# Chocolatey and installing GIT **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/chocolatey-and-installing-git/31272 "2019-09-12T19:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Simon-Pierre_Diamond)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/chocolatey-and-installing-git/31272/1 "2019-09-12T19:27:24Z")
Hi guys, I am trying to install git with chocolatey using a playbook: - name: Install GIT win\_chocolatey: name: git state: present It should be really simple when I run this. It should go through and no issues. Although this gets quite tricky. I get the following error when running this: “stdout\_lines”: [ “Installing the following packages:”, “git”, “By installing you accept licenses for the packages.”, “”, “git.install v2.23.0 [Approved]”, “git.install package files install completed. Performing other installation steps.”, “Using Git LFS”, “Installing 64-bit git.install…”, “WARNING: User (you) cancelled the installation.”, “ERROR: Running ["C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\git.install\tools\Git-2.23.0-64-bit.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /NOCANCEL /SP- /LOG /COMPONENTS="icons,assoc,assoc\_sh,ext,ext\shellhere,ext\guihere,gitlfs,icons\quicklaunch"] was not successful. Exit code was ‘5’. Exit code indicates the following: User (you) cancelled the installation…”, “git not installed. An error occurred during installation:”, " Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.", “git package files install completed. Performing other installation steps.”, “The install of git was NOT successful.”, “git not installed. An error occurred during installation:”, " Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown.", “”, “Chocolatey installed 0/2 packages. 2 packages failed.”, " See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).", “”, “Failures”, " - git.install (exited 5) - Error while running ‘C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\git.install\tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1’.", " See log for details.", " - git (exited 1) - git not installed. An error occurred during installation:", " Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was thrown." ] Then when I look at the log, I can see this on the machine: 12 15:23:06,611 3344 [DEBUG] - Received arguments: install git --fail-on-unfound --yes --no-progress --limit-output --timeout 2700 If I run this manually in Powershell: choco install git --fail-on-unfound --yes --no-progress --limit-output --timeout 2700 It works fine and super good. I can only assume that it is the module. Anybody can help me with this? -Simon ---
**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/chocolatey-and-installing-git/31272/2 "2019-09-13T01:12:36Z")
This could be a result of a few things, what I would try is; - Use win\_command to run ‘choco install git --yes --no-progress’ - If this fails then the error probably lies within the WinRM memory limits placed on a process - If it doesn’t fail then something might be up with the module - Check if you can install any other chocolatey packages can be installed - If not, then something is up with your Chocolatey install- Try running with async, this should escape the WinRM memory limits I mentioned above - Have a look on the server when running your win\_chocolatey task and see what is taking up all the memory (powershell.exe, choco.exe, or some other exe) Thanks Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Simon-Pierre_Diamond)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/chocolatey-and-installing-git/31272/3 "2019-09-13T11:57:32Z")
You are right Jordan, I could use win\_command instead. As of now, Git is the only software I need, and wanted it in an automated way, chocolatey was the easiest until that happens… I will look into all that stuff, thank you, that should give me enough to look at. Thank you! -Simon ---
**Author:** ![Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Simon-Pierre\_Diamond](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Simon-Pierre_Diamond)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/chocolatey-and-installing-git/31272/4 "2019-09-13T12:52:31Z")
Hi Jordan, Just for your information, I guess I did not read the documentation properly, the winrm memory fix helped to run the everything through. Although, it does not seem to work as expected. In the log I can see " Software installed to ‘C:\Program Files\Git\’" This is when I run ansible-playbook with verbose. When I go and look on the server, the files are not present. which gets me wondering. Also if I run the uninstall manually, it looks like git was not installed. Anyway, I will probably just run win\_command instead. But I figured I should state the issue here. -Simon