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gzip'ed. (That can be determined 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 how to do that once, in this section.
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+to untar an archive. I will explain how to do that once, in this section.
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There is also the possibility that a .tar.bz2 file could be downloaded.
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Such a file would be tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program.
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Bzip2 achieves a better compression than the more commonly used gzip does.
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<para>
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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 the archives are unpacked
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+current directory (and this book assumes that the archives are unpacked
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under the $LFS/usr/src directory). Please enter that new directory
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before continuing with the installation instructions. Again, every time
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this book is going to install a package, it's up to you to unpack the source
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<para>
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After a package is installed, two things can be done with it:
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either the directory that contains the sources can be deleted,
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-either it can be kept. If it is kept, that's fine with me, but if the
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+or it can be kept. If it is kept, that's fine with me, but if the
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same package is needed again in a later chapter, the directory
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needs to be deleted first before using it again. If this is not done,
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you might end up in trouble because old settings will be used (settings
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-that apply to the normal Linux system but which don't always apply to
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+that apply to the host system but which don't always apply to
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the LFS system). Doing a simple make clean or make distclean does not
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always guarantee a totally clean source tree.
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</para>
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<para>
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-There is one exception to that rule: don't remove the linux kernel source
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+There is one exception to that rule: don't remove the Linux kernel source
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tree. A lot of programs need the kernel headers, so that's the only
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directory that should not be removed, unless no software is to be compiled
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anymore.
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Gerard Beekmans