Scoop is a

command-line A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternativ ...

package manager A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner. A package manager deals wi ...

for Microsoft Windows, used to download and install apps, as well as their dependencies. Scoop is often used for installing web development tools and other software development tools. Scoop installs apps in the current user's

home directory A home directory is a directory (file systems), file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing computer file, files for a given user (computing), user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and loc ...

, so it does not require admin permissions to install or update software. This allows Scoop to avoid

User Account Control User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed

prompts. Scoop can update the packages that it has installed.

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* * {{Package management systems Command-line software Free package management systems Software using the MIT license

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