cleanupdate

WARNING: I do not actively use this script anymore (because I moved to NixOS), so it can be considered unmantained. Feel free to open issues or pull requests though, I am happy if it can still be useful to anyone.

Simple script to update and clean an Arch-based system.

The script can switch between Italian and English languages.

Features

• update packages from repositories;
• update packages from AUR (with yay, trizen or pamac);
• search and uninstall orphaned packages;
• clean pacman cache;
• clean temporary or unuseful files;
• clean old journald logs;
• suggest solution to most common pacman errors;

If the environment variable CU_PKEXEC is set to true the authentication is done with pkexec instead of sudo.

Further details are available within the manual page, in Italian or English.

Installation

This script has been created for an Arch-based system, you need to have pacman as package manager to use it properly. Other needed dependencies are:

• bash: obviously;
• polkit or sudo: in order to obtain administrative privileges;
• pacman-contrib: provides paccache, for cleaning package manager cache;
• ncurses: used to obtain terminal size or color codes (/bin/tput);
• yay: optional, to enable AUR update feature, first in priority;
• trizen: optional, to enable AUR update feature, second in priority;
• pamac: optional, to enable AUR update feature, third in priority;

Some features should work on any modern Linux system, you can copy those part and create your own script (remember to check the license).

This script is available on AUR as cleanupdate-git, so you can install it manually or with your favourite pacman helper. Installing from AUR adds a .desktop file in your system, this way the script should be available as cleanupdate in your application menu, obviously you can also launch it from the command line.

Otherwise, you can simply download the cleanupdate file from this repository and make it executable

chmod +x cleanupdate

Then you can manually launch it with

./cleanupdate

Thanks

• Mariano Messora, corrections to English translation.
• PC ZERO from Manjaro Italia Forum, idea and base design for the icon.