quxup
January 10, 2024, 3:18pm
1
Hello!
Is it needed to do anything else besides “sudo pacman -Syu” on a regular basis for your system to remain healthy? Perhaps there are some other commands I should run or need to install some apps for keeping the system working?
Thank you in advance
xircon
January 10, 2024, 3:30pm
3
Yay if you have installed AUR packages.
paccache to keep the cache manageable sudo paccache -rk3
will leave the 3 most recent versions of packages in your cache.
Backups. Can never have too many of them.
localepurge to remove unwanted languages (surprisingly large amount of disk space freed up)
That is off the top of my head, if I think of anything else…
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quxup
January 10, 2024, 3:46pm
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Hey. Thank you! Your post was very helpful.
I have a few AUR packages installed. What should I do with yay? That’s the only part of your post that confuses me a bit
xircon
January 10, 2024, 4:37pm
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yay <press enter>
that is all you need, does everything inc pacman repos.
Also - off top of head - so check:
sudo paccache -ruk0
Gets rid of all packages that are no longer installed, stuff installed, then uninstalled leaves packages in the cache, which can build up.
Edit paccache commands are lower case r not R
manuel
January 10, 2024, 7:12pm
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In addition to the great advice above, I’d use command
eos-update --yay
instead of plain
yay
because eos-update can handle some problematic cases that plain yay does not. Otherwise they do about the same thing.
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