Hi! First, thank you for this tool.

I am trying to show updates from the main repo and AUR through yaourt with the command specified in the wiki:

/usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a

However no notification is made even if there are new packages available.

If I do yaourt -Suy --aur first and then cancel it - it will show the notifications on next check just fine.

Am I missing something here or is it a bug?

Hi,

Dunno if it is important or not just reporting ...

Jan 10 11:41:12 xxxx gnome-shell[16558]: JS WARNING: [/home/xxxx/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/arch-update@RaphaelRochet/extension.js 242]: Too many arguments to method Gio.File.monitor_directory: expected 2, got 3

Thanks for tht usefull app.
Gnome versions

There is an option in the file that is needed to ignore the packages during the update (IgnorePkg). My suggestion is to add a feature for the extension to ignore such packages in the list.

I originally reported Ste74/manjaro-update#1 for the manjaro flavor but can confirm that it's happening with yours too.

If the extension checks for updates, and there is no internet connection, Gnome Shell will temporarily become unresponsive until the check update command terminates, which may take several minutes.
While using X.Org, keyboard and mouse input function, but the desktop does not. With Wayland, mouse and keyboard are equally frozen.

I do not know whether this is an issue with the extension, or Gnome Shell. Should it be the latter, would it be possible to implement some sort of internet connection check before running the check updates command?

Currently, the extension won't work behind a proxy, even if it is configured in Network settings of GNOME. How about implement proxy support, in order to allow verify&update anywhere?

Hi,
@Madis0 has pointed me english text that can be better.

Changes have been made in the pot file with PR #105 , but unfortunately this file has been regenerated in the release process of v27 (513634e) and these changes are lost.

We have two ways here :

1. Change english text in extension.js and rebase all translations, which means each translator must update its translation after that (there are 20 of them)
2. Create a "en" translation for translating my bad english into good english. In that case, who can assume this ?

Waiting for feedback ;)

Hi.

In Spanish translation, there are some fuzzy lines that needs fix. I attached the fixed PO.
es.zip

Best regards.

Use gksu if available (is installed) instead of sudo (use sudo if gksu is not installed)

Hi Raphael, very nice script you have provided for everyone. I was wondering, does this also work in other environments? Such as openbox?

Thanks for your time

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-arch-update/

I just noticed, that the update indicator's message for up-to-dateness replaced the "Applications" caption of the respective menu (see attachments).

Update:
Now this override happens also if updates are available.
It seems, that the caption is just being overridden every time.

Update II:
After two days I cannot reproduce this problem any more.

I know that AUR packages can be updated with yaourt -Syua, but the checkupdates script does not query aur packages. I have modified the command which updates packages to gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c "yaourt -Syyua; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read" 'which does both main and AUR. Is there a way add the capability to query AUR package updates?

Since pacman 5 packages versions are now listed along with each update.

I will try to add an option to strip them for better readability.

Hi,

Thanks for providing this extension.

It would be nice if the extensions would just show all available updates rather than hiding them behind an extra menu layer. If there are only few updates (this could be a configurable number) it would be nice to have these updates shown immediately.

Thanks,
Rasmus

Thank you for this extension! I'd like to be able to invoke "Check now" functionality via a script so I can call it after a local repository has been updated.

Is there any way to do this?

Hi and thanks for this useful extension.

I can't modify extension parameters, changing any of them result in blank line.

Can you make settings dialog title translatable?
"Arch Linux Updates Indicator"

I changed gnome-terminal from the default update command, to terminix. Now whenever I want to update, terminix will not show up. I am sure that the command to open it is correct. Is there a way to use a different terminal client than the default?

Arch is updated very frequently so there's hardly a day you won't get update notifications. IMHO it's more important to get notifications when its really really really recommeded to update your system -- i.e. if security relevant updates are available.

So I propose to add a "Security updates only" option that can be implemented like this:

• Download .gz and .gz from https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-security/
• Unpack these files (either in-memory or into /tmp), parse all occurences of
  pacman -Syu "packagename>=packageversion" and create a map<packagename, packageversion>
• Run checkupdates as usual but only notify about packages that are present in the map and installed_version < packageversion

I'd bet there are quite a few users that would love to see this happen :)

I noticed that recently updating pacman broke this extension. I finally saw on the extension's page that the pacman-contrib package is now required.

