Scoop

Scoop is an easy to use command-line installer for Windows. It significantly streamlines the experience of installing and managing software (especially for development purposes)! And the best thing? It lives in user-space as much as possible!

Note

It is always recommended to reference up-to-date documentation, particularly Scoop’s own website when installing!

Install

Simply run the following command(s) from a PowerShell terminal:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression

This will automagically install scoop!

Install a package

Generally a simple scoop install <package> will suffice!

It could however be that the package is not contained within the default bucket. Buckets are collections of packages, organized by categories, or even supplied by external repositories. One of the most utilized buckets would be extras, for example. To add a bucket, simply do scoop bucket add <bucket>.

Finally, to search for a package, you can do scoop search <package> and it will even show you what bucket it belongs to!