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cayenne
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 Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: /usr/bin/emerge: No such file or directory |
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Hi all,
Ok...I blew it.
I'm on an OLD box...and was starting to update it. I tried emerge --sync...and it finally finished. It suggested I update portage and set a profile. I did the profile.
But when I tried emerge portage...it basically said the old version of portage was blocking bash upgrade with was part of the portage update.
I unmerged portage, to try to allow the emerge of the new one to work.
Now, I can't emerge.
I thought I'd download a latest snapshot of portage, which I did, and unzipped it to /usr...trying to follow the directions for a new install, but, I apparently still have no emerge program.
Can someone help me figure out how to get emerge back again?
Thanks in advance,
cayenne
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lxg
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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/usr/portage is just the package database.
I don't know if there's a state-of-the-art solution for this sort of problem, but I would try to get a binary .tar.bz2 package of sys-apps/portage, and unpack it into your tree. (However, you might get warnings about package collisions when emerging portage the next time, but I think there's a switch for the FEATURES variable to temporarily ignore file collisions.)
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cayenne
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: would this work? |
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| lxg wrote: | /usr/portage is just the package database.
I don't know if there's a state-of-the-art solution for this sort of problem, but I would try to get a binary .tar.bz2 package of sys-apps/portage, and unpack it into your tree. (However, you might get warnings about package collisions when emerging portage the next time, but I think there's a switch for the FEATURES variable to temporarily ignore file collisions.) |
I just thought of something.
Could I just pull /usr/bin/emerge off another box...and put it on this one and have it work?
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[n00b@localhost]
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| cayenne wrote: | | Could I just pull /usr/bin/emerge off another box...and put it on this one and have it work? |
That wouldn't work. The portage package contains python modules that are used by the emerge command. Untarring the package as lxg suggested seems the best bet. |
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TrueDFX
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Make sure you get rid of /usr/lib/portage entirely. A partial installation of portage will hurt recovery. | Code: | | rm -r /usr/lib/portage |
Download the portage tarball. This isn't necessary if you have it in your DISTDIR already, of course. | Code: | | wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/portage-2.1.6.tar.bz2 |
Unpack it. | Code: | | tar xjf portage-2.1.6.tar.bz2 |
Install make.globals. It needs to be in /etc because portage won't find it otherwise, and it really needs it. | Code: | cd portage-2.1.6
cp cnf/make.globals /etc |
Create a binpkg of portage. | Code: | | bin/ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.1.6.7.ebuild clean package |
Manually install it first, ... | Code: | cd /
tar xjpf /usr/portage/packages/sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7.tar.bz2 |
...and use the manually installed portage to install portage properly. | Code: | | emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly sys-apps/portage |
Now portage should be installed properly again. There are probably other ways that take fewer steps, but this works here. |
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