| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 | <sect1 id="ch03-introduction"><title>Introduction</title><para>Below is a list of all the packages that are needed 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 the user experiences problems which he can't solve himself, he should download theversion thatis assumed in this book (in case he 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-version.html">Chapter 1 - Book Version</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. Newer versions than the oneslisted here might be found after having 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 the user does not know how tohandle bz2files, he should 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></sect1>
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