Can't update pacman.

Question

I have a strange problem. I haven't updated Arch since sometimes in January, and today when I tried to it asked me to update pacman first. I said yes, and got this:
sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
repo-ck is up to date
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6
What do I do now?
EDIT:
pacman -Qi pacman
Name : pacman
Version : 3.5.4-4
URL : http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : base
Provides : None
Depends On : bash glibc>=2.14 libarchive>=2.8.4 libfetch>=2.28
pacman-mirrorlist
Optional Deps : fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user
curl: for rankmirrors usage
Required By : cower-git pyalpm
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 2956.00 K
Packager : Allan McRae <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sun 14 Aug 2011 01:37:32 SAST
Install Date : Mon 05 Sep 2011 23:08:03 SAST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Description : A library-based package manager with dependency support
Last edited by biltong (2012-02-09 15:06:03)

Answer 1

jgreen1tc wrote:
meph wrote:
pacman -S pacman pyalpm
should work
Shouldn't he remove pyalpm, update pacman, then reinstall pyalpm?
It's a known bug, manually and explicitly updating pyalpm solves the problem. Doesn't mean your solution wouldn't work