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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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A 600MB "go" dependency for something not much more than a wrapper around git and makepkg... seems... wrong.

This is not the way, man.

I used sudo pacman -Rcsn yay. After uninstalling, I reinstalled, but I received an error.

[taizongh@ZhuFengGeShi ~]$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
[sudo] taizongh password:
Warning: Git-2.32.0-1 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: autoconf-2.71-1 is already up to date -- skipped
Warning: Automake -1.16.3-1 has been updated -- Skip
Warning: Binutils -2.36.1-3 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: BIS-3.7.6-1 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: Fakeroot -1.25.3-2 has been updated -- Skip
Warning: File -5.40-5 has been updated -- Skip
Warning: findutils-4.8.0-1 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: Flex-2.6.4-3 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: GAWK-5.1.0-1 has been updated -- Skip
Warning: GCC-11.1.0-1 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: gettext-0.21-1 is already up to date -- skipped
Warning: grep-3.6-1 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: Groff-1.22.4-5 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: gzip-1.10-3 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: libtool-2.4.6+42+gb88cebd5-16 has been updated -- Skip
Warning: M4-1.4.18-3 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: make-4.3-3 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: pacman-6.0.0-2 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: Patch-2.7.6-8 is already up to date -- skip
Warning: pkgconf-1.7.3-1 is already up to date -- skipped
Warning: sed-4.8-1 is already up to date -- skipped
Warning: sudo-1.9.7-1 has been updated -- skipped
Warning: Texinfo-6.7-3 has been updated -- Skipped
Warning: Which -2.21-5 is already up to date -- skip
There is nothing to do today
[taizongh@ZhuFengGeShi ~]$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
Cloning to 'Yay '...
remote: Enumerating objects: 390, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (390/390), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (289/289), done.
remote: Total 390 (delta 98), reused 389 (delta 98), pack-reused 0
Receiving object: 100% (390/390), 81.85 KiB | KiB/s, 135.00.
Process delta: 100% (98/98), done.
[taizongh@ZhuFengGeShi ~]$ cd yay
[taizongh@ZhuFengGeShi yay]$ makepkg -si
==> is creating package: yay 10.2.3-1 (Thu Jun 10, 2021 22:18:12)
==> is checking runtime dependencies...
==> is checking compile-time dependencies
==> Get the source code...
-> is downloading yay-10.2.3.tar.gz...
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 118 100 118 00 34 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 34
100  346k  100  346k    0     0   4601      0  0:01:17  0:01:17 --:--:--  5808
==> - use SHA256sums...
Yay - 10.2.3. Tar. Gz... through
==> is releasing the source code...
-> is unzipping yay-10.2.3.tar.gz, using bsdtar
==> is starting to build()...
Go build-trimpath -mod= readonly-modcacherw -tags six-ldFlags' -x "main.yayVersion=10.2.3" -x "main.localePath=/usr/share/locale/" -linkmode=external' -buildmode=pie -o yay
Go: github.com/Jguer/go-alpm/v2@v2.0.5: Get "https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/%21jguer/go-alpm/v2/@v/v2.0.5.mod" : Dial TCP 172.217.160.115:443: I/O timeout
Make: *** [Makefile:112: yay] error 1
==> error: An error occurred in build().
Is giving up...

@yochananmarqos Ah, ok; so the user's pacman installation is corrupted. In any case, this doesn't have anything to do with yay.

@pgoetz: Of course you do. libalpm.so is part of pacman. Run pacman -Fx libalpm.so.

@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?