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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="materials-introduction">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html"?>
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<para>Below is a list of packages that need to be download for building a
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basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions
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of the software that are known to work, and this book is based on
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their use. We highly recommend not using newer versions, as the build
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commands for one version may not work with a newer version. The newest
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package versions may also have problems that work-arounds have
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not been developed for yet.</para>
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<para>All the URLs, when possible, refer to the package's information
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page at <ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net/"/>. The Freshmeat pages
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provide easy access to official download sites, as well as project
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websites, mailing lists, FAQs, changelogs, and more.</para>
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<para>Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download
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location has changed since this book was published, Google (<ulink
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url="http://www.google.com"/>) provides a useful search engine for
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most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the
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alternative means of downloading discussed at <ulink
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url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html"/>.</para>
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<para>Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stores somewhere
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that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. A working
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directory is also required to unpack the sources and build them.
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<filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> can be used both
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as the place to store the tarballs and patches and as a working
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directory. By using this directory, the required elements will be
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located on the LFS partition and will be available during all stages
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of the building process.</para>
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<para>To create this directory, execute, as user
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<emphasis>root</emphasis>, the following command before starting the
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download session:</para>
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<screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
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<para>Make this directory writable (and sticky -- which basically
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means that eventhough a user may have write permissions on a
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directory, the sticky tag prevents users from removing files they do
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not own as normally write permission on a directory means the owner of
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the directory can remove all files in it, even if he does not own the
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file) for your normal user -- as you won't do the downloading as root, we
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guess:</para>
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<screen><userinput>chmod a+wt $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
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</sect1>
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