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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hit_the_rails@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sudo pacman -Syu

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just aliased "sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu --aur" to "update" cause I got tired of writing it every day.

[–] MinFapper@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can just run yay with no arguments and it does exactly what your update script does.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Huh, the more you know.

[–] Noxious@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it make more sense to just yay -Syu to update everything, normal packages and AUR packages?

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The reason I did it like this is because:

I didn't know yay could invoke pacman
I didn't want yay "upgrading" my pacman packages with AUR packages.

But I was just misunderstanding yay. As another comment said before you, one can just run yay without any arguments and it accomplishes the same thing.

[–] Noxious@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Yay doesn't replace normal packages with AUR packages. Btw It's not just an AUR helper, it's a wrapper for Pacman with AUR support built-in. Check out paru btw, it's a more modern version of yay that basically works the same way: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru