Windows – built-in package management system in Windows

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Does Windows come with a package manager these days? I haven't used Windows in years. I'm hoping it has something similar to yum, apt, pacman, etc. found on various Linux distros. Obviously Windows isn't Linux, but it sounds like Windows and PowerShell etc. have come a long way.

I'd like to be able to automate the installation of a current version of Python for instance, from a batch script without all the monotonous GUI navigation. That kind of thing.

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Yes, Windows 10 PowerShell has PackageManagement. For python, I believe you need to install chocolatey as a package provider first.

Here is how I was able to install python using PackageManagement.

Run PowerShell as administrator
Install-PackageProvider chocolatey

Find-Package python

This shows python 3.7.2, if you want python 2.7.x, use python2.

Install-Package python

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Linux – Batch-OCR many PDFs

I too have looked for a way to batch-OCR many PDFs in an automated manner, without much luck. In the end I have come up with a workable solution similar to yours, using Acrobat with a script as follows:

Copy all relevant PDFs to a specific directory.
Remove PDFs already containing text (assuming they are already OCRd or already text - not ideal I know, but good enough for now).
Use AutoHotKey to automatically run Acrobat, select the specific directory, and OCR all documents, appending "-ocr" to their filename.
Move the OCRd PDFs back to their original location, using the presence of a "-ocr.pdf" file to determine whether it was successful.

It is a bit Heath Robinson, but actually works pretty well.

Windows – find the oneget Windows Package Management installed apps

It depends on the package provider. If Package Management installs a package from Chocolatey, the install dir is C:\Chocolatey

$ Get-Package openssh | select ProviderName

ProviderName
------------
Chocolatey

And then:

 $ ls C:\Chocolatey\lib\


    Directory: C:\Chocolatey\lib


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----       24/10/2016  11:55 AM                openssh.0.0.1.0

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