A KDE Plamsa Applet (Plasmoid) to check for Arch, AUR and Flatpak Updates, along with official Arch Linux Update News feed.
![Screenshot_20240707_161427](https://github.com/dhruv8sh/arch-update-checker/assets/67322047/2e2bb3cd-fad9-481a-b9f7-c634ba3143bd)
Available updates list view
![image](https://github.com/dhruv8sh/arch-update-checker/assets/67322047/0dac6eaa-0ad9-482d-b58e-b1569cf6f071)
Expanded details in list view
![image](https://github.com/dhruv8sh/arch-update-checker/assets/67322047/ba1a59a7-f8bd-417e-853b-d3754b4bad1e)
Official Arch Linux News
pacman-contrib
and pacutils
are required.
The applet will automatically ask you to install them if not installed.
sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib pacutils
to install manually.
Use the 'Download New Plasma Widgets' functionality in the edit mode and look for "Arch Update Checker".
You can run:
git clone https://github.com/dhruv8sh/arch-update-checker
rm -rf ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.archupdatechecker/
cp -r arch-update-checker/ ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.archupdatechecker
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell
This will restart your plasmashell