Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:50:23 +0100 schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
>[snip snip] > [snip...] > > > > Thank you! :-) > > > > you're welcome ;) > > its really easy to help you because you provide the right > > information =) > > To save me asking next time ... how did you know that pax-utils was > to blame? i saw this error: > /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/pam-1.1.4/temp/environment: line 2226: > scanelf: command not found > * ERROR: sys-libs/pam-1.1.4 failed (install phase): and with % equery b scanelf * Searching for scanelf ... app-misc/pax-utils-0.2.2 (/usr/bin/scanelf) i knew that it belonged to pax-utils. that only works, if a package owning that binary is installed. if there wasn't, i would have used a web search engine. the results normally contain man pages saying which package the command belongs to. that means either /usr/bin/scanelf is missing or /usr/bin is not in the path (at least not in the environment of portage). i thought the latter would be unlikely :)
