Install Bzip2 by running the following commands: make -f Makefile-libbz2_so && make && make install && cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 && ln -s libbz2.so.1.0 libbz2.so && cp -a libbz2.so* /lib && rm /lib/libbz2.so && ln -s ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so && rm /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} && mv /usr/bin/{bzip2recover,bzless,bzmore} /bin && ln -s bzip2 /bin/bunzip2 && ln -s bzip2 /bin/bzcat Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system, it's worth mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a plain tar, you have to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz | tar -xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and bunzip2 with tar. This patch provides the -j option so you can unpack a bzip2'ed archive with tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when the Tar package is re-installed.