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How to keep Chocolatey install params when doing an upgrade

As a reluctant windows admin I like Chocolatey a lot. I have installed some of our software with special parameters, e.g. choco install webex --params "/ALLUSERS". Infortunately, when I run choco upgrade all those params seem to get lost, when the package actually received an upgrade. Consequently, in this case other users can no longer use webex.

Is there a way to keep those params when doing an choco upgrade all?

So far, I have to take care about this case when upgrading, and then do an excplicit uninstall and then re-install as shown above with the desired params. Suboptimal.

Solution

  • Ensure you have the Chocolatey feature useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades enabled. You can do this by running choco feature enable -n='useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades'

    See the docs for more information.