Update on this topic: so, it turns out OP appears to have done a few things he didn't tell us about.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Edward Torvalds <ltorvalds...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not able to install any package using 'yaourt' (although I can > using pacman). > No matter what package I try to install I end up with same error again > and again, and it asks me to rebuild that package again. Error: > > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be > preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. > So, uh, did you actually export LD_PRELOAD? Why did you not tell us about that, and do you have any understanding of what either the shell's 'export' feature and LD_PRELOAD are? cheers! mar77i