Python unmerge'd

chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: Python unmerge'd

Ji, all.

Ever since running python-updater, I have been getting python errors, and pygtk errors. In a moment of desperation, I thought that i'd remove and then emerge python.

I knew that this may be a problem, so I did

jmz2 · Guru Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 421 Location: Finland

Both the Live CD and System rescue CD have python in them. Add the CD's python to your path and rerun emerge python.

Btw: What python errors you got after running python-updater?

chris_andrew · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:46 am Post subject:

jmz2,

Thanks for this. It all seemed to start after I ran the python-updater script. Before that, a package wouldn't install (avahi), because pygtk seemed unavailable. It was suggested I run python-updater. I can't remember what the subsequent messages were, but I got them when I tried to run Denu (http://freshmeat.net/projects/denu/) for example (builds menu entries, in this case, for openbox).

Could you be a bit more specific about installing the python package from the CD? I worry that when I've done this, I'll have to run python-updater and I'll be back where I started.

Any help appreciated.

Chris.
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