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Celtic_Boozer

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Registered: 2024-04-26

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pacman -Qu vs checkupdates different outputs

Hello, folks.
I don't quite understand why these two commands produce different results, checkupdates performs the same functions, but for some reason it has empty output, while pacman -Qu produces a list of packages.
Could u please help me?

$ pacman -Qu
aom 3.8.2-1 -> 3.9.0-1
appstream 1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1
firefox-developer-edition 126.0b4-1 -> 126.0b5-1
python-inflect 7.2.0-1 -> 7.2.1-1
tracker3 3.7.1-2 -> 3.7.2-1 

While the checkupdates is epmpty.

$ checkupdates

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Celtic_Boozer (2024-04-26 01:41:22)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,562

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Re: pacman -Qu vs checkupdates different outputs

Well that's not what I expected ...

These two commands should generally produce different outputs - but in the opposite way.  `pacman -Qu` should never be able to return anything on a properly maintained system.  Stop doing partial upgrades, and properly upgrade your system.

But then there's the question of why checkupdates is failing to give any results ... that's odd.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,708

Re: pacman -Qu vs checkupdates different outputs

type checkupdates
checkupdates
echo $?

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