Remove Chocolatey registration without uninstalling application
Example (remove the package myExamplePackage
from chocolatey without uninstalling)
choco uninstall myExamplePackage -n --skipautouninstaller
From the chocolatey docs:
NOTE: A package with a failing uninstall can be removed with the
-n --skipautouninstaller
flags. This will remove the package from chocolatey without attempting to uninstall the program.
You have two options:
You can use pin (see choco pin -h for details) and Chocolatey will not try to upgrade the package:
choco pin add -n=packageName
. After that commandchoco upgrade all
will skip package with namepackageName
.You can remove application from Chocolatey database (you must remove application folder). All applications metadata are stored in folder
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\<package-name>
, example:C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\adobereader
.Remove directory carefully, because sometimes applications are installed inside chocolatey applications folder, example:
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\javadecompiler-gui\jd-gui-windows-1.4.0