I think I know what it is. I looked at main.rs to see how the launcher gets the version and found it calls “pip show aqt”.
- I ran the command from the command line and it said the package wasn’t found.
- I ran which pip and saw it was the pip from my personal venv, which in in the first directory of my PATH environment variable.
- I took my venv out of the PATH and then zsh used /usr/local/bin/pip. It still didn’t find aqt, because Anki has it’s own venv.
- I activated the venv with ~/Library/Application\ Support/AnkiProgramFiles/.venv/bin/activate and then pip showed aqt:
$ pip show aqt
[NORMAL]
Name: aqt
Version: 25.8b2
Summary:
Home-page:
Author:
Author-email:
License-Expression: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Location: /Users/beirne/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages
Requires: anki, anki-mac-helper, beautifulsoup4, flask, flask-cors, jsonschema, pip-system-certs, pyqt6, pyqt6-webengine, requests, send2trash, waitress
Required-by: anki-release
I then ran the launcher from the command line since I have a clean environment but it still does not show the current version. Now I wish I was on Linux and had a proc file system to show me what variables the launcher had.