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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/09
When you do a choco upgrade all --yes on a system that – during upgrade – becomes low on disk space, you can end up with a lot of empty .nupkg files.
For those package, Chocolatey will not recognise they are installed any more.
The fix is this:
- increase disk space so at least 5 gigabytes is free
- split the choco upgrade process so it checks before each upgrade that this diskspace is indeed free
- list all choco .nupkg files of length zero ordered from oldest to newest
- for each package, delete the .nupkg file if it exists, then force install it with the
--force parameter before the --yes parameter like in
choco install --force --yes chocolatey
- when all packages have been done, then
choco upgrade --all --yes
I wrote a few PowerShell scripts assisting me in cleaning up the mess.
choco-list-installed.bat
:: https://superuser.com/questions/890251/how-to-list-chocolatey-packages-already-installed-and-newer-version-available-fr
choco list --localonly %*
choco-show-installed-package-names.bat
:: `--limit-output` does not show Chocolatey version header and count footer.
:: `--id-oonly` omits the version number, so you only get the package name
choco list --local-only --limit-output --id-only
choco-show-installed-package-names-and-versions.bat
:: `--limit-output` does not show Chocolatey version header and count footer.
choco list --local-only --limit-output %*
choco-reinstall-empty-nupkg-by-names.ps1
- [WayBack] Powershell – Finding 0-byte Files | Another computer blog
- [WayBack] windows – Where is the Chocolatey installation path? – Stack Overflow:
There is an environment variable set on installation, ChocolateyInstall, which is set to C:\Chocolatey by default in versions of Chocolatey less than 0.9.8.27. After that, this defaults to C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey.
NOTE: By default, the C:\ProgramData folder on Windows is hidden. You will either need to enable hidden files and folders through Folder Options | View or you can navigate directly to the path shown above by copy/pasting directly into the Windows Explorer address bar.
In version 0.9.9 of Chocolatey, it actively moves from the old folder location to the new one.
- [WayBack] string – Powershell concatenate an Environment variable with path – Stack Overflow
A convenient way to obtain the string value rather than the dictionary entry (which is technically what Get-ChildItem is accessing) is to just use the variable syntax: $Env:USERPROFILE rather than Get-ChildItem Env:USERPROFILE.
$localpath = "$env:USERPROFILE\some\path"
…
Also, the Join-Path cmdlet is a good way to combine two parts of a path.
$localpath = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE 'some\path'
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https://learningpcs.blogspot.com/2009/12/powershell-finding-0-byte-files.html
Zero length .nupkg files sorted by oldest first.
These are packages that choco will not show and likekly need a forced reinstall.
Choco does remember the version that was installed (so not all the choco config is hosed).
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28235388/where-is-the-chocolatey-installation-path/28239451#28239451
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41047123/powershell-concatenate-an-environment-variable-with-path/41047343#41047343
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$LibPath = Join-Path $env:ChocolateyInstall 'lib'
$NuPkgExtension = 'nupkg'
$NupkgFilter = "*.$NuPkgExtension"
## Remove the empty .nupkg files for each argument
$args | ForEach-Object {
$PackageName = $_
Write-Output "Deleting any empty $PackageName.$NuPkgExtension under $LibPath :"
Get-ChildItem -Path $LibPath -Recurse -Filter $NupkgFilter | Where-Object {
($_.Length -eq 0) -and ($_.BaseName -eq $PackageName)
} | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | ForEach-Object {
$PackageFullName = $_.FullName
Write-Output "Deleting $PackageFullName"
Remove-Item $PackageFullName
}
}
## Force install the chocolatey package for each argument
$args | ForEach-Object {
$PackageName = $_
Write-Output "Installing $PackageName with Chocolatey:"
choco install --force --yes $PackageName
}
Link lists
Some more links that helped me solve this:
Some links on errors I encountered while recovering from this:
- Checksum errors like[WayBack] (sysinternals) checksum error · Issue #756 · chocolatey-community/chocolatey-coreteampackages · GitHub are often caused by the chocolatey package downloading the most recent installer despite the package version. Two solutions:
- Pass
--ignorechecksum to choco --install (see [WayBack] CommandsInstall · chocolatey/choco Wiki · GitHub)
- First uninstall using the
--force parameter
[Archive.is] Chocolatey Software | Sysinternals 2019.6.29
Sysinternals Suite is going to be installed in ‘C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sysinternals\tools’
File appears to be downloaded already. Verifying with package checksum to determine if it needs to be redownloaded.
Error – hashes do not match. Actual value was ‘A510C31C2CC591A16F342E7CBA5DC8409EAF08C9B56729CF132C95C69E196787’.
Downloading sysinternals
from ‘https://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip’
Progress: 100% – Completed download of C:\Users\devCrPhoneDebug\AppData\Local\Temp\2\chocolatey\sysinternals\2018.12.27\SysinternalsSuite.zip (23.51 MB).
