Merge pull request #333 from zulip/appimage-autoupdates

Add AppImage autoupdates fixes #333

Author: akashnimare

app/main/autoupdater.js

@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ const isDev = require('electron-is-dev');
 const ConfigUtil = require('./../renderer/js/utils/config-util.js');
 
 function appUpdater() {
-	// Don't initiate auto-updates in development and on Linux system
-	// since autoUpdater doesn't work on Linux
-	if (isDev || process.platform === 'linux') {
+	// Don't initiate auto-updates in development
+	if (isDev) {
 		return;
 	}
 

app/package.json

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "electron-localshortcut": "2.0.2",
     "electron-log": "2.2.7",
     "electron-spellchecker": "1.1.2",
-    "electron-updater": "2.8.9",
+    "electron-updater": "2.16.2",
     "node-json-db": "0.7.3",
     "request": "2.81.0",
     "wurl": "2.5.0",

package.json

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "assert": "1.4.1",
     "devtron": "1.4.0",
-    "electron-builder": "19.29.1",
+    "electron-builder": "19.45.5",
     "electron": "1.6.14",
     "electron-connect": "0.6.2",
     "gulp": "3.9.1",