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by sevenlayercookie
Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:14 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: pretty basic...uninstall something installed via portage?
Replies: 7
Views: 4807

Try "emerge depclean"
It scans the system for unused dependencies, then removes them.
by sevenlayercookie
Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:23 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: a couple questions about gentoox
Replies: 2
Views: 2487

1. You might be able to find a linux program somewhere to extract xbox ISO's. 2. You cannot play xbox games from within linux, but you can install linux as a side program from you dashboard, so you can play games as normal and still have linux. 3. You cannot burn anything, as your drive is not DVD-R...
by sevenlayercookie
Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:06 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: pretty basic...uninstall something installed via portage?
Replies: 7
Views: 4807

1, I want ALSA removed, sound support, all that GONE. Try "emerge -c sox" then "emerge --pretend depclean" make sure it lists correct dependencies. If it's OK, then run "emerge depclean" Depclean removes unnecessary dependencies. 2, magic kills my system. It doesn't ha...
by sevenlayercookie
Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:04 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: emerge/portage broken? "ARCH is not set"
Replies: 22
Views: 12726

I had this problem a few days ago. The symlink by default is set to the wrong file. I hope you haven't messed it up by deleting make.profile... :? . But this is what I did to fix it... Run unlink /etc/make.profile Then ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/ /etc/make.profile Hope it w...
by sevenlayercookie
Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:48 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: Date and time in bios
Replies: 6
Views: 4001

Not quite sure what problem you're having... Is the xbox system time reseting or linux time? How are you setting your Linux date/time?
Try command "date MMDDhhmmYyyy" as in February 11, 2005 2:40 "date 021102402006"
by sevenlayercookie
Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:10 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: [Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

Sweet man! Thanks a lot! That fixed it :D . i ran

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 unlink /etc/make.profile
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 ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/ /etc/make.profile 
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And Im good to go! Thanks again
by sevenlayercookie
Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:22 am
Forum: Newbie
Topic: [Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

Ok, my make.profile is already linked to 2005.0/2.4, so i dont think that is the problem. I did some research, and most ppl said they had exact same problem, and the did an "emerge sync" to fix it. I think thats where my problem is. I just need to figure out this timeout deal... The thing ...
by sevenlayercookie
Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:45 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: [Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

Ok, dled "gentoo-portagelatest" and extracted iit to "/usr/portage/" (by the way, i only had 2 folders in there". I ran "emerge portage", and it did a little bit more, but then i got "ARCH is not set..." again. :( . I tred magic agin, and same timouts... ...
by sevenlayercookie
Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:36 pm
Forum: Newbie
Topic: [Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

Ok, i'll try that. I think its probably the same as gentoo, so sounds good. Thanks for the help!
by sevenlayercookie
Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:08 am
Forum: Newbie
Topic: [Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic
Replies: 7
Views: 4379

[Solved] Emerge, emerge sync, magic

ok, ive been tryin to fix this for like a month. Im tryin to update xbox and get new programs. I have Gentoox Home 4.0. Im tryin to get a program thru emerge, so i type "emerge whatever" and i get somethin like "ARCH is not set..." and something about portage. So I ran "emer...