Apdatifier

Arch Update Notifier

     

Features

• Searching updates for pacman, AUR, Plasma Widgets, Flatpak, Firmware
• Notification for updates and news
• Bash script with useful options for managing packages
• Two types of lists: compact and extended with additional information
• Button to initiate a full system upgrade in the selected terminal
• Option to refresh the mirrorlist with the latest mirrors filtered by speed
• Customizable icon on the panel and package icons in the list
• Also should work on non-Arch-based systems (for Plasma Widgets and Flatpak)

Screenshots

Compact/Extended list

       

Full system upgrade

Management

management.mp4

Requirements

Optional dependencies

• paru, yay, pikaur - for AUR updates support
• flatpak - for Flatpak updates support
• fwupdmgr - for Firmware updates support
• jq - for KDE Widgets updates and News
• tmux - for upgrade and management in a terminal multiplexer
• fzf - for interactive package selection in management

Supported terminals

alacritty, foot, gnome-terminal, ghostty, konsole, kitty, lxterminal, ptyxis, terminator, tilix, xterm, yakuake, wezterm

Translation

Feel free to help translate to new languages or update and improve the ones that are already available. Please refer to the ReadMe.md for instructions on how to do it.

Installation

Just install directly from KDE Widget Store ("+ Add widgets..." -> "Get New Widgets..." -> "Download New Plasma Widgets").

After installation, you can either enable it to appear in the system tray or place it on the panel or desktop instead.

Update to the latest commit

Settings -> General -> Misc -> Install Development version

If script doesn't work, you can do it manually:

git clone -n --depth=10 --filter=tree:0 -b main https://github.com/exequtic/apdatifier
cd apdatifier
git sparse-checkout set --no-cone package
git checkout
kpackagetool6 -t Plasma/Applet -u ./package
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

Uninstalling

Uninstall plasmoid and remove all related files (config, icons, notifyrc):

bash ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/com.github.exequtic.apdatifier/contents/tools/sh/utils uninstall

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