Where is the Chocolatey installation path?

Question

I am looking to find out the current Chocolatey installation path using PowerShell.

Masquerade

just do $env:ChocolateyInstall – Profant

Answer 1

There is an environment variable set on installation, ChocolateyInstall, which is set to C:\Chocolatey by default in versions of Chocolatey less than 0.9.8.27. After that, this defaults to C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey.

NOTE: By default, the C:\ProgramData folder on Windows is hidden. You will either need to enable hidden files and folders through Folder Options | View or you can navigate directly to the path shown above by copy/pasting directly into the Windows Explorer address bar.

In version 0.9.9 of Chocolatey, it actively moves from the old folder location to the new one.

You can also pre-emptively create this environment variable before installing Chocolatey to control where it gets installed if required.

Shorthorn

@TechZilla have you enabled hidden folders? ProgramData is hidden by default, so you can either enable that through View options in Windows Explorer, or you can take the path that I have shown above and paste it directly into the Windows Explorer address bar and hit enter. – Shorthorn

Yes, even on Windows Server 2008 there is the folder C:\ProgramData (hidden). – Heres

Answer 2

When you install Chocolatey they add the Chocolatey /bin path to your path variable.

In PowerShell:

$env:Path

Corabella