What are your daily startup/update commands?

General system Pacman
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The EndeavourOS homepage and the Idiot’s Guide by @fbodymechanic are both bookmarked in Firefox for me.

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I am a simple person - I yay

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Yay for you :hugs:

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I like to update on Sundays. I have three machines running EOS (and a couple are running Slackware) and while it doesn’t take too long, I like to do them all at the same time.
I don’t recall what exactly transpired because it was many moons ago, but on at least one occasion I ran into major problems where mid-update, some packages could not be retrieved, and this caused a system-breakage of some sort. (I think it may have been related to KDE.) At any rate, my solution is always to download first, then install.

pacman -Syuw
yay -Suaw

Related: --sudoloop is also handy (thanks to @dalto for that suggestion).

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I run pacseek -u every morning for a look at the latest updates. If there’s core package(s) that need updating - kernels, QEMU, Nvidia, KDE - I’ll plan on updating sometime that day, if possible.

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At any rate, my solution is always to download first, then install.

pacman -Syuw
yay -Suaw

–very interesting variation.

Could find no man pacseek, this is interesting. thank you both.

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It’s not installed by default. I use the pacseek-bin package from the AUR.

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When I start the computer and it boots i use the Welcome app to update running yay. That’s it! Any other time the update notification will eventually show there are updates. If you don’t want to check for updates then don’t until you want to or you see an update notification.

But keep in mind you should always update before installing any new packages.

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I run

yay

once or twice a day. Sometimes more often, sometimes less, as I remember or have the time. That’s it.

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well Kresimir wasn’t the only one with the Yay idea but I don’t know if I can award numerous ‘solutions’ to multiple users so I won’t since spaghetti with ground beef is about 5 feet from me…

but thanks everyone.

just doing yay the last couple days.

I really miss being a power user with all my cool startup commands before…you robbed me of the Arch swag I was trying to get but where there’s a will there’s a way :wink:

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Daily? Simple:

pacman -Syu
pacman -Scc

That’s all.

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I generally use topgrade. Maybe once a day on my laptop and pc. Weekly-ish on my homeserver and vps.

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I see topgrade is no longer maintained.

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The og dev stepped down. But there’s a community maintained fork.

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Update notification every 3 days.
Command used when needed (alias) :

orph=‘yay -R $(yay -Qdtq)’ replaced with function:

orph() {
	while [[ $(pacman -Qdtq) ]]
	 do	sudo pacman -R $(yay -Qdtq)
	done
}

mirrors='rate-mirrors --protocol=https --disable-comments endeavouros | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist && rate-mirrors --protocol=https --disable-comments arch --completion=1 | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'

upd='milcheck && yay -Syu --repo && yay -Fy && yay -Qnq > ~/pkglist-repo.txt && pacdiff -s'

upda='yay -Sua && yay -Qqm > ~/pkglist-aur.txt'
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simple

yay  && flatpak update
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this is my flatpak daily standalone:
flatpak update -y && flatpak remove --unused -y

once in a while that does remove some freedesktop old debris and other debris.

to marry them both:
yay && flatpak update -y && flatpak remove --unused -y (?)

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thanks!

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