| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435 | <para>Below is a list of all the packages you need to download for buildingthe basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions ofthe software that is known to work and which this book is based on. If youexperience problems which you can't solve yourself, download the version thatis assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).</para><para>If the packages.linuxfromscratch.org server isn't allowing connectionsanymore try one of our mirror sites. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in <ulink url="ch01-versions.html">Chapter 1 - Book Versions</ulink></para><para>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages belowin <ulink url="appendixc.html">Appendix C - Official download locations</ulink>. The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of packages that are recommended for use in this book. If you're lookingfor newer versions than the ones listed here you can have a look in Appendix C.</para><para>Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are filescompressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to handle bz2files, please read <ulink url="ch02-install.html">Chapter 2 - How to installthe software</ulink>.</para><para>The list below is current as of January 5th, 2001</para>
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