Insomnia does not install

[coltonhurst]

Expected Behavior

I expected to download Insomnia, run the installer, and see Insomnia in my applications list.

Actual Behavior

I downloaded Insomnia, ran the installer, and did not see the app.

Reproduction Steps

On an M1 Mac:

1. Go to the latest releases for Insomnia here
2. Download inso-macos-latest-8.6.1.pkg under the 8.6.1 release here
3. Run the .pkg file and install Insomnia
4. Check the Applications folder, Insomnia is not present

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Additional Information

I attempted the installation, did not see the application after the installation completed, restarted my computer, and still did not see it. I re-downloaded the .pkg file, ran the installer again, and still did not see Insomnia.

I ran find / -type f -name '*insomnia*' 2>/dev/null in Terminal as an attempt to see if there were any installed Insomnia files. I have never installed Insomnia before. This is was the output:

/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/db/receipts/com.insomnia.inso.bom
/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/db/receipts/com.insomnia.inso.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.insomnia.inso.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.insomnia.inso.plist

What am I doing incorrectly?

Insomnia Version

8.6.1

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

Mac OS Sonoma 14.3.1

Installation method

Downloaded from the GitHub releases page

Last Known Working Insomnia version

I have never installed Insomnia before

[subnetmarco]

We are looking into this problem.

[subnetmarco]

@coltonhurst Hello, it seems like you may have downloaded the CLI. Can you try to download Insomnia proper at https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%408.6.1

Let me know!

[coltonhurst]

@subnetmarco oooooof, that was the mistake. Thanks for replying, total misread on my part! 🤦‍♂️ I can't believe I made this mistake 🫠

Any tips on what the CLI might have changed so I can undo it and then install Insomnia normally?

[subnetmarco]

The CLI program name is "inso", so if you search for that you should see where it installed it to.