Scoop

Scoop is a package manager for Windows. It enables you to install and update applications and services via the command line - just like you would install packages on MacOS, Linux or in PHP via Composer.

Your Windows system should already come with some packages installed, e.g.

  • NGINX
  • MariaDB
  • php
  • git
  • openssh
  • composer

Most of these are installed system wide and some of them are also installed as a service.

To find out more about Scoop, simply look at its Wiki. Usually you will not have to deal with Scoop yourself, but you are free to install any applications via Scoop.