Why is yaourt looking in the wrong place (pacman works)?
After removing yaourt and package-query, upgrading pacman to v4.0.1 and reinstalling the latest package-query and yaourt from AUR, I can't use yaourt anymore. It tells me:
Unable to open file: /usr/local/etc/pacman.conf
I don't understand why it's looking there now and not in /etc. Meanwhile pacman is working normally. If I create a symlink to pacman.conf, I get the following error instead:
failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory)
My $PATH is:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
I have tried looking in the yaourt PKGBUILD prior to installing, reinstalling it, looking in the yaourt script file, and I can't find anything suspicious. Not sure what to look for, what could have happened?
EDIT: Found the solution: /usr/bin needs to be before /usr/local/bin in $PATH.
Yaourt apparently uses the first entry in $PATH, so /usr/bin needs to be before /usr/local/bin there.
Changing this in /etc/profile solved the problem.
Reinstall package-query using empty --prefix: ./configure --prefix=
I had the same issue. The problem (as mentioned in other answers) is that if you run:
[linux]$ echo $PATH
[linux]$ /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin .....
Notice that /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin appear first, so the programs searched for will be taken from these locations (if they exist).
Have a look in /usr/local/bin to see if you can see package-query there; if you can, then your issues are being caused by this, it shouldn't be there (unless you installed it there). So. Lets fix it......
Start by removing YAOURT:
sudo pacman -R yaourt
checking dependencies...
Packages (1) yaourt-1.9-1
Total Removed Size: 0.81 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing yaourt [############################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
And then remove package-query:
[linux]$ sudo pacman -R package-query
checking dependencies...
Packages (1) package-query-1.9-3
Total Removed Size: 0.08 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing package-query [############################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
Finally, manually remove the stray package-query binary:
[linux]$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/package-query
Now, re-install yaourt (and package-query) using the instructions supplied here: https://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
And you should be good to go.