Automatic updates

On Mac and Linux, fman includes a mechanism for automatic updates. The way it works depends on your operating system.

On Mac, fman checks for updates when you start it. If a new version is available, fman downloads a small patch file (usually only a few hundred kilobytes in size) and applies it when you close fman. You can therefore force-update fman on Mac by starting it, waiting a minute for it to download the patch, and then closing it again. The next time you start fman, you should have the new version.

On Linux, fman is automatically updated by your system's package manager (provided you installed fman according to the instructions on the Download page).

To force an immediate update on Ubuntu:

sudo update-fman

... on Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -Syu --needed fman

... on Fedora:

sudo dnf upgrade fman --refresh

... on CentOS:

sudo sudo yum clean all && sudo yum upgrade fman

Disabling automatic updates

On Mac, you can disable automatic updates by creating a file called Updates.json in the Local/ subfolder of your data directory. It should have the following contents:

{"enabled": false}

(On Mac, auto-updates are automatically disabled when you bought a license without subscribing to updates. You don't have to follow the above steps.)

On Ubuntu, you can use the following command to disable automatic updates:

sudo apt-mark hold fman