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[auto-updater]: autoUpdater.download() downloads _and_ installs update

See original GitHub issue

22.6.0

Electron Version: 8.2.0
Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

4.3.1

macOS

I’ve integrated with the auto updater events in electron-builder to build my own auto-update UI. I have separate steps for downloading and installing the update. Which I am performing by calling autoUpdater.downloadUpdate() and autoUpdate.quitAndInstall() respectively.

However, it appears that as soon as the update is done downloading after calling downloadUpdate the update is installed. Is it possible to change this behaviour on macOS?

I see that there is the autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit setting to turn this off, but it doesn’t support macOS.

Are there any alternatives here? How come I can’t disable this functionality on macOS?

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:16 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

UberMousecommented, May 22, 2020

Seconded. I manually applied your PR with patch-package so at least one other company is using it! I can confirm it’s been working without any problems for us.

1reaction

grecommented, Jan 1, 2021

YES

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