How do I uninstall a Chocolatey package that won't go away?

Question

C:\Users\Chloe>choco uninstall cyg-get
Chocolatey v0.10.8
Uninstalling the following packages:
cyg-get

cyg-get v1.1.0
 Skipping auto uninstaller - No registry snapshot.

Chocolatey uninstalled 1/1 packages.
 See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

C:\Users\Chloe>choco list --local-only cyg-get
Chocolatey v0.10.8
cyg-get 1.1.0
cygwin 1.7.23.20130814
2 packages installed.

Solution

I used --force and it went away.

choco uninstall cyg-get --force

Comments

[ferventcoder]

That typically does it, you can also add -n to ensure it doesn't run scripts. If all else fails, head to $env:ChocolateyInstall\lib and remove the folder for the package.

[Chloe]

@ferventcoder I did try -n but that didn't help. I see that I didn't copy that in the question. I also tried another longer -- option it suggested that I can't remember. I believe I did try to delete a folder in a Chocolatey folder, but when I ran upgrade all it added it back.

[ferventcoder]

It means that there was possibly an older lingering version still sitting around that needed to also be removed.