Yeah, see my comment on the code above, where update literally equals overwrite.
Doesn’t Discover use Packagekit? If so pkcon --help or man pkcon to find out more?
Not for KDE Store themes, widgets, and other add-ons.
Packagekit is only for native distro packaging.
I think that this is what you are searching for:
It has a desktop UI and a curses-based UI for the terminal.
Here:
On Debian-based systems we have a similar tool called “Synaptic” and openSUSE has Yast2 software manager, also curses-based.
It’s a common DNF install, BTW, just do a dnf search dnfdragora, it may even be already installed,
Nope.
The OP’s question has 100% absolutely zero to do with disto-level packaging. We are discussing KDE Store themes, widgets, and other add-ons. There is no KDE command line tool exposed or revealed that does this.
Yeah, the OP should conclude this topic and accept there is no bulk solution as of today.
It is immensely frustrating because it is also almost impossible to phrase as a good search term. It’s almost gratifying to see that most people couldn’t understand that the question is “Is there a terminal updater for packages installed by KGetNewStuff and updated via Discover?”
On the other hand, this is probably a ripe opportunity for somebody who wants to fill a niche need in the KDE community.
Evan_Edwards:
My original post was badly worded.
What I was really trying to find out is if there’s a handy way to check all the optional plasma addons I’ve installed for updates and especially if there’s a command line way so I don’t have to visit the physical box to use a GUI. Take an optional plasma widget I use: “Wunderground Weather”, it’s on version 3.4.1 on my system which I can see by checking its configuration and selecting the “About” page. Suppose the author comes out with 3.4.2, as far as I can see, my only way to discover this update would be to copy the git URL from the “About” which is GitHub - k-donn/plasmoid-wunderground: A Plasma 5/6 widget for showing data from Wunderground PWS, manually visit that page and figure out the current version there. In fact if I do so I can see in the git logs:
.bumpversion.cfg [Bump version: 3.4.1 → 3.4.2]
So my installed copy is behind. I uninstalled the one I had and tried installing it again with Discover but that one shows 3.4.1 as well, so apparently Discover doesn’t get it from the developers github directly since that’s showing 3.4.2.
It would be nice if there was some tool in KDE to actually find all the updates to the optionally installed widgets (I assume the built-in ones like “activity switcher” and “Lock/Logout” are updated when I update KDE itself). I tried selecting “Enter Edit Mode” from the desktop and using the Download Widgets feature there(“Get New…” → “Download New Plasma Widgets”). It has a menu you can select as “Updateable” but when I do that there’s no plasmoids that show as updateable.
There’s a Issue in Wundergrounds git for this sort of updating:
i think your confusion is that the “Get New…” takes you to the latest version that the author has created.
that only happens if the author uploads their latest version to the KDE store.
if you want their latest and greatest direct from them, then you don’t need to use the “Get New…” button at all, you can just download it and install it manually.
no there is no automated way to do that…it’s a manual process, just like it is for the author’s to upload their project to the KDE store.