[arch-general] pacman upgrade confusion - Arch-general

4 Apr 2016


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Readers,
An announcement
(https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-pacman-501-before-2016-04-...)
states that users must upgrade to pacman501.
pacman -S pacman
warning: pacman-5.0.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) pacman-5.0.0-1
Firstly, I tried:
yaourt -Syua
package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.9:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Then:
pacman -S pacman
warning: pacman-5.0.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) pacman-5.0.0-1
pacman --version
.--.                  Pacman v5.0.0 - libalpm v10.0.0
/ _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2006-2016 Pacman Development Team
\  '-. '-'  '-'  '-'   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
  '--'
                        This program may be freely redistributed under
                        the terms of the GNU General Public License.
What am I doing wrong, to prevent update to pacman501?