Platform installation fails - chocolatey.ps1 is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet.

[Vinod Davis]

I received the following exception when installing the platform in my machine. It first installed the Chocolateyinstall for me. But the Chocolatey folder didn't have C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\ folder in it. So the installation failed. Please advise on how to proceed on this.

Helpful information to include

Product name:Platform install 

Version: latest

Stacktrace: An unhandled exception occurred:

Exception:

The term 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\chocolatey.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

StackTrace:

   at System.Management.Automation.CommandDiscovery.LookupCommandInfo(String commandName, CommandTypes commandTypes, SearchResolutionOptions searchResolutionOptions, CommandOrigin commandOrigin, ExecutionContext context)

   at System.Management.Automation.CommandDiscovery.LookupCommandProcessor(String commandName, CommandOrigin commandOrigin, Nullable`1 useLocalScope)

   at System.Management.Automation.CommandFactory._CreateCommand(String commandName, CommandOrigin commandOrigin, Nullable`1 useLocalScope)

   at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.Command.CreateCommandProcessor(ExecutionContext executionContext, CommandFactory commandFactory, Boolean addToHistory, CommandOrigin origin)

   at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.CreatePipelineProcessor()

   at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()

   at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()

Source:

System.Management.Automation

TargetSite:

System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection`1[System.Management.Automation.PSObject] Invoke(System.Collections.IEnumerable)

Description:

[cfell]

I am have same issue. Customer does not allow anything installed to root of C:\, so in my case it does not exist because install is unable to write to C:\ProgramData. Would be nice to have control over where this stuff installs.

[Randy Haines]

I'm getting the same exception when running the platform install.

I've let the platform installer install Chocolatey and I've tried the command line power shell approach. The result is the same exception.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Greg Bielleman]

Hi  Vinod 

I looked at the issue you raised and there is a problem with the Platform Installer.  The Platform installer installs the latest verison of Chocolatey if no Chocolatey is found or the installed version is too old to work with.

 

Unfortunately for us  Chocolatey recently released v0.9.9. which in there own words is a large breaking change.   

"... since this is a complete rewrite. We broke everything. If this were a v1+, it would be a major release. But we are less than v1, so 0.9.9 it is! ;)"

We are currently testing an updated version of the Platform Installer which will work with this version and we hope to release it ASAP to rectify the issue.

In the meantime  the problem can be worked around by using the Chocolatey command line:

I've listed the items that are installable via  the Platform Installer followed by the Chocolatey command(s) to install them

NServiceBus Prerequisites

choco install nservicebus.msmq.install

choco install nservicebus.dtc.install

choco install nservicebus.perfcounters.install

ServiceControl

choco install servicecontrol.install

ServicePulse

choco install servicepulse.install

ServiceInsight

choco install serviceinsight.install

ServiceMatrix for Visual Studio 2013

choco install servicematrix.vs2013.install

ServiceMatrix for Visual Studio 2012

choco install servicematrix.vs2012.install

Thanks for raising the issue and I'll get back to you once we have released the update

Regards

Greg Bielleman

[Greg Bielleman]

Hi  Chris 

If you need more flexibility when instailing the platform products don't use the Platform installer or Chocolatey,

Individual installers are availabie for each of the platform products  from  http://particular.net/downloads ,  These allow more choice during installation

Also take a look at http://docs.particular.net/platform/installer/offline

Regards 

Greg Bielleman

[Greg Bielleman]

Hi 

We have released an updated version of the Platform Installer to address the incompatibilities you experienced with Chocolatey v0.9.9.x

Please let us know if you have any issues with the new release,  The platform Installer is a click once app and should update when you relaunch it.

The corrected version is 1.0.0.407

Regards

Greg Bielleman