"no write access to daemon binary"

[Boca]

Hi, I have tried deleting usr/bin/syncthing as mentioned in this post (Write access to binary for Syncthing GTK) but still have the error message.

The daemon advanced section shows the bin location to be /app/bin/syncthing but this doesn’t exist.

Rgds, Tony Daemon v1.1.3 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa

[AudriusButkevicius]

You should start by explaining what you are trying to do and what you’ve done so far.

[Boca]

Hi,

please see an expanded explanation

I am trying to ensure I am using teh latest Daemon. In UI settings _ Daemon, I ticked “Keep SyncThing Binary up to date”

I then received the error message “no-write-access-to-daemon-binary”

I found a previous post “https://forum.syncthing.net/t/write-access-to-binary-for-syncthing-gtk/5342/2” referencing this issue… which recommended deleting /usr/bin/syncthing.

When I deleted this, I still have the same error message.

I then checked UI settings – Advanced, which tells me that the Binary should be in /app/bin/syncthing… but it isn’t.

My question is…

how do I avoid the “no-write-access-to-daemon-binary” error so that I can keep the daemon up to date?

Best regards, Tony

[imsodin (Simon)]

How did you install Syncthing?

[Boca]

Hi, this was installed via Mint Software Manager and used Syncthing’s default settings.

Please see terminal info:-

tony@tony-Latitude-E6430:~$ apt policy syncthing

syncthing:

Installed: 0.14.43+ds1-6

Candidate: 0.14.43+ds1-6

Version table:

*** 0.14.43+ds1-6 500

    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Best regards, Tony

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[imsodin (Simon)]

If you want to use apt and have the newest Syncthing version, use https://apt.syncthing.net/ (system wide installation). If you want syncthing to handle update by itself, download the binary from github (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/latest) and place it e.g. in ~/.local/bin or wherever you want and have write access and point syncthing-gtk at that location. In that case do not manually delete /usr/bin/syncthing, use apt remove syncthing (that’s always true, not specific to this case).

[Boca]

Thanks Simon