Choco: How to install Chocolatey for just the current user?

[xmha97]

Hello,
How to install Chocolatey for just the current user?

[pauby]

Like the majority of software on a Windows computer, Chocolatey installs for all users. There is no 'portable' version.

[ferventcoder]

@xmha97 you can put it in just for the current user, but it is going to track things at a higher level (machine installs) in most cases. If you are just going with non-admin, there are some advanced instructions for how to set this up - https://chocolatey.org/docs/installation#non-administrative-install. This will set almost everything to current user, but again if you install anything that is machine level software installations, it will be installed per machine.

[vexx32]

@ferventcoder the link in that doc https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=id%3Aportable+tag%3Aportable doesn't work; did something change in the filter processing in the website? Or is it just wrong? id:portable looks wrong to me tbh, unless it's supposed to be a partial match on the ID,

Searching id:.portable returns 359 packages; tag:portable returns 174. Searching for both, nothing.

[ferventcoder]

Yeah, the link is likely wrong there.