Trouble updating

General system EndeavourOS installation
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-syyu and hitting enter till it updates leaves me in a broken package loop. How do i update my system? I use a combonation of “yay” and “flatpak”. But yay no longer works either. I got bluetooth to work finally a few weeks ago after months so i do not want to reinstall that and all my games again. Any suggestions for an update? Also i forgot how to view installed yay packages and remove some. I think its something like

Yay -R or Rm package-name

But unsure. I need this update cause suddenly my openXR install is too old for beatsaber even tho it worked fine pre steam vr update. So need help updating and cleaning my systsm

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How to include system logs in your post
Also need you to post the full output of your commands so that we can understand what exactly is wrong.

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never use -Syyu by default to update… if unsure … go use the buttons from welcome app…

And in case it does not get till the end… post the exact error it shows in terminal.

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In addition to the good advice @chikenf00t and @joekamprad have offered, eos-update is a useful script created by the Endeavour team, for updating your system.

See @manuel’s topic about it here:

An example of how to run it:

eos-update --yay

To list installed packages, use the query argument Q:

yay -Q
  • Q : Query.

You can pipe that to grep if you’d like to filter that list. Useful if checking for particular packages:

yay -Q | grep package-name

As for removing packages, to remove just the package, use the R argument:

yay -R package-name
  • R : Remove.

Doing that is fine, but it may leave some orphans (dependencies that no longer have any parent package installed). To clean those up after, you would run:

yay -Yc
  • Y : Perform yay specific operation.
  • c : Clean.

This one below removes a package and all its dependencies, and also packages that depend on it. It’s very thorough but be careful with this one, some packages (eg: ffmpeg) are so intertwined you might end up removing half your system:

yay -Rcns package-name
  • R : Remove.
  • c : Cascade, removes packages that depend on this package (be careful!).
  • n : No-save, ignores backup designations.
  • s : Recursive, removes dependencies also.
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