Download of SysinternalsSuite.zip (23.51 MB) completed.
Error – hashes do not match. Actual value was ‘A510C31C2CC591A16F342E7CBA5DC8409EAF08C9B56729CF132C95C69E196787’.
ERROR: Checksum for ‘C:\Users\devCrPhoneDebug\AppData\Local\Temp\2\chocolatey\sysinternals\2018.12.27\SysinternalsSuite.zip’ did not meet ‘b14466c6bf3be216ea71610a3f455030e791cd5ad1b42a283886194205d176b0’ for checksum type ‘sha256’. Consider passing the actual checksums through with –checksum –checksum64 once you validate the checksums are appropriate. A less secure option is to pass –ignore-checksums if necessary.
The install of sysinternals was NOT successful.
Error while running ‘C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sysinternals\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1’.
See log for details.
Chocolatey installed 0/1 packages. 1 packages failed.
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
- Packages that cannot be found at all:[WayBack] “imagemagick not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed” – Google Search
- This means that Chocolatey cannot find a dependency, but will not tell you which one. It also happens during package testing:[WayBack] imagemagick v7.0.9.7 – Failed – Package Tests Results · GitHub
- Solve this by fixing all other empty
.nupkg files first, which will give you an idea on the potential missing dependencies. Retry by forcing reinstall each dependency.
- Dependencies that cannot be found, which can be caused by more empty
.nupkg files. Example: [WayBack] Unable to resolve dependency · Issue #206 · chocolatey/choco · GitHub
- Solve this by each time a dependency is not found, include on the
choco-reinstall-empty-nupkg-by-names.ps1command, then retry.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/08
By now, probably newer versions have come out, but this should give a rough indication of the 2019 state of [WayBack] PowerShell OS Support Matrix – mohitgoyal.co:
For 5.1 and lower, you can find the prerequisites in [WayBack] Windows PowerShell System Requirements – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/07
If you get [WayBack] “A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name ‘PassThru'” as PowerShell error, then likely the PowerShell version is too old to support -PassThru, which likely means you have are running pre-Windows 10 version.
PowerShell 3 (introduced in 2012) added the -PassThru parameter that allowed to chain multiple commands from one list pipe.
Another reason for the error might be that the command you use does not support the -PassThru parameter.
To check which commandlets support -PassThru, use the below command (the output is from a Windows 8.1 machine running PowerShell 4.0).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/19
[WayBack] windows – Is there any sed like utility for cmd.exe? – Stack Overflow
TL;DR: many people suggest to use PowerShell, but there is GNU sed in Chocolatey
The chocolatey part:
The PowerShell part: read the other answers from the above question.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/19
From my batch file library; note this PowerShell wrapper does not support stdin, but that is OK for me.
For Windows 10 and up, sort /unique works too and supports stdin.
:: note: does not work on stdin, unliqke sort which does support standard input
:: http://secretgeek.net/ps_duplicates
PowerShell Get-Content %1 ^| Sort-Object ^| Get-Unique
:: note that for Windoww 10 and up, there is a sort /unique switch, but Windows versions below it do not.
:: https://superuser.com/questions/1316317/is-there-a-windows-equivalent-to-the-unix-uniq
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/13
Sometimes an install is not just as simple as C:\>choco install --yes oracle-sql-developer.
Edit 20210514:
Note that most of the below pain will be moot in the future as per [Archive.is] Jeff Smith 🍻 on Twitter: “we’re working on removing the SSO requirement, it’s already done for @oraclesqlcl – see here … “ referring to [Wayback] SQLcl now under the Oracle Free Use Terms and Conditions license | Oracle Database Insider Blog
SQLcl, the modern command-line interface for the Oracle Database, can now be downloaded directly from the web without any click-through license agreement.
It means the Oracle acount restriction will be lifted, and downloads will be a lot simpler.
I started with the below failing command, tried a lot of things, then finally almost gave up: Oracle stuff does not want to be automated, which means I should try to less of their stuff.
First of all you need an Oracle account (I dislike companies doing that for free product installs; I’m looking at Embarcadero too) by going to profile.oracle.com:
[WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | Oracle SQL Developer 18.4.0 (also: gist.github.com/search?l=XML&q=oracle-sql-developer)
Notes
- This version supports both 32bit and 64bit and subsequently does not have a JDK bundled with it. It has a
dependency on the jdk8 package to meet the application’s JDK requirement.
- An Oracle account is required to download this package. See the “Package Parameters” section below for
details on how to provide your Oracle credentials to the installer. If you don’t have an existing account, you can
create one for free here: https://profile.oracle.com/myprofile/account/create-account.jspx
Package Parameters
The following package parameters are required:
* /Username: – Oracle username
* /Password: – Oracle password
(e.g. choco install oracle-sql-developer --params "'/Username:MyUsername /Password:MyPassword'")
To have choco remember parameters on upgrade, be sure to set choco feature enable -n=useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades.
