How to fix this - is libalpm.so not ok or?

[longskott1]

Something is wrong. I can’t start pamac or yay. I get this message: pamac : error while loading shared libraries : libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What,s wrong? How can I solve this?
Longskott

[arnulf]

Moin,

Pacman 6 released

Hello community Pacman 6 has is now in the Arch core repository This update to Pacman brings a new feature parallel downloading speeding up install and update speed. Issues with Pacman 6 if you update to pacman 6 Pamac will no longer function refer to this issue on pamacs gitlab we currently have no estimated time on when this will be fixed if your using using pamac we recommend you temporary don’t update pacman until this issue is resolved you can do so by simple unchecking the pacman box …

greets

[shivanandvp]

Hi @longskott1 !

Please refer to my reply on the other post here on how to fix pamac and yay:

How can I fix this

Hi @longskott1 ! Welcome to the forum. You can choose to downgrade pacman to make it work with pamac. To check the available versions in your cache, use ls -ltr /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | grep pacman. After that, you can install one of the older versions like sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/<old-pacman-package-name> where <old-pacman-package-name> is the package you chose from the previous command. @Rafael has already compiled a newer version of yay, so update your system wi…

[shivanandvp]

Update: There is an announcement with clearer instructions here: Pamac (graphical package management tool) and yay stopped working. [Workaround / Fix]

Please let me know if anything is not clear