How to check the state of the installation - on command line?

General system Newbie
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hello dear Community

how to check the state of the installation - on command line?
background: i did not use the notebook for weeks - and now i think i need to have a huge package to update - but the system only asked me to update the mirror.list

fancy - well.
can i check the whole system and get to know - whats the actual state - and weeather i do have to install anything or need to fetch updates!?

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checkupdates

will tell you exactly on what will be updated if you will run update.

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Something is wrong. In a typical day you will get many updates, and in a typical week there will be a serious amount of updates.

As mentioned above, checkupdates tells all updates that are available, without having to give any passwords.

And

sudo pacman -Syu

or

yay   # if you have AUR packages

is the proper way to start the update process.

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yay   # or if you don't have AUR packages, doesn't matter :D
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