LazyUpdateManager

LazyUpdateManager is a small update helper for Arch Linux and Hyprland. It checks for available package updates and sends a desktop notification at most once per week while updates are pending.

Features

Checks official repository updates with checkupdates when available, otherwise pacman -Qu
Checks AUR updates with paru -Qua or yay -Qua when either helper is installed
Sends notifications with notify-send, with hyprctl notify as fallback
Provides a graphical browser UI for checking and installing updates
Includes a systemd user timer that checks every two hours and reminds weekly
Provides an interactive update command

Requirements

Arch Linux
Go 1.22 or newer to build
pacman-contrib recommended for checkupdates
Optional: paru or yay for AUR updates
Optional: libnotify for notify-send

Build

make build

Usage

./bin/lazy-update-manager status
./bin/lazy-update-manager check
./bin/lazy-update-manager check -quiet
./bin/lazy-update-manager notify
./bin/lazy-update-manager notify -force
./bin/lazy-update-manager gui
./bin/lazy-update-manager update

Graphical Interface

./bin/lazy-update-manager gui

The GUI opens in your browser and lets you:

refresh the update list
start update installation in a terminal
enable or disable AUR checks
change the reminder interval
choose the terminal used for installing updates

Install

make install

This installs the binary to ~/.local/bin/lazy-update-manager.

It also installs a desktop launcher to ~/.local/share/applications/lazy-update-manager.desktop.

Enable Weekly Reminder

make enable-user-service

The timer runs every two hours, but lazy-update-manager notify stores the last reminder timestamp in:

~/.local/state/lazy-update-manager/state.json

That means you only get a reminder once per week while updates are available.

Settings are stored in:

~/.config/lazy-update-manager/config.json

Check Timer

systemctl --user status lazy-update-manager.timer
systemctl --user list-timers lazy-update-manager.timer

2.1 KiB Raw Blame History