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Archive for the ‘Chocolatey’ Category

Chocolatey: forcing a certain package version and pinning it at that version

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/23

For my future self.

Due to an issue with choco-cleaner versions [WayBack] 0.0.6 and [WayBack] 0.0.7, I needed to ensure it was installed as version [WayBack] 0.0.5.2 and keep it that version.

Not sure if this is the canonical way, but this worked:

choco uninstall --yes choco-cleaner
choco install --yes choco-cleaner --version 0.0.5.2
choco pin add --name=choco-cleaner --version 0.0.5.2
choco pin list

This worked to revert:

choco pin remove --name=choco-cleaner
choco pin list
choco upgrade --yes choco-cleaner

Aftere this upgrade, choco-cleaner version 0.0.7.1 shows a nice error message when the environment variable %ChocolateyToolsLocation% fails to exist.

In that case calling RefreshEnv.cmd will create that environment variable.

[WayBack] Chocolatey Software | Commandsinstall: Examples
[WayBack] Chocolatey Software | Commandspin: examples
[WayBack] Chocolatey Software | (unofficial) Choco Cleaner (Script + Task) 0.0.7: releasenotes
[WayBack] Lack of `ChocolateyToolsLocation` environment variable causes `choco-cleaner` to fail in an UAC console · Issue #143 · bcurran3/ChocolateyPackages · GitHub

Default %ChocolateyToolsLocation% location is %systemdrive%\tools according to [WayBack] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/blob/master/src/chocolatey.resources/helpers/functions/Get-ToolsLocation.ps1#L61
[WayBack] Installed to c:\tools\bcurran3 · Issue #112 · bcurran3/ChocolateyPackages · GitHub

The readme.md on GitHub is out of sync… a bunch of stuff is that I need to get to eventually.

The new package page on chocolatey.org should be current and has this:

Release Notes
INSTRUCTIONS:
Edit C:\tools\BCURRAN3\choco-package-list-backup.config to customize your backup(s). It’s easy, there are comments.
From PowerShell or the Command Prompt, type CHOCO-PACKAGE-LIST-BACKUP to backup your Chocolatey packages list.
From Windows, click Chocolatey Package List Backup in the Windows Start Menu or Package List Backup inside the Chocolatey folder if Chocolatey Shortcuts is installed.
CHANGELOG:
2019.08.27 – can now put title and summary info into the packages.config file, new -EditConfig parameter to edit the config file, Now works from Command Prompt as well as PowerShell, script installation endpoint changed, config file renamed from .xml to .config

–jeroen

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Chocolatey: when upgrades or installs keep insisting the hash has changed, and over time the mismatch changes as well

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/14

A while ago, I bumped into problems updating UltraVNC through Chocolatey.

It is similar to issues with other packages I have seen in the past: sha256 hash mismatches of which the reported mismatch changes over time, though the version stays the same.

This was tracked down to the actual file download site now needing a correct HTTP referer header. Likely this is to stop automated downloads, which kind of back-fires as ultimately you want to automate download and installation of things as much as possible.

Anyway: this is the [Archive.is] thread (which cannot be archived as Disqus hates archiving in the WayBack machine, and archive.is often fails with it too):

Graham Bloice a month ago

The recent update to 1.2300 fails for me with a file hash error. The install script has fe3d1135ae0e7b72394a6f3cc137282cb5e6382a55b5ceee72140d28f5ffe961, but the installer as downloaded, and verified via a separate download and hash check has 5A42A24BED5A39ACA44443916E5B2C4C259CE8E843E90FD07F7AB3D26CB237C8
IdealChain Graham Bloice 3 hours agoThis is because the download page has some “anti leeching” logic which checks the referer header and redirects to the homepage in case that check fails.Dear maintainer, please add the header “Referer: https://www.uvnc.com/” to the Install-ChocolateyPackage options!
Maurice Kevenaar IdealChain 2 hours ago
IdealChain Thanks for this hint! I was still looking for a solution and now, thanks to you, I have one.A new version is being build and will be pushed up soon.

