Florian Philipp <lists <at> binarywings.net> writes:
> This should get you going: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/168951?do=post_view_threaded#168951 ok, after reading I tried this: emerge --usepkg gcc which did not work..... Can you be more specific on the syntax? It looks like this thread will prevent accidential deletion of gcc, in the future, but, I have not gleaned from the thread, nor from the emerge pages the correct (syntactically) version of how to use quickpkg to fix the problem. Do I first copy over the binary(ies) for gcc from another system? > Was your profile setting messed up? Maybe on an unmounted device? > AFAIK, the system set is defined by your profile. GCC is right in the > "base" file for every profile: > ${PORTDIR}/profiles/base/packages [2] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop * No unmounted device, just the internal ide drive in the laptop.... It was installed back in 2004 so there may be cruft in the laptop, since it's been dual boot Gentoo XP for a long time. it's not the first time I've run depclean on it though.....
