Please read this section carefully. Installing Scoop can be pretty painless if you follow the instructions properly, but one missed step can cause much unhappiness later on.
Before you even start, make sure that you can
Many hosting companies don't allow this kind of control, but without it it's impossible to install Scoop. (Scoop is not a cgi script that you can just drop into your cgi-bin directory!) If you can't install Scoop, there are a few hosting companies that offer pre-installed Scoop sites for you, in which case you can skip this entire section and go straight to section 3.
Also, check section 2.7 for notes specific to your OS. Some have quirks that will cause no end of headaches if you don't read this section early. Any operating systems not listed in that section either work with the basic instructions given below, or have never been tried. In theory, Scoop should work on any OS that has a version of Apache/mod_perl available.