Better Update Script For DMS

[JDKamalakar]

Feature Description

Better Way To Update The DMS Automatic Installation as using current installation script dosent update to latest version automatically. Because Of That I Am Stuck On V0.4.3

There are Some Configs That Update Using Different Script For Update

Compositor

Is this feature specific to one compositor?

• [x] All compositors
• [x] niri
• [ ] Hyprland
• [ ] dwl (MangoWC)
• [ ] sway

Proposed Solution

A separate Script For Update

Alternatives/Existing Solutions

There are Some Configs That Update Using Different Script For Update, I'll Update It Here As Soon As I Remember Which Config It Was !!

[bbedward]

What's wrong with the update? Can you share your distribution here.

[JDKamalakar]

What's wrong with the update? Can you share your distribution here.

Unable to update DMS to latest 0.5.1 with install script. Fedora 43 KDE

[bbedward]

On fedora you should just install from copr and dnf upgrade, the install script installs from copr

[JDKamalakar]

On fedora you should just install from copr and dnf upgrade, the install script installs from copr

I tried dnf upgrade / dnf update but dms didn't Updated The DMS.

Also I Downloaded DMS Package (Tar.gz) for v0.5.1 & installed it maually but it still show 0.5.0.

[bbedward]

The package version is wrong, part of monorepo migration headaches. Will be correct on next rlease.

but you should pin yourself to the dnf version to make your life easier...there's no reason to otherwise on Fedora except for development.

dms kill
rm -r ~/.config/quickshell/dms
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/dms

sudo dnf copr enable avengemedia/dms
sudo dnf install dms
dms run -d

to upgrade

sudo dnf upgrade dms
# or just dnf upgrade

This is all covered in the docs: https://danklinux.com/docs/dankmaterialshell/installation#fedora--derivatives - including the manual installation if you don't want to install from copr for some reason

[JDKamalakar]

sudo dnf upgrade dms

See update command dosen't work as i mentioned previously

[Purian23]

sudo dnf upgrade dms was the very last command to run in that chain of events. bbedward stated to remove the local installer build and install directly from the Copr repo. This will ensure you're always up to date with the latest builds. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/avengemedia/dms-git/

[santhoshtr]

I installed 0.4.1 using curl -fsSL https://install.danklinux.com | sh method in Ubuntu 25.10. dms version shows 0.4.1, even after I ran dms update or dms and chose update options with every new releases.

[bbedward]

I installed 0.4.1 using curl -fsSL https://install.danklinux.com | sh method in Ubuntu 25.10. dms version shows 0.4.1, even after I ran dms update or dms and chose update options with every new releases.

For ubuntu (not fedora like OP), update the dms manually, then it will be good in the future (hopefully).

sudo sh -c "curl -L https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell/releases/latest/download/dms-cli-$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').gz | gunzip | tee /usr/local/bin/dms > /dev/null && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dms"

then

dms kill
dms update
dms run -d

[santhoshtr]

For ubuntu (not fedora like OP), update the dms manually, then it will be good in the future (hopefully).

Thanks. this helped. dms update is now better.