Scoop

Command-line installer for Windows

Goals

Scoop installs programs from the command line with a minimal amount of friction. It tries to eliminate things like:

• Permission popup windows
• GUI wizard-style installers
• Path pollution from installing lots of programs
• Unexpected side-effects from installing and uninstalling programs
• The need to find and install dependencies
• The need to perform extra setup steps to get a working program

Scoop is very scriptable, so you can run repeatable setups to get your environment just the way you like, e.g.:

scoop install sudo
sudo scoop install 7zip git openssh --global
scoop install aria2 curl grep sed less touch
scoop install python ruby go perl

If you've built software that you'd like others to use, Scoop is an alternative to building an installer (e.g. MSI or InnoSetup) — you just need to zip your program and provide a JSON manifest that describes how to install it.

Requirements

• Windows 7 SP1+ / Windows Server 2008+
• PowerShell 5 (or later, include PowerShell Core) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later)
• PowerShell must be enabled for your user account e.g. Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

Installation

Refer to new installer how to install base scoop.

As soon as base scoop is installed do the following:

1. scoop install 7zip git
2. scoop config SCOOP_REPO 'https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core'
3. scoop update

Once installed, run scoop help for additional information.

Multi-connection downloads with aria2

Scoop can utilize aria2 to use multi-connection downloads. Simply install aria2 through Scoop and it will be used for all downloads afterward.

scoop install aria2

Refer to scoop help config how to adjust aria2 specific configuration.

Applications installed by scoop

The apps that install best with Scoop are commonly called "portable" apps: i.e. compressed program files that run stand-alone when extracted and don't have side-effects like changing the registry or putting files outside the program directory.

Since installers are common, Scoop supports them too (and their uninstallers).

Scoop is also great at handling single-file programs and Powershell scripts. These don't even need to be compressed. See the runat package for an example: it's really just a GitHub gist.

Known application buckets

The following buckets are known to scoop:

• main - Default bucket for the most common command line utilities
• extras - GUI applications
• games - Open source/freeware games and game-related tools
• nerd-fonts - Nerd Fonts
• nirsoft - All Nirsoft utilites
• java - Installers for Oracle Java, OpenJDK, Zulu, ojdkbuild, AdoptOpenJDK, Amazon Corretto, BellSoft Liberica & SapMachine
• jetbrains - Installers for all JetBrains utilities and IDEs
• sysinternals - All Sysinternals tools separately
• nonportable - Non-portable apps (may require UAC)
• php - Installers for most versions of PHP
• versions - Alternative versions of apps found in other buckets