers.

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Maximilian Burszley • Edited

It's a hassle to install and even following the instructions I couldn't get it to work

What? It's literally curl site.com | bash level of install from an elevated prompt. They even have a copy/paste option in their docs:

chocolatey.org/install

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Ben Sinclair

Yeah, it didn't work for me. Rather, it installs, but since it's not in the global path, if I open a new terminal, it's not available. I could fix this easily enough, I guess, but the fact that it doesn't work puts me off.