On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. This mail didn't make much sense to me untill the very last line ... You can solve it in a number of ways e.g. remove pyalpm, update pacman, update pyalpm if available: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1042280#p1042280