Puppet-Chocolatey can't install from custom source (source => exe file)

[cbuff18]

Hi
I have a local file server for my package to install (msi, exe...)

This is the code of my class chocotest for testing:

class chocotest {

package { 'notepadplusplus.install':
provider => 'chocolatey'
ensure => 'installed',
source => "https://choco.cauca.ca/notepad/npp.6.8.6.Installer.exe",
}
}

I would like to know why it doesn't work. It's not an file access issue, it tells me that the package is not available error 404.

Thanks!

[ferventcoder]

Hello @cbuff18! Unfortunately you are trying to use Chocolatey in a manner that is not correct.

If you are looking to provide a source to an installer file, add the silent arguments and change the provider over to the built-in provider for Puppet. See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/resources_package_windows.html for more details.

However if you want to use Chocolatey, Chocolatey _only_ works on packages (glorified zip files) that are *.nupkg files. These packages contain a nuspec, executables/files, and/or scripts that are installation/uninstallation instructions for Chocolatey (written in PowerShell).

Source is a folder/CIFS share containing these nupkg files, a Url (to a NuGet OData feed), or in some rare cases a pointer directly to a nupkg file. We have pretty comprehensive documentation regarding what you can provide for source https://forge.puppetlabs.com/chocolatey/chocolatey#package-provider-chocolatey and https://github.com/chocolatey/puppet-chocolatey#source. Please let us know if this needs a bit more details to reduce confusion in the future.

Also you may want to explore our documentation on creating a Chocolatey package - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CreatePackages (the tl;dr is choco new pkgname - and you can create your own custom templates as well to speed up the process).

Since you will probably now also be interested in hosting your own custom internal repository, you can see https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/How-To-Host-Feed (it includes non-Windows hosting options) and further, we already have a Puppet provider that will set up the Chocolatey Simple Server for you at https://forge.puppetlabs.com/chocolatey/chocolatey_server.

[cbuff18]

Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I've read a lot and I successfuly created some chocolatey package.

My ps1 file tell the package to install a .exe on a local server example: //the.local.server/package.install.nupkg *will install * //the.local.server/installer/package.exe

But when I tried that command: choco install package.install -s "http://the.local.server/" it give me an error that the package was not found.

Do I need something special on the apache server?

thanks.

[ferventcoder]

@cbuff18 I'll point you back to https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/How-To-Host-Feed.