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As An Arch User, I find this incredibly True.
It blocks your updates when there's Arch newsfeed updates that you haven't read, prints it to terminal and then you just need to mark the latest news as read for your updates to go through. It's rare enough that it's not a bother, while this news can contain crucial information about what needs manual intervention and how. https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant
- What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
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Considering Arch for future use but have one concern
You can install Informant
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Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.
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Does anyone have experience/thoughts on going from Debian to Arch for my daily driver?
Before an update, I check if something has been released at https://archlinux.org/news/ that affects my own installation. If so, this has to be taken into account. For automatic checking there are tools like informant (https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant).
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Is Arch a good distro if you don't want to do due diligence on updates?
informant is very useful to me. It shows you any news articles from the site that you haven't read, before updating. This is how I make sure I don't miss any news updates.
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Is there anything like Gentoos "news" function in portage, that notifies you directly of any manual changes that you might need to make to your system in an update?
Informant (from the AUR) gives you a few commands to check the arch news and includes a pacman hook that blocks transactions if there are unread news.
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Arch & Manjaro. Is it a bad idea to have a systemd timer automatically update the system every day when I will be away for like a week?
Don't automate updates, bad idea. Use a hook like https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant You will be fine not updating for a month.
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If I don't update my system for a while do I need to just update the keyring?
I highly recommend Informant. It's basically a hook into pacman that checks Arch news before installing anything, and if there is a new message you are forced to read it before you can proceed.
- Simple script to always check up arch news before updating system
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Saving Linux Desktop. Unifying repositories is the only way
I don't understand why more people aren't aware of this: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade -I use it for Linux and Windows.
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Search package in multiple managers
To upgrade all at once I use topgrade.
- Procurar pacote em múltiplos gerenciadores
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eksctl version for AWS EKS
For what its; worth, I love me some topgrade for keeping my stuff fresh.
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Using extensions to improve Gnome workflow
$ topgrade Due to a design issue with notify-send it could be that topgrade hangs when it's finished. If this is the case on your system add the --skip-notify flag to the topgrade command or set skip_notify = true in the config file. If you don't want this message to appear any longer set display_preamble = false in the config file. For more information about this issue see https://askubuntu.com/questions/110969/notify-send-ignores-timeout and https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade/issues/288. ── 17:53:16 - System update ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── keine Neuigkeiten Bitte den Sensor des Yubikey berühren :: Paketdatenbanken werden synchronisiert … core ist aktuell extra 8,3 MiB 25,9 MiB/s 00:00 [##############################################################################] 100% multilib ist aktuell arch4edu ist aktuell :: Vollständige Systemaktualisierung wird gestartet … Es gibt nichts zu tun :: Looking for AUR upgrades... :: Looking for devel upgrades... :: Pakete nicht im AUR: gnome-software-packagekit-plugin js78 libsidplay :: als veraltet markiert: authenticator gnome-defaults-list lib32-aom lib32-libdav1d python2 xone-dkms es gibt nichts zu tun Zwischenspeicher-Verzeichnis: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Möchten Sie ALLE Dateien aus dem Zwischenspeicher entfernen? [j/N] Datenbank-Verzeichnis: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Möchten Sie ungenutzte Repositorien entfernen? [J/n] Ungenutzte Sync-Repositorien werden entfernt … Clone-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/clone :: Do you want to clean ALL AUR packages from cache? [j/N]: Diff-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/diff :: Alle gespeicherten Diffs entfernen? [J/n]: ── 17:53:25 - Configuration update ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:25 - Gnome Shell extensions ─────────────────────────────────────────── () ── 17:53:25 - rustup ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.70.0 (90c541806 2023-05-31) info: cleaning up downloads & tmp directories info: self-update is disabled for this build of rustup info: any updates to rustup will need to be fetched with your system package manager ── 17:53:25 - pip3 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages (23.1.2) ── 17:53:26 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Yarn Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - micro ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Checking for plugin updates Nothing to install / update ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak User Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak System Packages ────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - snap ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── All snaps up to date. ── 17:53:29 - Firmware upgrades ──────────────────────────────────────────────── Firmware metadata last refresh: 8 Stunden ago. Use --force to refresh again. Geräte mit keinen verfügbaren Firmware-Aktualisierungen: • SSD 860 QVO 2TB • SSD 870 EVO 4TB • ST1000LM035-1RK172 • WDS100T3XHC-00SJG0 No updatable devices ── 17:53:29 - Summary ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── System update: OK config-update: OK Gnome Shell Extensions: OK rustup: OK pip3: OK micro: OK Flatpak: OK snap: OK Firmware upgrades: OK Pacman backup configuration files found: /etc/pam.d/doas.pacsave /etc/dracut-uefi-hook.conf.pacsave
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JAPM - TUI package manager
The ncurses tui is nice, maybe you can make a wrapper with ideas from topgrade and/or Wingetui
- How/why do you use the AUR?
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PMM for generic distros?
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
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Fedora 38 Guide
Consider adding topgrade. Yeah, I know gnome-software is supposed to be the preferred way now, but I'd still rather update my system from the command line and topgrade will update everything.
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Universal Install Script
Once you have it installations, you can keep it up-to-date with https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
What are some alternatives?
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
rhino-pkg - A wrapper for apt + snap + flatpak + Pacstall
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
gnome-extensions-cli - Command line tool to manage your Gnome Shell extensions
Stream-Framework - Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:
blur-my-shell - Extension that adds a blur look to different parts of the GNOME Shell, including the top panel, dash and overview
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall]
Cork - A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI
dotfiles - 🍒 My daily Arch Linux setup
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell