How do I uninstall a Chocolatey package and all its dependencies?

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PortMan picture PortMan · Sep 22, 2016 · Viewed 24.9k times · Source

Reading the documentation, it appears that I should be able to install package and its dependencies with the -x flag. But when I try to uninstall the javaruntime package with the command choco uninstall javaruntime -x, it fails because of dependencies.

It gives me this error:

>  choco uninstall javaruntime -x
Chocolatey v0.10.1
Uninstalling the following packages:
javaruntime
javaruntime not uninstalled. An error occurred during uninstall:
 Unable to uninstall 'javaruntime 8.0.101' because 'groovy 2.3.6' depends on it.

Chocolatey uninstalled 0/1 packages. 1 packages failed.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Failures
 - javaruntime (exited 1) - javaruntime not uninstalled. An error occurred during uninstall:
 Unable to uninstall 'javaruntime 8.0.101' because 'groovy 2.3.6' depends on it.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer

Marvin Glenn Lacuna picture Marvin Glenn Lacuna · Jul 6, 2018

Try this:

choco uninstall webdeploy -x

The webdeploy can be change to your target package you want to uninstall.

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