Choco: Improving choco list with options to show dependencies and sort by date (and more)

[arieljannai]

Feature request:

• Add features to choco list:
  
  
  
  • Show the installed apps with their dependencies (maybe as a tree?)
  
  
  • Sort the output list by installed date, last updated
  
  
  • Check which arguments were used to install an app
  
  
  • Show exact installed apps - only apps I actively installed (without dependencies). Useful for saving the list of my installed apps.
  
  

I believe it would be very useful 😄

[abejenaru]

+a more verbose one-line output, with Title and Publication date

[boaz001]

Comment moved to separate issue: #1281

[ferventcoder]

@boaz001 please file a new issue for this. I'd love to track it, and we like to keep things to one request per issue please. Thanks!

[Bjego]

Well this is pretty old right now.
I've ended up with a powershell helper for uninstalling my packages:

function shouldNotUnInstalled {
  param (
    [String]  $name
  )
  return  $name -like 'chocolatey*' -or
  $name -match 'KB\d+' -or
  $name -like 'vcredist*' -or
  $name -match '\d+'
}

$packages = choco list -lo
foreach ($package in $packages) {
  $packageInfos = $package -split " "
  $packageName = $packageInfos[0]
  if (shouldNotUnInstalled -name $packageName  ) {
    Write-Host "Ignore $packageName"
  }
  else {
    Write-Host "Uninstall $packageName"
    choco uninstall $packageName -y
  }
}

[ferventcoder]

Try choco info

[Bjego]

Try choco info

@ferventcoder when I run

choco info -lo kubernetes-cli

I only get the description of that package and no information about the installation on my machine. Or did I miss a parameter?

[Bjego]

I think, if an uninstallation via packages.config would be possible. I won't need this feature. See https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues/533

[ferventcoder]

Sorry @Bjego I didn't mean that comment for you. Just for the top thread as I came back in here to note that there is choco info for some of these other things.

[Kipjr]

Currently I fix this for installed packages like this:

$packages = Get-ChildItem C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\ -Recurse  *.nuspec | select fullname,name 
foreach($p in $packages){
        [XML]$xml=get-content $p.fullname
        $dependencies = $xml.package.metadata.dependencies.dependency
        foreach($d in $dependencies){
            $obj = New-Object -TypeName psobject
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name package  -Value $xml.package.metadata.id
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name packageversion  -Value $xml.package.metadata.version
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name dependency  -Value  $d.id
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -name dependencyversion  -Value  $d.version
            $obj
        }
}

For online search (package not installed locally) I use a combination of choco info and regex to find the source. Then I use invoke-webrequest to retrieve the .nuspec file

package                    packageversion      dependency                         dependencyversion
-------                    --------------      ----------                         -----------------
git                        2.29.2.3            git.install                        [2.29.2.3]
git.install                2.29.2.3            chocolatey-core.extension          1.3.3
git.install                2.29.2.3            chocolatey                         0.10.7