Mark Hobley wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.gentoo J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes, the two are different and I had kind of the same trouble as the OP, but I
>> don't use threads, but I did have to uninstall the 2.4, keeping it will cause
>> troubles.
>
> Damn! I just removed python as follows:
>
> emerge --unmerge python

Thats bad, as most gentoo scripts are depending on python, it's supposed
to be easy to develop for, but not that good when using it... had been a
lot nicer with statically compiled binaries.


> Now when I try to reinstall it, I get an error as follows:
> emerge python
> bash: /usr/bin/emerge: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file
> or directory

If you don't have a python binary tarball, you have to resource to an
install CD and copy the python files from there, then reinstall python.



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//Aho