Questions tagged [chocolatey]
Chocolatey is a Windows apt-get like global automation tool (used mostly as a silent installer).
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Why are there extra packages listed by Chocolatey and can I delete them?
On opening the choco lib folder, I can see a lot of files. The only stuffs I remember installing were python and ffmpeg, and Chocolatey of course. But what are the rest? And there are 3 instances of ...
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Chocolaty install of Google Chrome fails HASH check
I am getting an error when installing Google Chrome Browser in powershell using chocolatey. It works when I by-parse the hash check, but how do I make sure this is fixed in nuget?
I can install other ...
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how do you open applications after installing with chocolatey?
I have checked through similar questions concerning chocolately/choco on windows powershell but I still can't find the answer to this simple one:
How do you open a package after it's been installed ...
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Choco error checksum didn't meet
While installing tabby using choco gives checksum didn't match error.
PS C:\Users\devpa> choco install tabby -y
Chocolatey v2.0.0 ...
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Is there a way to list Chocolatey packages with their install directory?
The command
choco list -lo
lists the installed packages. But how do I determine where a Chocolatey application installs? So far I've had to hunt around for them.
Some examples:
NUnit goes to ...
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"Error encountered during SQL installation"
During my internship at a company that utilizes Sage software, I faced challenges while attempting to install Microsoft SQL Server, which is required for Sage. I encountered multiple errors during the ...
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Can I create a Chocolatey installer automatically based on my currently installed applications? How?
I intend to reinstall Windows on my computer soon and I'd like to make the process of reinstalling all of my applications as seamless as possible. I know you can create a Chocolatey script that can be ...
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AWS Windows EC2 File Transfer - Need to keep session open
I have a rather large file that I need to copy from an S3 bucket to a Windows EC2 and it will not complete before a session ends. I have found lots of suggestions for this for Linux but not Windows.
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Is it safe to uninstall Chocolatey?
Is it safe to uninstall Chocolatey after I have installed applications with it?
I want to set up software for new PCs using Chocolatey, but want to remove the C:\Chocolatey folder. As far as I ...
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Every now and again I want to upgrade a pinned package in chocolatey
I upgrade all my packages weekly with
cup all -y
However there are several applications that I use infrequently. I want to upgrade them about once every 6 or 12 weeks. So I pinned them. That is ...
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Chocolatey Package Manager showing two packages for each package with (Install) in one
As visible in the screenshot attached, there are two packages for some of the packages with (Install) in the package name. What does this mean and how do I remove/fix/hide the "Install" ones?...
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Windows 11 GNU make - 'cat' not recognized
I made the foolish decision to move my work environment to Windows 11.
I have downloaded GNU Make version 4.3 using chocolatey. Make replies when I prompt it for its version, but returns the error '...
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Remove Chocolatey registration without uninstalling application
I want to be able to use choco upgrade all -y to update almost all of my Chocolatey packages.
Some packages represent applications that I want to have installed, but I no longer want them to be ...
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Is there a way to list all Chocolatey packages that have no dependencies?
Sometimes I found unexpected packages in my Chocolatey package list, and want to know if they're safe to uninstall. I know I can try to uninstall them and wait for Chocolatey to remind me, but that ...
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How to install the latest patch version of a package with chocolatey?
I need Python 3.8 on my box and decided to install it with Chocolatey.
I see there are a lot of them:
> choco list python3 -e --all
Chocolatey v0.12.1
python3 3.10.2 [Approved]
python3 3.10.1 [...
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