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Scoop lets you install programs from the command line with minimal friction and isolation. It supports searching, creating and managing packages from Git repositories, and provides shims and shortcuts for terminal and graphical applications.
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Scoop helps you get the programs you need, with a minimal...
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- What does Scoop do?
- Installation
- Multi-connection downloads with aria2
- What sort of apps can Scoop install?
- Known application buckets
- Other application buckets
Features | Installation | Documentation
Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows.
Scoop installs programs from the command line with a minimal amount of friction. It:
•Eliminates permission popup windows
•Hides GUI wizard-style installers
•Prevents PATH pollution from installing lots of programs
•Avoids unexpected side-effects from installing and uninstalling programs
•Finds and installs dependencies automatically
Run the following command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop to its default location C:\Users\ \scoop.
Advanced installation instruction and full documentation of the installer are available in ScoopInstaller/Install. Please create new issues there if you have questions about the installation.
Scoop can utilize aria2 to use multi-connection downloads. Simply install aria2 through Scoop and it will be used for all downloads afterward.
By default, scoop displays a warning when running scoop install or scoop update while aria2 is enabled. This warning can be suppressed by running scoop config aria2-warning-enabled false.
You can tweak the following aria2 settings with the scoop config command:
•aria2-enabled (default: true)
•aria2-warning-enabled (default: true)
•aria2-retry-wait (default: 2)
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).
The following buckets are known to scoop:
•main - Default bucket for the most common (mostly CLI) apps
•extras - Apps that don't fit the main bucket's criteria
•games - Open source/freeware games and game-related tools
•nerd-fonts - Nerd Fonts
•nirsoft - Almost all of the 250+ apps from Nirsoft
Many other application buckets hosted on Github can be found in the Scoop Directory or via other search engines.
a tool with a handle and a curved, open end, used to dig out and move an amount of something: an ice-cream scoop. [ C ] A scoop is also the amount held by a scoop: Just one scoop of mashed potatoes for me, please.
Scoop helps you get the programs you need, with a minimal amount of point-and-clicking. Say goodbye to permission pop-ups. Scoop installs programs to your home directory by default. So you don’t need admin permissions to install programs, and you won’t see UAC popups every time you need to add or remove a program. Scoop reads the README for you
Pollution-Free. Install the programs inside user scope. So you can install programs even when you are not elevated users. A command-line installer for Windows.
May 7, 2023 · Although Scoop is written in PowerShell, its interface is closer to Git and Mercurial than it is to most PowerShell programs. To get an overview of Scoop's interface, run:
Scoop now has a new configuration option called use_isolated_path, which can separate the PATH of apps related to Scoop. If use_isolated_path is set to true , Scoop will add SCOOP_PATH to store these PATH s.
