| AppImage |
One file that holds a complete application. An installation of the file is not necessary. |
| applet |
One small program in a Plasma panel. The widget of this product is an applet. |
| APT |
The package manager of Debian and of Ubuntu. |
| Arch Linux |
One Linux distribution. It uses pacman. |
| AUR |
The Arch User Repository. It holds build scripts for packages that the official repositories do not hold. |
| bs-update |
The command of this product. |
| bs-updater |
This product. It has the command and the widget. |
| check |
One operation that counts the available updates. |
| checkupdates |
One command of the package pacman-contrib. It counts the repository updates of Arch Linux. |
| Debian |
One Linux distribution. It uses APT. |
| DNF |
The package manager of Fedora. |
| domain |
Short form of "package domain". |
| Fedora |
One Linux distribution. It uses DNF. |
| Flatpak |
One application system that is independent of the distribution. |
| Gear Lever |
One application that integrates AppImages into the desktop. |
| KDE Plasma |
One desktop environment for Linux. This product must have version 6. |
| kpackagetool6 |
The command that installs a Plasma package. |
| libnotify |
The library that supplies the notify-send command. |
| manual check |
One check that the user starts. |
| Nobara |
One Linux distribution. Fedora is its base, and it uses nobara-sync. |
| nobara-sync |
The update tool of Nobara. It installs RPM updates and applies the Nobara fixups. |
| Nobara fixups |
The changes that Nobara applies to a system after an update. |
| package |
One unit of software of a package manager. |
| package domain |
One kind of package. Two tools of one domain install the same updates. |
| pacman |
The package manager of Arch Linux. |
| pacman-contrib |
One package of Arch Linux. It supplies checkupdates. |
| paru |
One AUR helper for Arch Linux. It updates repository packages and AUR packages. |
| plasmoid |
Another name for a Plasma applet. |
| POSIX shell |
The standard command language of a Unix system. |
| QML |
The declarative language of the Qt user interface. |
| repository packages |
The packages of the official repositories of a distribution. |
| RPM |
The package format of Fedora and of Nobara. |
| scheduled check |
One check that the timer of the widget starts. |
| state file |
The file ~/.cache/bs-updater/last-update. |
| stub |
One small script that replaces a real tool in a test. |
| sudo |
The command that runs another command with root privileges. |
| system tray |
The area of the Plasma panel that holds status icons. |
| The Unlicense |
The license of this product. It puts the product in the public domain. |
| tools.conf |
The configuration file with the selected tools. |
| total |
The sum of the counts of each enabled source. |
| Ubuntu |
One Linux distribution. Debian is its base, and it uses APT. |
| update |
One newer version of a package. |
| update source |
One system that supplies updates, for example Flatpak. |
| widget |
The Plasma applet of this product. |
| XDG_CACHE_HOME |
The variable that gives the parent of the cache directory. |
| XDG_CONFIG_HOME |
The variable that gives the parent of the configuration directory. |