Is there a way to get Chocolatey to show the progress of a download?

Question

I just started using Chocolatey and I was wondering is there some flag or setting that I can set to get chocolatey to show me the progress of a download rather than just hanging the terminal. Furthermore, when I do a......

PS C:>cinst something ================================================================================== something is 20% complete

You know, like how other package managers do it.

Answer 1

In the Powershell version of Chocolatey, i.e. version <= 0.9.8.33 there was a progress bar indicating the progress of the download.

However, in the current C# version of Chocolatey (at the time of this comment 0.9.9.6) there is no equivalent for this. There is an issue to track this feature, so I would suggest you subscribe to this issue:

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/56

For updates about when this will be available.