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community.windows.win_scoop – Manage packages using Scoop

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.8.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_scoop.

Synopsis

• Manage packages using Scoop.

• If Scoop is missing from the system, the module will install it.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
architecture aliases: arch string	Force Scoop to install the package of a specific process architecture. Choices: 32bit 64bit
global boolean	Install the app globally Choices: no ← (default) yes
independent boolean	Don’t install dependencies automatically Choices: no ← (default) yes
name list / elements=string / required	Name of the package(s) to be installed.
no_cache boolean	Don’t use the download cache Choices: no ← (default) yes
purge boolean	Remove all persistent data Choices: no ← (default) yes
skip_checksum boolean	Skip hash validation Choices: no ← (default) yes
state string	State of the package on the system. When absent, will ensure the package is not installed. When present, will ensure the package is installed. Choices: absent present ← (default)

See Also

See also

chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey

The official documentation on the chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey module.

Scoop website

More information about Scoop

Scoop installer repository

GitHub repository for the Scoop installer

Scoop main bucket

GitHub repository for the main bucket

Examples

- name: Install jq.
  community.windows.win_scoop:
    name: jq

Authors

• Jamie Magee (@JamieMagee)