Jon Hardcastle wrote: >>
> Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! > I followed this > http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what > which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out of date. > http://www.python.org/download/releases/ > also I initially tried 3.01 and that didn't work so i installed 2.6.2 which worked 'out of the box' i then tested with 'emerge' and am now running 'emerge -va python' > Cheers guys! > Thanks to Dale too! You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working? FEATURES="--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages" Is the buildsyspkg option not valid anymore? Dale :-) :-)
