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Archive for the ‘Chocolatey’ Category

Why I love choco-cleaner for chocolatey

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/05

A while ago, I wrote about Installing Windows software with Chocolatey: a few notes and A choco install list, mentioned choco-cleaner in both (see first quote below) but forgot to show where this excels.

This is what I wrote:

since there is no choco cleanup yet [WayBack] you need to either:

…

If you want to clean cruft:

choco install --yes choco-cleaner

It helps a lot for situations where chocolatey updates a package, but you still have the old software running. In that case, the old version will be in %ProgramData%\chocolatey\lib-bkp, potentially taking up a lot of disk space.

This happed to me for instance when still having Process Explorer open while upgrading.

This is what happened:

 ShimGen has successfully created a shim for ZoomIt.exe
This is try 1/3. Retrying after 300 milliseconds.
 Error converted to warning:
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
This is try 2/3. Retrying after 400 milliseconds.
 Error converted to warning:
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
Maximum tries of 3 reached. Throwing error.
Attempted to remove 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bkp\sysinternals' but had an error::
 Toegang tot het pad procexp.exe is geweigerd.
 The upgrade of sysinternals was successful.
  Software installed to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\sysinternals\tools'

Chocolatey upgraded 1/21 packages.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Upgraded:
 - sysinternals v2019.3.18

C:\>C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\choco-cleaner\tools\choco-cleaner-manual.bat
Choco-Cleaner.ps1 v0.0.5.2 (01/09/2019) - deletes unnecessary residual Chocolatey files to free up disk space
Copyleft 2017-2019 Bill Curran (bcurran3@yahoo.com) - free for personal and commercial use
Choco-Cleaner Summary:
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey _processed.txt (WTF?) file...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey .ignore files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey .old files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey cache files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey config backup files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bad package files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey lib-bkp package files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey extracted file logs...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey log files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archive files in toolsDir...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded archives and executables in .nupkg files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded license files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded Microsoft installers...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Chocolatey package embedded various read me files...
  **  Deleting unnecessary Nuget cache files...
Choco-Cleaner finished deleting unnecessary Chocolatey files and saved you 85.008 KB!
Found Choco-Cleaner.ps1 useful?
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–jeroen

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Chocolatey: installing Forticlient

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/26

I needed Forticlient on a machine one day, so this is how to install the most recent Forticlient 6 using chocolatey:

choco install --yes forticlient --source https://www.myget.org/F/public-choco/api/v2

This ensures you can automatically update from Chocolatey instead of manually from the Forticlient GUI.

The update command is slightly different as a choco update will complain it cannot find the source for forticlient; you need this in stead:

choco update forticlient --source https://www.myget.org/F/public-choco/api/v2

Based on [WayBack] public-choco – forticlient 6.0.4.0182 | MyGet.

–jeroen

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A choco install list

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/03

Sometimes I forget the choco install mnemonics for various tools, so here is a small list below.

Of course you have to start with an administrative command prompt, and have a basic Chocolatey Installation in place.

If you want to clean cruft:

choco install --yes choco-cleaner

Basic install:

choco install --yes 7zip
choco install --yes everything
choco install --yes notepadplusplus
choco install --yes beyondcompare
choco install --yes git.install --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoGitLfs /SChannel /NoAutoCrlf /WindowsTerminal"
choco install --yes hg
choco install --yes sourcetree
choco install --yes sysinternals

For VMs (pic one):

choco install --yes vmware-tools
choco install --yes virtio-drivers

For browsing (not sure yet about Chrome as that one has a non-admin installer as well):

choco install --yes firefox

For file transfer (though be aware that some versions of Filezilla contained adware):

choco install --yes filezilla
choco install --yes winscp

For coding:

choco install --yes vscode
choco install --yes atom

For SQL server:

choco install --yes sql-server-management-studio

For web development / power user:

choco install --yes fiddler

For SOAP and REST:

choco install --yes soapui

If you don’t like manually downloading SequoiaView at gist.github.com/jpluimers/b0df9c2dba49010454ca6df406bc5f3d (e8efd031d667de8a1808d6ea73548d77949e7864.zip):

choco install --yes windirstat

For drawing, image manipulation (paint.net last, as it needs a UI action):

choco install --yes gimp
choco install --yes imagemagick
choco install --yes paint.net

For ISO image mounting in pre Windows 10:

choco install --yes wincdemu

For hard disk management:

choco install --yes hdtune
choco install --yes seatools
choco install --yes speedfan

For Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners (not sure yet this includes PDF support):

choco install --yes scansnapmanager

–jeroen

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Installing Windows software with Chocolatey: a few notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/28

I will limit myself to software that needs Administrative elevation in order to be installed. This is the default use-case for Chocolatey. It is way way easier than installing software all by hand, but there are a few things you need to know, hence these notes.