It would be nice to have this somewhere in the dropdown or settings menu so users do not have to hunt for the solution.

If this extension would (optionally) would use packagekit instead of packman it could be used for all distributions using packagekit too.

Hey Dev, how do i manually change the icons displayed by this extention?

GNOME Shell 3.28.3
Arch-update v27

Gnome extensions are supposed to be disabled when the screen is idle. In addition, I have disabled the general setting of not displaying notifications on the lock screen.
But since recently this indicator is notifying me on the lock screen of new updates.

On the other hand, I've checked the system log and I get a lot of meaningless lines from this extension: 6729 lines since yesterday!
I don't know if there's any connection

Icon shows fine, and if I choose "Check now" then updates are found, but it never notifies of updates automatically. Running checkupdates in a terminal works too.

Time to wait before first check is set to 15, and interval is set to 60. I've tried setting interval to 30 as well, with no effect.

Thanks for any help in advance!

After an update, regardless whether done via the updater or in another terminal, the gnome-shell crashes. It seems that happens at the moment when the update refreshes.

Problem started with the update to gnome 3.26.

`
systemd-coredump[29362]: Process 938 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.

                                          Stack trace of thread 938:
                                          #0  0x00007f1e84d2ba0d g_type_check_instance_cast (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                          #1  0x00007f1e82a53960 st_label_set_text (libst-1.0.so)
                                          #2  0x00007f1e7f3b71c8 ffi_call_unix64 (libffi.so.6)
                                          #3  0x00007f1e7f3b6c2a ffi_call (libffi.so.6)
                                          #4  0x00007f1e839d5cbb n/a (libgjs.so.0)
                                          #5  0x00007f1e839d7617 n/a (libgjs.so.0)
                                          #6  0x00007f1e7d08264d n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #7  0x00007f1e7d075687 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #8  0x00007f1e7d081e97 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #9  0x00007f1e7d08246f n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #10 0x00007f1e7d082779 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #11 0x00007f1e7ce72219 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #12 0x0000181e982083c6 n/a (n/a)
                                          #13 0x00007f1e7cd70d3e n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #14 0x00007f1e7d0819e3 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #15 0x00007f1e7d081e97 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #16 0x00007f1e7d08246f n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #17 0x00007f1e7d082779 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #18 0x00007f1e7ce72219 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #19 0x0000181e982083c6 n/a (n/a)
                                          #20 0x0000555bb4b6a818 n/a (n/a)
                                          #21 0x0000181e98595a40 n/a (n/a)
                                          #22 0x00007f1e7cd70d3e n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #23 0x00007f1e7d0819e3 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #24 0x00007f1e7d081e97 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #25 0x00007f1e7d08246f n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #26 0x00007f1e7d082779 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #27 0x00007f1e7ce72219 n/a (libmozjs-52.so.0)
                                          #28 0x0000181e982083c6 n/a (n/a)

`

Grateful that you add to the extension a way to check also the updates of yaourt 😃

in the UPDATES_LIST Include separated by title pacman and yaourt listed

Thank you for such a wonderful extension! 👏

Currently, the latest version available at https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1010/archlinux-updates-indicator/ is v24

Hi,

As you may remember, I forked your extension to have it working on Debian/Ubuntu.

I'm still trying to understand everything fully... When checking the updateStatus() input, you specifically check for "-3". However, this is exactly never the case... I saw you implemented it at some point, and then removed it from the checkUpdates function.

Is this check superfluous now, or is it something to fix?

Merci!

Hello,
I'm using the last version of Gnome and the Tweak Tool says that the extencion doesn't support the shell version. I installed from AUR

Versions according to pacman

• gnome-shelll: 3.20.1-1
• gnome-shell-extension-arch-update: 11-1

Maybe choose the color of the indicator would be a good function. Or the option to let the user choose if he/she wants the logo in arch blue like the original one, or white like current logo.
Thanks!

aurman works like a charm using:

aurman

• Check command : /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates && /usr/bin/aurman -Qqu -a"
• Update command : gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c "aurman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read" '
• Update command (with terminator) : terminator -e 'aurman -Syu ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read '

Hi,

That's an awesome ext !

