On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not intending to contradict, but rebuilding cower worked for me. I used a > clean tarball and did makepackage --skipinteg (see the discussion under cower > in the AUR) Same here on multiple systems. The pacman upgrade replaced libalpm.so from .8 to .9, you'll probably need to run 'pacman-db-upgrade', then rebuild/reinstall cower (another thread also mentioned package-query, which backs yaourt). If you're using pacaur there's an update for that as well which adds the prevent-as-root check to align with the new pacman 4.2 restriction. hth, -te