Excerpts from Sebastian Lipp's message of Di Mär 06 02:17:07 +0100 2012: > pacman: relocation error: /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7: symbol gpgme_check_version_internal, version GPGME_1.1 not defined in file libgpgme.so.11 with link time reference I finally solved this myself. Just in case anyone with the same problem comes along: I realized that gpgme must be the problem. So I disabled package signature checking via adding 'SigLevel = Never' to pacman.conf. Now I was able to update gpgme. After reactivating sig checking everything went fine. -- basti