In part 2 of our series for installing appium….
we will show you how to use scoop, a package manager to install software
First things first:
So, you want to download and install an application and then set it’s path. Wait.. you want to check if it is installed on your system already? Scoop has got you covered. It could be an alternative to GitBash
Ex: I want to use the command whereis java on the GitBash terminal on Windows 11
and I get this message
It means you need to download install and set the path so that it is ready to use. Should you do this manually?
Nah!
Install Scoop:
Go to the scoop website
OR
Open a Windows non admin powershell and execute the following
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression
Validate:
On the non admin power shell terminal, type the following commands:
Type scoop --version to check the installation
Install Java:
Once done, go ahead and add the java bucket
scoop bucket add java
scoop install java/corretto21-jdk
Then check the java installation
java -version
Conclusion:
Scoop has lots of things going for it. As we will see, it can be used to install nodejs from the command line, in later posts
Feedback:
What do you think of scoop? Please comment below