[gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

[»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>]

In <loom.20081031T050157-424@post.gmane.org>,
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Well,
> 
> I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry.
> 
> After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I
> got in a hurry, did not think and ran:
> 
> emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err 
> sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs
> 
> 
> So now I cannot emerge anything to fix this.
> 
> Here I tried (re) emerge wget:
> 
> Downloading
> 'ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gnuftp/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.1.tar.bz2'
> wget: error while loading shared libraries: libcom_err.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Can I just copy some file over from another amd64 machine?
> 
> If so, which ones exactly?
> 
> 
> If not, any other ideas to fix this?

It's com_err you need to make wget work again.  Using 'emerge -fpv
com_err' should get you a list of URL(s) for the file(s) needed, then
you can use a web browser to download them and put them in your
distfiles/ directory.  (Or if you've got them on the other machine,
just copy them from there.)

After you have com_err installed, use 'emerge -fuDN' to to get
everything you need to upgrade before you unmerge the blockers again.

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