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On (20/02/08 11:02) Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I made a silly mistake : |
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> > emerge --unmerge python* |
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> > |
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> > now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!! |
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> > |
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> > Any idea ? |
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> > Best Regards |
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> > Steph |
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> |
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> Oops. |
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> An easy way is to get a quickpkg tarball of python from another machine |
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> and unpack that to / |
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> Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If |
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> all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is |
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> about 8M large |
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> |
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> For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, |
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> glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again |
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> myself |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> -- |
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Hi, |
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Install python manually (2.5.1) and later reemerge it using portage. |
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Could also install a second manager (paludis) just in case :-) |
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HTH. Rumen |
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