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paul_h
paul_h

Reputation: 2051

What directory does chocolatey install commands to?

I've successfully done choco install python2 and choco install python3 but I can't see the result on cmd.exe (yes, I reopened non-administrator cmd.exe).

Where does chocolatey install commands to? I'll fix my PATH env-var when I can work out what should be there.

Choclatey's FAQ does not include an answer to this question. I'm more used to homebrew (Mac), and the answer for that is /usr/local/bin/

Upvotes: 32

Views: 41395

Answers (2)

Gary Ewan Park
Gary Ewan Park

Reputation: 18981

The answer is, it depends :-)

Most package contents will be installed to the chocolatey directory, which you can find at C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib. For example, in the case of python3 you will find the exe in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python3\tools.

In addition, you will find a shim exe located at C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin for python. This location is already contained within your path, so you should already have access to it without making any other changes.

Upvotes: 29

Katu
Katu

Reputation: 1564

You can run this command for an installed package

choco list --local-only --exact python --trace

Which will have an output like

Chocolatey v0.10.15
 Operating System Version Number: 10.0.18363.0
Initializing global mutex
Waiting on the mutext handle for 2000 milliseconds
Entered mutex to deserialize 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\.chocolatey\python.2.7.11\.registry'
Initializing global mutex
Waiting on the mutext handle for 2000 milliseconds
Entered mutex to deserialize 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\.chocolatey\python.2.7.11\.files'
python 2.7.11
1 packages installed.

Open the C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\.chocolatey\python.2.7.11\.files and you will see

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fileSnapshot xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <files>
    <file path="C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python\python.nupkg" checksum="8217F64EF970491C464DAA20F6BF45F1" />
    <file path="C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python\python.nuspec" checksum="4F62CF5DD7934CF4C8ED62FE24848C72" />
    <file path="C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1" checksum="6EBF6A5BBC8667B7DEE75CA2E0CF2EB4" />
  </files>
</fileSnapshot>

Pointing to C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\python as the installation folder.

Upvotes: 18

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