Questions tagged [chocolatey]
Chocolatey is a Windows apt-get like global automation tool (used mostly as a silent installer).
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Windows 10 Boot very slow
After installing chocolatey, meteor, git and vscode my Windows boot time got up from like
5 seconds to 25 seconds.
I installed meteor by this installer https://forums.meteor.com/t/meteor-windows-...
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Add a directory as a target in chocolatey nuspec file
i want to add a directory as a target in .nuspec file.i tried :
<file src="bin\banner\*" target="bin\banner\" />
chocolatey didn't elicit any error and created the nupkg ...
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installing windows-sdk-10-version-2004-all fails reporting "was not successful. Exit code was '-2146889721'"
Installing windows-sdk-10-version-2004-all using chocolatey in docker with Dockerfile
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019
RUN powershell.exe -NoProfile -InputFormat None -...
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Chocolatey: How to install Gnu-Make?
I have choco installed on powershell. If I run powershell as an admin, and type:
choco install gnu-make
Choco knows that there is a gnu-make package out there, but it can't install it from the repos ...
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Set unzip location in Chocolatey Package Install Arguments
I'm trying to install a Chocolatey package which is essentially a zip archive from Github repository releases. Is it possible to set a custom unzip path in a manner similar to choco install ...
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Installing Chocolatey so that it can install packages as admin level
If Chocolatey, a Windows package manager, is installed using Administrator privileges, does it need Admin privileges to install other apps?
If so, is there a way to allow Chocolatey to self-escalate ...
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Does Chocolatey has “brew tap” equivalent?
I was wondering if chocolatey package manager has something equivalent to brew tap? In the sense that as a developer I can host some template file(formula) on GitHub and add it to my chocolatey CLI ...
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How to use choco install winrar or other command to enable the cascaded context menu?
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I use chocolatey as a package manager or software manager on different (remote) systems. WinRAR is also in my top 10 of software to be installed on new systems. I used ninite.com before, but ...
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Error message: root element is missing
When updating all Chocolatey packages, the following error message appears:
Root element is missing.
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
chocolatey.log details
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How Chocolatey knows which packages are installed and which aren't
Chocolatey is a package management system for Windows. First, you download and install Chocolatey, which is free and open-source software. You tell it what software you want, then (usually) answer ...
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How to list packages installed with chocolatey ordered by install date?
'Choco list -lia' shows a lot of information, but not the installation dates.
What parameters do I use to get those?
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How do I install Ruby 2.6 with Chocolatey?
I tried to list all version of Ruby but it only lists one.
choco list ruby --exact --all
ruby 2.7.0.1 [Approved]
1 packages found.
Nokogiri won't work with the latest Ruby.
Gem::...
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Where is the Visual Studio 2015 Build Tools installed to?
I installed the Microsoft Build Tools 2015 Update 3 using Chocolatey:
https://chocolatey.org/packages/microsoft-build-tools/14.0.25420.1
But I can't find where it actually installed the files. Can't ...
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chocolatey upgrade all -y command fails
I've been getting this error for a long time and can't update it.
Error Like for every package:
You have flashplayeractivex v32.0.0.293 installed.
Version 32.0.0.303 is available ...
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How To Determine Bitness of Choclatey Package
Looking through the help, I see that the install defaults to your processor architecture; but if you have a 64-bit OS and only 32-bit package is available, it will fall back. So how can you tell ...
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