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| 6 | <sect1 id="materials-introduction">
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| 7 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>Below is a list of packages you need to download for building a basic
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| 11 | Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions of the
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| 12 | software that are <emphasis>known</emphasis> to work, and this book is
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| 13 | based upon them. Unless you are an experienced LFS builder, we highly
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| 14 | recommend not to try out newer versions, as the build commands for one
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| 15 | version may not work with a newer version. Also, there is often a good
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| 16 | reason for not using the latest version due to known problems that haven't
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| 17 | been worked around yet.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>All the URLs, when possible, refer to the project's page at
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| 20 | <ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net/"/>. The Freshmeat
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| 21 | pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as
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| 22 | project websites, mailing lists, FAQs, changelogs and more.</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>We can't guarantee that these download locations are always available.
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| 25 | In case a download location has changed since this book was published, please
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| 26 | try to google for the package. Should you remain unsuccessful with this,
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| 27 | try one of the alternative means of downloading listed on
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| 28 | <ulink url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html"/>.</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>You'll need to store all the downloaded packages and patches somewhere
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| 31 | that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. You'll also need a
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| 32 | working directory in which to unpack the sources and build them. A scheme that
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| 33 | works well is to use <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> as the place to store
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| 34 | the tarballs and patches, <emphasis>and</emphasis> as a working directory.
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| 35 | This way everything you need will be located on the LFS partition and available
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| 36 | during all stages of the building process.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>So you may want to execute, as <emphasis>root</emphasis>, the following
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| 39 | command before starting your download session:</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>And make this directory writable (and sticky) for your normal user -- as
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| 44 | you won't do the downloading as <emphasis>root</emphasis>, we guess:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>chmod a+wt $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <!--
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| 49 | <para>For your convenience the top of the list contains a link to a file
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| 50 | you can use with the <ulink url="http://wget.sunsite.dk">wget</ulink>
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| 51 | program. Using this file and the <command>wget</command> program will
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| 52 | make it easy to download all the files at once, rather than downloading each
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| 53 | and every individual file manually.</para>
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| 54 | -->
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| 56 | </sect1>
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