Oops i cut off the branch i was standing on (SOLVED)

[s1vn1]

I unemerged gzip

and yes i cant emerge anything now.

I feel really stuid but there ya go , i assumed there would be some native support that would allow

me to re-emerge .

Anyhow the reason i did it, i was getting a very large number of emerge failures ie gzip just wasnt unpacking

properly.

so !?x%&* the rest is history

Can someone suggest a way of my getting gzip support back or am i still falling , just waiting to hit the ground

[PaulBredbury]

Use busybox.

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busybox gunzip yourfile.gz

[s1vn1]

I tried busybox

busybox gzip -d gzip-1.3.12.tar.gz

am i in the wrong directory perhaps.
sorry to be a nuisance.

i ran busybox from /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/gzip-1.3.12/

could someone give me a little more explicit help here i need to get gzip back up and safely emerged into my system.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

[pigeon768]

Try mounting an install cd and copying the gzip binary over, then reinstall gzip. I think you'll need squashfs support - compile it as a module if you don't have it already.

[s1vn1]

i do have access to a live cd but cant get gzip binary

I have internet access to if this helps can anyone give me another solution

i cannot seem to solve this with out some help

obviously without gzip properly emerged into my system im doing nothing

any help really appreciated

[dingfelder]

I think what he means is boot to the liveCD, mount your directories, then copy the liveCD's gzip to /bin/gzip

[yuwy]

aye, the simplest solution be to copy over a compiled gzip (assuming right architecture) and place it into the /usr/bin or /bin , whichever floats your boat.

[s1vn1]

Thanks for your help guys sorted