bulletmark/arch-upgrade

ARCH LINUX UPGRADER

Arch-upgrade is small desktop convenience app which can be placed in your Arch Linux launcher/dock. Click on it to pop up a terminal window to upgrade your system and AUR packages. Click on the OK button when complete. Before updating, it will present a prompt for new Arch Linux News notices that have been posted since you last updated. You can also run arch-upgrade directly on the command line, with or without GUI prompts.

The latest version and documentation is available at https://github.com/bulletmark/arch-upgrade.

INSTALLATION

NOTE: Arch users can/should just install arch-upgrade from the AUR and skip to the next section.

Install curl, python-unidecode, xmlstarlet, and git packages.
If you are going to use the GUI, also install zenity and wmctrl packages. You don't need these if you are just going to run arch-upgrade on the command line, e.g. on a server.
Run the following commands:

    git clone https://github.com/bulletmark/arch-upgrade
    cd arch-upgrade
    sudo make install (or sudo ./arch-upgrade-setup install)

CHOOSE PACKAGE MANAGER AND CONFIGURATION

yay is the default package manager initially configured for arch-upgrade but you can easily choose another by copying the system-wide default /etc/arch-upgrade.conf file to your personal $HOME/.config/arch-upgrade.conf and editing it to specify an alternative package manager like pacman, paru, trizen, or any other. You can also specify different options to the package manager.

NOTE: Arch-upgrade now installs system-wide but old versions installed as local user files so to ensure that any old user configuration is removed type the following as your normal user (i.e. not sudo/root).

arch-upgrade-setup clean

You can type this any time so no harm is done running it to make sure.

UPGRADE

cd arch-upgrade  # Source dir, as above
git pull
sudo make install (or sudo ./arch-upgrade-setup install)

REMOVAL

sudo arch-upgrade-setup uninstall

COMMAND LINE

You can also run directly on the command line. In this case it will not use GUI popups and will only prompt from the command line. Just type:

arch-upgrade

Command line options are:

Usage: arch-upgrade
Options:
-g (run with GUI prompts)
-d (include development packages in upgrade)
-n (skip fetch and check/report of latest news)
-a (automatically accept latest news)
-m (skip check/report of mirrorlist file update)
-c <conffile> (alternative configuration file)

The configuration file used is the first found of:
~/.config/arch-upgrade.conf /etc/arch-upgrade.conf

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2014 Mark Blakeney. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more details.

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