Cachy-update completes with no problem and has the green check mark but when I open Shelly up, it says there are five flatpak updates available to update.
I have also run “flatpak remote-ls --updates” in the terminal with no output
I’m just wondering if this is a bug or am I not understanding something
Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it.
I did what you suggested, but the updates still show in Shelly.
It’s not really a big deal; it’s just a little annoying
Same problem here, nothing helped. Not even to retry the recommended procedure.
I am not sure if it is shelly itself. I uninstalled shelly and installed fresh with pacman, nothing changed.
I’m still not convinced that adding Shelly as the “default” package manager in Cachy (and dropping Octopi along the way) was such a brillant idea. Quo vadis, Cachy?
For years, I’ve been checking for updates using checkupdates in the console. I then decide when I want to apply those updates using Pacman (or Paru). I’m never going to deviate from this practice, no matter what kind of UI garbage gets thrown at me.
How many years are you into Cachy, if i may ask? I just celebrated my first anniversary not too long ago 
Edit: ah wait, checkupdates is an Arch thing, right? So you know it from Manjaro, I guess?
from Manjaro, EndeavourOS and from Arch, yes
Its from pacman-contrib and its the only recommended way I know of to check for updates without messing with your sync or possibly causing partial-upgrades or similar.
( Like instead of doing pacman -Sy then pacman -Su and then just looking and canceling. We do not want to do this. )
As the gods intended. 
I have probably made myself clear elsewhere.
The only official and correct way to manage packages on Arch and derivatives is pacman.
The only GUI package management solution that is a true wrapper for pacman is octopi.
It is about that simple - without the need to speak of the particularities of shelly or how pamac breaks keys and DDoSed the AUR etc.
I do not even especially like octopi. I do not have it installed.
But I cannot recommend anything else for those that want a GUI.
Yet here we are with shelly as the default… @ptr1337 : any thoughts on that?
I still wonder this. I tried it the other day to see if it got any better, nope, locked up first refresh.
I executed ’ flatpak update’ and accepted the message to cleanup the mess. In my case the problem was and still is my Hytale-Launcher:
Info: runtime org.gnome.Platform branch 48 is end-of-life, with reason:
The GNOME 48 runtime is no longer supported as of March 24, 2026. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
Info: applications using this runtime:
com.hypixel.HytaleLauncher
Nothing to update.
Now Shelly is working fine again. But it also shows, shelly isn’t perfect yet.
Which is exactly why I wonder how this now replaces Octopi in Cachy as a default package management UI. If I had a saying in that, I’d rather go back to Octopi until Shelly is really ready to hit the broader masses.
This is why I love this forum! Never heard of checkupdates before. Now it’s part of my workflow. I still like cachy-update for doing the actual updates though.
I didn’t even install cachy-update in the first place. It’s pretty pointless for a rolling release. These are the kinds of things I deselect during installation.
To each, their own, I guess. I like that it’s a one-stop-shop for updating repo packages, aur, and flatpack. Also shows Arch news and forces PKGBUILD review. Also integrates well with the shell updater widget in DMS
Off topic, but as I am typing in this thread on my Cachy laptop I’m also in the process of updating software on my WinBlows 11 work laptop using winget. What a PoS that is!!! I’ll take any half baked way of updating Linux over anything that MurkySoft has come up with any day!!
Other than using Shelly, is there any way to select the packages I don’t want updated? Doing “cachy-update” or “sudo pacman -Syu” in the terminal or using CachyOS Hello->Apps/Tweaks->System Update just updates all packages with no option to deselect.
You can blacklist packages you don’t want to update in /etc/pacman.confin the line #IgnorePkg = (remove the # first), but doing so is by no means advisable on Arch / Cachy etc.; it should be viewed only as a last resort for dealing with broken updates. Pacman is not designed to handle partial updates.
Oh I see. Thanks! But for packages like LibreOffice or VLC, it should be okay to add them to the blacklist, right? I mean most likely there aren’t packages that are dependent on them.
