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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

You're reading from   Learning Puppet for Windows Server Organize your Windows environment using Puppet tools to unload administrative burdens in a short time!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281877
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fuat Ulugay Fuat Ulugay
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Preface 1. Installing Puppet Server and Foreman FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Puppet Agents 3. Your First Modules 4. Puppet Forge Modules for Windows 5. Puppet Facts, Functions, and Templates 6. Using Puppet for Windows Security 7. Reporting and Monitoring 8. Installing Software and Updates Index

Uninstalling a software


After learning the different ways of installing a software, now we will learn how to uninstall a software. At times, you may need to remove some softwares from each client. Instead of dealing with them one by one, you can use Puppet and automate the removal process. For this purpose, it is fine to use the package resource of Puppet.

As an example, we will uninstall the older versions of Java. In the following screenshot, you can see that we have both Java 7 and 8 installed. We can remove version 7:

Here, we will uninstall two packages: Java 7 Update 75 and Java 7 Update 75 (64-bit). We have already created a module for Java Update: chocojre. Now, let's modify it so that it does not only install the latest version, but also uninstalls the older one. We will, also, require the latest version before uninstalling the previous version. There is no easy way to remove all older versions. So, we need to specify each of them manually. For uninstalling, the only change we need...

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