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Previously titled: "Does Chocolatey know when a program updates itself?"

Assume that I have installed a program such as Google Chrome or Telegram via Chocolatey:

choco install googlechrome
choco install telegram

Many programs such as these are known to update themselves, often silently and simply by a restart of the program.

Does Chocolatey know that a program has updated itself check whether a program is already the latest version before attempting to upgrade?

Or does it have some internal record-keeping that tells it that an out-of-date version is still installed (and thereby running choco upgrade will attempt to install the version that is already installed)?

Note that this question is about a different issue.

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  • How would Chocolatey know? Chocolatey just installs the application? The responsibility then falls on the application to update itself or to the user to upgrade it themselves. – Ramhound Aug 05 '15 at 11:15
  • @Ramhound I have edited the question for clarity. Please check. **PS:** You can run `choco upgrade -all` to update all packages that are installed. I'm interested to know how Chocolatey behaves when you do for packages that have already updated themselves. – ADTC Aug 05 '15 at 11:21
  • Chocolatey is built on the NuGet framework. Having a understanding of how that framework works will likely answer your question. Chocolatey is only going to install the same version of a package if you tell it to. – Ramhound Aug 05 '15 at 11:27

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Short answer - it does not. Longer answer - syncing with the current version installed is something on our list to do.

Once you install a self-updating application, you may want to pin the version in Chocolatey so that it no longer attempts to upgrade it with choco.

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  • Is this still true? How do I pin the version in Chocolatey? Once the software upgrades itself, do uninstalls still work? Should I still run `choco upgrade`? I feel liek this answer begs alot of other questions. – CMCDragonkai Dec 13 '19 at 13:08