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I am trying to update/upgrade the oh-my-zsh package in my arch linux using the zsh terminal. Usually, I can update a package with this command sudo pacman -S package-name. But, it does not work with Oh-My-Zsh. Instead, I found out that I have to use this command upgrade_oh_my_zsh. Can anyone shed some light into this matter?

Edit: Specifically, I would like to know why sudo pacman -S package-name does not work on Oh-My-Zsh? Why do I have to use upgrade_oh_my_zsh to upgrade it? Is there no standard command for updating/upgrading a package? As a new Arch Linux user, this is confusing.

Thanks.

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As far as I remember oh-my-zsh is not available as an official package. It's in the aur (arch user repository) with the name oh-my-zsh-git

To install/update that you need to use pacaur or yaourt but not pacman!

Btw last updated: 2016-06-26 12:03

Oh-My-Zsh asks for updating itself from time to time, doesn't it?

You can update it manually in ~/.oh-my-zsh/

 git pull --rebase --stat origin master

If you get a

Cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes

Do a git stash and try the pull again.

Thanks to @Adaephon to point out to do a

git stash pop

afterwards to to re-apply the stashed changes

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    After pull you may want to do git stash pop to re-apply the changes you previously made. Unless one of your changes directly conflicts with something you updated, this should "just work".
    – Adaephon
    Jan 25, 2017 at 14:36
  • Thanks guys, I am sure the method that you suggested would work. But, I am more concerned about the standard method of upgrading/updating the Oh-My-Zsh package. Please see the edited section of my question above.
    – goddar
    Jan 25, 2017 at 15:38
  • @goddar I've updated my answer
    – Michael D.
    Jan 25, 2017 at 16:09
  • Thanks for the clarification @MichaelD. I can see now that the package is from AUR and I would understand it if I have to use this command: yaourt -S <package>. However, what I found on google search was to use 'upgrade_oh_my_zsh'. Can I update other packages with upgrade_package-name?
    – goddar
    Jan 25, 2017 at 16:17
  • Try the arch linux wiki: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
    – Michael D.
    Jan 25, 2017 at 16:25

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