yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[qazip]

I am having the following issue, when running yay:

yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How should I fix this?

[Jguer]

You can use the initial installation method of yay, @gouvinb has it well summarized if you want to understand it https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/1084#issuecomment-545337382

This can be applied to your prefered flavor yay, yay-gitor yay-bin.

yay-bin

# Remove yay for update 
sudo pacman -R yay
# Install yay from git
cd /tmp
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si
cd ..
# clean /tmp folder
rm -rf yay-bin

yay

# Remove yay for update 
sudo pacman -R yay
# Install yay from git
cd /tmp
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
cd ..
# clean /tmp folder
rm -rf yay

EDIT: corrected yay -R
EDIT2: Applies only to Arch Linux and not derivatives such as Manjaro.

[qazip]

You cannot do "yay -R yay" because that requires yay, which does not work ;).

[LinuxUserGD]

sudo pacman -R yay or yay-bin/yay-git

[Jguer]

You're right :smile: , I've fixed it and I'm glad you got it fixed as well

[nivaca]

I can re-install it in the way described, but when I try to run yay I still get this error:

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

(note the version 12 number)

[Morganamilo]

Did you maybe leave out the crucial detail that you're running manjaro or other derivative and hence are on an old pacman version?

[nivaca]

Did you maybe leave out the crucial detail that you're running manjaro or other derivative and hence are on an old pacman version?

Yeah, in the new issue I created, I did mention it.

[shyaminayesh]

try reinstalling yay using git repo.

sudo pacman -Rnsc yay
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg
sudo pacman -U yay-9.4.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz // <- replace with your file name

That's it :+1: