How to fix yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so

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

This error can only be fixed by reinstalling yay. There is no other way to solve this error.

1. Remove yay:

pacman -R yay

2. Make a new directory and clone the yay repository

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay

3. Build and install yay:

makepkg -si

After installation, you can use yay as usual.

Resources:

• https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2502#issuecomment-2351022248