UMCG - Instructions for the use of Chocolatey

UMCG - Instructions for the use of Chocolatey

How to install software through Chocolatey

Note: For UMCG users Chocolatey is only available through the VM template "Windows-UMCG-......".

Step-by-step:

1. Launch Chocolatey GUI. Open the GUI by choosing the Windows button on the left bottom of your screen and type GUI. 




2. Launching the application might prompt a User Account Control pop-up, asking you to confirm if you want to allow the software to make changes to your device. Select 'Yes'.



3. The Chocolatey user interface should now open. Click on 'UMCG' on the left side of the window to navigate to the available software packages.

           

4. Select the software package you wish to install by double-clicking on the icon. This will also show some additional information about the software package, like the version number or a description. Click on 'Install' in the bottom right corner.

5. Depending one the software it might take a short while for the installation to start. The installation will work like a regular installation from a downloaded .exe or similar file.

6. Once the installation is complete Chocolatey will mark the package as installed in the UMCG overview window.

Important things to note:

1. Chocolatey only allows for one concurrent user. While you can log into a VM with up to two users, Chocolatey will not open if the other user already has the application opened. However, all the programs installed will be available to all users of the VM.

2. The installation of Anaconda and R/RStudio will also automatically configure the proxy-settings as described in the articles Proxy configurations Anaconda (mydre.org) and R/RStudio installation using domain allowlisting on Windows VMs (mydre.org). Only the proxy settings will be configured however. The domain allowlisting still needs to be done through the workspace menu as described here: Domain and IP Allowlisting [External Access] (mydre.org).

Available software packages:

  1. Adobe Acrobat Reader
  2. Anaconda 3 (version 2023- 03.01)
  3. DockerDesktop (version 4.24.1)
  4. Git (version 2.40.1)
  5. LibreOffice 7.6.4
  6. Matlab (version 2022.1)
  7. Miniconda3
  8. MRicro1.40
  9. Notepad++
  10. PyCharm2023.1.1
  11. R (version 4.2.1)
  12. RStudio2023.12.0
  13. SPSS (version 28.0.0.0)
  14. TotalCommander (version 10.52)
  15. VLC media player3.0.11
  16. Visual Studio Code (version 1.17.1)
  17. WinSCP (version 5.21.8)