cant find vim or gcc on the live cd

BossOfTheGame · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 49

I'm installing gentoo right now with little success. To try and solve some of my problems I wanted to edit some files quickly with the vim search and replace command. However vim is not on the live cd, just nano. I downloaded vim using links and when I ran ./configure it couldn't find the gcc compiler. A c compiler should be on there because I was able to compile my kernel right? I already downloaded vim 7.1 source, how do I get access to the binaries?

poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

The livecd is (IMO) set up pretty badly; don't even try to get vim out of it.

I forget, but there might be a regular ol' vi on there somewhere. Or, suck it up and use nano (that was a bit annoying the time I had to do it

).

Or, don't use the livecd at all. I installed from the fedora livedvd last time...

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BossOfTheGame · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 49

I can't use nano because I don't have time to delete 1000 lines. I have the vim source, I just need to compile it, thats why I need to know where gcc is.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

Zepp · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

What are you editing prior to extracting the stage and chrooting? If you have already extracted the stage and chrooted you can just go ahead and emerge vim (I assume you also extracted the latest portage snapshot).

BossOfTheGame · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 49

I just talked to my local gentoo guru and he said to just emerge vim, which I did in the chrooted environment, but I still can't seem to find it or open it. I don't believe the emerge gave me any errors. I did find the gcc compiler it was i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc.

Zepp · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:37 am Post subject:

BossOfTheGame · n00b Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 49

right now I'm not in chroot, I'm booting from the hard drive. It should be the same thing. My path is "-bash: /usr/local/sbin:usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/cc-bin/4.1.1: No Such file or directory"

Zepp · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: