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<title>Creating Essential Symlinks</title>
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<para>Some programs use hard-wired paths to programs which do not exist yet. In
order to satisfy these programs, create a number of symbolic links which will be
replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter after the software
has been installed.</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,cat,pwd,stty} /bin
ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so{,.1} /usr/lib
ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>

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