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emerge after hard drive install and portage

After installing Phaeronix, and running emerge --sync,
I get the following message after I try to emerge fluxbox....

!!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

how do i fix this?
please give many details.

Thanks

Sun, 2008-02-17 06:46 — panda (not verified)

gratitude

Thank you very much. :)

Thu, 2007-09-27 17:56 — Anonymous (not verified)

that work ln -sf

that work
ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 /etc/make.profile
kororaa Linux xgl 2.6.16 Livecd

Tue, 2007-04-24 22:40 — Joseph De Paola (not verified)

Was eselect supposed to fix this issue???

As far as I know when you emerge eselect, the profiler within eselect is supposed to manage all of these things. However I just ran into an issue with the Kororaa installer where after an emerge --sync, trying to emerge -av portage wouldn't let me because of the very same issue.

Wed, 2007-04-25 13:22 — pharon
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True

Yes eselect has a module to manage profiles. But you have to be able to emerge it in the first place before being able to use it. Therefore you need to select the profile manually like I described in previous comment, and then you will be able to emerge eselect.

Wed, 2007-02-14 21:33 — Eric (not verified)

Gentoo is to complicated

Gentoo is way to damn complicated the install is a damn pain in the arse.

Wed, 2007-02-14 23:30 — pharon
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Really ?

So don't use it :)

Thu, 2006-12-21 01:16 — malebola (not verified)

ARCH IS NO SET

MAN I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AND I ' M TRAING TO FIX IT IF YOU CAN HELP ME I GONNA BE REALLY GRAETFUL I'M USING PENTOO

Thu, 2006-12-21 06:00 — pharon
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read the comment

Did you try the solution suggested in my comment ?
Also make sure that your /etc/make.conf has the CHOST variable set.

Sat, 2006-03-18 11:47 — pharon
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This is probably because of

This is probably because of the CD being old, the /etc/make.profile is invalid. This is a symlink that has to point to one of the profiles in /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86

for example to use the latest profile just released do the following command :


ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 /etc/make.profile

I hope this helps.

Thu, 2007-11-08 08:55 — LeNtO (not verified)

Portage

Man you save me , I did like you say , and that was the solution

ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 /etc/make.profile

I just change 2006 for 2007 , Iuuuuuuuuuuuuujuuu

Thank`s a looooottttttt

Thu, 2007-11-08 11:04 — pharon
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wow

I didn't know such an old post would still be useful!