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<title>Introduction</title>
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-<para>Below is a list of all the packages that are needed to download for
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-building the basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions of
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-the software that is known to work and which this book is based on.
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-If you
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-experience problems which you can't solve yourself, then please download the
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-version that
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-is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).</para>
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+<para>Below follows a list of all the packages that you will need to
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+download in order to build a basic Linux system. The listed version
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+numbers correspond to versions of the software that are known to work and
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+which this book is based upon.</para>
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-<para>All the URL's below are to the ftp.linuxfromscratch.org server. We
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-have a couple of FTP mirrors available from which you can download the
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-files as well. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in
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-<xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>
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+<para>All the URL's below refer to the main LFS server. There are several
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+FTP mirrors available from which you can download the files as well. The
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+addresses of these can be found in <xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>
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-<para>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
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-in <xref linkend="appendixa"/>. The LFS FTP archive only
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-contains the versions of packages that are recommended for use in this book.
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-You can check the official sites in Appendix A to determine whether a newer
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-package is available. If you do download a newer package, we would
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-appreciate hearing whether you were able to install the package using this
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-book's instructions or not.</para>
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-
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-<para>Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are files
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-compressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to
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-handle bz2 files, check out <xref linkend="ch02-install"/>.</para>
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+<para>The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of the packages that
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+are used in this book. You can check the official download sites provided
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+in <xref linkend="appendixa"/> to determine whether or not a newer package
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+is available. If you do download a newer package, we would appreciate
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+hearing whether you were able to install the package without any problems
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+using this book's instructions.</para>
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</sect1>
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Gerard Beekmans