Administrative elevation

Since the default use case is installing software that requires Administrative elevation during install, Chocolatey needs to run with Administrative privileges in order to perform these installs.

If you were hoping for a way around this (for instance by having a client/service architecture), then just stop here.

Even though such a structure could technically be created, getting it stable and working it correctly with a truckload of software to be installed (much of which not available as packages during Chocolatey development in the first place) is a task too big.

Think of the size of the Windows Installer team at Microsoft to get installers working in the first place, the extra effort needed by Chocolatey volunteers to get the installers working from the console, then another much more complex layer of getting them running from inside a service and communicating everything back and forth to a non-elevated command prompt would be a nightmare.

I won’t even mention the security steps involved to ensure the non-elevated command prompt has enough rights to send installation instructions to the elevated service.

So the first step is to have an elevated command prompt for Chocolatey.

Being elevated, and Chocolatey needing to download installers requires a local temporary place for them.

By default, that place is %Temp%\chocolatey of the administrative user that elevated the Chocolatey command prompt.

This directory can grow quite big, so dir, so – since there is no choco cleanup yet [WayBack] you need to either:

Install Chocolatey itself

Either the direct one below, or the more secure one (so you can inspect the intermediate [WayBack] install.ps1) at [WayBack] Installation using PowerShell from cmd.exe:

@echo off
SET DIR=%~dp0%
::download install.ps1
%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "((new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1','%DIR%install.ps1'))"
::run installer
%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& '%DIR%install.ps1' %*"

If you want to get rid of it, use [WayBack] Uninstallation.

Besides the one above and below, there are many more [WayBack] Installation: more install options

Output of direct install as Administrator (disclaimers apply):

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH="%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
Getting latest version of the Chocolatey package for download.
Getting Chocolatey from https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey/0.10.11.
Downloading 7-Zip commandline tool prior to extraction.
Extracting C:\Users\JEROEN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall\chocolatey.zip to C:\Users\JEROEN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall...
Installing chocolatey on this machine
Creating ChocolateyInstall as an environment variable (targeting 'Machine')
  Setting ChocolateyInstall to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey'
WARNING: It's very likely you will need to close and reopen your shell
  before you can use choco.
Restricting write permissions to Administrators
We are setting up the Chocolatey package repository.
The packages themselves go to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib'
  (i.e. C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName).
A shim file for the command line goes to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin'
  and points to an executable in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName'.

Creating Chocolatey folders if they do not already exist.

WARNING: You can safely ignore errors related to missing log files when
  upgrading from a version of Chocolatey less than 0.9.9.
  'Batch file could not be found' is also safe to ignore.
  'The system cannot find the file specified' - also safe.
chocolatey.nupkg file not installed in lib.
 Attempting to locate it from bootstrapper.
PATH environment variable does not have C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin in it. Adding...
WARNING: Not setting tab completion: Profile file does not exist at 'C:\Users\jeroenAdministrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1'.
Chocolatey (choco.exe) is now ready.
You can call choco from anywhere, command line or powershell by typing choco.
Run choco /? for a list of functions.
You may need to shut down and restart powershell and/or consoles
 first prior to using choco.
Ensuring chocolatey commands are on the path
Ensuring chocolatey.nupkg is in the lib folder

Installing packages

Compressing

If you run out of SSD or VM disk space, you can try compress using compact /c /s *.* in these directories:

  • C:\ProgramData\Package Cache
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages
  • C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\ClickToRun\ProductReleases

Further reading

–jeroen

PS: always watch the output and logs!

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Chocolatey and TLS since early 2020

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

I was upgrading a few older systems that had been off-line for quite a while.

When installing Chocolatey, I bumped into this error:

C:\bin>"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
Exception calling "DownloadString" with "1" argument(s): "The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."
At line:1 char:1
+ iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocol ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException

So I tried [WayBack] chocolatey “The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.” – Google Search

Results indicated TLS 1.1 support was removed early February 2020 from Chocolatey because of security reasons, which impacts the installation on older systems:

Note [WayBack] Chocolatey install Error: The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel – Stack Overflow with a temporary workaround for Microsoft Windows Server 2016:

Looks like the security protocol changed:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

–jeroen

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