[[!meta title="Getting the ProteanOS Development Kit"]] [[←_Back_to_Installing_ProteanOS|doc/install]] The [[ProteanOS_Development_Kit|dev/prokit]], or prokit, is a software package for installing, managing, and developing ProteanOS systems. prokit enables you to install a ProteanOS system, run a ProteanOS shell and other commands, manage software packages on an installed ProteanOS system, and build packages for ProteanOS. prokit requires gunzip, either sfdisk or fdisk, mke2fs, cpio, and xz from XZ Utils; the `configure` script should find these automatically if installed. prokit also requires OpenWrt's usign utility to verify archive signatures. An embedded copy of usign is included, building of which additionally requires CMake, a **make**(1) utility such as GNU Make, a C compiler such as GCC, and standard C library headers (`sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake` is sufficient on a Debian-based distribution such as Trisquel); or a system copy of usign can be used instead. To install and manage ProteanOS systems you need a host system running Linux 3.4 or later. The ProteanOS Development Kit uses the **chroot**(8) and **mount**(8) commands, which on Linux require superuser access. This guide assumes the use of **sudo**(8) for running commands with superuser privileges. Adjust where necessary if you don't use **sudo**(8). Downloading the ProteanOS Development Kit ========================================= Download a released version of prokit from the files site by [HTTP][prokit-http] or [FTP][prokit-ftp], e.g.: $ gpg --recv-keys 0x225031F047FFE51663ED516F1A459ECDE4D604BE $ # Find a signature path from your keyring to 0x1A459ECDE4D604BE $ wget http://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/2.0.0/prokit-2.0.0.tar.gz \ > http://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/2.0.0/prokit-2.0.0.tar.gz.asc $ gpg --verify prokit-2.0.0.tar.gz.asc prokit-2.0.0.tar.gz $ tar -xzf prokit-2.0.0.tar.gz $ cd prokit-2.0.0/ Or clone prokit from the [Git repository][prokit-git]: $ git clone git://git.proteanos.com/prokit/prokit.git $ cd prokit/ [prokit-http]: http://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/ [prokit-ftp]: ftp://files.proteanos.com/pub/prokit/ [prokit-git]: http://git.proteanos.com/prokit/prokit.git/ Building the ProteanOS Development Kit ====================================== Configure and build prokit: $ ./configure $ make Or, if you cloned the Git repository, run: $ ./autogen.sh $ make To build from the repository you'll need to have GNU Autoconf and Automake installed. Installing the ProteanOS Development Kit ======================================== It is recommended but not necessary that you install prokit to your system: $ sudo make install Check that the installation was successful: $ prokit version The ProteanOS Development Kit Manual ==================================== prokit comes with a manual, starting with the **prokit**(1) page: $ man prokit Or, if you didn't install prokit, you can find the manual by running: $ man man/prokit.1 The manual is also available from the [[prokit_homepage|dev/prokit]].