Installation Steps for Admin Profile (with sudo access)

Step 1: Download the Workstatus Linux App package and place it in a directory of your choice.

• For Ubuntu 22 : Download Ubuntu 22 App
• For Ubuntu 24 : Download Ubuntu 24 App

Step 2: Create User Token File

In the same directory where the app is downloaded, Open Terminal & create a user_token_file.txt using the following command:

touch user_token_file.txt

Step 3:

Go to the Workstatus Web App and navigate to People > Employees > Member. Then click on the three dots, select Copy Stealth Token

Now paste this token into the user_token_file.txt file created in Step 2.

Step 4:

Open the terminal from the same directory where the files are located, and execute the commands below in sequence:

• chmod +x Workstatus
• nohup ./Workstatus >/dev/null 2>&1 &
• cd
• cd Workstatus/
• sudo apt install -y tesseract-ocr scrot xdotool x11-utils || echo "[WARN] Failed to install some system dependencies."
• source setup.sh
• sudo -u "{{username}}" bash -c "source /home/{{username}}/.profile"

Please Refer following installation video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HyDAm3NnxapdRO6XbK4FO6nRynSs8QQA/view?usp=drive_link

Step 5: To Verify app is running successfully

Open System monitor, There will instances of Workstatus running.

Note : if in system monitor there is no instance seen running. Please follow below steps to launch :

• Check token file has token in it and have permissions to access.

• Go to installation directory >> right click on Workstatus and choose Open with App Center

• Open System monitor, There will instances of Workstatus running.

• Desktop application will run if Timezone of both User's PC and Workstatus Web is same.

Updated on: 05/09/2025