Update easyBTX

The easiest one: easyBTX on Mac updates itself. It checks for new versions and installs them on its own. You can also force a check in Settings → Updates → Check for updates. Your wallet, payout address and settings stay exactly as they are.

For the standard Windows build, updating is a quick reinstall: download the latest installer from the home page and run it over your current install. It keeps your wallet, payout address and settings. That is the whole update.

This is the big one: from v0.9.7, easyBTX updates itself on Linux and WSL2 too, exactly like the Mac. It checks for new versions and installs them on its own - new mining engines included - so once you are on the self-updating build, there is nothing to run. You can force a check any time in Settings → Updates → Check for updates, and your wallet, payout address and settings always carry over. Every update is cryptographically signed and verified before it installs.

Switch to the self-updating build (one time)

Older installs used a .deb package - the easybtx command in /usr/bin. That build cannot update itself: a restart always reopens the old version, no matter how many times you click Update available. Move onto the self-updating AppImage to fix it for good. Open your Ubuntu (WSL2) window - or any Linux terminal - and paste this single line. It downloads the latest build, points the easybtx command at it, and launches:

wget -O ~/easyBTX.AppImage https://github.com/MendeMatthias/EasyBTX-releases/releases/download/v0.13.0/easyBTX_amd64.AppImage && chmod +x ~/easyBTX.AppImage && { grep -qxF "alias easybtx='~/easyBTX.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run'" ~/.bashrc || echo "alias easybtx='~/easyBTX.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run'" >> ~/.bashrc; } && ~/easyBTX.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run

After that first run you are done for good - easyBTX keeps itself current and you never paste an update command again. Open a fresh terminal (or run source ~/.bashrc), then just type easybtx to launch the always-latest build. If the window does not appear, run LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ~/easyBTX.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run instead.

Still opening an old version after a restart?

That is the tell-tale sign that the old .deb is still shadowing the command. The one-liner above fixes it - it points easybtx at the self-updating AppImage, so a fresh terminal always opens the latest build. For a fully clean state you can also remove the old package (optional - the alias already wins):

sudo apt remove -y easybtx

Early / test builds (optional)

Want new builds before they reach everyone? In Settings → Updates, turn on experimental builds. You'll get an Update available cue for pre-release versions - still signed and verified - that install with one click. Turn it off any time to go back to the stable channel.