#1022·choco

Allow for multiple "package instances"

Author: dragon788Created Oct 18, 2016Updated Aug 28, 2026
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What You Are Seeing?

I can only install one "copy" of a package at a time, even if it is a zip package that would support modifying the configuration and installing multiple copies.

What is Expected?

I would like to have Chocolatey allow me to install the package with various different arguments (config settings) and have some way of displaying the different "configs" I have installed, even if this requires a new flag like -mpi or something.

Discussion

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Feature Request

Add the ability to provide multiple package instances, with a "required" flag/parameter that specifies the string that will be used to identify the different versions after they are installed.

For example: choco list -l MyPackage

After allowing multiple instances: MyPackage MyPackage CustomInstall MyPackage NotVanilla

The additional ones would be installed via `choco install --multipackageinstances -params '"ConfigName=CustomInstall OtherArgs=etc"'.

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