How to Set Up Goose on Windows 🦢

Goose 🦢 AI is a powerful, AI-driven tool designed to assist developers with programming and operational tasks. Setting it up on Windows is can might not be a straightforward process. In this blog, I will walk you through a step-by-step process to get your Goose AI running on your Window machines in VIsual Studio Code (VS code). This basically involves installing pipx, configuring your environment, and running the Goose AI agent.

pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. It's roughly similar to macOS's brew, JavaScript's

Step 1: Install Python

Goose AI requires Python to run. If Python isn’t already installed on your system:

1. Download the latest Python version from the
   


2. scoop install pipx


3. pipx ensurepath








Install via Scoop






To install pipx on Windows using Scoop and set up your environment, follow these steps.





Install Scoop





If you don't have Scoop installed already, do this first:






• Open PowerShell as an administrator.






Run the following command to install Scoop:








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 iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex









This command downloads and installs Scoop, a package manager for Windows.





Close and reopen PowerShell to refresh the environment.








Install pipx Using Scoop






Now that Scoop is installed, you can install pipx.






• In PowerShell, run:
  







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  scoop install pipx










• Wait for the installation to complete. Scoop will handle downloading and installing pipx
  









Ensure pipx is in Your PATH






After installation, you need to ensure pipx is in your system PATH so you can use it from any directory:






• Run the following command to add pipx to your PATH:
  







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pipx ensurepath










• Close and reopen PowerShell to apply the changes.









Verify the Installation







• To confirm that pipx is set up correctly, run:
  







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pipx --version









If you see the version number, pipx is successfully installed and ready to use.








If the aforementioned steps don't work for you, still stay with me. Because it didn't work on my end as well. Let's try another way around it. I hope you are still following me. Relax, don't be frustrated. I got you on this, I mean it! 😃











Option Two









Step 2: Manually Download and Run the Scoop Script






If PowerShell 7 isn't resolving the issue, you can try manually downloading the installation script outside of PowerShell:






• Open a web browser and go to this
  
  
  

  This particular option works on my Dell window PC

  
  
  
  
  

  Now that we have pipx installed, we can now install goose-ai by running the following command in your PowerShell terminal:
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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  pipx install goose-ai
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  It seems the installation is now in my PATH!

  
  
  

  The next thing is to test goose-ai

  
  
  

  
  
  
  Test goose-ai
  

  
  
  

  After verifying your PATH, try running goose --help
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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  goose --help
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Well done!

  
  
  
  
  

  Thanks for reading!

  
  
  

  If you want to get started with goose-ai,

  
  
  

  Checkout my post on how to use goose-ai as a GitHub action

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