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diegus
diegus

Reputation: 1198

How do I uninstall a Chocolatey package with Ansible?

I have written a simple playbook to uninstall firefox from a virtual machine (VM) running windows10. I am new to ansible/chocolatey so here is the code:

- name: Test win_chocolatey module
  hosts: win1
  tasks:
    - name: Uninstall firefox
      win_chocolatey:
        name: firefox
        state: absent

After I execute this code on my machine firefox does not appear anymore among the chocolatey packages installed on windows VM. However firefox is still installed and it works properly on the windows VM.

I looked up the ansible documentation for the uninstall command and I have found a note:

".... choco uninstall removes the package from your system only if the script chocolateyUninstall.ps1 is provided by the package maintainer".

So, I have modified my previous playbook in order to include the powershell script I downloaded (https://github.com/Iristyle/ChocolateyPackages/blob/master/HipChat/tools/chocolateyUninstall.ps1):

- name: Test win_chocolatey module
  hosts: win1
  tasks:
    - name: Run PS script
      script: /home/ansible_example/chocolateyUninstall.ps1
    - name: Uninstall firefox
      win_chocolatey:
        name: firefox
        state: absent

Still firefox is not gone on my windows VM. I am using ansible 2.0.0.2, chocolatey 0.9.9.11

Any help? Thank you

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3029

Answers (1)

Gary Ewan Park
Gary Ewan Park

Reputation: 19021

Each package on Chocolatey.org would require it's own chocolateyUninstall.ps1 file. You can't use another package's chocolateyUninstall.ps1 file and hope that it will uninstall another package, that simply isn't how it is designed to work.

As you can see here the Firefox package on Chocolatey.org indeed does not have an uninstall file, therefore, ansible can't call it.

What you might want to try is using the "new" auto-uninstallation feature that is available in Chocolatey. You can find out more information about this using:

choco feature -h

After enabling that feature, install Firefox again, and then try uninstalling it, and see if that has the desired result.

Also, it is probably worth testing this without ansible in the equation. Test it directly with Chocolatey, make sure this works, then add in ansible.

Upvotes: 4

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