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TheRandomLabs / scoop-nonportable

A Scoop bucket for nonportable applications.
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Some advice as to how to use this bucket, please #192

Closed umbellipher closed 4 years ago

umbellipher commented 4 years ago

Say I install a np program in the normal way in scoop. Windows 10 Pro.

I then have two folders under scoop/apps: one with the version number, the other "current".

Each contains a setup.exe file.

1) Do I run the .exe (as administrator) as I would if I had downloaded a program outside scoop?

2) Which do I open? Current? The version-number one?

3) Where will the app be installed? Program Files? Programs Files (x86)?

4) When the app is installed after running the .exe file, should I/ can I (to save space) delete the .exe file(s)? Which? Both?

5) How does scoop then (when I run "scoop update-all") work out when the app is updated?

6) If it does get updated, do I have to run an .exe file again?

Sorry for these utterly n00b questions.

Any help would be appreciated!

TheRandomLabs commented 4 years ago

Scoop should install the applications automatically. Which app are you trying to install?

TheRandomLabs commented 4 years ago

To elaborate, applications in this bucket are often installed to the Program Files or Program Files (x86) directory, but it depends on the installer for each application, and some will be installed in the designated Scoop directory. scoop update * will automatically update all installed applications. current is simply a directory junction to the latest version, so it doesn't really matter which one you enter, but current always points to the latest version. Let me know if you have any more questions.

umbellipher commented 4 years ago

Thanks. It was logitech-gaming-software-np, which admittedly was already installed in Program Files by a non-scoop method - and I failed to uninstall it first, before going the scoop way.

(Fairly new to this!)

There's my point 4 above: what to do with the two setup.exe files, in version-number and current? Leave them? Delete? (I'm manic about housekeeping of unnecessary biggish files, but maybe these need to stay?)

Thanks!

TheRandomLabs commented 4 years ago

They're there so Scoop can uninstall the applications easily. They'll be downloaded again once an update is released, so it's up to you.

umbellipher commented 4 years ago

Thanks indeed. Happy for you to close this off now!

TheRandomLabs commented 4 years ago

You're welcome!