borger / Scoop Galaxy Integrations

GOG Galaxy 2 Integrations Scoop Bucket

There's no easy way to keep track of all existing galaxy integrations out there and keep them up-to-date. Scoop helps you get the programs you need, with a minimal amount of point-and-clicking. It's highly scalable and easily customized. It's almost like a package manager our *NIX friends know and love. It makes it easy to download, install, update and uninstall apps on your computer, as easy as scoop install <app-name>, cool right? I've always struggled to get my galaxy integrations in the latest version, there's just so many!

Integrations Available in this Bucket

The list below contains only the integrations available in this scoop which were selected based on the GOG Galaxy's available platforms, if you are looking for more integrations to be manually installed or to be added to this bucket, check the full list at awesome-gog-galaxy.

Installation

Installing Scoop

Make sure PowerShell 5 (or later, include PowerShell Core) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed. Then run:

Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.scoop.sh')

# or shorter
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

Scoop will be installed by default on your user's home folder, likely on C:\Users\<username>\scoop\.

Installing Galaxy Integrations Scoop Bucket

To make it easy to install apps from this bucket, with scoop installed, run

scoop bucket add galaxy-integrations https://github.com/borger/scoop-galaxy-integrations.git

The bucket will be installed on C:\Users\<username>\scoop\buckets\galaxy-integrations\.

To find which apps are available to install (from all installed buckets), run

scoop search

Installing Galaxy Integrations from the Scoop Bucket

With the galaxy integrations scoop bucket installed and GOG Galaxy closed, run

scoop install <manifest-name>
# examples:
scoop install galaxy-steam
scoop install galaxy-uplay

The integrations will be installed on C:\Users\<username>\scoop\apps\<manifest-name>\current.

Notes on the Install Path

The integrations are installed in the scoop folder, to make it visible to GOG Galaxy, scoop will automatically create a Symbolic Link for you. It does require Administrator privilege, so if you're not already on an Administrator PowerShell session, scoop will ask you to elevate your permission via a Windows User Account Control pop-up. You can, however, opt to do it manually. To do so, make sure GOG Galaxy is closed, open a command prompt as Administrator and run

mklink /D "%localappdata%\GOG.com\Galaxy\plugins\installed\<manifest-name>" "%homepath%\scoop\apps\<manifest-name>\current\integration"

Make sure to change <manifest-name> with the actual names.

Updates

Updating Scoop

To update scoop itself, run

scoop update

Updating Galaxy Integrations from the Scoop Bucket

To update all the apps installed on your computer via Scoop, run

scoop update *

To update a specific galaxy integration via scoop, run

scoop update <manifest-name>
# examples:
scoop update galaxy-steam
scoop update galaxy-uplay

Automating Updates

If you're like me and don't want to remember commands, or even to update, you can very simply create a PowerShell script and perhaps even add it to Windows Task Scheduler, to run daily or in your preferred schedule. The script contents would just be:

scoop update
scoop update *

This bucket is immediately updated once the included integrations get a newer version.

Alternatives

• gog-galaxy-plugin-downloader by Slashbunny: If you don't want to use scoop to install/update your galaxy integrations, you can use this alternative method which has a compiled Windows Binary (.exe) to take care of your setup. It's based on python and if you want you can extend it easily to your liking.

Need Emulators?

I've also created a scoop bucket for emulators, visit https://github.com/borger/scoop-emulators for more details.

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to the Galaxy Integrations Scoop Bucket! You may propose new features or improvements of existing bucket behavior in the GitHub issue board. If you propose a new feature, please be willing to implement at least some of the code that would be needed to complete the feature.

Credits

• lukesampson for creating Scoop.
• Mixaill for creating & maintaining the awesome-gog-galaxy list of integrations.