Enable update notifier

[John_Schrott]

Hi there,
I’m just new with endeavour os and have an question - how it is possible to enable an update notifier in the systray?
I found some information here:

[gelöst] Update Notifier in der Systemleiste

Vielen Dank an Alle, Ich habe diese Anleitung am Anfang befolgt und das Popup - das Updates vorhanden sind - funktioniert ja. Nur verschwindet es nach einer gewissen Zeit und wenn man es gerade übersieht oder so, ist es eben weg. Darum meine Frage ob es Tray-Icon dafür gibt. In den Einstellungen “für den Systemabschnitt Kontrollleiste” finde ich leider auch nichts.

But I don’t have the mentioned button in the welcome screen:

Also the file…
/etc/eos-update-notifier.conf
… is not findeable in my system.

I’m using the KDE-version. Could you please help me?
Thanks in advance.

[ddnn]

Rather than adding another app or extension, you could use a script instead.
. . .

@ddnn

What it does:

• Checks the Arch and AUR repos for updates using checkupdates && yay -Qua.
• If updates are available (there will be), a notification is sent using notify-send.
• If the user clicks it, it launches a terminal and begins the update.

The check is done every 6 hours, but you can change it to a frequency you prefer.

Note: It uses paru instead of yay to check AUR updates because yay doesn’t seem to have a command that does this without also attempting to update.

#!/bin/bash

# Function to check for updates and send notification
check_updates() {
    updates=$(checkupdates && yay -Qua)

    if [ -n "$updates" ]; then
        notify-send -t 60000 -a "System Updates" "Updates Available" "Click to update in your terminal" -A "Update"

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
            # Notification was clicked, launch alacritty and run pacman and yay
            alacritty -H -e "bash -c 'sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Sua; echo; read -p \"Press Enter to close this window...\"'"
        fi
    fi
}

# Main loop
while true; do
    check_updates
    sleep 6h
done

[John_Schrott]

Thank you very much, I installed it. Maybe it will fulfill my expectations.

[anon47347018]

script solution is better, ignore mine

i don’t give good solutions

[John_Schrott]

Thanks! Ok then I will also try this solution.

[sammiev]

Welcome to the forums @John_Schrott , to be honest I can’t remember how many days there wasn’t an Arch / Arch base OS without an update over all the years. The script above from @ddnn will do you well. I just always assume there’s going to be updates.

[John_Schrott]

Thanks!
Yes it’s no prio1-topic for sure, just nice to have. I used Manjaro before and there was a systray-icon included (but there were some other problems instead).

[1093i3511]

Another alternative might be the installation of OctoPi. As it includes a tray icon which will indicate visually if updates are available.

At least I’ve got it installed for that purpose primarily. Every once in a while it comes in handy to have an GUI to browse the installed packages. But for the most part I solely do updates via yay.

[MarkMcCoskey]

@John_Schrott

I used Manjaro before and there was a systray-icon included

Doesn’t Manjaro use Pamac? It has an update notifier in it. you can edit /etc/pamac.conf. This has been the predominant method I’ve used in the past, but no longer use the notifier.

[BluishHumility]

@John_Schrott

Also the file…
/etc/eos-update-notifier.conf
… is not findeable in my system.

eos-update-notifier is not installed by default anymore, but is still available in the repo. If you want to use it, you can install it with Pacman.

sudo pacman -S eos-update-notifier