On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Peter van Eck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome > > > > emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade > > > > My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package > > meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells > > seem to be stuck. > > > > I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C) > > > > I tried installing the binary package (gnome) > > > > This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD . > > > > I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my > > system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, > > rm..... > > > > What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing > > to do ?? > > > > thanks in advance for any helpful reply ... > > First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, > use 'dep-clean -U'. As for fixing your system, try 'emerge -u system'. > That should probably merge the missing packages.
I take it 'dep-clean -U' is syntax input parameter for emerge command thanks, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
