Getting Started With Scoop on Windows
As stated at https://scoop.sh
Scoop installs programs you know and love, from the command line with a minimal amount of friction
To get scoop in the first place:
From Powershell:
irm get.scoop.sh | iex
Invoke-RestMethod, to get the content of <get.scoop.sh> and send it to Invoke-Expression.
This is the sort of stuff you don't want to do when it's time to get a program... so hopefully once we've done it this once to get scoop, we'll no longer have to resort to that technique.
Or if you're new to powershell you might need to run another line first...
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
And then:
irm get.scoop.sh | iex
Output from successful installs
> irm get.scoop.sh | iex
Initializing...
Downloading ...
Creating shim...
Adding ~\scoop\shims to your path.
Scoop was installed successfully!
Type 'scoop help' for instructions.
Previous way to install scoop
Incidentally here is the older description of how it was described...
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
That is, Invoke-WebRequest and use the -UseBasicParsing parameter.
I think that would still work. Why did the recommendation change? I'm sure it's fascinating. More restful, or better techitty tech. We saved a few characters.
How Does Scoop Work?
It puts all packages in the folder ~\scoop
That is scoop's "home".
Upgrading / Updating scoop itself
Finding a Package with Scoop
Use "scoop search (pattern)" for example:
scoop search chatgpt
Gives result:
> scoop search chatgpt
Results from local buckets...
Name Version Source Binaries
---- ------- ------ --------
chatgpt 0.12.0 extras
What are buckets?
Scoop packages exist as a part of Git repositories, called buckets.
Oh -- repositories.
Here is a list of all the "repositories" which scoop considers to be buckets:
From this webpage you can search all buckets, including ones that are not "official", e.g.
The following buckets are "known" to scoop:
main- Default bucket for the most common (mostly CLI) appsextras- Apps that don't fit the main bucket's criteriagames- Open source/freeware games and game-related toolsnerd-fonts- Nerd Fontsnirsoft- Almost all of the 250+ apps from Nirsoftsysinternals- Sysinternals Suite and all individual application from Microsoftjava- A collection of Java development kits (JDKs), Java runtime engines (JREs), Java's virtual machine debugging tools and Java based runtime engines.nonportable- Non-portable apps (may require UAC)php- Installers for most versions of PHPversions- Alternative versions of apps found in other buckets
The main bucket is installed by default.
TO see which buckets have been installed use:
scoop bucket list
Adding a known bucket to scoop
i.e. Telling it about another bucket full of packages (aka Manifests) (aka another place where it call look for applications)
scoop bucket add bucketname
...where bucketname is one of the known buckets above.
for example:
scoop bucket add nirsoft
Using Scoop to Install an application (or package or manifest)
scoop install nimbletext
Example of the output...
> scoop install nimbletext
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'extras' bucket...
* 548ba5d10 extraterm: Update to version 0.71.0 and fix autoupdate (#.. 3 minutes ago
* e1468c093 elisa: Update to version 22.12.3 and Fix autoupdate (#109.. 3 minutes ago
* d8d36b3cc powertoys: Update manifest (#10915) 4 minutes ago
* c42b17b05 okular: Update to version 22.12.3 and Fix autoupdate (#10.. 13 minutes ago
* 0332d4304 kate: Update to version 22.12.3 and Fix autoupdate (#10959) 13 minutes ago
* 99df31b9c sweethome3d: Fix decompress error (#10939) 39 minutes ago
* 0eb9d8a08 termius: Update to version 7.58.4 4 hours ago
Updating 'main' bucket...
* 65aeb53f8 terraform-provider-ibm: Update to version 1.52.1 4 hours ago
* b15004b33 rust-analyzer: Update to version 2023-04-10 4 hours ago
* 2319f6569 jdupes: Update to version 1.22.0 4 hours ago
Scoop was updated successfully!
Installing 'nimbletext' (3.1.0.33266) [64bit] from extras bucket
NimbleText.exe (773.5 KB) [===================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of NimbleText.exe ... ok.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\nimbletext\current => ~\scoop\apps\nimbletext\3.1.0.33266
Creating shim for 'NimbleText'.
Creating shortcut for NimbleText (NimbleText.exe)
'nimbletext' (3.1.0.33266) was installed successfully!
Another example of searching with scoop search
> scoop search python
Results from local buckets...
Name Version Source Binaries
---- ------- ------ --------
anaconda3 2023.03 extras python.exe | pythonw.exe | python.exe
fontforge 20230101 extras ffpython.exe
mambaforge 23.1.0-1 extras python.exe | pythonw.exe | python.exe
miniconda3 23.1.0-1 extras python.exe | pythonw.exe | python.exe
paraview 5.11.1 extras pvpython.exe
python 3.11.3 main
winpython 3.10.9.0 main
Using Scoop to Update a Package
Using Scoop to remove a local package
scoop bucket rm the-package-name
Add VS Code Integration
First I need to make sure the known bucket extras was made available.
scoop bucket add extras
Extras is a bucket that lists ~ 1787 applications.
And the result of the above command is this:
> scoop bucket add extras
Checking repo... OK
The extras bucket was added successfully.
What can we do now?
At this point here is my scoop home tree:
├───apps
│ └───scoop
│ └───current
│ ├───.github
│ │ ├───ISSUE_TEMPLATE
│ │ └───workflows
│ ├───.vscode
│ ├───bin
│ ├───lib
│ ├───libexec
│ ├───supporting
│ │ ├───formats
│ │ ├───shimexe
│ │ │ └───bin
│ │ ├───shims
│ │ │ ├───71
│ │ │ └───kiennq
│ │ └───validator
│ │ └───bin
│ └───test
│ ├───bin
│ └───fixtures
│ ├───decompress
│ ├───format
│ │ ├───formatted
│ │ └───unformatted
│ ├───is_directory
│ │ └───i_am_a_directory
│ ├───manifest
│ ├───movedir
│ │ ├───user
│ │ │ └───_tmp
│ │ │ └───subdir
│ │ ├───user with 'quote
│ │ │ └───_tmp
│ │ │ └───subdir
│ │ └───user with space
│ │ └───_tmp
│ │ └───subdir
│ └───shim
│ └───user with 'quote
├───buckets
│ ├───extras
│ │ ├───.github
│ │ │ ├───ISSUE_TEMPLATE
│ │ │ └───workflows
│ │ ├───.vscode
│ │ ├───bin
│ │ ├───bucket
│ │ ├───deprecated
│ │ └───scripts
│ │ ├───beyondcompare
│ │ ├───coretemp
│ │ ├───eartrumpet
│ │ ├───everything
│ │ ├───gimp
│ │ ├───grepwin
│ │ ├───harmonoid
│ │ ├───jetbrains
│ │ ├───lockhunter
│ │ ├───notepad3
│ │ ├───notepadplusplus
│ │ ├───nvda
│ │ ├───phoenix-protector
│ │ ├───picotorrent
│ │ ├───recaps
│ │ ├───sublime-text
│ │ ├───tachidesk-server
│ │ ├───tailscale
│ │ ├───tortoisesvn
│ │ ├───vscode
│ │ ├───windows-terminal
│ │ ├───wsa-pacman
│ │ ├───xdman
│ │ └───zlib
│ └───main
│ ├───.github
│ │ ├───ISSUE_TEMPLATE
│ │ └───workflows
│ ├───.vscode
│ ├───bin
│ ├───bucket
│ ├───deprecated
│ └───scripts
│ ├───7-zip
│ ├───git
│ ├───pwsh
│ ├───python
│ ├───vim
│ └───vulkan
└───shims