"paru: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" when attempting to run paru

[Bilskirnir3124]

Affected Version

paru 2.0.1-1 with pacman 6.1.0-3 running on kernel version 6.7.9-zen1-1-zen.

Description

Attempting to run any command returns the following output.

Output

"paru: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

My paru.conf and my pacman.conf

If I can provide any more information please do let me know. I've not used github before this.

[tohsaka888]

I think the problem is that you upgrade pacman .

You can run this command to check it:

pacman --version

if the result is:

 .--.                  Pacman v6.1.0 - libalpm v14.0.0
/ _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2006-2024 Pacman Development Team
\  '-. '-'  '-'  '-'   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
 '--'
                       This program may be freely redistributed under
                       the terms of the GNU General Public License.

libalpm upgrade to v14.0.0

[Bilskirnir3124]

Yes. The output matches exactly. I suppose I should just wait until paru upgrades to match?

[tohsaka888]

Right, i think so.

[Bilskirnir3124]

Copy. Thank you. I'll go ahead and mark this closed then.

[tohsaka888]

Hi, @Bilskirnir3124 :

You can try this to fix this problem.

sudo cp /usr/lib/libalpm.so.14 /usr/lib/libalpm.so.13

[Voklen]

The latest version of paru seems to work but since it can't find libalpm.so.13 it can't update itself. So we can do that manually.
Go into the directory you originally installed paru in and run

git pull

then

makepkg -si

and this should be fully fixed 😄

Note that if you deleted the directory simply go through the installation again

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

[Bilskirnir3124]

The latest version of paru seems to work but since it can't find libalpm.so.13 it can't update itself. So we can do that manually. Go into the directory you originally installed paru in and run

git pull

then

makepkg -si

and this should be fully fixed 😄

Note that if you deleted the directory simply go through the installation again

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

This solved the problem perfectly. Thank you.

[markstos]

I get an error at the makepkg step:

❯ makepkg -si
==> ERROR: Cannot find the debugedit binary required for including source files in debug packages.

The fix for that is in this related thread: #1149 (comment)

[JJJHolscher]

Thank you for posting the answer.
Is updating with pacman generally a no-go? I prefer to.

[markstos]

Is updating with pacman generally a no-go? I prefer to.

Paru is not installed with Pacman: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru?tab=readme-ov-file#installation It is not in any repo that Pacman knows about.

[JJJHolscher]

err, I meant
"is updating all my other packages except paru with pacman" generally not recommended when using paru

[markstos]

It's my understanding that you can safely fix paru and pacman for non-AUR packages. I use paru maximally for simplicity.

One detail that's nice about paru: If pacman needs to run as root and you aren't root, it will just err-out and quit. But if paru needs root, it will prompt you for your sudo password and you can continue.