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I'm sorry to have to say this, but symlinking to libraries with a different soname, even just with respect to the version (the number after the .so extension), is a _bad_ idea. While it can probably be used in a pinch to just run a thing or two needed for a proper rebuild, one should _never_ use it as a substitution to that rebuild. There _is_ a reason why the soname gets bumped: it doesn't get bumped that often actually. Bumping means incompatibility and the problem is that it may look like everything's working OK, but then, just when you've already forgotten what you did with that symlink, strange errors begin to occur. And then everybody wastes precious time debugging those errors until you remember at last about that symlink. TL;DR: Don't symlink different version shared libraries. Rebuild!

@asem Yes, it works without symlink. I think, you suggested the best way to resolve the problem. Anyway, @YauheniM is right too, so both approaches are good. Thank you guys!

@YauheniM No need to symlink , just download and build package-query manually using makepkg -si and the error is gone

Hi, If you have an error like a "error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.9" just create a symlink: in terminal (as root): ln -s /usr/lib/libalpm.so.10.0.0 /usr/lib/libalpm.so.9 after that yaourt will work fine Regards, Yauheni

Hello Everybody, Just run: yaourt -S package-query and then: yaourt -Syu UPDATE: yaourt -Syu package-query works fine Cheers, Michal

Hi, glad to be able to be part of the community. This is my first post. I'm afraid I have the same problem as Valentin.Brasov: [access@arch ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu [sudo] password for access: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra 1767.1 KiB 643K/s 00:07 [######################] 100% community 3.3 MiB 839K/s 00:15 [######################] 100% multilib is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: firefox: ignoring package upgrade (44.0-1 => 44.0-2) there is nothing to do [access@arch ~]$ sudo pacman -Rdd package-query yaourt [sudo] password for access: Packages (2) package-query-1.7-2 yaourt-1.7-1 Total Removed Size: 0.80 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y :: Processing package changes... (1/2) removing package-query [######################] 100% (2/2) removing yaourt [######################] 100% [access@arch ~]$ curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package-query.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 822 0 822 0 0 2320 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2315 [access@arch ~]$ tar -xvzf package-query.tar.gz package-query/ package-query/.SRCINFO package-query/PKGBUILD [access@arch ~]$ cd package-query [access@arch package-query]$ makepkg -si ==> WARNING: A package has already been built, installing existing package... ==> Installing package package-query with pacman -U... loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) package-query-1.7-2 Total Installed Size: 0.08 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y (1/1) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100% (1/1) loading package files [######################] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100% :: Processing package changes... (1/1) installing package-query [######################] 100% [access@arch package-query]$ cd .. [access@arch ~]$ curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/yaourt.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 952 0 952 0 0 2945 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2938 [access@arch ~]$ tar -xvzf yaourt.tar.gz yaourt/ yaourt/.SRCINFO yaourt/PKGBUILD [access@arch ~]$ cd yaourt [access@arch yaourt]$ makepkg -si ==> WARNING: A package has already been built, installing existing package... ==> Installing package yaourt with pacman -U... loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) yaourt-1.7-1 Total Installed Size: 0.72 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y (1/1) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100% (1/1) loading package files [######################] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100% :: Processing package changes... (1/1) installing yaourt [######################] 100% Optional dependencies for yaourt aurvote: vote for favorite packages from AUR customizepkg: automatically modify PKGBUILD during install/upgrade rsync: retrieve PKGBUILD from official repositories [access@arch yaourt]$ cd .. [access@arch ~]$ yaourt stockfish package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [access@arch ~]$ Thanks

I did as clep/cauna said/wrote and it works without any problem. Just don't forget if pacman is not yet 5.0.0 to make a "pacman -Syu" after removing package-query and yaourt and before installing them again.

Like bouhappy said: download & rebuild of only package-query (and not yaourt) solved the issue.

I followed cleps's comments and it worked. Then I updated the whole system from yaourt-gui and this has updated pacman from 4.2.1-4 to 5.0.0-1. After that trying to do stuff in yaourt-gui (like option 1. Sync DB) yields: package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please help.

Hey guys, works for me also like cauna and josephgbr. After remove of both packages (sudo pacman -Rdd package-query yaourt) and rebuild everything is fine. Just run the steps from the (German) wiki: curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package-query.tar.gz tar -xvzf package-query.tar.gz cd package-query makepkg -si cd .. curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/yaourt.tar.gz tar -xvzf yaourt.tar.gz cd yaourt makepkg -si Cheerio