'Cannot uninstall Docker Desktop via Chocolatey
I've installed Docker 2.4 quite some time ago using Chocolatey (my OS is Win 10). Since updating Docker using choco upgrade all always failed, I did the updates manually via the Docker itself (right-click → Check for Updates → etc.). Now I'm on version 3.2.
Since I want to get rid of this manual update process, I wanted to uninstall Docker from Chocolatey. But executing choco uninstall docker-desktop fails with ERROR: Exception calling "GetFullPath" with "1" argument(s): "Illegal characters in path.".
Of course, I could uninstall Docker the usual Windows way. But how would I remove Docker from Chocolatey so that I can do a fresh install?
Solution 1:[1]
I was able to solve the issue by manually uninstalling Docker with default Windows tools.
Afterwards, I deleted the folder C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\docker-desktop. This resulted in a clean environment when it comes to Docker, because Chocolatey seems to maintain all package-related things in the corresponding C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\<<package>> folder.
Finally, I could install Docker again via choco install docker-desktop.
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | mu88 |