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An easier to understand first time Scoop install command

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13

The Scoop repository lists this first time Scoop install command at [Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows. – installation:

Run the following command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop to its default location C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.

iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

[Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Install: 📥 Next-generation Scoop (un)installer is very similar:

Run this command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop with default configuration, scoop will be install to C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.

irm get.scoop.sh | iex
# You can use proxies if you have network trouble in accessing GitHub, e.g.
irm get.scoop.sh -Proxy 'http://<ip:port>' | iex

The Scoop homepage at [Wayback/Archive] Scoop.sh is not much better:

Open a PowerShell terminal (version 5.1 or later) and run:

> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
> irm get.scoop.sh | iex

This prompted me to look at the evolution of the Chocolatey first time install instructions that roughly evolved as follows:

    1. [Wayback/Archive] 2016-11: 
      @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%chocolateybin"
    2. [Wayback/Archive] 2017-08 which adds the full path to the default PowerShell path and -InputFormat None: 
      @"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

      Note that -InputFormat None is documented nowhere:

      I could not find -InputFormat None in older PowerShell documentation on-line at the time of writing, so maybe it was an option used in PowerShell versions 2.0 or 1.0.

    3. [Wayback/Archive] 2017-12 (which starts at PowerShell instead of cmd.exe): 
      Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
    4. [Wayback/Archive] 2020-02 (which adds [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072;, see my blog post Chocolatey and TLS since early 2020): 
      Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

      See also

Based on that, I came up with this Scoop installation command:

"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; Invoke-Expression ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.scoop.sh'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\scoop\shims"

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–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2026/05/13 at 12:00 and is filed under Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scoop, Scripting, Software Development, Windows. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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