Linux update always picks .deb regardless distribution

[jotak]

Hi,

I'm using the tar/gz distribution (running on Fedora), and when a new version is available SimpleNote opens the .deb download link instead of the .tar.gz.

I dug a little and found this URL is called: https://app.simplenote.com/desktop/linux/version?compare=1.0.8 and provides the link https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/releases/download/v1.1.0/Simplenote-linux-1.1.0.deb in its response.

Could you have something like a user-agent check server-side to distinguish between debian-based distro and others? As far as I know there's mostly ubuntu, debian and mint that use .deb (if you keep just focus on the biggest). Most other won't, and the tar.gz distribution would work anyway on any linux.

PS: If you need the user-agent I have:
User-Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

[roundhill]

You're right, it's only designed to serve the .deb. Cool idea to do a user agent check, might be possible.

[samuelallan72]

How about https://app.simplenote.com/desktop/linux/version?compare=1.0.8&distro=ubuntu instead of checking useragents?

[mirka]

Our revamped updater (#869) for Linux will have a button that opens the GitHub latest release page, so Linux users can download their package of choice.