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kitten self-update fails with: Error: This is not a standalone kitten executable. You must update all of kitty instead. #9642

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Describe the bug

Standalone kitten fails with update-self, claiming itself not standalone.

To Reproduce

On a server with no full kitty installed:

$ curl -fSL "https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/latest/download/kitten-linux-amd64" -o ~/.local/bin/kitten                                     
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 23.6M  100 23.6M    0     0  41.5M      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 41.5M
$ ~/.local/bin/kitten update-self                                                                                                                           
Error: This is not a standalone kitten executable. You must update all of kitty instead.

Environment details

$ ~/.local/bin/kitten --version                                                                                                                             
kitten 0.46.0 created by Kovid Goyal

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