Holly Bostick wrote: >>So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose >>Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine. >>But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: >>emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). >> >>Have I missed a step? >> >> > >Are you trying to run emerge as a user? It can only be run as root >('command not found' often indicates that, assuming that the application >is installed, which in this case we know it is. The command cannot be >found in the user's $PATH-- because and so that the user cannot use it-- >but in root's $PATH). > > Nope, I tried to create a user, but the adduser command couldn't be found either. Neither can the find and whereis commands.
>So if you missed a step, it was the step of su-ing to root before trying >to run emerge. > >HTH, >Holly > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list