Re: [gentoo-user] BUG? - bridge-utils no binary?

[Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@gmail.com>]

Check the emerge logs and see what files were copied where (the part 
where it's like /usr/bin/brctl - or whatever). It may be that the 
command is slightly different with this version. *shrugs*

Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this
> howto:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo
> 
> Everything was going great until I came to emerging bridge-utils.
> 
> the actual emerging didnt fail (using "emerge bridge-utils -av") but
> typing the command brctl it tells me '-bash: brctl: command not found'
> 
> next I try "whereis brctl", resulting in:
> 
> brctl: /usr/man/man8/brctl.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/brctl.8.gz
> 
> ok, so the man files are there, it seems the package was installed. but
> no binary.
> 
> Using "find / -name brctl"  i also got nothing.
> 
> It seems that there is no binary, I have tried emerging again,
> unmerging, updating and the like, still the same problem.  The emerge
> itself doesnt fail with the usual "Error..." so I presume thats fine (or
> am i wrong that
> emerge would halt on all errors?)
> 
> Any help appreciated as I am somewhat at a loss as to whats going on.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 

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