14 Glossary

14. Glossary

Term	Definition
AppImage	One file that holds a complete application. An installation of the file is not necessary.
applet	One small program in a Plasma panel. The widget of this product is an applet.
APT	The package manager of Debian and of Ubuntu.
Arch Linux	One Linux distribution. It uses pacman.
AUR	The Arch User Repository. It holds build scripts for packages that the official repositories do not hold.
bs-update	The command of this product.
bs-updater	This product. It has the command and the widget.
check	One operation that counts the available updates.
checkupdates	One command of the package pacman-contrib. It counts the repository updates of Arch Linux.
Debian	One Linux distribution. It uses APT.
DNF	The package manager of Fedora.
domain	Short form of "package domain".
Fedora	One Linux distribution. It uses DNF.
Flatpak	One application system that is independent of the distribution.
Gear Lever	One application that integrates AppImages into the desktop.
KDE Plasma	One desktop environment for Linux. This product must have version 6.
kpackagetool6	The command that installs a Plasma package.
libnotify	The library that supplies the notify-send command.
manual check	One check that the user starts.
Nobara	One Linux distribution. Fedora is its base, and it uses nobara-sync.
nobara-sync	The update tool of Nobara. It installs RPM updates and applies the Nobara fixups.
Nobara fixups	The changes that Nobara applies to a system after an update.
package	One unit of software of a package manager.
package domain	One kind of package. Two tools of one domain install the same updates.
pacman	The package manager of Arch Linux.
pacman-contrib	One package of Arch Linux. It supplies checkupdates.
paru	One AUR helper for Arch Linux. It updates repository packages and AUR packages.
plasmoid	Another name for a Plasma applet.
POSIX shell	The standard command language of a Unix system.
QML	The declarative language of the Qt user interface.
repository packages	The packages of the official repositories of a distribution.
RPM	The package format of Fedora and of Nobara.
scheduled check	One check that the timer of the widget starts.
state file	The file ~/.cache/bs-updater/last-update.
stub	One small script that replaces a real tool in a test.
sudo	The command that runs another command with root privileges.
system tray	The area of the Plasma panel that holds status icons.
The Unlicense	The license of this product. It puts the product in the public domain.
tools.conf	The configuration file with the selected tools.
total	The sum of the counts of each enabled source.
Ubuntu	One Linux distribution. Debian is its base, and it uses APT.
update	One newer version of a package.
update source	One system that supplies updates, for example Flatpak.
widget	The Plasma applet of this product.
XDG_CACHE_HOME	The variable that gives the parent of the cache directory.
XDG_CONFIG_HOME	The variable that gives the parent of the configuration directory.