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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gone--can I use a tbz?
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On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Yohan Pereira wrote:

> On Saturday 26 Mar 2011 06:54:29 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files.
>> But emerge won't install it (again, just returns).
>> 
>> Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files?
>
> do you have qmerge installed?
>
> qmerge -K <package name> 

No and eix qmerge doesn't show it.  However, I was apparently bitten by
the same python problem as in the next thread.  I have done

   eselect python set 1

and now revdep-rebuild is reinstalling 25 packages.

allan