Safe, cross-platform updater that upgrades packages across your installed managers.

yup detects your installed package managers and updates them all with a single command. On first run, it shows an interactive configuration wizard to select which managers to update. Subsequent runs execute directly with saved preferences.

cargo install yup

brew tap izantech/tap
brew install yup

winget install izantech.yup

choco install yup

git clone https://github.com/izantech/yup
cd yup
cargo install --path .

yup [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

# First run: interactive configuration wizard
yup

# Subsequent runs: execute with saved config
yup

# Preview what would happen
yup --dry-run

# Non-interactive with all detected managers
yup --yes

# Re-configure which managers to update
yup config

# Only update Homebrew and npm
yup --only brew,npm

# Skip slow managers
yup --skip softwareupdate,mas

# Check for outdated packages
yup --status

# View last run log
yup log

On first run, yup shows an interactive wizard to:

1. Select which detected managers to update
2. Preview the commands that will run
3. Save configuration and execute

Configuration is stored at:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/yup/config.toml
• Linux: ~/.config/yup/config.toml
• Windows: %APPDATA%/yup/config.toml

Run yup config to reconfigure at any time.

yup focuses on package managers that support global package upgrades. Currently supporting 20 managers across platforms.

• brew - Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
• port - MacPorts (macOS)
• mas - Mac App Store CLI (macOS)
• softwareupdate - macOS updates
• apt - Debian/Ubuntu (Linux)
• dnf - Fedora/RHEL (Linux)
• pacman - Arch Linux
• flatpak - Flatpak (Linux)
• snap - Snap (Linux)
• winget - Windows Package Manager
• choco - Chocolatey (Windows)
• scoop - Scoop (Windows)

• mise - Modern polyglot runtime manager (formerly rtx)
• conda/mamba - Python/data science environments

• npm - Global Node.js packages
• pnpm - Global Node.js packages
• pipx - Python CLI applications (isolated environments)
• gem - Ruby gems
• rustup - Rust toolchains
• cargo - Rust packages (via cargo-update)

Logs are stored in platform-appropriate directories:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/yup/
• Linux: ~/.local/share/yup/
• Windows: %APPDATA%/yup/

Daily rotation with filenames like yup.2026-01-11.log.

This repo pins a Rust toolchain via rust-toolchain.toml. With rustup installed, cargo build and cargo clippy will use the pinned version automatically.

Some package managers require root/admin privileges (sudo) to run updates:

• Linux: apt, dnf, pacman, snap
• macOS: port, mas, softwareupdate

When privileged commands are queued, yup will:

1. Show [sudo] markers next to commands that need elevation
2. Prompt for your password once before execution (via sudo -v)
3. Automatically prepend sudo to those commands

This means you only enter your password once, not for each command.

• macOS, Linux, or Windows

MIT