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Chapter 6. Installing basic system software

Table of Contents
6.1. Introduction
6.2. About debugging symbols
6.3. Creating $LFS/root/.bash_profile
6.4. Entering the chroot'ed environment
6.5. Creating device files
6.5.1. Installation of MAKEDEV
6.5.2. Creating the /dev entries
6.5.3. Command explanations
6.5.4. Contents
6.5.5. Description
6.6. Installing Man-pages
6.6.1. Installation of Man-pages
6.6.2. Contents
6.6.3. Description
6.7. Installing Ed
6.7.1. Installation of Ed
6.7.2. Contents
6.7.3. Description
6.8. Installing Patch
6.8.1. Installation of Patch
6.8.2. Contents
6.8.3. Description
6.9. Installing Findutils
6.9.1. Installing Findutils
6.9.2. Contents
6.9.3. Description
6.10. Installing Mawk
6.10.1. Installation of Mawk
6.10.2. Contents
6.10.3. Description
6.11. Installing Ncurses
6.11.1. Installation of Ncurses
6.11.2. Command explanations
6.11.3. Contents
6.11.4. Description
6.12. Installing Vim
6.12.1. Installation of Vim
6.12.2. Contents
6.12.3. Description
6.13. Installing GCC
6.13.1. Installation of GCC
6.13.2. Contents
6.13.3. Description
6.14. Installing Bison
6.14.1. Installation of Bison
6.14.2. Command explanations
6.14.3. Contents
6.14.4. Description
6.15. Installing Less
6.15.1. Installation of Less
6.15.2. Contents
6.15.3. Description
6.16. Installing Groff
6.16.1. Installation of Groff
6.16.2. Contents
6.16.3. Description
6.17. Installing Man
6.17.1. Installation of Man
6.17.2. Command explanations
6.17.3. Contents
6.17.4. Description
6.18. Installing Perl
6.18.1. Installation of Perl
6.18.2. Contents
6.18.3. Description
6.19. Installing M4
6.19.1. Installation of M4
6.19.2. Contents
6.19.3. Description
6.20. Installing Texinfo
6.20.1. Installation of Texinfo
6.20.2. Contents
6.20.3. Description
6.21. Installing Autoconf
6.21.1. Installation of Autoconf
6.21.2. Contents
6.21.3. Description
6.22. Installing Automake
6.22.1. Installation of Automake
6.22.2. Contents
6.22.3. Description
6.23. Installing Bash
6.23.1. Installation of Bash
6.23.2. Contents
6.23.3. Description
6.24. Installing Flex
6.24.1. Installation of Flex
6.24.2. Contents
6.24.3. Description
6.25. Installing File
6.25.1. Installation of File
6.25.2. Contents
6.25.3. Description
6.26. Installing Libtool
6.26.1. Installation of Libtool
6.26.2. Contents
6.26.3. Description
6.27. Installing Bin86
6.27.1. Installation of Bin86
6.27.2. Contents
6.27.3. Description
6.28. Installing Binutils
6.28.1. Installation of Binutils
6.28.2. Description
6.28.3. Description
6.29. Installing Bzip2
6.29.1. Installation of Bzip2
6.29.2. Command explanations
6.29.3. Contents
6.29.4. Description
6.30. Installing Gettext
6.30.1. Installation of Gettext
6.30.2. Contents
6.30.3. Description
6.31. Installing Consoletools
6.31.1. Installation of Console-tools
6.31.2. Contents
6.31.3. Description
6.32. Installing Consoledata
6.32.1. Installation of Console-data
6.32.2. Contents
6.33. Installing Diffutils
6.33.1. Installation of Diffutils
6.33.2. Contents
6.33.3. Description
6.34. Installing E2fsprogs
6.34.1. Installation of E2fsprogs
6.34.2. Contents
6.34.3. Description
6.35. Installing Fileutils
6.35.1. Installation of Fileutils
6.35.2. Contents
6.35.3. Description
6.36. Installing Grep
6.36.1. Installation of Grep
6.36.2. Contents
6.36.3. Description
6.37. Installing Gzip
6.37.1. Installation of Gzip
6.37.2. Contents
6.37.3. Description
6.38. Installing Ldso
6.38.1. Installation of Ld.so
6.38.2. Contents
6.38.3. Description
6.39. Installing Lilo
6.39.1. Installation of Lilo
6.39.2. Contents
6.39.3. Description
6.40. Installing Make
6.40.1. Installation of Make
6.40.2. Contents
6.40.3. Description
6.41. Installing Modutils
6.41.1. Installation of Modutils
6.41.2. Contents
6.41.3. Description
6.42. Installing Procinfo
6.42.1. Installation of Procinfo
6.42.2. Command explanations
6.42.3. Contents
6.42.4. Description
6.43. Installing Procps
6.43.1. Installation of Procps
6.43.2. Contents
6.43.3. Description
6.44. Installing Psmisc
6.44.1. Installation of Psmisc
6.44.2. Contents
6.44.3. Description
6.45. Installing Sed
6.45.1. Installation of Sed
6.45.2. Contents
6.45.3. Description
6.46. Installing Shellutils
6.46.1. Installation of Sh-utils
6.46.2. Contents
6.46.3. Description
6.47. Installing Shadowpwd
6.47.1. Installation of Shadow Password Suite
6.47.2. Command explanations
6.47.3. Contents
6.47.4. Description
6.48. Installing Sysklogd
6.48.1. Installation of Sysklogd
6.48.2. Contents
6.48.3. Description
6.49. Installing Sysvinit
6.49.1. Installation of Sysvinit
6.49.2. Contents
6.49.3. Description
6.50. Installing Tar
6.50.1. Installation of Tar
6.50.2. Contents
6.50.3. Description
6.51. Installing Textutils
6.51.1. Installation of Textutils
6.51.2. Contents
6.51.3. Description
6.52. Installing Utillinux
6.52.1. Installation of Util-Linux
6.52.2. Command explanations
6.52.3. Contents
6.52.4. Description
6.53. Removing old NSS library files
6.54. Configuring essential software
6.54.1. Configuring Vim
6.54.2. Configuring Glibc
6.54.3. Configuring Dynamic Loader
6.54.4. Configuring Lilo
6.54.5. Configuring Sysklogd
6.54.6. Configuring Shadow Password Suite
6.54.7. Configuring Sysvinit
6.54.8. Creating the /var/run/utmp, /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp files
6.54.9. Creating root password
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