I unmerged python... ensuing problems....

acoul · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 31

if you install the binary and you still have problems compiling, then one thing you should look are the values of the make.conf that should be set correctly.

Edit: in my case the problem was a wrong LANGUAGE setting. The wrong setting is the one with the comment bellow:

BServiss · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 62

Another issue that I stumbled upon was a java breakage. Java-config stopped after missing an import - outputformatter which was not rebuilt with all the other fun I was having with python.

The instructions here fixed that problem.

sab · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 12 Location: London

I love u all....Gentoo rocks.
Had the same problem and now solved.
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kelargo · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 51

your instructions on bandaging python back to life for emerge to work properly helped me out!

panyo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 86

Perhaps the right answer to this would be helpful at the start of the thread, as in this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443022-highlight-pam+blocking+shadow.html

And both perhaps should be reflected in the GCC upgrade guide, which may be what brought
many of us here? I am currently working on my first full system upgrade on my powerbook
because I finally had to upgrade to modular X, which I knew would break my system- and it did.
Now, preparing to emerging world to fix X, I am doing this upgrade, which I knew would break
my system--and it did. This is how it was long ago, and I have been reluctant to do full system
upgrades since. But now the answers are all pretty neat and easy, and seem would not be bad
to add to the pitfalls sections of the upgrade guides.

trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

Thanks so VERY MUCH delta407, it worked for me!

zoltix · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:00 am Post subject:

Sorry but I have litle issue could please help me ?
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bash: /usr/bin/emerge: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: Permission denied

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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

If the python interpreter is actually nonfunctional, as opposed to some mishap with configuration or selection, try the following.

Download the package from the tinderbox repository which matches the architecture of the system. Place that file in $PKGDIR on that system. Then unpack that package directly under /, tar xvjf $PKGDIR/python-2.4.4-r6.tbz2 should do it, though $PKGDIR will likely need to be manually expanded as it is not typically present in the environment. Next ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python. Finally, emerge -K dev-lang/python.

zoltix · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

perfect thank a lot ..........;

Wyatt · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Idiot here, uninstalled python to resolve a blocking issue (sigh). I've gotten a python copy running but portage is giving me garbage about pysqlite (like so):

Tmor · n00b Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 30

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Lord_DragonFly · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:49 am Post subject:

@Tmor: i believe there is something like this already.

Portage is part of the system profile, which means that portage will complain if you ask to remove it but (since you are root and therefore god) will let you unmerge it anyway.

Running `emerge -aC` or `emerge -pC` are recommended.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

vectox · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Luxembourg

mmoufid · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Ottawa ON

I did this when I first started using Gentoo. :oops:

Perhaps Portage should warn when a user attempts to --unmerge Python? :wink:

mslinn · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: Oops ...

Here is how I recovered Python v2.5. Instructions have changed slightly from the original posting:

cfgauss · l33t Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 726 Location: USA

Phylroy · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

Shot myself in the foot.. Python was blocking the new python packages...

[blocks B ] <dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5, app-admin/python-updater-0.2)

So I did what I usually do in this situation...emerge -C the offending package and then remerge it..

However I forgot that emergey depends on python....crap...Now I have a chicken or the egg problem...

Any solutions for this?

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

There known solutions, some faster than others.

Merged the above post.

lanjelot · n00b Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 3

The only solution that worked for me was
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Restoring_Removed_Key_System_Packages

But i had unmerged both sys-libs/db and dev-lang/python, and all slots of them!

hansmaa · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 69

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devsk · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject:

I wonder why portage just doesn't let you unmerge python and itself from the command line? That would sound like a fair plan in this case and help end-users. A program should not allow the users to shoot themselves in the foot. When we release products at our company, we tend to account for all users irrespective of their intelligence level and make sure that the end users don't shoot themselves in the foot in any way. In this case, its seems rather obvious. Is it really hard to just not allow unmerging of python and portage from command line? How about an extra warning with explicit text (different from "this is part of your system profile" crap) stating that this will be the end of your gentoo dreams and you won't be able to install anything, not even portage itself?