diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index a13dcab..f2f3942 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,18 @@ import {
     MockRTCAdminPlugin
 } from 'mockrtc';
 
-import updateCommand from '@oclif/plugin-update/lib/commands/update';
+// Self-update is meaningless in a single self-contained binary: oclif's updater
+// rewrites files inside an oclif install directory that doesn't exist here. Worse,
+// importing it drags @oclif/plugin-update into the bundle, and that reads
+// @oclif/command/package.json from disk when it loads - a path that only exists on
+// the build machine, so the compiled binary dies at startup everywhere else.
+// Back off for 6 hours like the EEXIT branch below, so the UI stops re-asking.
+const updateCommand = {
+    run: (_channel: string[]): Promise<void> => {
+        console.log('Self-update is not supported in this build - download a new binary to update.');
+        return delay(1000 * 60 * 60 * 6, { unref: true });
+    }
+};
 
 import { HttpToolkitServerApi } from './api/api-server';
 import { checkBrowserConfig } from './browsers';