UpdateProton

A simple shell script that checks for and installs the latest version of GE-Proton.

Note: Due to the renaming of the Upstream project from Proton-x.xx-GE to GE-Proton, the query of the installed versions is not performed correctly.

It is recommended to delete all Proton-GE versions prior GE-Proton7 for the script to work as expected.

Features

• Check for latest versions of GE-Proton
• Interactive usage
• Checksum verification
• Delete all old installed versions, if desired
• link to release notes
• POSIX shell compliant
• Should run on all major GNU/Linux Distributions (tested with Fedora and Debian)
• ~Display download size~ temporarily not available

Usage

1. Download the latest version of the script from the release page. You can also download the latest version from the main branch. This version may be under active development and may contain bugs or be non-functional.

2. Place this script in any user directory and run

./updateproton.sh (with execute rights), or

sh updateproton.sh in your terminal

Dependencies

The script aims to use only native GNU tools, therefore it should work out of the box on any modern GNU/Linux machine. It is also POSIX shell compliant.

• curl
• tar
• GNU coreutils

Planned Features

Sorted by priority

Support for the Steam Flatpak

At this time, Steam is only supported as a distro package (~/.steam must be present). I would like to support the flatpak version of Steam in the future.

Steam restart support

At the end of the script, the user is alerted to restart Steam. It should be possible to restart Steam automatically.

Create non-user version for systemd unit

I plan to create a version of this script that the user does not interact with directly, but which can be used as a systemd unit. This will be a separate file, since a lot of code that is currently used mainly for user queries is not needed.

GE-Proton

GitHub Page: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom