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peertje888
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:52 pm    Post subject: HOWTO: Manually install python (broken python) Reply with quote
When you broke your python installation, which happened to me lately, you can manually download a python version to your needs and compile it at http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles

For example I did the following as super user:
Code:
cd /usr/src
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2
tar -xf Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2
cd Python-2.6.4
./configure --prefix /usr
make
make install


This will create a /usr/bin/python binary, which is wrong
Code:
ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python


Now try python-updater

If you are using Porthole you have to unmerge this and emerge it again.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A better idea would be to download a copy of pre-built python from the Gentoo tinderbox:

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/dev-lang/python-2.6.4.tbz2
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shiny, thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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