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MCP server - update an existing install

To update your MCP server, follow the steps below for your operating system.

Important considerations

  • Your .env file does not need to be re-created.
    The binary finds it automatically. Only edit the .env file if release notes call out new variables.
  • Your AI client configuration does not need to change.
    The binary path remains unchanged, so your AI tool will use the new binary on next restart.
  • Quit your AI client before updating, then reopen it after. The running server holds the binary open — on Windows the MSI can't overwrite a locked .exe (the upgrade silently fails or defers to a reboot), and on Linux cp over a running binary fails with Text file busy.

Windows

To update your MCP Server on Windows:

  1. Close your AI client.
  2. Run the new MSI installer.
  3. Reopen your AI client.

macOS

To update your MCP Server on macOS:

  1. Close your AI client.

  2. Eject any previously-mounted Resilio disk images.

    • Finder
      In Finder, click the eject button next to each resilio-mcp-osx-… entry in the sidebar.

    • Terminal:
      In Terminal, run the following command:

      for v in /Volumes/resilio-mcp-osx-*; do hdiutil detach "$v" 2>/dev/null; done

    Important

    Every Resilio DMG mounts under the same volume name, so if a prior mount is still attached, the new one gets resilio-mcp-osx-arm64 1 (then 2, 3…) and the cp command below will silently pull the binary from a stale mount instead of the one you just opened.

  3. Download and open the new .dmg file.

  4. Overwrite the binary and clear quarantine:

    cp "/Volumes/resilio-mcp-osx-arm64/resilio-mcp-server" ~/resilio-mcp/
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/resilio-mcp/resilio-mcp-server

    Intel Macs

    On Intel Macs, swap osx-arm64 for osx-x64 in the first line.

  5. Reopen your AI client.

Linux

To update your MCP Server on Linux:

  1. Close your AI client.
  2. Download and extract the new .tar.gz.

  3. From inside the extracted folder, overwrite the binary:

    cp resilio-mcp-server ~/resilio-mcp/
chmod +x ~/resilio-mcp/resilio-mcp-server

  4. Reopen your AI client.