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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 1. November 2011, 23:00:57 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>> 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.
> Or just use "type -a", because that's a builtin.
> ~ $ type -a emerge
> emerge is /usr/bin/emerge
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
>
>
>


That is better.  Now to remember that command.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)