Unfortunately I've installed v26 of this plugin, and left default configuration, with 60 minutes between checks.
I'm running an up-to-date Arch, so, it's gnome 3.28 I guess.

Strange thing is : no checkupdate seems to be performed regularly.

If I right click and do an "check now", it works.

How / what could I do to help debug what's happening (or not happening) ? Maybe there's a rights issue somewhere, I don't know what task planner you use (cron?)

thx !

Not sure if this is really a problem, but I found some of this message in journalctl:

jan 26 08:49:57 HOSTNAME gnome-shell[2026]: JS WARNING: [HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/arch-update@RaphaelRochet/extension.js 242]: Too many arguments to method Gio.File.monitor_directory: expected 2, got 3

System: Arch Linux 64-bit, everything up-to-date.

Hi,

I've read the wiki https://github.com/RaphaelRochet/arch-update/wiki

I would like to suggest a slight change to your 'yaourt check update' command, in order to get the version numbers too.

Problem with yaourt -Qu -a is that every output will be prepended by 'aur/' so I use a 'cut' to remove 4 first char

/bin/sh -c "(/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/yaourt -Qu -a | cut -c 5-) | sort -u -t' ' -k1,1"

And by the way thanks for your work !

Hello,

I have problem with the indicator addon still showing that I need to update my system.Screenshot.
I tried to reinstall by deleting the directory for the addon and instaling again. Which did not help.
This is what I get when I run the checkupdates command. This is the settings screenshot.
[user ~]$ /usr/bin/checkupdates
ca-certificates 20150402-1 -> 20160507-1
ca-certificates-cacert 20140824-2 -> 20140824-3
ca-certificates-mozilla 3.23-3 -> 3.23-4
ca-certificates-utils 20150402-1 -> 20160507-1
dosfstools 3.0.28-1 -> 4.0-2
glib2 2.48.0-2 -> 2.48.1-1
glibc 2.23-2 -> 2.23-4
gnupg 2.1.12-1 -> 2.1.12-2
gssproxy 0.4.1-1 -> 0.5.0-3
libksba 1.3.3-1 -> 1.3.4-1
libseccomp 2.2.3-1 -> 2.3.1-1
linux45 4.5.3-1 -> 4.5.4-1
linux45-headers 4.5.3-1 -> 4.5.4-1
man-pages 4.05-1 -> 4.06-1
manjaro-release 15.12-1 -> 16.06rc1-1
nss 3.23-3 -> 3.23-4
perl 5.22.1-2 -> 5.22.2-1
xfsprogs 4.3.0-1 -> 4.5.0-1

What could be wrong? What did I changed that made the applet think that I still need to update these programs?

checkupdates is now part of pacman-contrib
This packages should be installed in order for the package to work:

gunix@archdesktop ~ $ pacman -Fs checkupdates
community/pacman-contrib 1.0.0-2
    usr/bin/checkupdates
gunix@archdesktop ~ $ sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) pacman-contrib-1.0.0-2

Total Download Size:   0.03 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.14 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 pacman-contrib-1.0.0-2-x86_64                                                                          28.5 KiB   570K/s 00:00 [##############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                                                  [##############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                                                [##############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                                                     [##############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                                               [##############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                                                                             [##############################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing pacman-contrib                                                                                                 [##############################################################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for pacman-contrib
    mlocate: pacdiff [installed]
    findutils: pacdiff [installed]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

I think this info could be added to the documentation, or to the required packages on AUR.

Feel free to close the issue if you want.

