[gentoo-user] Re: howto recover gcc from another system

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Florian Philipp <lists <at> binarywings.net> writes:


> This should get you going:
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/168951?do=post_view_threaded#168951

ok, after reading I tried this:

emerge --usepkg gcc

which did not work.....

Can you be more  specific on the syntax?


It looks like this thread will prevent accidential
deletion of gcc, in the future, but, I have not
gleaned from the thread, nor from the emerge pages
the correct (syntactically) version of how to
use quickpkg to fix the problem. Do I first
copy over the binary(ies) for gcc from another system?


> Was your profile setting messed up? Maybe on an unmounted device?
> AFAIK, the system set is defined by your profile. GCC is right in the
> "base" file for every profile:
> ${PORTDIR}/profiles/base/packages

[2]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop *

No unmounted device, just the internal ide drive
in the laptop.... It was installed back in 2004
so there may be cruft in the laptop, since
it's been dual boot Gentoo XP for a long time.

it's not the first time I've run depclean on
it though.....