chef: installing a package on windows

Question

I am trying chef on windows for the first time. here is basic simple install for notepad++:

windows_package 'notepad' do  
  source 'c:/temp/npp.exe'  
  action :install  
end  

It is giving error while running chef-client.

Installer type for Windows Package 'notepad' not specified and cannot be determined from file extension 'exe'

Not sure what is missing.

Answer 1

Chef tries to autodetect the type of installer but it has failed in this case so you'll need to manually specify an installer_type property. See https://docs.chef.io/resource_windows_package.html#examples for some examples, or further up that page for details on installer_type .

Answer 2

只是为了更新，问题是由于服务器上安装了较旧的Chef-Client，升级客户端后即可解决。