Updater

A basic script for updating several linux based distributions.

Features

• Sync and update package cache
• Updated installed packages to their latest versions
• Create a ZFS snapshot before and after updating the system

The ZFS snapshot feature is experimental and enabled only for Arch Linux.

This feature is provided by zfs-snap-mgr from the CachyOS ZFS Tools project.

Distributions

Here is a list of supported distributions:

• Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS / ElementaryOS
• RedHat / CentOS / Fedora / Rocky Linux
• Arch Linux / CachyOS
• Termux

Please, feel free to create a new issue for requesting support for additional distributions.

Usage

$ ./updater.sh

Depending on your OS, you may have to run the script with sudo.

Author

• Jiab77