Questions tagged [chocolatey]
Chocolatey is a Windows apt-get like global automation tool (used mostly as a silent installer).
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Chocolatey unable to upgrade librewolf - incompatible dependency
I'm trying to update Librewolf with Chocolatey. But I get dependency errors:
C:\Users\Lauloque>choco upgrade librewolf --force
Chocolatey v2.2.2
Upgrading the following packages:
librewolf
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Gimp showing submenus in Greek characters
After I installed the Gimp on my machine running Windows 10 Enterprise, submenus such as the 'tool options' are shown with Greek characters (as far as I can tell the words are English):
I had first ...
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Jenkins Installation Fails with Error 1603 Using Chocolatey on Windows
I'm encountering an issue while installing Jenkins via Chocolatey on Windows. Initially, I received an error about Java not being available, which I resolved by setting JAVA_HOME and updating the Path ...
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Install Perl on Windows for LaTeX Packages Without Dependency Issues
I'm currently facing challenges with installing Perl on my Windows system, which I need for handling specific LaTeX related packages. My journey so far has led me through a series of issues, and I'm ...
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Trouble installing a package with chocolatey: System.Management.Automation.RemoteException
I'm trying to install a package with chocolatey 2.2.2 (the package is texlive), using a PowerShell session run as administrator.
I get the following error:
-- snip ---
texlive package files install ...
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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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how to install other version neo4j?
OS: Windows 10
their sites seems to give only latest version, install file
after searching a-lot, i found, chocolatey might have older version
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i tried installing from Chocolatey , keeps giving ...
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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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"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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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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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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PowerShell / Chocolatey, how to do an offline install of Chocolatey itself
I would like to get chocolatey onto multiple systems. The normal way I do this is:
if (!(Test-Path "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin")) {
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [...
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How to migrate from Chocolatey to Scoop?
I'm finding that Scoop's repos are more often updated than Chocolatey's (am I wrong?).
Scoop doesn't immediately recognise apps already installed, so I wanted a way to let Scoop know the apps I had ...
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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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Installing chocolatey in windows 7
I am trying to installing chocolaty on windows 7 machine.
1. I open power shell terminal with admin
2. Set-Execution policy to AllSigned
3.Then in copied the below code in powershell terminal
Set-...
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Opening powershell terminal from the script for the execution purpose
# Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass (Before running the script execute the command in terminal for admin rights)
# Step 1) install Chocolatey when needed
if (-not (Test-Path ...
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How to install outdated packages using chocolatey
#step 1) Installing Chocolatey when needed
if (-not (Test-Path -Path "$env:ProgramData\Chocolatey\choco.exe" -PathType Leaf))
{
# from https://chocolatey.org/install
Set-...
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Powershell script for software automation using chocolatey
Code for my chocolatey script:
$apps=@('googlechrome','firefox','codeblocks','windbg','nasm','explorersuite','pestudio','vscode','sysinternals','python','Google Earth')
function Show-Menu
{
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How to resolve tilde-completed paths in windows Cmd/Powershell
I'm trying to automate uninstallation of some applications, one of which is XtremeTuner. XtremeTuner saves a command used to uninstall it in the registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\...
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How to add GUI installed programs
I've recently started using Chocolatey to install new programs on my computer and to then subsequently upgrade them. However, there are many programs that I have already installed which appear when I ...
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Why vagrant claim about Powershell version (minimum 3)?
Trying to use Vagrant and it claims about Powershell minimum version 3 installed.
I have Windows 10 Pro and Vagrant 2.2.16 and the minimum version at Windows 10 is 5.
Tried to use chocolatey and ...
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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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chocolatey install blocked by antivirus on windows 10
I'm trying to install chocolatey package manager on my local machine as administrator using instructions given on https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup#install-with-powershell.exe
I opened ...
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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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How "clean" are Chocolatey installs and uninstalls?
I have installed Chocolatey and tested it by installing Docker Desktop.
All is well and good, but I wonder, if I uninstall Docker Desktop through Chocolatey, will the package manager delete everything ...
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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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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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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 ...