Ansible, windows, and package management

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I find package management on Windows convoluted.

Is there a strategy for managing packages with Ansible when the packages install into the user’s home profile?

When I attempt to uninstall a package that installs into a user’s home profile with Ansible as Administrator things fail.

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Tried using chocolatey with win_choco?

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Yes, for packages in the chocolatey repository.

4

What version of Ansible are you using? Do you have an example of the inventory and playbook results?

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Package management on Windows is pretty poor, Microsoft does not have an official way of doing things like yum/apt/dnf. Using win_chocolatey is the best and easiest way forward but unfortunately not every package has been made to a high standard so you get some problems there. I usually find, running win_chocolatey with become solves the majority of the issues with the module as it runs like would if you were to do it manually on the host.

Thanks

Jordan