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Perhaps the major problem with portable apps is update them smoothly. Most portable apps lack of a good procedure to update them (maybe because many of them is not made to be portable).

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which portable apps are you talking about ? – Andrew Keith Dec 8 '09 at 0:56
All kinds. That's the problem :) Some of them have good auto-updater's and works fine without app had to be properly installed, but most ones was not made to works in that way. – bigown Dec 8 '09 at 3:51
portableapps.com will include an update mechanism in the 2.0 of their menu system. A fairly stable beta is already available. – oKtosiTe Dec 15 '10 at 1:34
@oKtosiTe: GTK, I will try it, thanks. – bigown Dec 29 '10 at 4:06
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Windows apps?

update-notifier

checks your installed applications, including any *.paf.exe portable applications, for updates against its server.

EDIT: As Molly pointed out, this .paf.exe updatability only applies to applications from those clever folk at portableapps.

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aren't *.paf.exe files just the self-extracting archives (installers) for applications from portableapps.com? then it would pull the latest version alright but that wouldn't automatically update the extracted portable application (which could be anywhere, maybe on a USB stick that is only temporarily connected) – Molly7244 Dec 8 '09 at 1:30
Yes, you're right. I've learned something today! – outsideblasts Dec 8 '09 at 1:45
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And the problem is not knows when a update is released, but update properly when the app is not installed in regular way. – bigown Dec 8 '09 at 3:55
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  • create a script with line for each app:

cd \folder_with\Apps

wget -c URL_to_Apps_site_with_download_path/app_to_get

and run it from time to time

you need wget installed

the only problem is some apps names include version number

  • the other option is to use some online service providing combined installers, but that cannot be automated

  • if you have an RSS reader for news, you can monitor the sites through that tool

  • you can also monitor RSS emissions on sourceforge to see when a new version is released

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