Comments on: Gentoo: I unmerged python. Now what?

By: Emek Demir

Emek Demir — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:03:13 +0000

I have a “bleeding edge” box which uses ~x86 and routinely dep-cleans itself ( I know not a great idea, but hey it is not a production box). I was away, not paying attention and on one fine friday night it emerged python 3.1 and depcleaned 2.4 breaking portage. Your post saved me a lot of time .. thanks!

By: Jnaneshwar

Jnaneshwar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:23:27 +0000

Whenever I use emerge command, I get following error:

File “/usr/bin/emerge”, line 41
except PermissionDenied, e;
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please help me :),

By: Me

Me — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:36:26 +0000

You saved my live… Thank you

By: dumbass

dumbass — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:51:31 +0000

Here I am 2:49 in the morning.. Ya go ahead unmerge python.. GREAT IDEA!

Thanks for reminding me that i can still compile things from source!

By: konstantin

konstantin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:35:48 +0000

Thanks for help! I’ve done that stupid thing. Tutorial saved a lot of time.

By: eLcHi

eLcHi — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:47:10 +0000

Another thanks ! I`m usually a RedHat Admin but we have one Gentoo system that hosts our Asterisk PBX. I tried to update portage, it complained about python - i thought “hmmm, asterisk doesn`t need python anyway so lets just remove and reinstall later” … a few seconds later i found out that python is crucial for portage …

Very helpful ! Worked for me too

By: rtm

rtm — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:23:34 +0000

Thanks for writing this up… it really saved me. I sat down tonight at a Gentoo system that had been powered off for the last 3 months, booted it up, and it said that Python was blocking something else. So, in my tired state and sitting down at a Gentoo system for the first time in many months, my first instinct was to remove python and then emerge it again… except after I unmerged python, emerge no longer worked. I immediately realized the severity of what I had done. I still had the last installed python package on the drive, so I could easily re-install it from that, using your step-by-step. Thank you for the guide… it really helped!