emerge wont work

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Crackh34d
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emerge wont work

Post by Crackh34d »

Hey I'm pretty new to linux.
I just installed Gentoox Home v5.0 on my F:/. It runs Firefox, GAIM etc. flawlessly, but when I try OpenOffice.org in the menu on the bottom(xfce) I get the following error:

Failed to execute child process "oowriter" (no such file or directory)

So I figured I might have to install it first. So I tried in console as the admin:
emerge -s open office

But I get no results and this message:

'profiles/arch.list' is empty or not available. Empty portage tree?


Is there something I am doing wrong here?

Thx for any help!
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Post by ShALLaX »

Yes, you're not syncing (emerge --sync). OOo should work fine - at least it did when I tested it before releasing ;s
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