Scoop Windows Package Manager Quickstart

Introduction

scoop is a popular package manager for Windows. It is a powerful package-manager with linux like feelings.

• Keeps your PATH clean
• Avoids windows permission-popup by installing portable binaries.
• Simple and powerful

Recommended requirements

We will use winget which is the official Microsoft Windows package-manager to install a few recommended dependencies first.

Open a terminal and run:

winget install -e --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

We will install PowerShell from Winget to avoid scoop having a conflict with the pwsh installed by scoop

winget install --id Microsoft.PowerShell --source winget

Install Git from winget also if possible

winget install -e --id Git.Git

Install scoop

Open a PowerShell terminal and run

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

This will install scoop and will be available on your

Scoop Buckets

scoop main bucket is added by default when installed. In the following example we will add it again.

scoop splits different binaries and apps in buckets - a bucket is a repository containing app manifests.

In order to add buckets, we need to run scoop bucket add {bucket-name}

The recommended buckets for an initial setup are:

scoop bucket add main
scoop bucket add extras
scoop bucket add versions
scoop bucket add noportable
scoop bucket add nerd-fonts

Also, if you are a Java developer would be recommended to add java bucket

scoop bucket add java

For non-official buckets you can still add those by running scoop bucket add {alias} {git-url}

For example, to add tiltdev bucket and install tilt, run

scoop bucket add tilt-dev https://github.com/tilt-dev/scoop-bucket
scoop install tilt-dev/tilt

Install recommended apps

scoop installs apps by running scoop install {bucket-name}/{app-name}

It is recommended to install these apps for the initial setup

scoop install main/git
scoop install main/curl
scoop install main/7zip

Also, recommended to install

scoop install main/aria2 # if you'd like to speed downloads

Update apps

Updating apps on scoop is quite simple. First, you need to keep scoop buckets up to date by running

scoop update

Then you can individually update an app by running scoop update {app-name}

For example, to update git run

scoop update git

If you prefer to update all the apps at once, you can run

scoop update *

Also, if you’d like to know what apps can be updated after updating your buckets, you can run

scoop status

# Name   Installed Version Latest Version Missing Dependencies Info
# ----   ----------------- -------------- -------------------- ----
# nu     0.108.0           0.110.0                             
# podman 5.4.2             5.7.1                               

Finally, it is recommended to hold apps you don’t want to update that often.

scoop hold podman

Then if you run scoop status you will see they are marked as held

❯ scoop status

# Name   Installed Version Latest Version Missing Dependencies Info
# ----   ----------------- -------------- -------------------- ----
# podman 5.4.2             5.7.1                               Held packag