Installing Atom on network Win 7 PC fails

[lukewhitt]

Attempting to install Atom on my Win 7 work machine. This is on my employers Domain but I have local administrator account and my network account has admin rights over the box (including this info in case it is relevant).

Grabbed the latest copy of Chocolatey today (2014-July-11) and installed using cinst Atom -force -debug and here is a snippet of the output leading to the failure (can include the entire output if desired):

DEBUG: Running 'Write-FileUpdateLog' with
logFilePath:'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Atom.0.113.0\AtomInstall.zip.txt'',
locationToMonitor:C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Atom.0.113.0\tools, Operation:
'
    param($7zip, $destination, $fileFullPath, [ref]$exitCodeRef)
    $p = Start-Process $7zip -ArgumentList "x -o``"$destination`" -y
`"$fileFullPath`"" -Wait -WindowStyle Hidden -PassThru
    $exitCodeRef.Value = $p.ExitCode
  '
DEBUG: Tracking current state of
'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Atom.0.113.0\tools'
Write-Error : Atom did not finish successfully. Boo to the chocolatey gods!
-----------------------
[ERROR] This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the
 file specified.
-----------------------
At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\helpers\functions\Write-Chocolat
eyFailure.ps1:30 char:3
+   Write-Error $errorMessage
+   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorExcep
   tion
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorExceptio
   n,Write-Error

DEBUG: Running 'Move-BadInstall' for Atom version: '0.113.0',
packageFolder:'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Atom.0.113.0'
DEBUG: Moving bad package 'Atom v0.113.0' to
'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bad'.
Write-Error : Package 'Atom v0.113.0' did not install successfully: This comman
d cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified.
At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\functions\Chocolatey-NuGet.ps1:9
0 char:17
+                 Write-Error "Package `'$installedPackageName v$installedPacka
geV ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorExcep

tion

• FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorExceptio n,Write-Error

The term 'true' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file , or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included , verify that the path is correct and try again. Command 'install' failed (sometimes this indicates a partial failure). Additiona l info/packages: Atom DEBUG: Exiting with non-zero exit code.`

[kevinsawicki]

Could you try restarting your command prompt or power shell window and run cinst Atom again?

[MattUebel]

I installed chocolatey and then attempted to cinst atom from the same administrative cmd prompt. I got the same above error. I opened an administrative powershell window and was able to cinst atom without error.

[lukewhitt]

Restarting the command prompt and running cinst Atom again worked for me. Thanks!