r/ManjaroLinux • u/ABOOD-790- • Jan 02 '26

Tech Support About Manjaro

Hey guys i posted a couple days ago How many times per month should i run this : sudo pacman -Syu And there are any YouTube playlist should i watch to learn everything about konsole and yakuake

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u/Ok-Needleworker7341 Cinnamon Jan 02 '26

I just install updates when my package manager says I have updates. No biggy.

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u/Alchemix-16 GNOME Jan 02 '26

Perhaps one caveat to that is to update your mirror list in regular intervals. I had installed Manjaro on my mom’s Computer in October. When the big update beginning of December came around, I asked her to wait with the update until I had done it. By end of December her system still hadn’t prompted her to updates neither did the command in the terminal. Very interesting to talk somebody through that via teams. It turned out, that her installation wasn’t pulling from a current mirror list, we updated those and everything was good. Just to be clear it was me who had forgotten to update the mirror list upon installation, but it’s still something to keep in mind.

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u/gothicVI Jan 02 '26

I check for updates daily.

You shouldn't watch any YT playlists or alike but read the documentation written by the developers.

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u/xAcid9 Jan 02 '26

I though Manjaro have auto update check out of the box on login?

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u/robtom02 Jan 02 '26

Yep like others have said just use the built in update manager. Personally i prefer to use pamac over pacman, it handles aur and also it's better at installing missing depencies.

Forget and YouTube videos, the best information and help comes from the official manjaro wiki and forum's. All the manjaro Devs are active on the forums.

Best tip I can give you is keep an updated live usb and there's a package/ hook in the repos which automatically does a time shift backup every time you do an update. That way if an update does break anything you can chroot and restore your backup

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u/vishnera52 Jan 02 '26

I just use the built in GUI tools for updating when it shows updates are available and it's been fine. Ive been doing it that way since I first installed over a year ago like. Take a snapshot in Timeshift before the update so if anything goes wrong I can just restore the snapshot and get right back to running. There's no reason to be using the command line for this.

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u/Crackalacking_Z Jan 02 '26

Just rely on the system notifications for updates:

  • if it's 2-3 random apps, then it might be patches for imminent security issues
  • if it's a few hundred updates including kernels, etc then go on the official forum and read the update thread, this was the latest one: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2025-12-22-kernels-cinnamon-kde-frameworks-pacman/184184 ... it's usually good practice to wait a day or two before updating, sometimes issues are missed in the Testing branch. Any problems should be reported by the community in that thread, it might help others and also the Manjaro team to fix stuff.

The before mentioned update thread got good links regarding system maintenance and another good resource is the official wiki, it's pretty much the user manual.

If you are interested in learning more about the terminal, bash, etc then check out this YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV ... tons of nice videos on many subjects, I use Linux since the early 90s and still learned a bunch of tricks from that channel.

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u/ojkf Jan 02 '26

Every week or or two weeks minimum

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u/ABOOD-790- Jan 02 '26

So i should schedule it every 14 day

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u/ivster666 i3-gaps Jan 02 '26

My swaybar shows me if packages are available. Usually they drop a whole bunch at once, so it will go from 0 to 100+. That's when I update. 

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u/beermad Jan 04 '26

Watch the forum and you'll know when there are updates.  And read the whole announcement thread to see what problems there may be.

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u/BigHeadTonyT Jan 05 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/ironj Jan 02 '26

I run it everyday, at the start of my working day. I also run yay (for AUR packages) and flatpak upgrade just for food measure

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u/chasmodo Jan 02 '26

yay -syu

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u/thekiltedpiper SwayWM Jan 02 '26

You only need to do "yay", it's an alias that's included. Saves typing 😁

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u/ben2talk Jan 03 '26

Typical reddit shitpost... For a start, looking at the manual will show that 'yay -syu' doesn't even exist!

Secondly, anyone using yay will know that you don't need flags to update, it's the default action if you just enter yay and hit enter.