Is it possible to add applications not managed by Chocolatey to Chocolatey?
When I run choco list -li I will get a list of installed apps ending with "47 applications not managed with Chocolatey".
How can I make them managed with Chocolatey?
What you ask for is indeed possible with Chocolatey, yet unfortunately only with a licensed edition.
See Chocolatey Synchronize Feature.
With a 'Pro' or 'Architect' license you'll be able to list all programs of Programs & Features in Chocolatey and therefore receive upgrades for those if available in any of your configured Chocolatey sources.
With a 'Business (C4B)' license you'll even be able to do the other way round - have all your Chocolatey packages listed in Programs & Features.
See Compare Chocoaltey Editions for more details.
hope that helps,
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Is it possible to install third-party application alongside my application on my own application setup?
Let's say I were to sell some of my application, and in order to run my application on client's computer I would also need to run PostgreSQL. Is it possible to install it beside my application in my setup?
I am such rookie on that subject and don't really know where to start.
(I should mention that I am particularly interested on deploying Windows applications)
All commercial software will feature ways to help you achieve this as a built-in feature. Essentially you wrap it all in a setup.exe launcher / bootstrapper / downloader and this executable will install your prerequisite components before your own install is run, if they need to be installed.
Please see these answers for some further information on deployment tools and their features:
How to create windows installer
Simple List View of Deployment Tools
What installation product to use? InstallShield, WiX, Wise, Advanced Installer, etc
The open source WiX toolkit features a component called Burn to create such setup.exe launchers / downloaders / bootstrappers. Writing WiX XML markup code is necessary to use this Burn feature. Commercial tools Installshield and Advanced Installer provide GUI to build such setup.exe files.
How would I run a program installer (in C:\Downloads) using a Powershell V1 script?
I do not have control over the Powershell version so please do not ask me to update to newer version.
If I do it manually, there will be a few options for me to choose before installing. I also have to specify the location for the application.
If I have to do it via scripts, how do I set which options to choose and specify the location?
I have searched the application support page and they do not have anything I need for the installation of the software via scripts.
I am not a very skilled person when it comes to scripting as I just started out months ago.
Do you know about Chocolatey? It's a Windows package manager that allows you to install Windows applications using CLI.
To install Chrome for example:
choco install googlechrome
You can find all the available packages here.
I'm building a custom Chocolatey repo with custom packages for my organization so that we can easily manage software without Group Policies. One piece of software we use is LaserFiche. I am trying to make it do a silent installation, however every time I install from my Choco package, it says that it couldn't install MSXML 6 SP1. All the other prerequisites are installed successfully. I was thinking it was an issue with the installer not being able to find the .msi associated with this, but I tried manually running the installer for that add-on and then installing from my package and it still failed. I'm quite confused as to what is wrong here. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I can fine a whole bunch of information on how to install packages using Package Management (nee PowerShellGet (nee OneGet)), but I can find nearly zero information on creating those packages.
I did find this which describes how to use the Publish-Module cmdlet to publish a PowerShell module, but I cannot find any information on how to create any other sorts of packages.
Specifically, I would like to create two types: from an .MSI, and from an .EXE. The .EXE I only need installed somewhere on the system, and I need the ability to update the PATH environment variable to allow it to be run by users. For the .MSI, I would ideally like it to be installed (using msiexec), but if that's not possible, I can use other means.
The only remotely-related information I can find is from Chocolatey, which is a system that predates Package Management but that Package Management works with (maybe? sorta? not really clear?). Chocolatey can create packages, but is that really the only way to create packages for Package Management?
Where can I find information on how to accomplish these packaging tasks?
To quote Microsoft:
PackageManagement is essentially a Package Management Aggregator. It creates a unified and consistent PowerShell interface for users and provides a plug-in model at the back end that different installer technologies or package managers can plug-in as providers, using PackageManagement APIs. Each provider further manages one or multiple package sources (repositories) where software packages are stored.
This means there isn't a single way of creating packages, it will depend which Package Management Provider and/or Package Source you are using.
NuGet is widely documented, and so is Chocolatey (which has a plugin available for package management)
If you're looking to install your own private software, as opposed to commercially available software (where you're best off just using one of the existing repositories), you will need to create your own feed/repo. Again this will depend which options you're using. For example, the NuGet documentation on this is readily available.
I am going to be moving all my websites to a Windows Web Server 2008 R2 machine. I have installed it in a virtual machine to test that my websites work with it.
I have noticied that there is a program called Web Platform Installer. I have used it to install a few sites but I was just thinking is it a security risk using this? Would it be better for me to manually install the sites (WordPress, Umbraco, etc)
Thanks
We push that out to all our customers just for ease of deployment, and I have not seen any security issues with it, however, I would question its reliability as it fails about 10% of the time (to install whatever I have selected). Having said that, when it does work, its a fairly good tool, as it will install any prerequisites that you may not have been aware of (like SMO, or if you try to install Wordpress without MySQL), and will also keep you up-to-date on newer version of software that you have installed.