Apdatifier

Arch Update Notifier

Features

• Notification for updates and news
• Searching updates for Arch (+AUR), Plasma Widgets, Flatpak
• 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

pacman-contrib - optional, but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. For checkupdates and rankmirrors scripts.

Supported pacman wrappers

paru, yay, pikaur

Supported terminals

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

Required packages for options:

Arch User Repository (AUR): paru or yay
Plasma Widgets: jq
News: jq
tmux session: tmux
Mirrorlist Generator: pacman-contrib
Management: fzf

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.

Current status:

|   Locale  |  Lines  | % Done|
|-----------|---------|-------|
| English   |     264 |       |
| Brazilian | 264/264 |  100% |
| Chinese   | 264/264 |  100% |
| Dutch     | 264/264 |  100% |
| French    | 264/264 |  100% |
| German    | 264/264 |  100% |
| Spanish   | 264/264 |  100% |
| Korean    | 130/264 |  50%  |
| Polish    | 264/264 |  100% |
| Russian   | 264/264 |  100% |
|-----------|---------|-------|

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.

Important

If you are upgrading from a previous version, you need to log out or restart plasmashell for the new features to work properly.

systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

Update to the latest commit

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

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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