flarevm.installer.vm not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed.

[mexavierace12]

What's the problem?

I don't quite understand how to fix this issue. I tried to download few Windows 10 compatible to setup Flare VM but I'm still getting the same error.

Steps to Reproduce

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Environment

Installing the following packages: flarevm.installer.vm;Lab\Desktop;.;https://www.myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://chocolatey.org/api/v2 By installing, you accept licenses for the packages. flarevm.installer.vm not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed. Source(s): 'C:\ProgramData\boxstarter\BuildPackages;C:\Users\Malware' NOTE: When you specify explicit sources, it overrides default sources. If the package version is a prerelease and you didn't specify --pre, the package may not be found. Please see https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/troubleshooting for more assistance. Lab\Desktop not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed. Source(s): 'C:\ProgramData\boxstarter\BuildPackages;C:\Users\Malware' NOTE: When you specify explicit sources, it overrides default sources. If the package version is a prerelease and you didn't specify --pre, the package may not be found. Please see https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/troubleshooting for more assistance. . not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed. Source(s): 'C:\ProgramData\boxstarter\BuildPackages;C:\Users\Malware' NOTE: When you specify explicit sources, it overrides default sources. If the package version is a prerelease and you didn't specify --pre, the package may not be found. Please see https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/troubleshooting for more assistance.

Chocolatey installed 0/0 packages. See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log). The given path's format is not supported.

Detected by test suite

I don't know

[mr-tz]

Hm, can you share your steps to reproduce this, please?

[mexavierace12]

I have downloaded Win 10 1809 x64 and have in setup in my Vmware.

Then I followed the steps from here.

1. Disable Windows Updates

2. Disable Tamper Protection and any Anti-Malware solution

3. Disabling Tamper Protection

4. Disabling Windows Defender

5. Take a VM snapshot

6. Open a PowerShell prompt as administrator

7. Downloaded the installation script (New-Object net.webclient).DownloadFile('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mandiant/flare-vm/main/install.ps1',"$([Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop"))\install.ps1")

8. Unblock-File .\install.ps1

9. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

10. Then I execute the script.

11. .\install.ps1

[MalwareMechanic]

At the moment there's not a lot of info to help triage this, but from what I can see your Chocolatey sources are not set correctly. From the Environment snippet above it appears your sources are set to:

Source(s): 'C:\ProgramData\boxstarter\BuildPackages;C:\Users\Malware'

If your sources aren't set correctly then BoxStarter & Chocolatey won't be able to find the correct packages to install -- leading to failure.

Try running the following from an admin PowerShell prompt to set the sources explicitly:

Import-Module Boxstarter.Chocolatey
$desktopPath = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")
Set-BoxstarterConfig -NugetSources "$desktopPath;.;https://www.myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://chocolatey.org/api/v2"
choco sources add -n="vm-packages" -s "$desktopPath;.;https://www.myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2" --priority 1

After that try running the script again.

Also concerning, is that it says:

Installing the following packages:
flarevm.installer.vm;Lab\Desktop;.;https://www.myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://myget.org/F/vm-packages/api/v2;https://chocolatey.org/api/v2

and treats this as a semicolon delimited list of packages to install as evident by:

Lab\Desktop not installed. 
...
. not installed.

This very odd behavior since the installer script specifies "flarevm.installer.vm" to be installed (see: https://github.com/mandiant/flare-vm/blob/16fb2c68adc760ea88f176001ed65f758340a6ac/install.ps1#L905). So I'm not sure what is happening there.

Please let us know if any of this helped!

[Ana06]

@mexavierace12 did the guidance in the last comment fixed your issue?

[Ana06]

Closing as the issue appears to be fixed.