Jeroen Pluimers Maurice Kevenaar 23 minutes agoAs per chocolatey.org/packages/ultravnc/1.2300.0.20200105, it looks like these URLs from the .nuspec files have been permanently removed from the UltraVNC site:<releasenotes>http://www.uvnc.com/general/whatsnew.html</releasenotes> <licenseurl>http://www.uvnc.com/general/license.html</licenseurl> ... <docsurl>http://www.uvnc.com/docs.html</docsurl>There is no replacement for `releaseNotes` or `licenseUrl` (not even in their source code repository at sourceforge.net/p/ultravnc/code/HEAD/tree/UltraVNC%20Project%20Root/UltraVNC/)An alternative for `docsUrl` is www.uvnc.com/docs/uvnc-server.html (that’s what `Documentation` at www.uvnc.com points to).
Jeroen Pluimers Graham Bloice 2 days ago
By now the error has changed; could it be that UltraVNC keeps releasing new Version 1.2300 with different hashes?

You have ultravnc v1.2240.0.20190403 installed. Version 1.2300 is available based on your source(s). Progress: Downloading ultravnc 1.2300... 100%
ultravnc v1.2300 [Approved]
ultravnc package files upgrade completed. Performing other installation steps.
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 '5168CD279B36141B4B5B21CAC449FD4738A0E7C281D19BE99B3EF22968D77B7E'.
Downloading ultravnc 64 bit
from 'https://www.uvnc.eu/download/1230/UltraVNC_1_2_30_X64_Setup.exe'
WARNING: C:\Users\jeroenp\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\ultravnc\1.2300\index.php is of content type text/html; charset=utf-8
Download of index.php (-1 B) completed.
Error - hashes do not match. Actual value was 'D0030DCF7A58166CC96FF5F258D5E6F179F94F412456CD0CE7223561532A3AB2'.
ERROR: Checksum for 'C:\Users\jeroenp\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\ultravnc\1.2300\index.php' did not meet 'fe3d1135ae0e7b72394a6f3cc137282cb5e6382a55b5ceee72140d28f5ffe961' 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 upgrade of ultravnc was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\ultravnc\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1'.
See log for details.

Related: Chocolatey got more strict on various URLs being correct; see [WayBack] (UltraVNC) Why has the X64 been removed? · Issue #42 · mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages · GitHub.

–jeroen

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PowerShell: recovering from corrupt empty *.nupkg files after a disk was accidentally full during update

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`

[WayBack] windows – How to list Chocolatey packages already installed and newer version available from the command line – Super User

:: 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`

[WayBack] CommandsList · chocolatey/choco Wiki · GitHub

:: `--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'
```

<#
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

/#>
$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:
1. Pass --ignorechecksum to choco --install (see [WayBack] CommandsInstall · chocolatey/choco Wiki · GitHub)
2. 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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Chocolatey parameter order: `–yes` becomes before `–force`

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/08

Not sure why, bit if you want to force install a package, answering yes to all prompts, the chocolaty parameter order needs to be --yes --force instead of --force --yes.

This works:

choco install --yes --force git.install --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoGitLfs /SChannel /NoAutoCrlf /WindowsTerminal"

This fails:

choco install --force --yes git.install --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoGitLfs /SChannel /NoAutoCrlf /WindowsTerminal"

–jeroen

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Maybe time again to look at Boxstarter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/26

I wrote a tiny post about Boxstarter a long time ago, so maybe it is time to look at it again.

By now, there are way more scripts, so here are some links:

[WayBack] PowerShell script to install Chocolatey and a list of packages – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] User ddieppa – Stack Overflow)
[WayBack] Accidentally From macOS to Windows and WSL · request / response
[WayBack] My BoxStarter Scripts · GitHub
[WayBack] GitHub – microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts: Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box
[WayBack] chocolatey setup and boxstarter
[WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | Packages matching WindowsUpdate
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | Boxstarter.WindowsUpdate 1.1.0
  - [WayBack] boxstarter/Install-WindowsUpdate.ps1 at master · chocolatey/boxstarter · GitHub
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | wumgr 0.7
  - [WayBack] GitHub – DavidXanatos/wumgr: Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10
[WayBack] GitHub – chocolatey/boxstarter: Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages

[WayBack] GitHub – microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts: Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box

Click link to run Description

Full Desktop App Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++, UWP, .NET (WPF and Winforms))

UWP Desktop App Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, UWP)

.NET Desktop App Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, .NET (WPF and Winforms))

C++ Desktop App Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++)

Web Web (VS Code, WSL, Multiple Browsers)

Web NodeJS Web Dev with NodeJS (Web + NodeJS LTS)¹

Machine Learning Windows Machine Learning with only Windows native tools

Machine Learning Linux Machine Learning with Linux tools running on WSL

DevOps Azure Client setup for DevOps with Azure

[WayBack] Boxstarter
- [WayBack] Boxstarter: WebLauncher
- [WayBack] Boxstarter: Why Boxstarter
- [WayBack] Boxstarter
  …
  
  Disable-BingSearch
  
  Disables the Bing Internet Search when searching from the search field in the Taskbar or Start Menu.
  
  Enable-RemoteDesktop
  
  Allows Remote Desktop access to machine and enables Remote Desktop firewall rule.
  
  Enable-MicrosoftUpdate
  
  Turns on the Windows Update option to include updates for other Microsoft products installed on the system.
  
  Enable-UAC
  
  Enables UAC.
  
  Install-WindowsUpdate
  
  Finds, downloads and installs all Windows Updates. By default, only critical updates will be searched. However the command takes a -Criteria argument allowing one to pass a custom Windows Update query.
  
  For details about the Install-WindowsUpdate command, run:
```
Help Install-WindowsUpdate -Full
```
  Move-LibraryDirectory
  
  Libraries are special folders that map to a specific location on disk. These are usually found somewhere under $env:userprofile. This function can be used to redirect the library folder to a new location on disk. If the new location does not already exist, the directory will be created. Any content in the former library directory will be moved to the new location unless the DoNotMoveOldContent switch is used. Use Get-LibraryNames to discover the names of different libraries and their current physical directories.
```
Move-LibraryDirectory "Personal" "$env:UserProfile\skydrive\documents"
```
  This moves the Personal library (aka Documents) to the documents folder off of the default SkyDrive directory.
  
  Set-StartScreenOptions
  
  Sets options for the Start Screen in Windows 8/8.1
```
Set-StartScreenOptions -EnableBootToDesktop -EnableDesktopBackgroundOnStart -EnableShowStartOnActiveScreen -EnableShowAppsViewOnStartScreen -EnableSearchEverywhereInAppsView -EnableListDesktopAppsFirst
```
  It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.
```
Set-StartScreenOptions -DisableBootToDesktop -DisableDesktopBackgroundOnStart -DisableShowStartOnActiveScreen -DisableShowAppsViewOnStartScreen -DisableSearchEverywhereInAppsView -DisableListDesktopAppsFirst
```
  Set-CornerNavigationOptions
  
  Sets options for the Windows Corner Navigation in Windows 8/8.1
```
Set-CornerNavigationOptions -EnableUpperRightCornerShowCharms -EnableUpperLeftCornerSwitchApps -EnableUsePowerShellOnWinX
