Scoop mostly doesn't run installers, the convention is to extract the files manually, put them in a specific directory, and symlink persistent files to a differ

Scoop mostly doesn't run installers, the convention is to extract the files manually, put them in a specific directory, and symlink persistent files to a different directory. Additional installation steps are either automated based on the declarative manifest (shortcuts, CLI shims), or are defined as powershell scripts in the manifest itself. There are some manifests that break it since they absolutely have to (like the VC++ Redist), but for most of the apps, Scoop actually acts a whole lot like a package manager.