Waveboxapp: Wavebox prompting to update snap, but there is no update

[sztomi]

• Wavebox Version: 4.10.1
• Operating System & Version: Ubuntu 19.04
• (Linux only) Install method: snap

Expected & actual behavior
When I start Wavebox, I get a popup letting me know that there is an update and that I should run sudo snap refresh wavebox. Yet, when I do that, snap tells me snap "wavebox" has no updates available.

I would expect not to see any update prompts since snaps are self-updating (unless there is a critical security patch I'd need to apply right away, outside the time when snapd updates the snaps)

Steps to reproduce
Start wavebox.

Is the bug persistent or intermittent?
This seems to happen every time I start Wavebox.

Screenshots

Additional information
I think maybe there is actually an update but it did not hit the snap store yet?

[Thomas101]

This can happen on Linux if you change the update channel in settings, but not change update channel of the snap repo. (The app is unable to do this automatically).

There are two things you can do

1. Go back to stable, by going to Settings > Update and changing the update channel to stable
2. Go to beta by running sudo snap refresh wavebox --channel=beta from the command line.

There's some more info here https://wavebox.io/kb/beta-channel

[sztomi]

Oh, this was a new installation, but apparently this setting was synchronized from my profile? I switched to the beta on another machine some time ago.

[Thomas101]

Ah it could be that! We should look at stripping this setting on Linux as we can't action it automatically :)

[sztomi]

I think the beta flag should not be synced at all - as a user of many operating systems, I would prefer to only install a beta version on one of the platforms (if I have a problem that's resolved in Beta).

[mike-zipit]

I'm having a similar problem in Ubuntu 18.04 using the beta deb repo. Wavebox prompts me to update each time it starts, but no update is available.

[Thomas101]

@mike-zipit which version of Wavebox are you using and what's your update channel set to under Settings > Updates?

[mike-zipit]

I had the channel set to beta in settings, but I switched it to stable to see if that stops this issue

[Thomas101]

4.10.5 is the most recent stable version. The beta channel is currently on 4.10.6. I suspect you haven't changed the update channel in your apt repository as per https://wavebox.io/kb/beta-channel

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Linux: Installed via apt repository

1. Add the archive Key sudo wget -qO - https://wavebox.io/dl/client/repo_beta/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
2. Edit your sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wavebox.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/repo.list depending where you set the source
   2.a Remove the previous Wavebox repository
   2.b Add deb https://wavebox.io/dl/client/repo_beta/ x86_64/ for 64-bit installs
3. Update apt and install sudo apt update && sudo apt install wavebox

[mike-zipit]

:+1: Yep, you were right. I was using /repo instead. Sorry for the confusion