Arch checkupdate

A program that prints avaliable packages. It uses safe checkupdates command, as well as check for AUR update. Can be used inside .bashrc, .zshrc or other shell rc file to remind that there are packages avaliable to update!

Requires to have pacman-contrib installed.

Optionally, aurutils_^AUR if you pass with --withAUR option

Basic usage

Clone this project and simply run ./checkupdate. It can be installed inside ~/.local/bin directory or at root level (/usr/bin).

Installation

Copy or symlink checkupdate file to ~/.local/bin. Don't forget to add local bin directory to PATH env. Example command: ln -s $(pwd)/checkupdate ~/.local/bin/checkupdate

Examples

checkupdate --help

usage: checkupdate [-h] [--withAUR] [--show]

Small program that prints packages avaliable

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --withAUR   Enable AUR (requires to have aurutils installed)
  --show      Show list of packages avaliable

checkupdate --show

Upgrade

git pull and overwrite checkupdate if you only copied that file