```
  It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.
```
Set-CornerNavigationOptions -DisableUpperRightCornerShowCharms -DisableUpperLeftCornerSwitchApps -DisableUsePowerShellOnWinX
```
  Set-WindowsExplorerOptions
  
  Sets options on the Windows Explorer shell
```
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar -EnableOpenFileExplorerToQuickAccess -EnableShowRecentFilesInQuickAccess -EnableShowFrequentFoldersInQuickAccess -EnableExpandToOpenFolder -EnableShowRibbon
```
  It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.
```
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -DisableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -DisableShowProtectedOSFiles -DisableShowFileExtensions -DisableShowFullPathInTitleBar -DisableOpenFileExplorerToQuickAccess -DisableShowRecentFilesInQuickAccess -DisableShowFrequentFoldersInQuickAccess -DisableExpandToOpenFolder -DisableShowRibbon
```
  Set-TaskbarOptions
  
  Sets options on the Windows Taskbar
  
  AlwaysShowIconsOn/AlwaysShowIconsOff allows turning on or off always show all icons in the notification area
```
Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Small -Lock -Dock Top -Combine Always -AlwaysShowIconsOn
```
  It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.
```
    Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Large -UnLock -Dock Bottom -Combine Never -AlwaysShowIconsOff
```
  Update-ExecutionPolicy
  
  The execution policy is set in a separate elevated PowerShell process. If running in the Chocolatey runner, the current window cannot be used because its execution policy has been explicitly set.
  
  If on a 64 bit machine, the policy will be set for both 64 and 32 bit shells.

Click link to run	Description
Full Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++, UWP, .NET (WPF and Winforms))
UWP Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, UWP)
.NET Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, .NET (WPF and Winforms))
C++ Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++)
Web	Web (VS Code, WSL, Multiple Browsers)
Web NodeJS	Web Dev with NodeJS (Web + NodeJS LTS)¹
Machine Learning Windows	Machine Learning with only Windows native tools
Machine Learning Linux	Machine Learning with Linux tools running on WSL
DevOps Azure	Client setup for DevOps with Azure

–jeroen

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Chocolatey, MSI installers and “… was not successful. Exit code was ‘3010’. See log for possible error messages.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/27

For some Chocolatey installations, I got an error message like this one:

"ERROR: Running ["C:\Users\Developer\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\vmware-tools\10.3.10.12406962\VMware-tools-10.3.10-12406962-x86_64.exe" /S /v /qn REBOOT=R ] was not successful. Exit code was '3010'. See log for possible error messages."

I wish that a Chocolatey install could indicate it is msi based, and Chocolatey would convert this to a soft reboot message, as [WayBack] MsiExec.exe and InstMsi.exe Error Messages – Windows applications | Microsoft Docs indicates it means ERROR_SUCCESS_REBOOT_REQUIRED:

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Chocolatey: vcredist 2005/2008/2010 updates succeeding again after Microsoft rebuilt the installers multiple times causing new hashes each time

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/17

Follow-up in my blog post Chocolatey: vcredist 2005/2008/2010 updates failing as Microsoft rebuilt the installers multiple times causing new hashes each time last Friday.

The chocolatey packages have been updated this weekend and work again. Hopefully Microsoft is done and no new updates are needed (:

New versions thanks to [Wayback/Archive.is] Chocolatey Software | jberezanski!:

–jeroen

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Chocolatey: vcredist 2005/2008/2010 updates failing as Microsoft rebuilt the installers multiple times causing new hashes each time

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/14

The Microsoft rebuilt move affects these Chocolatey Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages, usually multiple times:

You get error messages like this:

ERROR: Checksum for 'C:\Users\saroot\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\vcredist2010\10.0.40219.2\vcredist_x86.exe' did not meet '66B797B3B4F99488F53C2B676610DFE9868984C779536891A8D8F73EE214BC4B' 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 cause is [Archive.is] vcredist-all fails to install due to broken checksum of vcredist2005, vcredist2008 and vcredist2010 · Issue #105 · jberezanski/ChocolateyPackages

jberezanskicommented

Great, Microsoft is apparently on an in-place installer update spree.

Actually, this is not a problem with vcredist-all, but rather with those specific packages and should be reported to maintainers of those packages. It so happens, however, that I’m also one of the maintainers of vcredist2008 and vcredist2010 (which live in https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-coreteampackages/tree/master/manual). I’ve already prepared a fix for 2010 and I guess I’ll do 2008 tomorrow.

As for 2005, I can see that it has the same maintainer as vcredist2010 had until very recently – when we took over that package because the maintainer did not respond. So we probably should take over 2005, too.

Progress

The vcredist2010 package has been modified two times for this:

Hopefully the vcredist2008 and vcredist2005 packages will follow soon.

–jeroen

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Chocolatey: installing Oracle SQL Developer and updating the chocolatey package

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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Chocolatey: I favor ‘choco upgrade’ over ‘choco install’

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/06

A while ago I found out that choco upgrade will install a package when it is not installed, and that choco upgrade all will upgrade all installed packages.

So I looked up the documentation of both choco install and choco upgrade (and choco update which will be deprecated) where I bolded parts of the upgrade command:

[Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Install

Installs a package or a list of packages (sometimes specified as a packages.config). Some may prefer to use cinst as a shortcut for choco install.
[Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Upgrade

Upgrades a package or a list of packages. Some may prefer to use cup as a shortcut for choco upgrade. If you do not have a package installed, upgrade will install it.
[Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Update

NOTE Update has been deprecated and will be removed/replaced in version 1.0.0 with something that performs the functions of updating package indexes. Please use choco upgrade instead.

Given that upgrade can do both an upgrade and an install, I have switched all my install scripts to use upgrade in steaf of install.

Not all of the above commands accept the same set of [Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Commands: Default Options and Switches

-?, --help, -h
     Prints out the help menu.

 -d, --debug
     Debug - Show debug messaging.

 -v, --verbose
     Verbose - Show verbose messaging. Very verbose messaging, avoid using 
       under normal circumstances.

     --trace
     Trace - Show trace messaging. Very, very verbose trace messaging. Avoid 
       except when needing super low-level .NET Framework debugging. Available 
       in 0.10.4+.

     --nocolor, --no-color
     No Color - Do not show colorization in logging output. This overrides 
       the feature 'logWithoutColor', set to 'False'. Available in 0.10.9+.

     --acceptlicense, --accept-license
     AcceptLicense - Accept license dialogs automatically. Reserved for 
       future use.

 -y, --yes, --confirm
     Confirm all prompts - Chooses affirmative answer instead of prompting. 
       Implies --accept-license

 -f, --force
     Force - force the behavior. Do not use force during normal operation - 
       it subverts some of the smart behavior for commands.

     --noop, --whatif, --what-if
     NoOp / WhatIf - Don't actually do anything.

 -r, --limitoutput, --limit-output
     LimitOutput - Limit the output to essential information

     --timeout, --execution-timeout=VALUE
     CommandExecutionTimeout (in seconds) - The time to allow a command to 
       finish before timing out. Overrides the default execution timeout in the 
       configuration of 2700 seconds. '0' for infinite starting in 0.10.4.

 -c, --cache, --cachelocation, --cache-location=VALUE
     CacheLocation - Location for download cache, defaults to %TEMP% or value 
       in chocolatey.config file.

     --allowunofficial, --allow-unofficial, --allowunofficialbuild, --allow-unofficial-build
     AllowUnofficialBuild - When not using the official build you must set 
       this flag for choco to continue.

     --failstderr, --failonstderr, --fail-on-stderr, --fail-on-standard-error, --fail-on-error-output
     FailOnStandardError - Fail on standard error output (stderr), typically 
       received when running external commands during install providers. This 
       overrides the feature failOnStandardError.

     --use-system-powershell
     UseSystemPowerShell - Execute PowerShell using an external process 
       instead of the built-in PowerShell host. Should only be used when 
       internal host is failing. Available in 0.9.10+.

     --no-progress
     Do Not Show Progress - Do not show download progress percentages. 
       Available in 0.10.4+.

     --proxy=VALUE
     Proxy Location - Explicit proxy location. Overrides the default proxy 
       location of ''. Available for config settings in 0.9.9.9+, this CLI 
       option available in 0.10.4+.

     --proxy-user=VALUE
     Proxy User Name - Explicit proxy user (optional). Requires explicit 
       proxy (`--proxy` or config setting). Overrides the default proxy user of 
       ''. Available for config settings in 0.9.9.9+, this CLI option available 
       in 0.10.4+.

     --proxy-password=VALUE
     Proxy Password - Explicit proxy password (optional) to be used with 
       username. Requires explicit proxy (`--proxy` or config setting) and 
       user name.  Overrides the default proxy password (encrypted in settings 
       if set). Available for config settings in 0.9.9.9+, this CLI option 
       available in 0.10.4+.

     --proxy-bypass-list=VALUE
     ProxyBypassList - Comma separated list of regex locations to bypass on 
       proxy. Requires explicit proxy (`--proxy` or config setting). Overrides 
       the default proxy bypass list of ''. Available in 0.10.4+.

     --proxy-bypass-on-local
     Proxy Bypass On Local - Bypass proxy for local connections. Requires 
       explicit proxy (`--proxy` or config setting). Overrides the default 
       proxy bypass on local setting of 'True'. Available in 0.10.4+.

     --log-file=VALUE
     Log File to output to in addition to regular loggers. Available in 0.1-
       0.8+.

–jeroen

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