win_chocolatey - Manage packages using chocolatey¶

New in version 1.9.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Manage packages using Chocolatey (http://chocolatey.org/).
If Chocolatey is missing from the system, the module will install it.
List of packages can be found at http://chocolatey.org/packages.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

chocolatey >= 0.10.5 (will be upgraded if older)

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
allow_empty_checksums (added in 2.2)	Choices: no ← yes	Allow empty checksums to be used.
allow_prerelease (added in 2.6)	Choices: no ← yes	Allow install of prerelease packages. If state `state` is `latest` the highest prerelease package will be installed.
force	Choices: no ← yes	Forces install of the package (even if it already exists). Using `force` will cause ansible to always report that a change was made.
ignore_checksums (added in 2.2)	Choices: no ← yes	Ignore checksums altogether.
ignore_dependencies (added in 2.1)	Choices: no ← yes	Ignore dependencies, only install/upgrade the package itself.
install_args (added in 2.1)		Arguments to pass to the native installer.
name required		Name of the package to be installed. This must be a single package name.
params (added in 2.1)		Parameters to pass to the package
proxy_password (added in 2.4)		Proxy password used to install chocolatey and the package. See notes in `proxy_username` when dealing with double quotes in a password.
proxy_url (added in 2.4)		Proxy url used to install chocolatey and the package.
proxy_username (added in 2.4)		Proxy username used to install chocolatey and the package. When dealing with a username with double quote characters `"`, they need to be escaped with `\` beforehand. See examples for more details.
skip_scripts (added in 2.4)	Choices: no ← yes	Do not run chocolateyInstall.ps1 or chocolateyUninstall.ps1 scripts.
source		Specify source rather than using default chocolatey repository.
state	Choices: absent downgrade latest present ← reinstalled	State of the package on the system.
timeout (added in 2.3)	Default: 2700	The time to allow chocolatey to finish before timing out. aliases: execution_timeout
version		Specific version of the package to be installed. Ignored when `state` is set to `absent`.

Notes ¶

Note

Provide the version parameter value as a string (e.g. '6.1'), otherwise it is considered to be a floating-point number and depending on the locale could become 6,1, which will cause a failure.
When using verbosity 2 or less (-vv) the stdout output will be restricted.
When using verbosity 4 (-vvvv) the stdout output will be more verbose.
When using verbosity 5 (-vvvvv) the stdout output will include debug output.
This module will install or upgrade Chocolatey when needed.
Some packages need an interactive user logon in order to install. You can use (become) to achieve this.
Even if you are connecting as local Administrator, using (become) to become Administrator will give you an interactive user logon, see examples below.
Use (win_hotfix to install hotfixes instead of (win_chocolatey) as (win_hotfix) avoids using wusa.exe which cannot be run remotely.

Examples ¶

- name: Install git
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    state: present

- name: Upgrade installed packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: all
    state: latest

- name: Install notepadplusplus version 6.6
  win_chocolatey:
    name: notepadplusplus
    version: '6.6'

- name: Install git from specified repository
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    source: https://someserver/api/v2/

- name: Uninstall git
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    state: absent

- name: Install multiple packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: '{{ item }}'
    state: present
  with_items:
  - procexp
  - putty
  - windirstat

- name: uninstall multiple packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: '{{ item }}'
    state: absent
  with_items:
  - procexp
  - putty
  - windirstat

- name: Install curl using proxy
  win_chocolatey:
    name: curl
    proxy_url: http://proxy-server:8080/
    proxy_username: joe
    proxy_password: p@ssw0rd

- name: Install curl with proxy credentials that contain quotes
  win_chocolatey:
    name: curl
    proxy_url: http://proxy-server:8080/
    proxy_username: user with \"escaped\" double quotes
    proxy_password: pass with \"escaped\" double quotes

- name: Install a package that requires 'become'
  win_chocolatey:
    name: officepro2013
  become: yes
  become_user: Administrator
  become_method: runas

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
command str	changed	The full command used in the chocolatey task. Sample: choco.exe install -r --no-progress -y sysinternals --timeout 2700 --failonunfound
rc int	changed	The return code from the chocolatey task.
stdout str	changed	The stdout from the chocolatey task. The verbosity level of the messages are affected by Ansible verbosity setting, see notes for more details. Sample: Chocolatey upgraded 1/1 packages.

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author ¶

Trond Hindenes (@trondhindenes)
Peter Mounce (@petemounce)
Pepe Barbe (@elventear)
Adam Keech (@smadam813)
Pierre Templier (@ptemplier)

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