Full/partial installation – an alternative using Chocolatey

How to easily keep your GGU programmes up to date

Using the Windows package management system ‘Chocolatey’ (https://chocolatey.org), you can set up an automation process to ensure you always have the latest version.

To automatically install one, several, or even all GGU software packages via Chocolatey, proceed as follows:

1. You must uninstall any existing individual installations or the full installation of GGU software via the Windows Control Panel.
   

2. Open an MS Windows ‘PowerShell’ window as an administrator (‘Run as administrator’). IMPORTANT: Please do not start the standard Windows Shell; ensure you use PowerShell (blue background !!).

3. Install Chocolatey by entering the following command in the PowerShell window:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(“https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1”))

For further information, please visit: https://chocolatey.org/install

4. Optional: In a PowerShell window running as an administrator, you can search for the GGU packages:

choco search ggu

choco search ggu-all-programs 

choco search ggu-software-codemeter

5. To install the GGU software, enter the following command in the PowerShell window and press Enter:

For example, for GGU-STABILITY and GGU-RETAIN

choco install ggu-stability -y

choco install ggu-retain -y

… etc

or for all GGU programmes

choco install ggu-all-programs -y

To install the latest CodeMeter User Runtime, enter the following command in the PowerShell window and press Enter:

choco upgrade ggu-software-codemeter -y

6. If you need to uninstall the software, enter the following command in the PowerShell window:

choco uninstall ggu-stability -y

… etc.

or

choco uninstall ggu-all-programs -y

7. Update your GGU installations using one of the following commands. During the upgrade, the old version will be automatically removed and replaced with the latest version.

choco upgrade ggu-stability -y

… etc.

or

choco upgrade ggu-all-programs -y

8. Subscribe to the Chocolatey newsletter under ‘step 1’ on the following website:

https://chocolatey.org/install

9. Alternatively, you can install future updates via the graphical interface using the Chocolatey GUI programme. To do this, follow these steps:

Enter the following command in PowerShell:

choco install chocolateygui -y

Now launch the Chocolatey GUI programme as an administrator. Everything else is self-explanatory.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@ggu-software.com.