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atlassian / nucleus

A configurable and versatile update server for all your Electron apps
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[QUESTION] autoUpdate on Linux #33

Closed dikaso closed 6 years ago

dikaso commented 6 years ago

auto-updater clearly states that there is no built-in support for auto-updater on Linux.

But nucleus API has option to check for updates and fetch package not matter what is app environment?

Did you try to implement auto update on Linux? If not what would be correct path in implementing one?

MarshallOfSound commented 6 years ago

Nucleus doesn't exactly implement "auto updating" on linux, what we do is create both apt and yum repos that your users can install your packages from and get updates just like they would any other installed linux package.

E.g. On debian

# Follow repo set up commands from nucleus
sudo apt install my-package
sudo apt upgrade my-package

This means that linux users can use the package distribution, installation and updating mechanisms they use for everything else with your apps as well 👍