Scoop

scoop is a command-line install for Windows, it's very close to APT on Linux if you know it. With this tool, you can install easily many packages directly from your PowerShell terminal, check scoop.sh to get more informations.

• Packages are installed in your User directory by default (but you can modify it): C:\Users\username\scoop
• Find all applications directly in startup menu
• If package need to have specific path, scoop will create it, for example if you install mysql with scoop you will can use mysql in PowerShell terminal to access to MySQL CLI (and same for NPM, Yarn, PHP, Python, Flutter, Rust...).
• A package uninstalled will remove path config to avoid conflicts
• Update all packages with one command
• Get last versions of your favorites languages
• Get multiple versions of same language (if scoop offer it): PHP, Java...

Installation

Use Windows + X to open menu and select Windows PowerShell (Admin), you will have blue window and you can install scoop now

Classic

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

Permissions error

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser ; Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.scoop.sh')

Install sudo to have admin right with regular PowerShell

scoop install sudo

PowerShell-Admin

Now, you can open regular PowerShell window (you can find it with Windows + X) and try to install curl

Classic

scoop install curl

Permissions error

sudo scoop install curl

Usage

Search

scoop offers a wide range of packages, if you want to find one, just use scoop search

scoop search git

And output give you some info about packages with this name, package version and bucket.

'extras' bucket:
    deepgit (4.0.2)
    gcloud (317.0.0) --> includes 'git-credential-gcloud.cmd'
    gitahead (2.6.3)
    ...

'main' bucket:
    ...
    git (2.29.2.windows.1)
    ...

If I just want git, I will install git (2.29.2.windows.1) from main bucket with scoop install git

Bucket

A bucket is a specific repository for some packages, when you install scoop you have by default main bucket but you can add more buckets to get more packages. With scoop search, you will see bucket of each package. For example, if you want to install windows-terminal package, you need to have extras bucket, you can add it with scoop bucket add extras and you will able to install windows-terminal with sudo scoop install windows-terminal. Try to search scoop search windows-terminal and you will see!

Search results:

'extras' bucket:
    windows-terminal (1.3.2651.0)

output

Add extras bucket:

scoop bucket add extras

Install windows-terminal, a modern terminal for Windows:

scoop install windows-terminal

Uninstall

You can easily uninstall any package

scoop uninstall curl

List

To list all installed packages with bucket

scoop list

Status

To know scoop status

scoop status

Update

Itself

scoop update

All packages

scoop update *

Specific package

scoop update curl

Packages

You can find many package with scoop, you can see below just some examples:

Tools

Package	Bucket	About	Link
7zip	main	main	7-zip.org
curl	main	main	curl.se
git or git-with-openssh	main	main	git-scm.com
grep	main	main	man7.org
ffmpeg	main	main	ffmpeg.org
make	main	main	gnu.org
sudo	main	main	sudo.ws
touch	main	main	man7.org
vim	main	main	vim.org
which	main	main	gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
windows-terminal	main	main	github.com/microsoft/terminal
wget	main	main	gnu.org
youtube-dl	main	main	youtube-dl.org

• oh-my-posh
  • scoop install https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/oh-my-posh.json

Development

Package	Bucket	About	Link
adb	main
android-sdk	extras
bit	main
cacert	main
composer	main
doctl	main
docker	main
docker-compose	main
glow	main
flutter	main
mysql	main
nginx	main
ngrok	main
nssm	main
nvm	main
pandoc	main
python	main
rust	main
obsidian	extras
symfony-cli	main
yarn	main

PHP

More informations about switch between versions and configurations: documentation/development/operating-systems/windows/php

Package	Bucket	About	Link
php-nts	main
php7.3-nts	php
php7.4-nts	php

Softwares

Install softwares with scoop

Some software use internal auto-update which can create some conflicts. For example, with vscode, I stop to install it with scoop because update not work properly.

Package	Bucket	About	Link
android-studio	extras
discord	extras
firefox	extras
gimp	extras
googlechrome	extras
mp3tag	extras
phpstorm	jetbrains
postman	extras
rufus	extras
vlc	extras
vscode	extras

Fonts

Package	Bucket	About	Link
Cascadia-Code	nerd-fonts
firacode	nerd-fonts
Meslo-NF	nerd-fonts
Victor-Mono	nerd-fonts

Troubles

scoop update: fast-forward not possible

cd C:\Users\USERNAME\scoop\bucket\main

git reset --hard origin/master

scoop update