Best Regards,
gun1x

It would be quite nice to be able to define your own Update Program like yaourt -Qqua

This gnome extension requires fakeroot in order to work:

gunix@archdesktop tmp $ /usr/bin/checkupdates
==> ERROR: Cannot find the fakeroot binary.
gunix@archdesktop tmp $ pacman -S fakeroot
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
gunix@archdesktop tmp $ sudo pacman -S fakeroot
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) fakeroot-1.22-1

Total Download Size:   0.07 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.12 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 fakeroot-1.22-1-x86_64                                         66.7 KiB   741K/s 00:00 [##################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                          [##################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                        [##################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                             [##################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                       [##################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                                     [##################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing fakeroot                                                               [##################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
gunix@archdesktop tmp $ /usr/bin/checkupdates
ca-certificates-mozilla 3.34.1-1 -> 3.35-1
chromaprint 1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.3-1
coreutils 8.28-1 -> 8.29-1
glib2 2.54.3-2 -> 2.54.3+2+g94b38beff-1
linux 4.14.13-1 -> 4.14.14-1
linux-firmware 20171206.fdee922-1 -> 20180119.2a713be-1
nspr 4.17-1 -> 4.18-1
nss 3.34.1-1 -> 3.35-1
gunix@archdesktop tmp $ 

It would help to have a list of requirements, since Gnome doesn't help too much in this regard.

If arch-audit is installed, the extension should extra-highlight any packages that need to be updated for security alerts.

@RaphaelRochet not sure how to submit a PR to the wiki, so submitting it as issue, sorry.

    Wiki: better yaourt check command

    Previous one resulted in duplicating checkupdates output and yaourt,
    effectively doubling the number of arch updates + adding AUR updates.
    This one gets the best of both worlds: with version number for arch
    updates and without for AUR updates.

    Sample output (line 1 & 2 are checkupdates, line 3 is yaourt/AUR):

        dconf 0.26.1-1 -> 0.28.0-1
        dconf-editor 3.26.2-1 -> 3.28.0-1
        devd
---
 Home.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md
index 6bfd44d..8dba9a2 100644
--- a/Home.md
+++ b/Home.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ## Add AUR Support

 ### yaourt
-* Check command : ``/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates ; /usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a"``
+* Check command : ``/bin/sh -c "(/usr/bin/checkupdates; /usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a) | sort -u -t' ' -k1,1"``
 * Update command : ``gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c  "yaourt -Syu -a ; echo Done - Press enter to exit; read" '``

 ## pacaur

I tiny circle cancel button beside the "Checking for updates" would be really useful, especially when I'm e.g. on the train with a wifi that barely exists and every megabyte is precious, which is quite often for me.

Hi there, we have forked your extension to ship with our Manjaro Gnome edition ( we have changed icon status and command to open pamac when update is ready ) . We like your extension because offer a native integration with gnome-shell ;) .
Is possible add an option to open a packager manager ( in our case pamac ).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Graphical_front-ends

Regards
Stefano

Hello,

When arch is used on a workstation it is important to keep it updated, but you also need to be able to work on your computer without being distracted by a notification all the time.

With the current update checking interval system, you almost get a notification every single day.

It would be awesome to be able to set days on which the extension would check update or not.

For exemple, I like to update my computer on Friday, so that I have the weekend to fix any problem that would occur during an update. But I don't want to get any notification during the week as I'm often busy working.

What do you think about that ?

Please create plural form for this string:

: extension.js:217 extension.js:232

msgid "updates pending"
msgstr ""

At the moment, if a user sets the automatic check interval to something like "24 hours", and the session only lasts a few hours, the check will never take place, as it restarts with the session.
If the last check date is stored, then it can be used to set the interval for the automatic check.

In case you'd like to implement it, I implemented this for the apt-based extension here: franglais125/apt-update-indicator@c3b7ce6 . A PR won't work, but from there it is pretty easy to see how it was done. If you have suggestions on how to improve it, I'd definitely be interested!

Cheers!

I didn't find a way to see which version I have - consider an about tab in the settings - or mention the version number in title

The latest version isnt compatable with the latest version of gnome. Please fix! This is an awesome extension.

Hi @RaphaelRochet ,

in #83 @Ste74 asked you to add an option to open a GUI package manager.

I've set:

Command to open package manager (optional):
/usr/bin/pamac-manager

It's working fine, thanks.

I've also set:

Command to update packages:
/usr/bin/pamac-updater

But that doesn't work. Once you click on "Update now", it opens pamac-manager instead of pamac-updater.

Any idea what could be causing this and how it could be fixed?

When launching pamac-updater from a terminal or via ALT+F2, it properly launches pamac-updater.

Removing:

Command to open package manager (optional)
/usr/bin/pamac-manager

does not help.

Regards