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unmerged tar

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Post by yak8998 » Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:09 pm

my tar was pretty screwed up, so i did an emerge -C tar, forgetting that it d/ls .tars to install the packages, so on a emerge tar now, i get an error that it cant find tar to unzip the package...

whats the best way to get tar reinstalled now?
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Post by GuidoJ » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:03 pm

Try copying tar from a LiveCD and then emerge tar to get an up-to-date version.
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Post by frekiR » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:12 pm

I just posted a URL to a tar.tar when the neurons in my brains started working :P
Oh well, just go with above or somewhere else to get the tar-file from, and then do a

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just to be safe, and get the latest version ofcourse :)

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