I have installed Bitwarden through its AppImage, and added a .desktop file to run it easily (and also to use a themed icon). Unfortunately, each time an update comes out, I need to manually update the file since it points directly to the older version
is there anything that can be done about this? I know of AppImageLauncher but I don’t like it, I’d rather install the Flatpak for Bitwarden if that’s the only solution. Another possible approach would be to have a script continuously running in the background, checking if the file Exec points to still exists… but that imho is not very clean.
Do you have any insight?
If you’re taking a manual approach I would use a symlink:
$ ln -s /path/to/stuff/Bitwarden.1.0.7.appimage /path/to/stuff/Bitwarden.appimageThen you can hang on to a previous version just in case, plus you can see from the original filename what version you’re on.
Happy to hear if there are glaring problems with this approach, but if you can assume files named with version numbers, you can use a script to always launch the newest…
#!/bin/bash cd ~/Downloads chmod +x $(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -r | head -n 1) ./$(ls | grep Appname.*AppImage$ | sort -r | head -n 1)Or you could change the script to sort by file modified date and launch the newest.