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Why is yaourt looking in the wrong place (pacman works)?

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Mar 15, 20269763 views
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Problem

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: 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 pā€¦

Error Output

Unable to open file: /usr/local/etc/pacman.conf

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Fix for: Why is yaourt looking in the wrong place (pacman works)?

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Yaourt apparently uses the first entry in $PATH, so needs to be before there. Changing this in solved the problem.

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