---
name: "systemd-sysupdated.service"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "systemd"
version: "262.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/systemd-sysupdated.service"
---

# systemd-sysupdated.service(8)

System Update Service

## NAME

systemd-sysupdated.service, systemd-sysupdated - System Update Service

## SYNOPSIS

systemd-sysupdated.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysupdated

## EXPERIMENTAL

This component is experimental and subject to change without advance notice. It will be stabilized and given a backward-compatibility guarantee in a future release, but may also possibly be removed.

## DESCRIPTION

**systemd-sysupdated** is a system service that allows unprivileged clients to update the system. It works by scanning the system for updateable "targets" (i.e. portable services, sysexts, sysupdate components, etc.) and exposing them on the bus. Each target then has methods that translate directly into invocations of [**systemd-sysupdate**(8)](/systemd-sysupdate/8.md).

See [**org.freedesktop.sysupdate1**(5)](/org.freedesktop.sysupdate1/5.md) and [**org.freedesktop.LogControl1**(5)](/org.freedesktop.LogControl1/5.md) for a description of the D-Bus API.

## SEE ALSO

[**systemd**(1)](/systemd/1.md), [**systemd-sysupdate**(8)](/systemd-sysupdate/8.md), [**updatectl**(1)](/updatectl/1.md), [**org.freedesktop.sysupdate1**(5)](/org.freedesktop.sysupdate1/5.md)