> > I am a newer at LFS, and I seek to success; but I need help; I made > > my LFS - kernel and Isucceed but i face difficulties about the BLFS; > > because I don`t know which programs- packages i should download. I > > used to download using wget [webpage] command; and i got the > > Wireshare, Libpcap and UNIXodbc but it`s not working. Please anyone > > to guide me. Thanks a lot!
In my opinion, some initial guidance wouldn't come amiss in the book. For a relative newbie, having been guided rather directly through the LFS build, and having a running but extremely Spartan Linux/GNU base system, the path ahead isn't clear and the popular modern distros do so much for one it's not at all easy using them as guides. Now granted, it is possible one might want such a clean base system because one is out to build some sort of "appliance", a router or DMZ host, but directions for a general purpose, networking, GUI'ed, web capable, client would likely be the direction most new users would want to go. The initial question is: what does it take to get a manageable Linux daily-driver? In my own case, for example, I split up the path into eight generally different directions, each of which gets several packages, in something of a round-robin fashion, a few times around, something like the way a potter builds a coiled pot: 1) Essentials: patching and updating the kernel, some nicer editors, zip and unzip, mtools, little things I can't live without 2) Networking: tcpwrappers, iptables, openssl, openssh, DHCP, inetutils. Next time around some servers: dnsmasq, vsftpd, apache, samba, nmap, nessus 3) Systems: expat, pcre, dbus, xml-parser, pci/usb utils, gamin, smartmon tools, hdparm, parted, and (for the time being) hal 4) Administrative: runparts, lynx, wget, exim, mailx/mutt, cron, logrotate/logwatch. Then rcs/cvs/subversion, gnupg, HOWTO's 5) Printing: pdq, cups, gimp-print, enscript, ghostscript, psutils 6) GUI: libpng, freetype, fontconfig, Xorg, fluxbox, rxvt, jpeg, libtiff, xv, vidtune, dbus-X. 7) GTK: glib, gtk, firefox, thunderbird 8) KDE: qt, ALSA, KDE Right now, in my current new version development I'm struggling in 6 getting Xorg to run without errors. 7 & 8 are a little vague for now. The BLFS book, from the newbie's perspective, might benefit by identifying the bones of a manageable end-user "daily-driver", at least getting them that far. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
