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- <sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
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- <para>Below is a list of all the packages that are needed to download for
- building the basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions of
- the software that is known to work and which this book is based on.
- If you
- experience problems which you can't solve yourself, then please download the
- version that
- is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).</para>
- <para>All the URL's below are to the ftp.linuxfromscratch.org server. We
- have a couple of FTP mirrors available from which you can download the
- files a well. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in
- <xref linkend="ch01-version"/>.</para>
- <para>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
- in <xref linkend="appendixd"/>. The LFS FTP archive only
- contains the versions of packages that are recommended for use in this book.
- You can check the official sites in Appendix C to determine whether a newer
- package is available. If you do download a newer package, we would
- appreciate hearing whether you were able to install the package using this
- book's instructions or not.</para>
- <para>Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are files
- compressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to
- handle bz2 files, check out <xref linkend="ch02-install"/>.</para>
- </sect1>
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