ArchAid

Small shell helpers for common Arch Linux maintenance and package management tasks.

Motivation

As an Arch Linux user, I appreciate the clarity and control of its tools.

However, when managing multiple machines and servers, repeating long or infrequent commands can slow things down. Tasks like refreshing mirrors or fixing key issues are not done daily, which makes them harder to recall quickly.

ArchAid provides small helpers for these common maintenance tasks, making them faster and easier to execute.

Features

• fast access to common Arch Linux maintenance commands
• useful for managing multiple Arch Linux systems
• short, consistent command naming
• package cache cleanup and orphan pruning helpers
• keyring and pacman lock recovery helpers
• package list export for reinstall or migration
• separate ArchAid tool commands for project information and future management tasks

Commands

Maintenance commands

• arch-update
  Run a standard system update with pacman -Syu.

• arch-fresh-update
  Refresh mirrors with reflector and run a full system update.

• arch-clear
  Clear unused pacman cache packages with pacman -Sc.

• arch-clear-all
  Clear all pacman cache packages with pacman -Scc.

• arch-prune
  Remove orphaned packages while keeping their configuration files.

• arch-prune-all
  Remove orphaned packages and their pacman-managed configuration files.

• arch-fix-keys
  Apply the common Arch keyring repair steps.

• arch-fix-keys-all
  Fully reset and rebuild the pacman keyring.

• arch-fix-lock
  Remove a stale pacman lock file after checking that pacman is not running.

• arch-export
  Export explicitly installed packages to a file.

ArchAid commands

• archaid info
  Show ArchAid version information and available commands.

Installation

Clone the repository and run the installer:

git clone https://github.com/tariknull/ArchAid.git
cd ArchAid
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

Status

Early work in progress.