In the next days I’ll install EOS and I’ve been reading a lot to avoid issues; I know I should update it from time to time and this is what I understood: Time between updates can’t be too long, you can’t leave your system 3 months without maintenance From terminal, execute pacman -Syu at least onc…

Generally, it is okay to update once a week. Some users update daily (like myself), others update every other week or maybe a little less infrequent. There will be updates available daily; Arch is a very active distro and since Arch is a rolling distro, the philosophy is to always be current and up …

Maintenance from the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance I’ve been meaning to do a post/cheat sheet for EOS users on my updating/system maintenance habits to run through the whole gambit. This question comes up enough it couldn’t hurt. Other tips: check the forum if it…

Thanks everybody for your great advices. [image] Stagger_Lee: Issuing yay will update both the repo packages and the AUR packages (it is the same as running pacman -Syu, followed by yay -Sua to update AUR packages). [image] dalto: There is really no need to run pacman and yay separately …

[image] Scotty_Trees: I will add, if you update daily, your updates will be smaller in download size. If you update weekly or every other week, the updates will be a lot bigger in download size, so it’ll be more to download and install the longer you wait. It’s not an issue at all, but just some…

[image] Triby: Yes, I’m aware of this. My laptop is 7 years old and it takes some time to compile AUR packages; that’s why I want to use yay only once a month, If you update your AUR packages infrequently that means it is going to take longer because there will be more updates. Updating more…

Also - you can base your update decisions on how many are waiting… This is one of the reasons that I keep the main system updating to pacman -Syu, and do yay (AUR only) updates only when I have the time! yay -Qua will tell you what’s waiting in the AUR column (if you don’t already know from the noti…

[image] Pudge: Hope that made sense. Yes, sir, totally makes sense. [image] dalto: You might also check to see if any of the packages that take a long time to compile have *-bin versions available. Time saver! Cool! [image] freebird54: do yay (AUR only) updates only when I have …

run update in terminal daily after you boot up. Its like brushing your teeth. Once in a while also do sudo pacman -Syyu

[image] Skynet: sudo pacman -Syyu Keep your mirrors in good condition so simple -Syu is enough. If you want to read more, pacman -Syyu… I understand the what not the why…

one to add: On rolling releases, you need to do a system update also before installing new packages everytime. It can be that if the package does not have any dependencies that need an update… but checking this will take you more time :wink:

One way to check on update pending is to run checkupdates in a terminal - it provides a listing of what;s waiting in the queue for pacman. Or here are a couple of bash functions (copy them into your .bashrc) that give you update information with some style! (:grin:) ▶ update info functions

How to keep EOS updated?

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anon63071375 March 19, 2022, 8:03pm 20

This is one of many threads that lead me to create this today.

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