From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7b9i-0001xO-CG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:57:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NFtNd6015057; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:55:23 GMT Received: from mail.capital-internet.net (mail.capital-internet.net [216.136.66.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NFmQ3L004647 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:48:26 GMT Received: from [84.4.125.63] (unknown [84.4.125.63]) by mail.capital-internet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8BAEE44E2 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:49:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <430B458A.5020201@joli-ciel.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:49:30 +0200 From: Assaf Urieli User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found References: <430B3304.2000507@joli-ciel.com> <430B3CF5.6070304@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <430B3CF5.6070304@planet.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9160fa5d-92be-4f3d-bf4f-2e663ed58788 X-Archives-Hash: 36233775b359fd2814df66e652e57e55 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