pacman, AUR, Flatpak and AppImages. In the background, with no password prompt.
paru -S cachy-auto-update
sudo cachy-auto-update enablesudo cachy-auto-update
Press 1 to turn automatic updates on or off. 6 has all the settings.
While an update runs, a progress bar shows how far it is. You can Pause or Cancel it there.
To keep it out of the way, turn on Start the progress bar minimized in the settings. The bar then stays in the notification area and does not pop up. Click the notification icon to see it.
| Battery below 30 % | ⏸️ Waits (on power it runs) |
| A game is running | ⏸️ Waits |
| pacman, yay or paru is running | ⏸️ Waits |
| Shutdown or suspend during an update | 🚫 Blocked until it is done, or until you click Cancel |
| Restart after an update | ❌ Never on its own, you get a notification |
What it updates
| Packages | pacman -Syu |
| AUR | paru or yay |
| Flatpak | system and user installs |
| AppImages | through Gear Lever |
Safety
- A progress bar shows the step and the package.
- Cancel and Pause on the progress bar never stop pacman while it installs. They wait until that part is done.
- On Btrfs with snapper (the CachyOS default) every update gets a snapshot before and after.
- A lock file left by a power cut is removed on the next run.
- Package replacements are handled on their own. File conflicts are never overwritten.
- A signature error refreshes the keyring once and tries again.
- Old package versions and AUR build leftovers are cleaned up, so the caches do not fill the disk.
Logs
cachy-auto-update log # last run
cachy-auto-update log -a # all runs
journalctl -u cachy-auto-updatecachy-update
cachy-update tells you about updates, you install them.
This installs them for you. Both work side by side, and enable offers to silence
cachy-update's notification.
Build from source
make && sudo make install
sudo systemd-sysusers && sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create
sudo cachy-auto-update enableOptional: pacman-contrib, an AUR helper, flatpak, Gear Lever, libnotify, python-gobject.
GPL-3.0-or-later.