How to get a list of packages from one machine and install in another with Chocolatey?

Question

Calling clist -l gives me a list of packages with versions:

7zip.install 16.04
ccleaner 5.28.6005
ConEmu 17.3.16.0
...

How do I ge

Answer 1

If you have a look at the help information for the choco install command (you can do this using chcco install -h, you will find the following usage:

cinst  [ ] []

As you will see, it is possible to pass a packages.config file, which would contain all the packages that you want to install. The format of this packages.config file is very simple and looks like the following:

Once you have this file, installing all the packages again on another machine is a simple one line command.

A simple way to generate this packages.config file would be to install ChocolateyGUI (choco install chocolateygui), which includes an option to export the currently installed list of applications.