Use scoop to install apps on windows. Use snap to install apps on ubuntu.

Installation

On Windows:

$ Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser
$ iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

On Ubuntu:

# setting proxy
$ sudo snap set system proxy.http="http://<proxy_addr>:<proxy_port>"
$ sudo snap set system proxy.https="http://<proxy_addr>:<proxy_port>"

Customize Installation

Scoop allows you to setup your own buckets to install your favourite softwares in your own way.

Steps details:

1. Create a public git project for your buckets, like Scoop Main buckets.

2. Write the recipe for installing your software, like7zip.json

3. Call scoop bucket add <your-bucket-name> <your-bucket-git-url> to add your bucket.

4. Install your software as you always do.

Samples:

• my-youtube-dl.json: create my favourite configuration for youtube-dl

  {
  "version": "1.0",
  "url": "https://gitlab.com/snippets/1901452/raw#/youtube-dl.conf",
  "hash": "ed77fe6dee67ade2e22194ef0127456e3a76e32c5bfbd73d41f5bd81a18ffc74",
  "depends": "youtube-dl",
  "post_install": [
      "$loc = \"~\\youtube-dl.conf\"",
      "New-Item -ItemType File -Path $loc -Force",
      "Copy-Item \"$dir\\youtube-dl.conf\" $loc -Force"
  ]
  }

• my-alacritty.json: default configuration for alacritty

  {
  "version": "1.0",
  "depends": "alacritty",
  "url": [
      "https://gitlab.com/snippets/1901468/raw#/alacritty.yml",
      "https://gitlab.com/snippets/1901480/raw#/alacritty-install-context.reg",
      "https://gitlab.com/snippets/1901481/raw#/alacritty-uninstall-context.reg"
  ],
  "hash":[
      "d8a39e45d0cf1846acc5f002fe3ce1bf9a0a966a6d2b1012f8fe7cb0b65e6a5d",
      "fa3838d46a8b8e790998963acc81ccf8eed77dd4a88e0f913c1593d7d009d3fb",
      "5752f64c5a6f22062e30ce4da0a73f4bc28c93192a8445d3dc5e3c01b0198215"
  ],
  "post_install": [
      "$loc = \"$env:APPDATA\\alacritty\\alacritty.yml\"",
      "New-Item -ItemType File -Path $loc -Force",
      "Copy-Item \"$dir\\alacritty.yml\" $loc -Force",
      "$exepath = \"$scoopdir\\apps\\alacritty\\current\\alacritty.exe\".Replace('\\', '\\\\')",
      "$content = Get-Content \"$dir\\alacritty-install-context.reg\"",
      "$content = $content.Replace('$exe_path', $exepath)",
      "$content | Set-Content -Path \"$dir\\alacritty-install-context.reg\""
  ],
  "notes": "Add Alacritty as a context menu option by running: \"$dir\\alacritty-install-context.reg\""
  }

• my-msys2.json: use tuna mirror to update msys2 and install gcc automatically.

  {
  "homepage": "http://msys2.github.io",
  "description": "A software distro and building platform for Windows.",
  "##": "64-bit version is able to build both 32-bit and 64-bit packages",
  "version": "20190524",
  "license": "GPL-2.0-only|BSD-3-Clause",
  "architecture": {
      "64bit": {
          "url": "https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/distrib/x86_64/msys2-base-x86_64-20190524.tar.xz",
          "extract_dir": "msys64",
          "hash": "sha1:cfe5035b1b81b43469d16bfc23be8006b9a44455"
      },
      "32bit": {
          "url": "https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/distrib/i686/msys2-base-i686-20190524.tar.xz",
          "extract_dir": "msys32",
          "hash": "sha1:ff86c3e4ef8777074fd394510b95943d0c943956"
      }
  },
  "pre_install": [
      "if ($architecture -eq '32bit') {",
      "   $manifest.bin += ,@('autorebase.bat', 'autorebase')",
      "}"
  ],
  "post_install": [
      "Write-Output \"Configuring to use tuna mirror https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2 ...\"",
      "$file = \"$dir\\etc\\pacman.d\\mirrorlist.mingw32\"",
      "$content = Get-Content -raw $file",
      "$content = \"Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/i686`r`n\"+$content",
      "$content | Set-Content -Path $file",
      "$file = \"$dir\\etc\\pacman.d\\mirrorlist.mingw64\"",
      "$content = Get-Content -raw $file",
      "$content = \"Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/mingw/x86_64`r`n\"+$content",
      "$content | Set-Content -Path $file",
      "$file = \"$dir\\etc\\pacman.d\\mirrorlist.msys\"",
      "$content = Get-Content -raw $file",
      "$content = \"Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/msys2/msys/`$arch`r`n\"+$content",
      "$content | Set-Content -Path $file",
      "Write-Output \"Update msys2 packages and core system ...\"",
      "&\"$dir\\usr\\bin\\bash\" -l -c \"pacman -Syuu --noconfirm\"",
      "&\"$dir\\usr\\bin\\bash\" -l -c \"pacman -Syuu --noconfirm\"",
      "Write-Output \"Install latest gcc ...\"",
      "$arch = If ($architecture -eq '32bit') {\"i686\"} Else {\"x86_64\"}",
      "$toolchain = \"mingw-w64-{0}-toolchain\" -f $arch",
      "&\"$dir\\usr\\bin\\bash\" -l -c \"pacman -S $toolchain --noconfirm\""
  ],
  "bin": [
      [
          "msys2_shell.cmd",
          "msys2",
          "-msys2 -defterm -here -no-start"
      ],
      [
          "msys2_shell.cmd",
          "mingw",
          "-mingw -defterm -here -full-path -no-start"
      ],
      [
          "msys2_shell.cmd",
          "mingw32",
          "-mingw32 -defterm -here -full-path -no-start"
      ],
      [
          "msys2_shell.cmd",
          "mingw64",
          "-mingw64 -defterm -here -full-path -no-start"
      ]
  ],
  "shortcuts": [
      [
          "msys2.exe",
          "MSYS2"
      ],
      [
          "mingw32.exe",
          "MinGW32"
      ],
      [
          "mingw64.exe",
          "MinGW64"
      ]
  ],
  "persist": "home",
  "notes": "Please run 'msys2' now for the MSYS2 setup to complete!"
  }