pacstall VS topgrade

I use some package managers to install my programs in Kubuntu, apt which is the distro's default, pacstall and [brew](https:// brew.sh).

You might take a look at pacstall: https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall

Looks like it's not a rolling release. It's a stable ubuntu with unstable packages (from the pacstall repo)

Check out https://pacstall.dev/

If you use Pacstall, you can run pacstall -I nala-deb

Lastly, deb-get + pacstall + bauh. All of these combined covers 99% of my software needs, much less need to find and install PPAs and .deb manually. Still not as convenient as AUR, but much better than it was before. Hopefully, eventually everything is on Flatpak, snap, or AppImage so I could just use Bauh for most apps, but for now, I'm glad that these tools exists.

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.

To upgrade all at once I use topgrade.

For what its; worth, I love me some topgrade for keeping my stuff fresh.

$ 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

The ncurses tui is nice, maybe you can make a wrapper with ideas from topgrade and/or Wingetui

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

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.

Once you have it installations, you can keep it up-to-date with https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade