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
Clone this project and simply run ./checkupdate
. It can be installed inside ~/.local/bin
directory or at root level (/usr/bin
).
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
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
git pull
and overwrite checkupdate
if you only copied that file