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<title>Introduction</title>
<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?>
<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>Below follows a list of all the packages that you will need to
download in order to build a basic Linux system. The listed version
numbers correspond to versions of the software that are known to work and
which this book is based upon.</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 as well. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in
<xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</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>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
in <xref linkend="appendixa"/>. 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 A 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>
<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>
</sect1>