Windows 11. I am not great at virtual environments, and I have bumped around between a half dozen different "solutions." I thought I had it solved with chocolatey, but I am trying to install python3.11, and not having success. Basically, choco says it is installed, but I can't find it anywhere.
C:\Windows\System32>choco install --force python --version=3.11
Chocolatey v1.2.0
Installing the following packages:
python
By installing, you accept licenses for the packages.
python v3.11.0 already installed. Forcing reinstall of version '3.11.0'.
Please use upgrade if you meant to upgrade to a new version.
Progress: Downloading python 3.11.0... 100%
python v3.11.0 (forced) [Approved]
python package files install completed. Performing other installation steps.
The install of python was successful.
Software installed to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python'
Chocolatey installed 1/1 packages.
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
C:\Windows\System32>
This gives the impression that python would be in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python, but the only files in that directory are python.nupkgandpython.nuspec`
Where do I go to find my shiny new python?
The python package on the Chocolatey Community Repository is a metapackage. So it does not install python, instead, it has a dependency on python2 or python3 (depending on the version of python), that dependent package is what actually installs Python. So if you install python v3.11, that will have a dependency on python3 v3.11, and the python3 package will download and run the Python installer.
Instead of force installing python, try for installing python3 to rerun the Python installer.
As for the install location, packages install to $env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\. So the .nupkg, .nuspec, chocolateyInstall.ps1, etc will all be there. But the python3 package runs the Python installer, and the Python 3.11.x installer will by default install to C:\python311 when run by the chocolateyInstall.ps1 in the python3 package.