Arch Linux User Repository

The latest stable version is 4.2.153.0

Beta version has 5.x version, yes.

You can see here, choose stable and beta and look on link under button download: https://www.upwork.com/downloads

If upwork says something about 5.x and you use this stable version, it's strange, looks like you have changed channel on beta, how, I don't know, may be It's a stupid upwork client...

Try to remove ~/.Upwork directory, and next use only stable version.

When 5.x will be released and stable, the package will upgrade.

If you want use a beta version, you can adopt https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/upwork-beta and support it, BUT, if you will want back on stable, a necessary to clean out ~/.Upwork else don't ask why client still says about beta, because client is shitty :)

Isn't this too out-dated? Still on version 4.2?

@msheremet as far as I know, manjaro is based on Arch Linux. Nothing really different here from vanilla Arch Linux, just a little bit easier to install.

@impankratov

This package is for Arch linux, pure up-to-date Arch.

This package might not (and should not) work on any other Linux distribution.

@msheremet yes, I've tried to remove the Upwork folders and reinstalling, but kept getting the same version (which is continuously tries to update itself).

I'm on a relatively fresh manjaro installation. Maybe it's really something specific with my upwork account? I was using Upwork previously (Ubuntu 17.10) and I remember that apt-get was installing 5.x version too.

Anyway I hope my PKGBUILD could be helpful to someone.

@impankratov

Where in the app can I see the 'beta' label?

There is no label in the app itself. You can use the command from the pinned comment.

it kept trying to update itself

Hmm... interesting. I haven't seen this behaviour for years. Neither can I reproduce it now. Is your whole system up-to-date? Please try to uninstall upwork package, remove your .Upwork directory, run pacman -Syu to upgrade the system and finally install upwork package again.

I don't think that app would just try to update from stable to a beta-version.

Oh, beleive me, that app is full of bugs and it can do much more weird things.

@msheremet sorry for that. Where in the app can I see the 'beta' label? I've used 4.2.153.0 for a few weeks and it kept trying to update itself (surely it kept failing to install *.deb file by itself) thus really preventing me from using it to track time normally.

5.* version doesn't have any notion of "beta" in the "about" popup, plus I don't think that app would just try to update from stable to a beta-version.

That's why I've flagged it.

@impankratov please read the pinned comment carefully. This AUR package follows upstream PROD (Standard) version. If you need BETA you can revive upwork-beta.

I've adjusted PKGBUILD to install the 5.0.1.404 version:

https://gist.github.com/impankratov/ce5fa1179fab992bcd1edc99f453eec8