[BUG] Self-updating the AppImage downloads the .deb package?

[tredondo]

Bug Description

I was running the 0.7.2 AppImage (launched from /apps/Handy_0.6.10_amd64.appimage), and it said "Update available". I clicked that, Handy restarted, but it immediately closed.

So I downloaded the 0.7.5 amd64 appimage, launched it, it showed v0.7.5 and "Update available" again. I clicked that, Handy restarted, but it immediately closed.

Now if I launch the AppImage from the CLI, I get this:

$ Handy_0.7.5_amd64.appimage
/apps/Handy_0.7.5_amd64.appimage: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/apps/Handy_0.7.5_amd64.appimage: line 1: `!<arch>'

$ sha256sum /apps/Handy_*
a67f73c7f78674237a74ead1c49dbf2832a9e5f3276695346c546b11e6ba1166  /apps/Handy_0.6.10_amd64.appimage
a67f73c7f78674237a74ead1c49dbf2832a9e5f3276695346c546b11e6ba1166  /apps/Handy_0.7.5_amd64.appimage

What exactly is this executable? Its size is 20344988 bytes. Maybe a .deb package instead of the AppImage?

System Information

App Version:

0.7.2, 0.7.5

Operating System:

Ubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Graphics Platform: Wayland

CPU:

Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700H

GPU:

Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU
Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

[anand951]

for me it just totally disappeared. as if uninstalled. I can't find it.

[cjpais]

Thanks for the report, this might be a duplicate

It might be an upstream (Tauri) issue. But I really need Linux contributors to help test and fix.

[cjpais]

It's possible that the latest release fixes this, please let me know

[cjpais]

@anand951 @tredondo is this fixed in the latest release? Specifically you will need to try going from 0.7.9 to 0.7.10

[cjpais]

going to assume this is fixed, someone can tell me if its not

[tredondo]

I can confirm that I was able to successfully self-update from 0.7.6 to 0.8.2. Thanks for the fix!