Hi, I’m using EOS for a few months now and basically almost every day is something to update. I just hit update on welcome screen everyday, insert sudo password and wait update to finish. Until now I didn’t had any problems with it but I’m wondering if I need to pay attention to anything before I u…

[image] replenish: I’m wondering if I need to pay attention to anything before I update and after update is finished? Yes. Absolutely, it’s your system to maintain. Endeavour is NOT a distro you can just click and update and never look at, nor will it ever be. There’s several other button…

About first part… What I have to do before install upgrades?? About orphaned packages, What you mean by hurting “SSD and electricity”? I need that package for work but is not maintained anymore. I’m speaking about “prepros-bin” package

[image] replenish: I’m using EOS for a few months now and basically almost every day is something to update. I just hit update on welcome screen everyday, insert sudo password and wait update to finish. Updating daily will lower the chance that something needs manual intervention for sure. …

Thanx for detailed info. I admit that after install I started to exploring other things and I forgot about maintenance :slight_smile: I’m coming from windows where upgrades are mandatory and is usually is not done manually.

Thanx for your reply. Is there a way to “save” that package and have it installed on my system ignoring all updates?

[image] replenish: Is there a way to “save” that package and have it installed on my system ignoring all updates? If your AUR helper honors IgnorePkg you can edit /etc/pacman.conf and add it to the IgnorePkg line.

Thanx, what about if I want to install it on other PC after package is removed from repository?

[image] replenish: Thanx, what about if I want to install it on other PC after package is removed from repository? It is an AUR package, it isn’t in the repository. However, if you want to install it after it is removed from AUR, you can always either install it manually or grab a copy of th…

[image] replenish: I see some orphaned and out of date packages. If it really bothers you sudo pacman -Rns packagename EDIT removed suggestion to ignore orphaned AUR packages as per advice form @dalto

Upgrading OS question

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anon63071375 April 3, 2022, 12:08pm 4

This is beyond extremely well documented. This is where you start, everything is here:

Then move onto here:

And finally here:

This has no maintainer so the AUR calls it orphan because the previous maintainer has stopped working on that package. There are security risks if a new maintainer picks it up. Otherwise it will be removed from the AUR entirely at some point.