Curious to hear from a few folks with stories of how long you’ve waited between applying updates via pacman (or your tool of choice)? I have to admit that I am a habitual update addict habitually running yay several times a day. However… I do have a spare laptop that typically sits on a shelf unles…

I want to bring up an example. . . As I am student, we receive vacations according to weathers. Suppose that if I went to my native village for about 20-30 days, then will it be troublesome for me if I try to update after returning back ?

I think some of the problem, at least in my understanding, has to do with people adding AUR packages to Manjaro and those AUR packages expect arch versions of packages instead of the older ones on Manjaro. That or maybe they held back package a that relied on a version of package b but package b is…

i didnt know about checkupdates. thanks! makes things easier (im quite new to the arch world)

Hmm, that sounds plausible. In any case, in the 1.5 years I’ve been using EOS, I’ve observed much greater stability. :+1:t2:

My prime partner, lovely by all means, but computer maintenance is’nt her thing. There has been two insances when she forgot to update for 3 - 4 weeks, and now lastly for five weeks. I don’t know if it was shear luck on her behalf as there were no major problems updating but, as fbodymechanic says,…

My recommendations. [image] A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade Newbie I’m a complete idiot - so here’s my guide for you! It has been asked a lot, and fairly frequently recently it seems, especially by new Endeavour/new to …

[image] pebcak: I did the updates by “hopps and jerks” Just thought I would point out that eos-shifttime makes the hops much easier on you! :grin: I use that on my mirror server all the time to stay 1 week behind current to allow time for fixes ‘just in case’ - but it also works great if some…

[image] CommanderKeen: i didnt know about checkupdates. Here’s a fancy version of the checkupdates functionality you can keep handy in your .bashrc file: [image] Post your handy utility scripts! Community contributions EndeavourOS, in common with other Arch-based d…

One thing you could do with the shelf machine is use command UpdateInTerminal which should automatically take care of updating the Arch keyring before other packages. But to enable that automatic feature, edit file /etc/eos-script-lib-yad.conf and set this value: EOS_UPDATE_ARCH_KEYRING_FIRST=…

About once a day occasionally I leave it a few days when my data is running low

How long between updates?

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anon63071375 May 20, 2022, 3:23pm 16

My recommendations.