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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] I tried installing gentoo prefix on WSL2 running debian.....
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:22:06
Message-Id: 20190718072147.GA18573@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] I tried installing gentoo prefix on WSL2 running debian..... by Michael Fothergill
1 Your path is zapped by your .bashrc or something. Did the bootstrap
2 script give a message/warning about this near the end of its execution?
3 It should have.
4
5 Fabian
6
7 On 17-07-2019 21:18:25 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
8 > Many thanks.
9 >
10 > Gentoo prefix installed successfully on clear linux.
11 >
12 > But something is wrong with the path to start the prefix working properly.
13 >
14 > emerge and eselect news read commands are not found.....
15 >
16 > I changed directory to /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/bin and found emerge.
17 >
18 > I ran /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge --update --newuse @world  as a command.
19 >
20 > It ran OK.
21 >
22 > I need to set the locale.
23 >
24 > I ran  /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/bin/eselect news read
25 >
26 > The error says that the package manager cannot get a list of repositories.
27 >
28 > echo $PATH
29 >
30 > gives
31 >
32 > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/3rd-party/bin
33 >
34 > Comments appreciated
35 >
36 > Regards
37 >
38 > MF
39 >
40 >
41 > read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8:
42 --
43 Fabian Groffen
44 Gentoo on a different level

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