Questions tagged [chocolatey]
Chocolatey is a Windows apt-get like global automation tool (used mostly as a silent installer).
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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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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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How to install numpy for Python 2 with choco?
I want to use chocolately to install numpy onto a Windows machine.
However when I run:
choco install numpy
it tried to install a numpy for Python 3.
How can I force it to install a version for ...
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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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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:
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texlive package files install ...
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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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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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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 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 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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Mysql hangs forever after initial installation on Windows 10 with chocolatey
So I got a new work laptop - it's a fresh dell latitude - and windows 10 went through a very nice set up phase. I proceeded to install all the things.
git (for windows)
VSCode
chocolatey
keepass
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Skype update cannot find file
Skype told me to update, but when executing the update, there's an error message
A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file: C:\ProgramData\Skype{FC965A47-4839-40CA-B618-...
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how to install software to a VM using chocolatey
Now I am struggling with install software to vagrant Vm. I took some file from this Link but it didn’t work.
After create the vagrant box. I run the vagrant up command to create the VM it worked. ...
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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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