About the SOPS's installation process on a Windows 10 machine

[ozanarifyavuz]

Hello Dear SOPS community,

First off, I want to thank all of you for this beautiful project, and greetings from Vienna! :)

I have started to work as student software engineer in a company, and I am a part of infrastructure team. My first task is to encrypt the keys in the files using SOPS, but I couldn't manage to download and install SOPS on my computer. I have tried to install sops-v3.7.3.exe file but it didn't work. In addition, my computer gave me error when I tried to download and install the other installation-related files, and they didn't work either.

Can you please help me with this?

Yours sincerely,
Ozan Arif Yavuz

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The suggested solution is: Download the SOPS binary for Windows and place it somewhere on your disk. Then, add the location of the binary to your PATH variable.

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[simkope]

Hi Ozan,
I had the same issue and after some trying I found out that scoop is pretty amazing for this:
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
scoop update
scoop install sops

I hope that you don't need that anymore, but hopefully it might help other help seekers.

[Pavel-Nova]

You can configure SOPS tool on Windows manually:

1. Download latest sops-v3.9.1.exe
2. Copy the tool to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Sops\v3.9.1 folder and rename to sops.exe
3. Open "Environment Variables" window and add C:\Program Files (x86)\Sops\v3.9.1 to the PATH variable
4. Open CMD and try: sops -v