Garuda doesn’t show a notification somewhere when updates are available

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Running garuda-update updated Discord, next to a whole bunch of other packages. Am I correct that Garuda doesn’t show a notification somewhere when updates are available, as I hadn’t seen anything yet?

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There is only a notification that is shown if you have not updated the system in the last 14 (if I remember correctly) days.
In a rolling release distro, Arch-based, it is the user’s responsibility to take care of the updates.
We don’t think any of the existing graphical tools are appropriate to do that (they are fine to search, of course), because very often in the past they have created problems.
Our update tool (to be launched with a certain frequency, it will depend on you, daily, but even weekly is fine) is garuda-update.

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Interesting. Like I said in my first post on the forum, I’m mainly a Debian guy and for desktop OS I’m used to getting notifications whenever an update is available. Definately don’t mind running garuda-update weekly though.

Thanks for the info guys.

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Please, one “problem” per topic.

No garuda-inxi (on the last problem), we can only guess which DE you use.

If you use Garuda-Hyprland you have in the top bar also a hint for updates, you can click on it and magically the system use garuda-update for you.

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Arch has daily updates 'lo these many years. It’s a rolling release. So you decide. :slight_smile:

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if you use KDE you can install this

edit:

I make an upd in the terminal at least 3 - 5 times a day, the widget is only intended for viewing :grin:

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Best way ever for Garuda, don’t use pamac, GUI (octopi …) or other “software”.

Just open terminal, type

upd

Enter

upd = update = garuda-update
Check log files for pacsave, pacnew and other hints.

Set upd to your liking

Trust me :slight_smile:

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You can run checkupdates to see what updates are available.

checkupdates

It’s fairly simple to incorporate this into scripts, widgets, or modules as SGS has illustrated above.

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Or you can basically assume that if it’s been 24 hours, there’s almost certainly an update waiting. There may be one five minutes after your last update.
If you attempt to update and there’s nothing there, you only lost a few seconds :wink:
Still need to be told?

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Sometimes it is useful to be able to see what updates are available if you are waiting for a specific version of a package to hit the repos, or if you want to see if there is anything new available for a buggy program you have, etc.

Or, if you maintain multiple installations and some of them are not frequently updated, it can be handy to see how many updates there are as a way of gauging how far “behind” a given machine is.

checkupdates | wc -l

Getting a notification whenever any update is available would be super annoying and pointless. That thing would be constantly going off, announcing an update is available for this thing or that. Better to just decide when you have time to do some updates and then just do them. There will always be updates available.

There is no need to have every package constantly up to date, either; it’s perfectly fine to go a few weeks without an update, as long as you don’t need to install any new packages and there are no security updates to worry about. (Check arch-audit for the latter :wink:)

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I can tell you what I do, but I will tell you now, nobody is going to like this advice and hopefully I don’t get permanently banned off the forum for this, but…

I use Pamac to let me know when updates are available. You get this
image telling you there are updates to fetch and install, and you get this image when everything is up to date.

I also use it to download all the updates in the background while I’m away from my computer since my DSL line sometimes gets slower then a 1980ies style 9600 bps dial up modem. This way when I do my garuda-update --aur I can review everything before installing the packages. It will fly through the install because everything is stored locally on the hard drive for you.

One thing you should know is to never install your updates from this program and make sure the settings in the program are not set to auto-install on shutdown. Always update from your terminal window.

I have been told in this previous forum post above that this is like cocaine for your computer, so do you want to join the party? We can live like rock stars! :sunglasses:

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Maybe you are using conky. I use the command

since few months every hour in my conky.
Actually, I don’t really need it and it’s just a gimmick, because I update daily via terminal after the first login.

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I’m the same it’s a daily ritual boot up, log in, update in terminal :grimacing:

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Cocaine isn’t even that great. I just like the smell of it.

I’d love to be a rockstar though. I could hang out with Taylor Swift.

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Awesome :+1: lets go smash up some hotels, leave them completely trashed :sunglasses:

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Or a Kansas City Chief?
(my team)

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I’m in. I don’t need to be a rock star for that.

The Taylor Swift fanclub!

I was a Steelers fan as a kid. Cheering for the home team these days. Rams are where it’s at.

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topic has ran its course and its going too far off topic