Updating and uninstalling

Updating Starbase

Note

Automatic updates come with the Windows installer. Until then, updating is by hand.

1. Make a backup first: Engineering → Starbase → Backups → Back up now.
2. Replace Starfarer's files with the new version's, keeping your data\ folder (or git pull if you run it from git).
3. If the release notes say packages changed, run install.bat (or ./install.sh) again.
4. Restart Starbase: Restart Starbase at the top right of Engineering, or close the start.bat window and run it again.

Open Bridge pages pick up the new version by themselves; if one says Starbase is still running older code, Starbase hasn't restarted yet. Anything that moved from code into your household's own settings is listed in the changelog.

Updating devices

Devices get their updates from Starbase. In the Shuttlebay, Update lights up on a device that's behind (and is greyed out when it isn't); Update all does every one. A device updates only when the Captain or First Officer asks; its status shows while it does.

Uninstalling a device

Shuttlebay → the device → More → Uninstall takes the Satellite program off it remotely: it stops and removes itself, and Starbase forgets it. On the device itself, uninstall it like any program: on Windows it's Starfarer Satellite, Starfarer Shuttle or Starfarer Starship in Settings → Apps; that also removes its Start menu item and desktop icon.

Uninstalling Starbase

1. Stop it (close the start.bat window, or stop its service).
2. Keep a copy of the data\ folder (or a backup) if you might come back: it's everything that's yours.
3. Delete Starfarer's folder.
4. Optionally remove the AI's models from Ollama: starfarer-base and the persona models (celestra-core, nova-core, lumina-core, computer-core, with :lite or :ultralite for the smaller sizes), with ollama rm <name>.