install_apps_using_choco

#!/usr/bin/env bash

die() { printf %s "${@+$@$'\n'}" 1>&2 ; exit 1 ; }

# other choco commands
#  `choco uninstall -x pkgnm` remove package and all dependencies
#  `choco upgrade -y all` upgrade all installed package
#  `choco list -li`  list locally installed programs (both managed by choco and NOT!)

pkgs=(
  "calibre"
  "ffmpeg"  # removed since choco version is incompatible with my bash scripts for unknown reasons
# "dosbox"       # succeeds but not in PATH?
# "ghostscript"  # succeeds but not in PATH?
  "calibre"
  'html-tidy'
  "irfanview" "irfanviewplugins"
  "make"  # GNU make
  "miktex"  # for tex::beamer (my command: pdflatex)
  "mediainfo-cli"
  "mpc-hc-clsid2"
  "puretext"
  "qpdf"
  "ripgrep"
  "shellcheck"
  "strawberryperl"   # for "resume-sprint" repo (to get functioning .PL file association) _only_
  "totalcommander"
  "universal-ctags"
  "wget"
  "x-mouse-button-control"
  "xmlstarlet"
  "yt-dlp"
  "zulu11"
  )

command -v choco > /dev/null || die "need to install choco+git; see https://github.com/fwmechanic/homedir/blob/master/.bash_aliases"

cinst() (
   set -x
   choco install -y "$@"
   )

cinst "${pkgs[@]}"
cinst sumatrapdf.install --params "/NoDesktop"