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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>Below is a list of packages you need to download for building a
basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions
of the software that are known to work, and this book is based
upon them.</para>

<para>All the URL's below refer to the main LFS server. There are several
FTP mirrors available from which you can download the files as well. The
addresses of these can be found in <xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>

<para>The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of the packages that
are used in this book. You can check the official download sites provided
in <xref linkend="appendixa"/> to determine whether or not a newer package
is available. If you do download a newer package, we would appreciate
hearing whether you were able to install the package without any problems
using this book's instructions.</para>

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