It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer. It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. “Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows (like apt-get or yum but for Windows).
So what is this whole Chocolatey thing anyway? The Chocolatey website does a great job of explaining what Chocolatey is and isn’t. I decided to convert my installation script to a Chocolatey-based installation and share my work with other Windows Neo4j users.įast forward to the present day and there has been nearly 1,000 downloads of the Neo4j package from the community repository at, and even a community contribution to the Neo4j Chocolatey package itself. This was ok, but it still seemed clumsy and I couldn’t share this easily with other people.Įven back then, Chocolatey was very popular, and I noticed there was no Neo4j package. zip file, configure the database and then start the service. It was a highly connected dataset, perfect for a graph database.Īs I have always been an advocate of automation (and I hate doing the same thing twice!), I created a simple PowerShell script to download the Neo4j. In late 2014, I was trying out Neo4j Community Edition for a project I was working on. In this blog post we will look at: Why did I choose Chocolatey to package Neo4j, and what is Chocolatey exactly anyway? We’ll also cover how to install Neo4j with more examples, how the Chocolatey packages are a built and future plans for the packages. This will install Java 1.8 and Neo4j Community Edition, and then start the Neo4j server – all in one short command line! How easy is it to install? Well, this is command to install Neo4j and Java: Previously this was difficult in Windows as there was no standard package manager, however Chocolatey has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years as the Windows package manager to use. However, it would be great to make it easy to install Neo4j in a more Windows-standard way. There are many ways to install Neo4j on a Windows server or desktop, including as a simple.
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