The installation of all the software is pretty straightforward and you will probably think it's so much easier and shorter to give the generic installation instructions for each package and only explain how to install something if a certain package requires an alternate installation method. Although I agree on that, I choose to give the full instructions for each and every package. This is simply to avoid any possible confusion and errors. Now would be a good time to take a look at the optimization hint at if you plan on using compiler optimization for the packages installed in the following chapter. Compiler optimization can make a program run faster, but may also cause some compilation problems. If you run into problems after having used optimization, always try it without optimizing to see if the problem persists. Please refrain from installing more than one package at a time, even if it may safe you time (especially with dual CPU machines). If you install the wrong package at the wrong time, it may hard-wire program paths to $LFS/static which will cause the programs to stop working once the static directory is removed. The order packages are installed in this chapter have to be followed exactly to be sure nothing is hard-wiring the static paths.