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EndeavourOS, in common with other Arch-based distros, nearly always has updates awaiting - which means a notifier isn’t as useful as it might be for some. For others, they don’t like the ‘attention-getting’ that a notifier specializes in. Sometimes you want to know more about the pending updates, though, and you usually want to know NOW!.

I had these scripts (actually implemented at the moment as bash functions) for a while, but they have been upgraded a bit lately (with some expert help).

Basically, on demand (that means when you call their name from a terminal :grin:) you will get either a full count on what’s waiting (repos and AUR) with upcnt - or you get a formatted list of all awaiting updates, both repo and AUR. You also get a bonus with upls - it will tell you if theses updates are likely to require a reboot! This can be useful in deciding whether to update NOW, or at the end of your session…

Here they are:

upcnt 
# Function to count available updates

upcnt() {
# create vars
NEWPKG=0
NEWAUR=0

# count AUR and pacman updates
NEWAUR=`yay -Qua | wc -l`
NEWPKG=`checkupdates | wc -l`

# output RESULT
if [[ ${NEWPKG} == 0 && ${NEWAUR} == 0 ]]; then
	RESULT="System up-to-date"
else
	RESULT=$NEWPKG" Repo pkgs + "$NEWAUR" AUR pkgs need updating"
fi
echo $RESULT
}
upls 
# Function to display listing of available updates
# will also let you know if a reboot is likely to be needed

upls() {
    local updatesAUR=$(yay -Qua)
    local updates=$(checkupdates)

    # output RESULT
    if [ -n "$updates" ] || [ -n "$updatesAUR" ]; then
		echo "Repo packages"
		echo "-------------"
		{
		     echo "$updates"
		} | column -t -N Name,Current,"->",New
        echo " "
        if [ -n "$updatesAUR" ]; then
            echo " "
            echo "AUR Packages"
            echo "------------"
            {
                echo "$updatesAUR"
            } | column -t -N Name,Current,"->",New
        fi

 	#check for core system packages
	RUN_KERNEL=$(cat /proc/version | sed 's|.*(\([^@]*\)@archlinux).*|\1|')
	CHKLINE="amd-ucode\|intel-ucode\|btrfs-progs\|cryptsetup\|nvidia*\|mesa\|systemd*\|*wayland*\|xf86-video-*\|xorg-server*\|xorg-fonts*"
	CHKLINE+="\|""${RUN_KERNEL}"

	echo " "
	echo $updates | grep -q ${CHKLINE} && echo "Reboot will be recommended due to the upgrade of core system package(s)." || echo "No reboot recommended after this update."
    else
        echo "No pending updates..."
    fi
}

As with any bash function, just paste it into your ~/.bashrc file - or into any such file that .bashrc calls (perhaps .bashrc-personal or .bash-functions?). Or, you could very easily turn them into scripts if you prefer. Enjoy!

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