Hi Jarod,
the following Puppet code will do what you want to achieve:
$file = 'vlc-3.0.11-win32.exe'
$tmpdir = 'C:/Windows/Temp'
file { 'VLC Player Download':
ensure => present,
path => "${$tmpdir}/${file}",
source =>
"https://videolan.mirror.liteserver.nl/vlc/3.0.11/win32/${file}";
}
package { 'VLC media player':
ensure => 'present',
source => "${$tmpdir}/${file}",
install_options => ['/L=1033', '/S']
}
It's all about finding the silent install switches for these packages. For
VLC, you can find that in the "Alternative" section
here: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Installing_VLC/
On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 4:08:28 PM UTC+1 Jarod Schoen wrote:
> I see I guess that could work. So Chocolatey could be directed by puppet
> to install things.
> Do you know how well an offline Chocolatey repo works?
>
> When people use puppet to keep things installed and roll updates/new
> versions... do people invariably have to revert to manual install for some
> applications?
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 10 November 2020 at 18:33:31 UTC-5 Ben Ford wrote:
>
>> Welcome!
>>
>> I'd actually install Chocolatey and use the provider from
>> https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/chocolatey to manage
>> packages like this on Windows.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:31 PM Jarod Schoen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> so I just got started and I'm glad to be joining you.
>>>
>>> I have a question to get me started on my journey.
>>>
>>> Without escalating I get:
>>> Error: Could not update: The requested operation requires elevation. -
>>> CreateProcess
>>>
>>> So it looks like I have to run puppet with LocalService or some admin
>>> account. That's fine. I'll have to sort that out later.
>>>
>>> The major issue is with running exes.
>>>
>>> Here's my pp:
>>>
>>> package { 'vlc':
>>> ensure => '3.0.1',
>>> source => 'somepath\vlc-3.0.1-win64.exe',
>>> # install_options => ['INSTALLDIR=C:\blabla'],
>>> }
>>>
>>> When I run the Start Command Prompt as admin, it runs... but then VLC
>>> asks me for input which completely defeats the purpose of puppet in the
>>> environment.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you guys know how to get puppet to take care of these installs or
>>> would I have to find an msi for everything... that already has built-in
>>> 'silent' and other install config switches ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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