Changeset d23a555 for introduction/important/beyond.xml
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ra5ecb00 rd23a555 3 3 <title>Going Beyond BLFS</title> 4 4 5 <para>NEW PAGE TO BE WRITTEN</para> 5 <para>The packages that are installed in this book are only the tip of the 6 iceberg. We hope that the experience you gained with the LFS book and the BLFS 7 book will give you the background needed to compile, install and configure 8 packages that are not included in this book.</para> 9 10 <para>If you are in search of a package that is not in the book, the following 11 are different ways you can search for the concerned package.</para> 12 13 <itemizedlist> 14 15 <listitem><para>If you know the name of the package, then search FreshMeat for 16 the package at <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>. Also search Google at 17 <ulink url="http://google.com/"/>. Sometimes a search for the rpm at 18 <ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/"/> or the deb at 19 <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages"/> can also 20 lead to the website for the package.</para></listitem> 21 22 <listitem><para>If you know the name of the executable, but not the package that 23 the executable belongs to, first try a google 24 search with the name of the executable. If the results are overwhelming, try 25 searching for the given executable in the debian repository at 26 <ulink url="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents"/>. 27 </para></listitem> 28 29 </itemizedlist> 30 31 <para>Some general hints on handling new packages:</para> 32 33 <itemizedlist> 34 35 <listitem><para>Many of the newer packages follow the <command>./configure 36 && make && make install</command> routine. Help of the 37 options accepted by configure can be obtained via the command 38 <command>./configure --help</command>.</para></listitem> 39 40 <listitem><para>Most of the packages contain documentation on compiling and 41 installing the package. Some of the documents are excellent, some not so 42 excellent. Check out the homepage of the package for any additional and updated 43 hints for compiling and configuring the package.</para></listitem> 44 45 <listitem><para>If you are having a problem compiling the package, try 46 searching the lfs archives at <ulink url="http://search.linuxfromscratch.org/"/> 47 for the error or if that fails try searching google. If everything else fails, 48 try the blfs support mailing-list/news-server.</para></listitem> 49 50 </itemizedlist> 51 52 <tip><para>If you have found a package that is only available in .deb or .rpm format, 53 there is are two small scripts rpm2targz and deb2targz that are available at 54 <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/downloads/"/> to convert 55 the archives into a simple tar.gz format.</para></tip> 6 56 7 57 </sect1>
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