Clicking update does not update

[oscarmeisal]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Clicking Install when a new update is available only close the window and nothing happens. In other words, I am totally unable to update.

Steps to Reproduce

Install cursor like so:

oscar@oscar-workstation:~$ ls /opt/cursor/ -l
total 189948
-rwxrwxr-x 1 oscar oscar 194487488 Sep 11 08:56 cursor.AppImage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oscar oscar      8910 Aug 25 14:16 cursor-icon.png

With a desktop application defined:

oscar@oscar-workstation:~$ cat /usr/share/applications/cursor.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Cursor
Exec=/opt/cursor/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox
Icon=/opt/cursor/cursor-icon.png
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

And a convenience function in bashrc:

function cursor() {
    /opt/cursor/cursor.AppImage --no-sandbox "${@}" > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown
}

Open cursor, click check for updates and click install now.

Expected Behavior

Clicking Install now should update the application

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.11
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 2f2737de9aa376933d975ae30290447c910fdf40
Date: 2025-09-05T03:48:32.332Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.14.0-33-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[condor]

hi @oscarmeisal we made improvements in 1.6 and 1.7. Could you download latest from Download · Cursor?

[oscarmeisal]

I’ll do that. But I won’t know if this works until another update is released.

[condor]

We do release updates regularly. 1.7.39 is out on Early Access release channel which gets more frequent updates but may be less stable than Default release channel. As I was typing this my Cursor downloaded 1.7.40 as well. Default does get less frequent updates as some prefer less changes.

You can change the release channel in Settings > Beta > Update Access.

If you want to go back from Early Access to Default you can change back and it will update on next Default channel update.