How to update Cinnamon and applets from bash/fish?

[fulanitodetal]

Is there a way to update Cinnamon and applets via bash/fish? I've been trying to search for an official Cinnamon repo, but all I can find are unofficial ones. Also, do I have to add repos for each specific applet?

Reason: I'm trying to learn to use the bash as much as possible for fun. One objective is to be able to use bash for everything I can already do with the GUI DE.

Edit: Here are the repos I've found:

ppa:wasta-linux/cinnamon-4-8 via https://trendoceans.com/how-to-install- ... in-ubuntu/

ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon via https://launchpad.net/~embrosyn/+archiv ... u/cinnamon

[Larry78723]

There's no need to get complicated. Let's say you named the bash file update.sh, this is what it should look like:

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#!/bin/bash

# Usage : sudo ./update.sh

apt update -y
apt upgrade -y

After saving it, in your file manager, right-click on it and select Properties then check the box next to Execute. Exit out of Properties.
To execute the script, open a terminal, navigate to the folder where you saved it and enter the following:

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sudo ./update.sh

[karlchen]

ppa:wasta-linux/cinnamon-4-8 via https://trendoceans.com/how-to-install- ... in-ubuntu/
ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon via https://launchpad.net/~embrosyn/+archiv ... u/cinnamon

Do yourself a favour: Hands off these PPA's. On Linux Mint you do not need them.
The first one may or may not be useful on genuine Ubuntu. On Mint it can only do harm.
The second one does not seem to have been updated since 2018.

I'm trying to learn to use the bash

This is fine. Practising bash commands is fine. But it is unrelated to keeping Cinnamon and its applets up-to-date. So both, bash learning/exercises and real system administration tasks should not be mixed.

I've been trying to search for an official Cinnamon repo

For Linux mint users the official Cinnamon repo is the Linux Mint software repository.

On updating Cinnamon and its applets
Specifically on LM 20.2 Cinnamon, you only need Update Manager in order to keep Cinnamon and its applets up-to-date. Please, read the "What's new" here: LM 20 Cinnamon - New Features

[fulanitodetal]

Thank you!