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Optional Apps Reference

apps/ holds 15 optional desktop application installers, one script per app in apps/<category>/<name>.sh. They are not installed by the core bootstrap — run the picker explicitly.


The picker — apps/install.sh

Purpose: discover every app under apps/ and install/uninstall the selection. Apps are auto-discovered from the directory structure — no registration step.

Usage

bash apps/install.sh                     # interactive install selection
bash apps/install.sh --all               # install everything
bash apps/install.sh brave vscode        # install specific apps
bash apps/install.sh --uninstall         # interactive uninstall selection
bash apps/install.sh --uninstall --all   # uninstall everything
bash apps/install.sh --uninstall brave   # uninstall a specific app

(Also reachable via ./install.sh --apps / --full.)

How it works

  1. Parses --all, --uninstall, and positional app names.
  2. Scans apps/<category>/*.sh to build the catalog (skips non-app dirs).
  3. Picks apps three ways: named on the command line (unknown names are skipped with a warning), --all, or an interactive y/n picker grouped by category.
  4. Runs bash apps/<category>/<name>.sh [uninstall] for each selected app, with a progress header and an overall elapsed-time banner.

Configuration

  • Categories: browsers, development, media, networking, remote-access, system, utilities.
  • Adding an app = dropping apps/<category>/<name>.sh into the folder. See DEV.md for the required installer conventions.

How an app installer works

Every app script follows the same shape:

install_<name>() {}      # idempotent: checks command -v (or flatpak list) first
uninstall_<name>() {}    # also idempotent; purges and removes any added repos/keys
case "${1:-}" in
    uninstall) uninstall_<name> ;;
    *) install_<name> ;;
esac

Installation methods used across the catalog:

Method Example
apt package sudo apt install -y obs-studio
Official installer script curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
Custom apt repo (added at install, removed at uninstall) Brave, VS Code
.deb file curldpkg -iapt-get install -f -y
GitHub release archive scrcpy (tar.gz → /usr/local/lib/)
AppImage AFFiNE (/opt/affine + desktop entry)
Flatpak LocalSend (flatpak install -y flathub …)

App catalog

App Category What it is Install method
Brave browsers Brave browser apt repo + apt install brave-browser
opencode development AI coding agent official script → ~/.opencode/bin
VS Code development Code editor Microsoft apt repo + apt install code
OBS Studio media Screen recording / streaming apt install obs-studio
scrcpy media Android mirror/control GitHub release (latest) → /usr/local/lib/scrcpy-<v> + desktop entry
VLC media Media player apt install vlc
NetBird networking Mesh VPN official script; join with sudo netbird up --setup-key <key>
Tailscale networking WireGuard-based VPN official script; start with sudo tailscale up
ZeroTier networking Virtual LAN official script; join with sudo zerotier-cli join <id>
Termius remote-access SSH client .deb from termius.com
VNC Viewer remote-access VNC client (TigerVNC) apt install tigervnc-viewer
Docker Engine system Container runtime get.docker.com; adds user to docker group (re-login needed)
QEMU + KVM system Virtualization + virt-manager apt install (qemu-system, libvirt, bridge-utils, virt-manager); adds user to libvirt/kvm groups
AFFiNE utilities Knowledge base (AppImage) GitHub release → /opt/affine + desktop entry
btop utilities Resource monitor apt install btop
LocalSend utilities Local file sharing flatpak (installs flatpak + flathub if missing)
tsui utilities Tailscale config TUI (official install script from neuralink.com) curl | bash/usr/local/bin/tsui