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win_chocolatey - Installs packages using chocolatey

New in version 1.9.

Synopsis

Options

parameter required default choices comments
allow_empty_checksums
(added in 2.2)
 no
Allow empty checksums to be used.
force
 no
  • True
  • False
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)
 no
Ignore checksums altogether.
ignore_dependencies
(added in 2.1)
 no
Ignore dependencies, only install/upgrade the package itself.
install_args
(added in 2.1)
 no
Arguments to pass to the native installer.
name
 yes
Name of the package to be installed.
params
(added in 2.1)
 no
Parameters to pass to the package
source
 no
Specify source rather than using default chocolatey repository.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
  • latest
  • reinstalled
State of the package on the system.
timeout
(added in 2.3)
 no 2700
The time to allow chocolatey to finish before timing out.

aliases: execution_timeout
upgrade
 no
  • True
  • False
If package is already installed it, try to upgrade to the latest version or to the specified version.
As of Ansible v2.3 this is deprecated, set parameter state to "latest" for the same result.
version
 no
Specific version of the package to be installed.
Ignored when state is set to "absent".

Examples

# Install git
win_chocolatey:
  name: git
  state: present

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

# Install notepadplusplus version 6.6
win_chocolatey:
  name: notepadplusplus.install
  version: '6.6'

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

# Uninstall git
win_chocolatey:
  name: git
  state: absent

Status

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

Support

This module is supported mainly by the community and is curated by core committers.

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