I installed texlive using chocolatey but forgot to pass in --params. I uninstalled the package using choco uninstall texlive and then tried to reinstall as follows:
choco install texlive --params="'/collections:games /scheme:basic'"
Unfortunately, I'm getting an error now:
ERROR: The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
When I try choco uninstall texlive I get the exact same error. When I run pdflatex on the command line it doesn't seem to recognize it as a valid command.
I also found an issue on github which points to this problem occuring in one of their CI/CD pipelines. Futhermore in the discussion section of the main chocolatey community page for texlive a user has also reported a similar problem on their local machine.
How can I fix this to get texlive up and running again?
I had to delete the folder
c:\tools\temp-install-tl. I think powershell was having a hard time overwriting it. Strange that this didn't get removed during the uninstall...