[Solved] Checking for AUR updates

[bendipa1]

If I want to check for updates from the official repositories it’s easy enough to run the command ‘checkupdates’, which shows the list of pending updates to be installed.

However if I wanted to check for pending AUR updates, there doesn’t appear to be a command for this, unlike in say, Manjaro where running ‘pamac checkupdates’ shows pending updates for both AUR and official repositories and are displayed separately. I have seen ‘checkupdates-aur’ mentioned on a couple of sites, but it isn’t rercognised. I’ve looked at options for ‘yay’, but there doesn’t appear to be one for pending AUR updates.

Any ideas please?

[Bink]

Just yay should provide you updates to both Arch packages and the AUR.

yay

You also have access to eos-update --yay, which does both, and also updates keys and such.

eos-update --yay

[dalto]

yay -Sua should work to check for AUR updates.

You don’t want to use yay with no options unless you are actually doing your your updates. This is because if you are only checking, you don’t want to update your databases.

[thefrog]

@dalto

yay -Sua

I use paru however you can use yay for checking if there are AUR updates
yay -Qu this will just show a list of apps to be updated but doesn’t start any update process.

[dalto]

@thefrog

yay -Qu this will just show a list of apps to be updated but doesn’t start any update process.

That is even better

[ddnn]

And for those who prefer an alias:

@anon93652015

### Function to send checkupdates and paru -Qua to a file then open it in micro
function cup
    set syu_date_format (date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
    set syu_log_name "/path/to/output/file/syu-$syu_date_format.sh"

    # Capture the output of checkupdates and paru -Qua
    set checkupdates_output (checkupdates | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g')
    set paru_output (paru -Qua)

    # Check if there are any updates
    if test -n "$checkupdates_output" -o -n "$paru_output"
        # If there are updates, create the file and write the output
        printf "%s\n" $checkupdates_output > "$syu_log_name"
        printf "%s\n" $paru_output >> "$syu_log_name"
        sleep 0.1
        micro "$syu_log_name"
        # Remove the last two lines above if you don't need to see the output.
        # They can be replaced with syu && yy / syu && yy && fup to update immediately.
        # This is good for logging the available updates before updating.
    else
        echo "No updates found."
    end
end

You can change it to yay -Qu and nano/greany/vim/etc. And cup can be pacaur or whatever your heart desires.

[bendipa1]

‘yay -Sua’ seems to be the command I was looking for. I did not see this option mentioned on any of several websites I looked at for ‘yay’, although there were plenty of ‘yay -Su’ type examples.

Thanks everyone.