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- <title>Introduction</title>
 
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- <para>The installation of all the software is pretty straightforward, and
 
- you will probably think it would be so much easier and shorter to give
 
- the generic installation instructions for a package here and only explain
 
- in full the installation of those packages that require an alternate
 
- method. Although we agree with that, we choose to give the 
 
- full instructions for each and every package, simply to avoid any 
 
- possible confusion and errors.</para>
 
- <para>Now would be a good time to take a look at the optimization hint 
 
- at <ulink url="&hints-root;optimization.txt"/> if you plan to use 
 
- compiler optimization for the packages
 
- installed in this chapter. Compiler optimization can make a program run
 
- faster, but may also cause compilation problems. If you run into problems
 
- when using optimization, always try it without optimization to see if 
 
- the problem persists.</para>
 
- <para>Please refrain from installing more than one package at a time, even
 
- if it may save you time (especially with dual CPU machines). If you install
 
- the wrong package at the wrong time, it may hard-wire program paths to
 
- <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> which will cause the
 
- programs to stop working once the static directory is removed. The order
 
- packages are installed in this chapter have to be followed exactly to be
 
- sure nothing is hard-wiring the static paths.</para>
 
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