Then the installation failed fail again: ERROR: The response content cannot be parsed because the Internet Explorer engine is not available, or Internet Explorer's first-launch configuration is not complete. Specify the UseBasicParsing parameter and try again.
The trick is to RUN IEXPLORE.EXE AS ADMINISTRATOR ONCE BEFORE INSTALLING FROM CHOCOLATEY. Who would believe that.
The reason is that the package uses Invoke-WebRequest which requires Internet Explorer and PowerShell 3. Chocolatey packages however need to be able to run on just PowerShell 2 without Invoke-WebRequest.
Maybe using cURL can remedy that; adding a dependency to is is possible, as cURL can be installed via chocolatey: [WayBack] How to Install cURL on Windows – I Don’t Know, Read The Manual. Another alternative might be [WayBack] Replace Invoke-RestMethod in PowerShell 2.0 to use [WayBack] WebRequest Class (System.Net) | Microsoft Docs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/04
On my list to experiment with are [Wayback] about_Preference_Variables – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs, especially
$ConfirmPreference
Determines whether PowerShell automatically prompts you for confirmation before running a cmdlet or function.
The $ConfirmPreference variable’s valid values are High, Medium, or Low. Cmdlets and functions are assigned a risk of High, Medium, or Low. When the value of the $ConfirmPreference variable is less than or equal to the risk assigned to a cmdlet or function, PowerShell automatically prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet or function.
If the value of the $ConfirmPreference variable is None, PowerShell never automatically prompts you before running a cmdlet or function.
To change the confirming behavior for all cmdlets and functions in the session, change $ConfirmPreference variable’s value.
To override the $ConfirmPreference for a single command, use a cmdlet’s or function’s Confirm parameter. To request confirmation, use -Confirm. To suppress confirmation, use -Confirm:$false.
Valid values of $ConfirmPreference:
- None: PowerShell doesn’t prompt automatically. To request confirmation of a particular command, use the Confirm parameter of the cmdlet or function.
- Low: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a low, medium, or high risk.
- Medium: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a medium, or high risk.
- High: PowerShell prompts for confirmation before running cmdlets or functions with a high risk.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/18
Recently, I bumped into [WayBack] Write-Output confusion for the upteenth time.
Luckily I had the below links archived, basically invalidating the use of Write-Output, and invalidating the answer at [WayBack] powershell – What’s the difference between “Write-Host”, “Write-Output”, or “[console]::WriteLine”? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/30
I needed a decrementing loop on the Windows command prompt, but that seems very hard from batch files without programming your own kind of while loop:
PowerShell to the rescue to loop back from and including 463 down to and including 290:
PowerShell -Command "for ($i=463; $i -ge 290; $i--) { Write-Host "Value " $i}"
This outputs:
Value 463
Value 462
...
Value 291
Value 290
In a similar way, you can execute a cmd command, but then you need to be careful on how to pass parameters: the \" is important to you can have quotes within quoted strings..
PowerShell -Command "for ($i=463; $i -ge 290; $i--) { & echo \"Value $i\"}"
gives this:
Value 463
Value 462
...
Value 291
Value 290
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/10
From [WayBack] Completely disable Windows 10 telemetry collection – twm’s blog:
So I don’t forget: According to an article in c’t magazine, disabling the “DiagTrack” service (“Connected User Experience and Telemetry”) will completely disable user tracking in Windows 10. They also say that they did not see any negative effects.
Source: [WayBack] Telefonierverbot in c’t 01/2019 page 172 (in German)
I saw at least one system where the service is not shown when you run Services.msc: it did not list DiagTrack, nor Connected User Experience and Telemetry. How awful is that!
The service can also be installed non older Windows versions: [WayBack] Just found DiagTrack running in Services – Tips and Tricks
Sometimes, it gets re-enabled. I think this happens during major Windows updates.
To inspect, stop and disable
Run all commands from the console the below bold commands. The non-bold text was the output on my system. If instead of the cmd.exe console, you run a PowerShell console, then remove the bits PowerShell -Command " and " at the start and end of each command.
The first command does not require an Administrative (UAC Elevated) command prompt; the last one does.
However, the first command, needs the | Select-Object * bit as otherwise most of the fields will not be displayed, excluding for instance StartType.
powershell -Command "Get-Service -Name DiagTrack | Select-Object *"
Name : DiagTrack
RequiredServices : {RpcSs}
CanPauseAndContinue : False
CanShutdown : True
CanStop : True
DisplayName : Connected User Experiences and Telemetry
DependentServices : {}
MachineName : .
ServiceName : DiagTrack
ServicesDependedOn : {RpcSs}
ServiceHandle :
Status : Running
ServiceType : Win32OwnProcess
StartType : Automatic
Site :
Container :
On an Administrative command-prompt:
powershell -Command "Set-Service -Name DiagTrack -StartUpType Disabled"
powershell -Command "Get-Service -Name DiagTrack | Stop-Service"
Two notes:
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