How is a .install package different to a .portable package?

Опубликовано: 08 Июль 2026
на канале: Gary Ewan Park
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Have you ever wondered why there are .install and .portable Chocolatey packages for the same application? For example, when installing git, there is:

git
git.install
git.portable

There is a good reason for this, and in this short video I walk through the in and outs of why they are there, and how you can use them.

The is a video version of the documentation that you can find here:

https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/faq...