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emerge -C python

Okay, so I had a conflict with phyton and python-updater on my gentoo box the other day, and being tired and not thinking, i did a emerge -C pyton, which removes the program.

Shortly afterwards remembering the emerge program (gentoo’s portage application) is dependant on python. Doing a series of “whoops”, “oh shits”, and “damns”, I did a quick google, and found this link, and used it with updated versions/commands. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5746

Basically what I did:

cd /tmp/

tar xjf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2

cd Python-2.4.4/

./configure –with-fpectl –infodir=/usr/share/info/ –mandir=/usr/share/man

make

make install prefix=/usr

emerge python

cd ; rm -rf /tmp/Python-2.4.4

Which got me back up and operational. Kudos to the original poster to fix this!

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2 Responses to “emerge -C python”

  1. Chomp says:
    July 29, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Wow – thanks man. You saved me hours and lots of palpitations.
    You titled your post exactly right for the search engine too.

    Gentoo should just have a command:
    emerge –fix-stupid-python-removal

  2. Fala says:
    May 1, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    I’ve just did the similar mistake (too fast ‘emerge –prune –nodep’), but thanks to you it wasn’t that hard to fix it. It should be somehow forbidden for emerge to remove python that easy…

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