On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Peter van Eck wrote:
Hi,
I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome
emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade
My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells seem to be stuck.
I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C)
I tried installing the binary package (gnome)
This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD .
I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, rm.....
What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing to do ??
thanks in advance for any helpful reply ...
First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. As for fixing your system, try 'emerge -u system'. That should probably merge the missing packages.
I take it 'dep-clean -U' is syntax input parameter for emerge command
No, dep-clean is a separate program that is included with gentoolkit. If you don't already have it installed, try 'emerge gentoolkit'.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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