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<para>
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<para>
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Before you can actually start doing something with a package, you need
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Before you can actually start doing something with a package, you need
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to unpack it first. Often you will find the package files being tar'ed and
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to unpack it first. Often you will find the package files being tar'ed and
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-gzip'ed (you can determind this by looking at the extension of the file.
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-tar'ed and gzip'ed archives have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension for
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-example)). I'm not going to write down every time how to ungzip and how
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-to untar an archive. I will tell you how to do that once, in this paragraph.
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+gzip'ed. (You can determine this by looking at the extension of the file.
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+tar'ed and gzip'ed archives have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension, for
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+example.) I'm not going to write down every time how to ungzip and how
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+to untar an archive. I will tell you how to do that once, in this section.
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There is also the possibility that you have the ability of downloading
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There is also the possibility that you have the ability of downloading
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a .tar.bz2 file. Such a file is tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program.
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a .tar.bz2 file. Such a file is tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program.
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Bzip2 achieves a better compression than the commonly used gzip does. In
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Bzip2 achieves a better compression than the commonly used gzip does. In
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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ When you have a file that is tar'ed, you unpack it by running:
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When the archive is unpacked a new directory will be created under the
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When the archive is unpacked a new directory will be created under the
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current directory (and this document assumes that you unpack the archives
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current directory (and this document assumes that you unpack the archives
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under the $LFS/usr/src directory). You have to enter that new directory
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under the $LFS/usr/src directory). You have to enter that new directory
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-before you continue with the installation instructions. So everytime the
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+before you continue with the installation instructions. So every time the
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book is going to install a program, it's up to you to unpack the source
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book is going to install a program, it's up to you to unpack the source
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archive.
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archive.
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</para>
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</para>
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<para>
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<para>
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After you have installed a package you can do two things with it. You can
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After you have installed a package you can do two things with it. You can
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either delete the directory that contains the sources or you can keep it.
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either delete the directory that contains the sources or you can keep it.
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-If you decide to keep it, that's fine by me. But if you need the same package
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-again in a later chapter you need to delete the directory first before using
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+If you decide to keep it, that's fine with me. But, if you need the same package
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+again in a later chapter, you need to delete the directory first before using
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it again. If you don't do this, you might end up in trouble because old
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it again. If you don't do this, you might end up in trouble because old
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settings will be used (settings that apply to your normal Linux system but
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settings will be used (settings that apply to your normal Linux system but
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which don't always apply to your LFS system). Doing a simple make clean
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which don't always apply to your LFS system). Doing a simple make clean
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Simon Perreault