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Old 11-27-2004, 01:29 AM   #1
mdpniesta
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Angry is the command emerge supposed to be working while installing gentoo?

i am trying to install gentoo, and i am stuck at the part where i have to emerge something. because it tells me that the command isn't found. but based on the manual this is what i have to do...HELP!!!
 
Old 11-27-2004, 02:38 AM   #2
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It does indeed work... inside the chroot environment. If you are getting that, likely you aren't within the chroot, or think you are because you've 'cd /mnt/gentoo' but aren't actually within the chroot because you didn't perform the chroot command.

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