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Command line examples for arch-update

Defaults (updated 2022-01)

• Check command : /usr/bin/checkupdates
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "sudo pacman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"

Gnome Console (42+) instead of Gnome Terminal

• Check command : /usr/bin/checkupdates
• Update command : kgx -e '/bin/sh -c "sudo pacman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read _" '

Ghostty (≥1.2)

• Update command : ghostty --initial-command="sudo pacman -Syyu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"

ddterm

• Update command : com.github.amezin.ddterm -- /bin/sh -c "sudo pacman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read _"

If you installed the extension from extensions.gnome.org, make sure to append ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ddterm@amezin.github.com/bin to your PATH environment variable. Or you may prepend the location to com.github.amezin.ddterm ... in the command.

Add AUR Support

pamac

• Check command : pamac checkupdates -aq
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "pamac-manager --updates"

paru

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/paru -Qua"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "paru; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"
• Update command (with terminator) : terminator -e 'paru; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read '

pacaur

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/pacaur -Qqu -a"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "pacaur -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"
• Update command (with terminator) : terminator -e 'pacaur -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read '

aurman

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/aurman -Qqu"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "aurman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"
• Update command (with terminator) : terminator -e 'aurman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read'

trizen

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/trizen -Qqu -a"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "trizen -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"
• Update command (with terminator) : terminator -e 'trizen -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read'

yay

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "(/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/yay -Qu --color never | sed 's/Get .*//') | sort -u -t' ' -k1,1"
• Update command for Gnome < 42 : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "yay ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"
• Update command for Gnome >= 42 : kgx -e '/bin/sh -c "yay ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"'

pikaur

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/pikaur -Qqua 2>/dev/null"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- sh -c "pikaur -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read"

aurutils

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/aur repo -d customrepo --upgrades"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -- bash -ic 'sudo pacman -Syu; aur repo -d customrepo --upgrades | awk '\''{print $1}'\'' | xargs -r aur sync -d customrepo --no-confirm; echo "Done - Press enter to exit"; read _'
• Check command to show updates only when a new kernel package (linux/linux-lts) update is available:

/bin/sh -c '
updates="$(
  /usr/bin/checkupdates
  /usr/bin/aur repo -d customrepo --upgrades
)"

grep -qE "^(linux|linux-lts) " <<< "$updates" &&
echo "$updates"
'

• Check command to show updates only when a new kernel and nvidia drivers are available:

/bin/sh -c '
updates="$(
  /usr/bin/checkupdates
  /usr/bin/aur repo -d customrepo --upgrades
)"

grep -qE "^linux(-(lts|zen|hardened))? " <<< "$updates" &&
grep -qE "^(nvidia(-(lts|dkms))?|nvidia-open(-(lts|dkms|beta))?) " <<< "$updates" &&
grep -q "^nvidia-utils " <<< "$updates" &&
echo "$updates"
'

Add Flatpak Support

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/flatpak remote-ls --columns=application -a --updates"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c "sudo pacman -Syu; flatpak update; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read" '

To auto refresh the flatpak check after an update an empty file with user permissions can be used in the pacman local directory path. I.e gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c "sudo pacman -Syu; flatpak update; touch /var/lib/pacman/local/flatpak-arch-update; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read" '

Support for other distros than Arch

Fedora / Redhat (DNF)

• Check update command - /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/dnf check-update --refresh -yq | tail -n +2 | grep -E 'x86_64|i686|noarch' | awk '{print $1}'"
• Update command - /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -e "sudo dnf upgrade"
• Open Package Manager - gnome-software --mode updates

Single command to load settings:

dconf load /org/gnome/shell/extensions/ << EOF
[arch-update]
check-cmd="/bin/bash -c \"/usr/bin/dnf check-update --refresh -yq | tail -n +2  | grep -E 'x86_64|i686|noarch' | awk '{print $1}' ; /usr/bin/flatpak remote-ls --columns=application -a --updates\""
package-manager='gnome-software --mode updates'
disable-parsing=true
pacman-dir=''
update-cmd='/usr/bin/gnome-terminal -e "sudo dnf upgrade ; /usr/bin/flatpak update; sleep 10" '
EOF

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To be completed (help wanted)