# Upgrading OS question **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbie\ **Created:** [April 3, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/upgrading-os-question/25628 "2022-04-03T10:38:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![anon63071375](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon63071375](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/anon63071375)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/upgrading-os-question/25628/4 "2022-04-03T12:08:00Z")
> [@replenish](#): > > About first part… What I have to do before install upgrades?? This is beyond extremely well documented. This is where you start, everything is here: > **[System maintenance - ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance)** Then move onto here: > [@A friendly intro about our community rules and tips for the forum](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-friendly-intro-about-our-community-rules-and-tips-for-the-forum/7131): > > We are so happy that you’ve decided to be a part of this friendly and helpful community, and frankly, we don’t care which flavour Arch you’re actually running on your machine (s), as long as you want to help your fellow community members and us, the devs, by giving advice or feedback, you are more than welcome to stay over here. This forum is a technical support forum in the first place, but there is also room for chit-chat over here. That’s why the forum has technical areas and l… And finally here: > [@A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184): > > I’m a complete idiot - so here’s my guide for you! It has been asked a lot, and fairly frequently recently it seems, especially by new Endeavour/new to Linux users. It was recently asked that I post how I update - so here it is. “How do I maintain / update / upgrade my system?!? Help!!” This is my maintenance plan. I have been using the same install for almost 2 years now without any major issue. I’m VERY aware there’s more than one way to do this. And most importantly - Many of these c… > [@replenish](#): > > ’m speaking about “prepros-bin” package 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/upgrading-os-question/25628)._