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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:53:42
Message-Id: 53FAF94F.7020403@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!) by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
1 On 25/08/2014 08:17, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
2 > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:58:36PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
3 >> Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder!
4 >> And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone!
5 >> Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other solution?
6 >> Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am looking for!
7 >
8 > You should be able to get away with an emerge @system @world -evDN instead of
9 > a complete re-install.
10 > You should first get a copy of a minimal working /usr though (like from
11 > a stage3 tarball), otherwise you will run into errors as /usr/bin is where
12 > python and other stuff resides that you'll need for installation.
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15 gcc is also in /usr which happily guarantees that nothing can be fixed
16 without unpacking a stage first
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19 --
20 Alan McKinnon
21 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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