Protonup-rs

Lib, CLI and GUI(wip) program to automate the installation and update of Linux Gaming Compatibility tools, like ProtonGE, Luxtorpeda, Boxtron and others.

NOTE: This has no relations with the original ProtonUp project, and I thankful for the original author.

I've create it because the original project had a few issues with its Python dependencies (that most likely got fixed already). I wanted to to re-create it in rust, in a way it could be used as a lib and a CLI.

Currently supported tools

These are the tools that are currently supported by this project.

Project Name	GitHub Repository
GEProton	GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
WineGE	GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom
Luxtorpeda	luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda
Boxtron	dreamer/boxtron
VKD3D-Proton	HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton
Lutris-VKD3D	lutris/vkd3d
DXVK	doitsujin/dxvk
Kron4ek Wine	kron4ek/Wine-Builds

Adding new tools should be a simple process, check the docs section below!

Usage

The default way is to simply invoke the cli, and navigate the text interface.

protonup-rs

To run a quick update and get the latest GE Proton version without navigating the TUI, you can use the quick flag:

Usage: protonup-rs [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -q, --quick-download  Skip Menu, auto detect apps and download using default parameters
  -h, --help            Print help

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Installing

Clickable download (Steam Deck Friendly)

• download .desktop file
• run it
• open a new terminal window to run protonup-rs

Click Here to Download installer

NOTE: This will download a simple ".desktop" file that will download the pre-compiled binary from release, decompress it, place it in "$HOME/.local/bin/", and add this folder to your PATH.

In one line

Does the same as the installer above, but from the command line

sh -c 'if curl -S -s -L -O --output-dir /tmp/ --connect-timeout 60 https://github.com/auyer/Protonup-rs/releases/latest/download/protonup-rs-linux-amd64.tar.gz ; then tar -xvzf /tmp/protonup-rs-linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /tmp/ && mv /tmp/protonup-rs ${HOME}/.local/bin/ && [[ "$SHELL" == *"bash"* ]] && [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/bash" ] && echo "export PATH=\"$PATH:${HOME}/.local/bin\"" >> ${HOME}/.bashrc || ([ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ] && echo "export PATH=\"$PATH:${HOME}/.local/bin\"" >> ${HOME}/.zshrc ) && rm /tmp/protonup-rs-linux-amd64.tar.gz; else echo "Something went wrong, please report this if it is a bug"; read; fi'

This assumes /usr/bin is in your path. You may change this to any other location (in your path echo $PATH).

Or manually

Get the latest binary: Download link

It is a single binary. You can just run it, or add it to your path so you can call it from anywhere.

Quick way to add it to your path: or download the zip from the releases page

cd Downloads
sudo unzip protonup-rs-linux-amd64.zip -d /usr/bin

Building from source

You can install from source using the last released version in Crates.io:

cargo install protonup-rs

Or clone repo:

cd protonup-rs
cargo build -p protonup-rs --release
mv ./target/release/protonup-rs "your path"

Docs

Code docs available in the docs/docs.md file, and default generated docs in docs.rs/libprotonup.

Roadmap

1. GUI: Not ready for usage. I made a few experiments with different libs, and decided to use the iced/cosmic framework. I left the base structure, and hope to get to it someday or to receive contributions.

Feedbacks & Contributing

This project accepts contributions and feedbacks from anyone. For feedbacks, please use GitHub Issues or Discussions. Please be polite (code-of-conduct).

For contributions, there aren't many rules. Just try to justify your changes, and try to make the pull request easy to review. Is is very recommended to add tests, specially for complex code. Thanks!

Roles and Maintainers

This project is maintained only by the creator @auyer

Maintaining this project does not take a lot of effort. The project is open to having other contributors, specially if implementing a GUI.