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I am looking for an easy and pythonic way to make update my python app on the users machines. Currently the app is hostet in github and I have release versions, but it would be cool if my users would be able to click a button or run a command and if there is a new version - install.

About an app: It's a python GUI app built on customtkinter. I can either add a button to trigger the action or have a python script to do this.

So far I tried googling, but I did not find any straghitforward solution for this

Ilya Chernyakov
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  • I think what you're looking for is probably to upload your app to pypi (https://pypi.org/), and then the users can update to a new version with pip (`pip install --upgrade `) – Plonetheus Mar 03 '23 at 17:56

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One way to achieve this is to use package manager like pip on your Python app.

To use pip for your app, you can create a setup.py file that specifies the dependencies and metadata for your app. You can also include a version number in the setup.py file. When you make changes to your app, you can update the version number and create a new release on GitHub.

To install or upgrade your app, your users can run the following command:

pip install --upgrade <package-name>

Where <package-name> is the name of your app package. You can also create a script that automatically checks for updates and runs this command.

Jan
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