Scoop

Scoop is a user-level command-line installer for Windows.

Apps unpack under ~/scoop without elevation, so no operation is marked sudo.

Documentation:

Note

The installed, outdated and search listings are column tables introduced by a --- separator line: mpm drops everything up to that separator, then splits each row positionally on whitespace.

Attention

scoop --version does not reliably print a clean version: it often emits the raw git log line of the checkout instead. The probe therefore carries fallbacks that recover the version from a tag: vX.Y.Z ref or a Bump to version commit subject. See Scoop’s own version-reporting issue.

Caution

remove uninstalls with --purge, so a package’s persisted data directory is deleted with it rather than kept for a later reinstall.

Platforms

  • 🪟 Windows

Operations

Operation

Supported

Notes

installed

✓

outdated

✓

search

✓

exact and extended search backfilled by mpm

install

✓

upgrade

✓

upgrade_all

✓

remove

✓

sync

✓

cleanup

✓

Ecosystem

  • Accepted purl types: pkg:scoop

Usage

$ mpm --scoop installed
$ mpm --scoop search "query"
$ mpm --scoop upgrade --all
$ mpm install pkg:scoop/hello
$ mpm --dry-run --scoop upgrade --all

Every example above accepts --dry-run, which simulates the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Deselect the manager for a single run with --no-scoop, disable it from your configuration, or tune its invocation attributes with per-manager overrides.

Command line

  • CLI names, in lookup order: scoop

The version is probed by running:

$ scoop --version
Current Scoop version:
v0.2.4 - Released at 2022-08-08

'main' bucket:
5a5b13b6c (HEAD -> master, origin/HEAD) oh-my-posh: Update to version 11.1.1

and extracted with the first of these regular expressions to match:

r"^v(?P<version>\S+)\s.+"
r"^.+,\stag:\sv(?P<version>\S+),\s.+"
r"^.+\sBump\sto\sversion\s(?P<version>\S+)\s.+"

Privilege escalation

mpm runs this manager as the current user and never prepends sudo by default. Flip the policy for its privileged operations with --sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown

State of Scoop’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --allow-unsupported-managers opts back in.

Reference traces

Raw native outputs captured in the manager source: the reference mpm’s parsers were written against. If you know Scoop well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

>  scoop list
Installed apps:

Name   Version          Source Updated             Info
----   -------          ------ -------             ----
7zip   22.01            main   2022-09-27 08:03:30
dark   3.11.2           main   2022-09-27 08:04:26
git    2.37.3.windows.1 main   2022-09-27 08:03:58
python 3.10.7           main   2022-09-27 08:04:53

> scoop status
Name           Installed Version Latest Version Missing Dependencies Info
----           ----------------- -------------- -------------------- ----
demulshooter   16.7.2            18.7.3
eduke32        20220611-10112    20220709-10115
Teracopy-np
yuzu-pineapple EA-2804           EA-2830