Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to login to gentoo

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:49:30 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Vishnupradeep wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:michaelkintzios@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     emerge -1aDv app-portage/gentoolkit
> >
> >     revdep-rebuild -v --ask
> >
> > i can't use emerge command as it is shown as command not found. can
> > u tell the correct path of emerge. 
> 
> /usr/bin/emerge
> 
> Little bit of learning here:
> 
> root@smoker / # which emerge
> /usr/bin/emerge
> root@smoker / #
> 
> Now you know where it is and how I found out where it is.  Trick is 
> remembering a command you rarely use.

That won't work. The $PATH is broken so the shell can't find ls and
emerge.

Well, it won't find which either :-)

Solution: You run which which and tell the OP which directory contains
which so he can run /path/towhich emerge to find out where emerge is.


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