system-update

A system update script for developers, using Ubuntu / Debian / elementaryOS based systems or OpenSUSE based systems.

Usage

# Daily Example - update system packages from apt / zypper / snap / flatpak
./system-update.sh

# Weekly example - broader maintenance and safe disk cleanup
./system-update.sh --full

Features

• Only runs updates for tools that are currently installed.
• Adds conservative APT cleanup on --full with autoremove, autoclean, and clean
• Cleans zypper package caches on --full
• Vacuums systemd journals and forces log rotation on --full when supported
• Removes unused Flatpak runtimes on --full
• Applies snapper retention policy to old snapshots on --full
• Prunes unused Docker containers, dangling images, and build cache
• Prunes the uv wheel/source cache on --full
• Verifies (garbage-collects) the npm cache on --full when it is large, with a full wipe only past 5G
• Wipes the Go build cache on --full only when it grows past 5G
• Cleans the cargo registry cache on --full (via cargo-cache if present, otherwise wipes re-downloadable registry caches past 2G; leaves rustup toolchains untouched)
• Reports the disk space reclaimed at the end of a --full run
• Checks for firmware updates with fwupd (refreshes metadata and lists available updates; flashing is left to you via sudo fwupdmgr update)
• Updates VSCode / VSCodium extensions on --full (code/codium --update-extensions)

Note on fwupd: on some systems (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04) the snap build of fwupd is more up to date than the apt one. If you want the fresher version: sudo apt remove --purge fwupd && sudo snap install fwupd.

• Optionally prunes leftover tooling caches

Support for other tools / operating systems are welcome.

Tools

The following tools are supported (this list is periodically updated):

• apt
• asdf
• caches
• cargo
• claude
• composer
• devbox
• docker
• flatpak
• fwupd
• go
• npm
• pipx
• pyenv
• snap
• snapper
• tldr
• uv
• vscode / vscodium
• zypper