| 1 | <sect1 id="intro-important-beyond">
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| 2 | <?dbhtml filename="beyond.html" dir="introduction"?>
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| 3 | <title>Going Beyond <acronym>BLFS</acronym></title>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>The packages that are installed in this book are only the tip of the
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| 6 | iceberg. We hope that the experience you gained with the <acronym>LFS</acronym>
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| 7 | book and the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> book will give you the background needed
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| 8 | to compile, install and configure packages that are not included in this book.
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| 9 | </para>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>If you are in search of a package that is not in the book, the following
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| 12 | are different ways you can search for the concerned package.</para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <itemizedlist>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <listitem><para>If you know the name of the package, then search FreshMeat for
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| 17 | at <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>. Also search Google at
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| 18 | <ulink url="http://google.com/"/>. Sometimes a search for the rpm at
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| 19 | <ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/"/> or the deb at
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| 20 | <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages"/> can also
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| 21 | lead to the website for the package.</para></listitem>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <listitem><para>If you know the name of the executable, but not the package
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| 24 | that the executable belongs to, first try a google search with the name of the
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| 25 | executable. If the results are overwhelming, try searching for the given
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| 26 | executable in the debian repository at
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| 27 | <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents"/>.
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| 28 | </para></listitem>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | </itemizedlist>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Some general hints on handling new packages:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <itemizedlist>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <listitem><para>Many of the newer packages follow the <command>./configure
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| 37 | && make && make install</command> <emphasis>dance</emphasis>
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| 38 | routine. Help on the options accepted by configure can be obtained via the
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| 39 | command <command>./configure --help</command>.</para></listitem>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <listitem><para>Most of the packages contain documentation on compiling and
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| 42 | installing the package. Some of the documents are excellent, some not so
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| 43 | excellent. Check out the homepage of the package for any additional and updated
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| 44 | hints for compiling and configuring the package.</para></listitem>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <listitem><para>If you are having a problem compiling the package, try
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| 47 | searching the lfs archives at <ulink url="http://search.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>
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| 48 | for the error or if that fails try searching google. If everything else fails,
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| 49 | try the blfs support mailing-list/news-server.</para></listitem>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | </itemizedlist>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <tip><para>If you have found a package that is only available in .deb or .rpm
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| 54 | format, there are two small scripts rpm2targz and deb2targz that are available
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| 55 | at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/downloads/"/> to convert
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| 56 | the archives into a simple tar.gz format.</para></tip>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </sect1>
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