On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane ANCELOT wrote: > Hi, > I made a silly mistake : > emerge --unmerge python* > > now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!! > > Any idea ? > Best Regards > Steph
Oops. An easy way is to get a quickpkg tarball of python from another machine and unpack that to / Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is about 8M large For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again myself -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
