[arch-general] pacman upgrade confusion

[respiranto]

On 2016-04-04 18:10, message wrote:
>> Readers,
>>
>> An announcement
>> (https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-pacman-501-before-2016-04-23/)
>>
>> 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?

You should run `pacman -Syu' to fully upgrade you system.