How to list Chocolatey packages already installed and newer version available from the command line

I have the following packages installed with Chocolatey.

choco list --localonly

> choco list --localonly    
Chocolatey v0.9.9.2                                      
adobereader 11.0.10                                      
ccleaner 5.03.5128                                       
chocolatey 0.9.9.2                                       
ConEmu 14.9.23.0                                         
gimp 2.8.14.1                                            
git 1.9.5.20150114

One week later the GIMP package updated to 2.9 and the Git package is updated to 1.9.6 on the chocolatey.org website, but other packages are not updated.

Two weeks later I need to run a command in cmd to show the following result:

> some command
git current local version (1.9.5), latest version (1.9.6) is available for upgrade
gimp current local version (2.8), latest version (2.9) is available for upgrade

What is the good way to compose such command? (Or if there is a command option built into Chocolatey itself, what it would be?)


Note: You likely need to do the following commands in an administrative cmd/powershell prompt.

If you have choco 0.9.9.6+, you can use the outdated command.

choco outdated

If you have 0.9.9+ installed:

choco upgrade all --noop

If you have version 0.9.8.33 or below installed:

choco version all

Following that, if you actually want to upgrade - you can follow with:

cup all -y

Note: -y will only work with 0.9.8.33+.


Just run the case, and choco said I should use this

choco list -lo

That did the trick for me, so here 2c from me.