1. Installation

Outline

• Download
• First-Time Setup
• Running Proteus

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Download

Download the latest copy of Proteus App Manager

wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aetherinox/proteus-app-manager/main/proteus.sh"

Once downloaded, set its permissions to be executable

sudo chmod +x proteus.sh

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First-Time Setup

Run the script

./proteus.sh

After you run Proteus App Manager the first time, the script will do some package installations and create an executable that you can access from anywhere via terminal.

The following files will be created:

📄 /etc/profile.d/proteus.sh
📄 /home/$USER/bin/proteus

Once you sign out and sign back in to your system, you'll be able to open terminal and launch Proteus App Manager from any directory by executing:

proteus

During the first time setup, the following will be performed:

• Install curl
• Install wget
• Install Yad (Yet-Another-Dialog)
• Install Proteus App Manager to /home/$USER/bin/proteus
• Add Proteus Apt GPG key to system keyring
• Add Proteus Apt Repository to system sources

If your system already has certain packages like wget installed, it will continue to the next.

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Running Proteus

When first downloading the proteus.sh script from this Github repo, run it using

./proteus.sh

Once the First-Time-Setup is complete and the proper bin files have been installed, you have the option in the future to either use the GUI interface where you can see a full list of packages available to install, or you can use the command-line.

You can also delete the proteus.sh script you first downloaded from github.

All future attempts to launch Proteus can be done from any directory. To launch the GUI interface:

proteus

To use the command-line for installing an app, you can use

proteus --install <appname>

e.g.:

proteus --install git --install wget
proteus -i git -i wget

View the Command-Line page for detailed examples of using the command-line.