When you corrupt your portage or something is wrong with your installation,you can manually download a package, compile and install it... Packages are located at http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles Code: cd /usr/src wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/distfiles/PACKAGE-x.y.z.tar.bz2 tar -xf PACKAGE-x.y.z.tar.bz2 cd PACKAGE-x.y.z ./configure --prefix /usr make make install
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