Windows – Understand difference between Package Management (formerly OneGet) and Chocolatey, and Get Started using OneGet in Win10 RTM

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I am confused about Chocolatey, and OneGet (renamed later Package Management).

Does one currently just install chocolatey, and use it, if one is on Windows 10 Pro RTM, which supposedly shipped with OneGet cmdlets inside powershell already? (They don't appear to exist on my Windows 10 Pro machine).

First, the practical question: How does one install and work with Package Management (formerly OneGet) inside Windows 10? On my machine if I type get-command -Module OneGet I get NO results. No cmdlet with a name like Get-PackageProvider currently exists on my machine. Yet I read that OneGet would be part of, or ship in Windows 10 RTM.
I also read you can add the one-get cmdlets using Import-Module but I can't get that to work, either.

Second, the comprehension question: Is OneGet really a meta-manager for what will in the future be a variety of sources with Chocolatey being only one repository source, or have I misunderstood? I have read that things are "in flux" right now. What is the situation and when will it be cleaned up?

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It looks like it IS installed, and that the pre-release blog posts that say to type Import-Module -Name OneGet are no longer correct, for Win10 rtm.

However, you still need to manually add a package source like this, from an Administrator-privilege level PowerShell, in Windows 10 professional:

Register-PackageSource -Name chocolatey -Location https://chocolatey.org/api/v2 -Provider PSModule -Trusted -Verbose

You can search like this:

Find-Package paint -provider Chocolatey

Above should find the actual choco package name of Paint.net for me.

Then you can install something like this:

Install-Package paint.net -provider Chocolatey

(For example, to install Paint.NET).

If you can't find Install-package cmdlet (it appears like it is not installed?) switch from regular non-elevated powershell, to an elevated (Administrator) powershell.

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PowerShell remoting normally uses WinRM for connection negotiation and data transport. SSH was chosen for this remoting implementation since it is now available for both Linux and Windows platforms and allows true multiplatform PowerShell remoting. However, WinRM also provides a robust hosting model for PowerShell remote sessions which this implementation does not yet do. And this means that PowerShell remote endpoint configuration and JEA (Just Enough Administration) is not yet supported in this implementation.

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As for ---

'That looks promising but the link to the GitHub repository no longer works.'

----The link is directly to the MS PS repo, so, Yeppers it's odd that a 404 is happening. Either way, you can get this directly on your system by using PowerShell.

Anyway …

Find-Module -Name '*ssh*' | Format-table -AutoSize

# Results


Version Name                         Repository Description                                                                                                
------- ----                         ---------- -----------                                                                                                
2.1     Posh-SSH                     PSGallery  Provide SSH and SCP functionality for executing commands against remote hosts.                             
0.0.2.0 OpenSSHUtils                 PSGallery  Utilities and functions for configuring OpenSSH on Windows.                                                
2.1.3   SSHSessions                  PSGallery  Svendsen Tech's SSH-Sessions module provides SSH session creation, management and interaction from Power...
1.0.0   SSH                          PSGallery  Provides a PowerShell-based SSH client based on SSH.net  http://sshnet.codeplex.com/                       
0.0.75  PSSharedGoods                PSGallery  Module covering functions that are shared within multiple projects                                         
1.1.3   PowerSSH                     PSGallery  This module detects the first use of an SSH command, automatically runs the SSH agent, keeps the SSH aut...
0.9.5   WinSSH                       PSGallery  Install OpenSSH-Win64, optionally install ssh-agent and sshd Services. Also includes functions to help c...
1.0.1   ssh-wrapper                  PSGallery  Exposes ssh from WSL by wrapping: bash -c "ssh $args". Requires Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10. 
0.3.1   posh-sshell                  PSGallery  Provides integration with ssh-agent and pageant from within Powershell                                     
2.0.1.8 SkypeForBusinessHybridHealth PSGallery  Uses on-premises modules such as Skype For Business and SkypeOnlineConnector to validate basic requireme...
1.0.4   PSShortcut                   PSGallery  This module eases working with Windows shortcuts (LNK and URL) files.                                      
1.1.4   PowerSSH-Legacy              PSGallery  This module detects the first use of an SSH command, automatically runs the SSH agent, keeps the SSH aut...
1.0     cEPRSSharepoint              PSGallery  DSCModule helps in installing & configuring the sharepoint site, Farm etc.,                                
0.0.3   dockeraccesshelper           PSGallery  Allow a user account to access the docker engine without elevated access rights                            
0.3     PSShareFile                  PSGallery  A PowerShell module to manipulate various objects in Citrix's ShareFile service                            
0.0.1   PSSherpaDesk                 PSGallery  PowerShell module for interacting with the SherpaDesk API  


Find-Module -Name '*Posh-SSH' | 
Save-Module -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules" 
Install-Module -Name 'Posh-SSH'

Use this link for demo of SSHRemoting

I just hit it, so I know it works.

See these YouTube videos PowerShell SSH Remoting in action.

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