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4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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5 | %general-entities;
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6 | ]>
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7 |
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8 | <sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
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9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
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10 |
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11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title>
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12 |
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13 | <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
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14 | minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
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15 | modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
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16 | place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
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17 | <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
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18 | <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
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19 | your distribution provides them.</para>
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20 |
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21 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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22 |
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23 | <listitem>
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24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
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25 | </listitem>
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26 |
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27 | <listitem>
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28 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
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29 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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30 | not been tested)</para>
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31 | </listitem>
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32 |
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33 | <listitem>
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34 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
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35 | </listitem>
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36 |
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37 | <listitem>
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38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
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39 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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40 | </listitem>
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41 |
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42 | <listitem>
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43 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
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44 | </listitem>
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45 |
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46 | <listitem>
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47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
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48 | </listitem>
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49 |
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50 | <listitem>
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51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
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52 | </listitem>
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53 |
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54 | <listitem>
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55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
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56 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
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57 | been tested)</para>
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58 | </listitem>
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59 |
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60 | <listitem>
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61 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
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62 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
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63 | not been tested)</para>
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64 | </listitem>
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65 |
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66 | <listitem>
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67 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
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68 | </listitem>
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69 |
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70 | <listitem>
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71 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
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72 | </listitem>
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73 |
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74 | <listitem>
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75 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
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76 | (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
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77 |
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78 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
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79 | storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
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80 | Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
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81 | isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
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82 | GCC.</para>
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83 |
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84 | <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.x, or it was not
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85 | compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace
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86 | the kernel with one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods
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87 | you can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a
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88 | 2.6 kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
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89 | doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
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90 | then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the
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91 | kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are
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92 | located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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93 | </listitem>
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94 |
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95 | <listitem>
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96 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
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97 | </listitem>
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98 |
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99 | <listitem>
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100 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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101 | </listitem>
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102 |
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103 | <listitem>
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104 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
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105 | </listitem>
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106 |
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107 | <listitem>
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108 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
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109 | </listitem>
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110 |
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111 | </itemizedlist>
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112 |
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113 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
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114 |
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115 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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116 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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117 |
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118 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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119 |
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120 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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121 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
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122 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
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123 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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124 | diff --version | head -n1
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125 | find --version | head -n1
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126 | gawk --version | head -n1
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127 | gcc --version | head -n1
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128 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
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129 | grep --version | head -n1
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130 | gzip --version | head -n1
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131 | cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
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132 | make --version | head -n1
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133 | patch --version | head -n1
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134 | sed --version | head -n1
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135 | tar --version | head -n1</literal>
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136 |
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137 | EOF
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138 |
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139 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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140 |
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141 | </sect1>
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