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yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This will happen if you upgrade pacman and yay separately If you have this error you need to manually recompile yay

pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

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@6543 I just rebuilt and used yay yesterday and don't even have libalpm installed:

[pgoetz@gecko ~]$ pacman -Q | grep libalpm
[pgoetz@gecko ~]$

[pgoetz@gecko ~]$ yay -Syu
[sudo] password for pgoetz: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
...

building yay with makepkg work, using it fail:

yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

there only exist a libalpm.so.13
Pacman v6.0.0 - libalpm v13.0.0

@jguer what does the -$i flag do in makepkg?

@friday13 I have removed yay using pacman -Rns yay. Then, when I'm trying to rebuild it using makepkg -si, the building step throw me an Aborting... because -Werror is used somewhere (makepkg -Cfsi give me the same result).

@Yatis https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/1087

@kseistrup please create an issue on https://github.com/Jguer/yay this issue may require more investigation than a simple reply (I think it's a gcc-go vs go issue)

I also got a yay error yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. And when I try to rebuild the package, I have some log errors:

go build -trimpath -mod=readonly -modcacherw -tags six -ldflags '-X "main.yayVersion=10.2.2.r5.g059ca9d" -X "main.localePath=/usr/share/locale/" -linkmode=external' -buildmode=pie -o yay
go: downloading github.com/Jguer/go-alpm/v2 v2.0.5
go: downloading github.com/Morganamilo/go-pacmanconf v0.0.0-20210502114700-cff030e927a5
go: downloading github.com/Morganamilo/go-srcinfo v1.0.0
go: downloading github.com/leonelquinteros/gotext v1.4.0
go: downloading github.com/mikkeloscar/aur v0.0.0-20200113170522-1cb4e2949656
go: downloading github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
go: downloading golang.org/x/term v0.0.0-20210503060354-a79de5458b56
go: downloading github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.0
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210507161434-a76c4d0a0096
go: downloading github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0
go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20210107192922-496545a6307b
go: downloading github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1
# runtime/cgo
gcc_fatalf.c: In function ‘fatalf’:
gcc_fatalf.c:17:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘fprintf’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   17 |         fprintf(stderr, "runtime/cgo: ");
      |         ^~~~~~~
gcc_fatalf.c:11:1: note: include ‘<stdio.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘fprintf’
   10 | #include "libcgo.h"
  +++ |+#include <stdio.h>
   11 |
gcc_fatalf.c:17:9: error: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘fprintf’ [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
   17 |         fprintf(stderr, "runtime/cgo: ");
      |         ^~~~~~~
gcc_fatalf.c:17:9: note: include ‘<stdio.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘fprintf’
gcc_fatalf.c:19:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vfprintf’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   19 |         vfprintf(stderr, format, ap);
      |         ^~~~~~~~
gcc_fatalf.c:19:9: note: include ‘<stdio.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘vfprintf’
gcc_fatalf.c:22:9: error: implicit declaration of function ‘abort’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   22 |         abort();
      |         ^~~~~
gcc_fatalf.c:11:1: note: include ‘<stdlib.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘abort’
   10 | #include "libcgo.h"
  +++ |+#include <stdlib.h>
   11 |
gcc_fatalf.c:22:9: error: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘abort’ [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
   22 |         abort();
      |         ^~~~~
gcc_fatalf.c:22:9: note: include ‘<stdlib.h>’ or provide a declaration of ‘abort’
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [Makefile:112: yay] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I don't know who is the f** genius which use -Werror in production, but I'm not able to remove the cursed flags because I don't know where it is... Any idea ?

Got a yay update earlier today and then just got pacman 6 a few moments ago, and now i get this when running yay:

"yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Assumed that yay's update earlier today was for pacman 6 but perhaps not lol. Will try jguer's pinned suggestion and rebuild yay

EDIT: rebuilding yay as per jguer's suggestion worked

go: parsing $GOFLAGS: non-flag "six"

What can I do about this?

Why was this flagged as out-of-date? You just need to reinstall yay manually to resolve the libalpm issues