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I am using upwork app v5.0 and have problem of the app keep trying to update itself to v5.1, so I came here and found out you have downgraded the app to v4.2. I have uninstalled the v5.0 and reinstalled the v4.2, and the app is still trying to update itself to v5.1.

I don't think you should downgrade to v4.2, if you check the upowork app download page for linux: https://www.upwork.com/downloads?source=Footer, both stable and beta version link are v5.1, it's probably intentional from upwork dev that the linux version doesn't have separation of stable and beta version thus why the auto-update is always triggered on any versions.

For a workaround, I have used impankratov's pkgbuild script and adjusted it to v5.1: https://pastebin.com/r3MfbErZ

I hope you can revert your decision, I don't think we need upwork-beta for above reason. If you want to keep your decision, I hope you could update the upwork beta package to v5.1, because this persistent auto-update issue is very annoying.

@regeya upwork-beta AUR package is orphan at the moment. So anyone can pick it up and maintain.

I haven't tried the current stable version on Ubuntu Xenial, partially because the stable version won't install. Apparently Ubuntu doesn't ship gksu anymore but Upwork still depends on it.

I went into the PKGBUILD and changed a few things to install 5.1.0.488. I don't know if this breaks any dependencies; it's solely on a "worksforme" basis at this point. The current beta breaks their URL convention–the rawver is transposed once–so that's why I hard coded it in the url. Also apparently .deb files use .xz instead of .gz now.

If I knew how to create and submit an up-to-date upwork-beta, I surely would.

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.