From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
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Updating Arch - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
Updating Arch
- Now let's talk about updating Arch, what some people refer to as the ultimate Linux operating system. Well, when you're working in Arch, you're going to want to have updates also. The thing about Arch is it's known as a rolling release, so you're constantly getting updates automatically, but you may want to update the system as well. So, normally we use the pacman tool, and when you're working with Arch, you're either working with .pkgs, that's your package, or just .tars, tarballs, and installing from source. So, you have a couple options with the pacman command. You have pacman-Syu, and that will update the system, or you have Syyu, and that'll synchronize the package database first. So, let's briefly take a look at an Arch system, and if you remember, I had a bunch of terraformed systems on AWS and on Linode, and the Arch system is here. That's actually on Linode. That's what I'm going to use. So, let's do an ssh, and it actually remembers, my fish terminal remembers that I had…
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