Automatic Updater not working for PM28.0.1

[greyowl]

I am running antiX linux 32 bit and PM 28.0.0.
I got a forum notice that PM for linux has been updated to 28.0.1
The automatic updater is not working.
If I have Preferences set for Check for Updates and I go to Help > About Palemoon and click Check for Updates, it check then says Palemoon is up to date.
If I set Preferences to Automatically Update and I go to Help > About Palemoon, it shows Checking for Updates, then says Palemoon is up to date.

BTW, I used Trava90's instructions below for originally installing PM28:
[ In order to allow the internal updater to work with v28 (while leaving Pale Moon in /opt), you can perform the following steps:
1. Extract the Pale Moon 28 tarball (once released) to /opt, overriding the existing version there.
2. Run the following command from the terminal: sudo chown -R "$USER:$USER" "/opt/palemoon" ]

Thanks for the help.

[Zinkum]

Same here, all I see is only the link to the Palemoon website.
Xubuntu 14.04, 64bit.

Palemoon "update"

[trava90]

@greyowl I am aware of the updater not working on 32-bit builds and am investigating.

@Zinkum I know the updater is working correctly with 64-bit builds (I updated Pale Moon x64 using the internal updater on three systems today). Did you extract Pale Moon to a user-writable location?

[stevenpusser]

antiX also maintains Pale Moon source builds in its own repository, if you're willing to wait a bit for anti to build them. They're actually based on my own MX Linux and the OBS builds. Let me drop anti a PM about the update.

[greyowl]

antiX also maintains Pale Moon source builds in its own repository, if you're willing to wait a bit for anti to build them. They're actually based on my own MX Linux and the OBS builds. Let me drop anti a PM about the update.

Thank you for the information.

[Zinkum]

@trava90
Hm, I am not sure what you're talking about... Isn't the built-in updater supposed to do the job?
If not, could you provide any instructions on how to use the updater please?
Thank you.

[trava90]

@Zinkum,

The internal updater can only do its job if Pale Moon is located in a user-writable location. How and where did you install Pale Moon?

[Zinkum]

@Zinkum,
The internal updater can only do its job if Pale Moon is located in a user-writable location. How and where did you install Pale Moon?

Ah, that's the thing... It's in /opt, as it has always been.
OK, looks like automatic updater is not really automatic and the terminal is one's best friend again...

[trava90]

Did you change ownership of /opt/palemoon as described in the first post?

[hoflaan]

It worked..... after changing ownership of /opt/palemoon! Thanks Trava90

[trava90]

@greyowl the internal updater should now be working for 32-bit also. Please try again and report back.

[greyowl]

@greyowl the internal updater should now be working for 32-bit also. Please try again and report back.

Yes, it now works.
I have preferences set for auto update. When I went to help > About PM, it said that there was an update so i clicked on the button and it updated.
I am wondering if it should have just updated automatically in the back ground without me going to About PM.

Thanks for fixing this and your help.

[Tomtiger]

Hi,

if someone is using uBlock origin it is necessary to allow palemoon.org for the updater to work.

HTH Tom