Using chocolatey to install lots of apps at once

I am about to reinstall my Windows 10 pc, and would like to use Chocolatey for a lot of applications.

Can I just issue one command to Chocolatey and let it deal with the dependencies and installation order, or is it better to do one application at a time? Could I do a single:

choco install mobaxterm jdk8 intellijidea-community virtualbox vlc ... 

or is it better to issue one command at a time?

1 Answer

Take a look at the documentation at (or type choco install -? at the command line (you may want to pipe that to more or less).

You certainly can issue a list of packages at once and it will work fine.

Consider however that a packages.config file will give you a bit more flexibility in passing options and switches for each packages. Here is the format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages>   <package />   <package version="1.1" />   <package version="0.1" source="somelocation" />   <package version="0.1.1"            source="" installArguments=""            packageParameters="" forceX86="false" allowMultipleVersions="false"            ignoreDependencies="false"            /> </packages> 

This will give you the ability to install multiple packages from one command.