How do I automatically keep all locally installed Chocolatey packages up to date?

Question

There is Ketarin to update Chocolatey packages and push them to chocolatey.org automatically, but how do I automatically update all locally installed Chocolatey packages?

Answer 1

Try choco upgrade all -y (or cup all -y). One can create a scheduled task to run in the evenings that would do this.

Answer 2

Update - Sept 2018

As well as choco-upgrade-all-at-startup to upgrade all packages on startup (mentioned above), there is also now a Chocolatey package, choco-upgrade-all-at, that can be used to check/upgrade all packages as often (for example, daily, weekly..) as you require, at a time that suits :-)

A downside of using the public repository of course is that you are dependent on other people to maintain the packages largely out of the goodness of their hearts, so you should probably still run something like SUMo once in a while to keep an eye on things if you are using this to keep your own machines up-to-date. Organisations are strongly encouraged to host and maintain their own repository rather than use the public one for this reason.