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Timestamp:
09/12/2003 03:09:56 AM (21 years ago)
Author:
Larry Lawrence <larry@…>
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Part I review with modification to better match LFS

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    33<title>Getting and unpacking the software</title>
    44
    5 <para>Those people who have built a LFS system will be aware of the
    6 general principles of downloading and unpacking software.  We will
     5<para>Those people who have built a <acronym>LFS</acronym> system will be aware
     6of the general principles of downloading and unpacking software.  We will
    77however repeat some of that information here for those new to building
    88their own software.</para>
    99
    10 <para>One difference from the LFS book is that we do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
    11 mirror the packages on the BLFS website.
    12 Instead, each set of installation instructions contains a URL from which
    13 you can download the package.  We do however keep a selection of patches
    14 available via http/ftp.  These are referenced as needed in the
     10<para>Each set of installation instructions contains a <acronym>URL</acronym>
     11from which you can download the package.  We do however keep a selection of
     12patches available via http.  These are referenced as needed in the
    1513installation instructions.</para>
    1614
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    3230the following two commands, depending on the filename:</para>
    3331
    34 <screen><userinput>tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
     32<screen><command>tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
    3533tar -xvzf filename.tgz
    36 tar -xvzf filename.tar.Z</userinput></screen>
     34tar -xvzf filename.tar.Z</command></screen>
    3735
    3836<para>If a file is tar'ed and bzip2'ed, it can usually be unpacked by
    3937running:</para>
    4038
    41 <screen><userinput>tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
     39<screen><command>tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2</command></screen>
    4240
    43 <para>This applies as long as you patched tar to include the j option
    44 during your LFS install.  If you didn't, you can use a slightly
    45 different method:</para>
     41<para>You can also use a slightly different method:</para>
    4642
    47 <screen><userinput>bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xv</userinput></screen>
     43<screen><command>bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xv</command></screen>
    4844
    4945<para>Finally, you need to be able to unpack patches which are generally
    … …  
    5248commands depending on whether the file is .gz or .bz2:</para>
    5349
    54 <screen><userinput>gunzip patchname.gz
    55 bunzip2 patchname.bz2</userinput></screen>
     50<screen><command>gunzip patchname.gz
     51bunzip2 patchname.bz2</command></screen>
    5652
    5753</sect2>
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