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Devport
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 Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: Deleted Python - how reinstall ? |
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I just deleted python to upgrade it to 2.5 but that was a bad idea - can someone guide me to one of the many topics about reinstalling packages from install packages and where to find them without downloading a whole gentoo CD ?
[I know this kind of stuff has been discussed a thousand times but I don't know what term to use for search]
Right now I am ROFL cause its too funny when something like this happens to someone using gentoo for years - but sometimes I need to do this - its fun.  |
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frostschutz
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Devport
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks.
I solved it by copying over the binaries from the livecd. |
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s1lver
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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Could you please tell me how you did this because I just made the same mistake  |
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Devport
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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I dont remember how I did it. You could try to boot the livecd, open a console and try to emerge python with
ROOT=/mnt/yourmountedlinuxpartition PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages emerge -av --usepkg python
| Quote: | --usepkg (-k)
Tells emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are
available, thus possibly avoiding some time-consuming compiles.
This option is useful for CD installs; you can export
PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have
emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to satisfy
dependencies.
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| Quote: | ROOT = [path]
Use ROOT to specify the target root filesystem to be used for
merging packages or ebuilds. This variable can be set in
make.conf(5) when PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT has a value other than /.
Defaults to /.
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If that doesnt work you could try to find a binary package of python on the web ( a binary package for other distros will do too, it only has to be the version for your system, e.g. x86 / amd64 ). If you take a binary package for debian or ubuntu you could simply unpack it AFAIK. Yet this is not a clean solution because you willl have files on your system that are not tracked by portage.
Try to find out how to do it with the livecd - maybe someone else can give exact instructions ? |
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s1lver
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| Nothing I tried worked so I just re-installed Linux...it seemed alot easier to me. |
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tylerwylie
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It needs to be written somewhere than Portage is dependent on Python. 
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desultory
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