Beyond Linux From Scratch

Version 20030927

BLFS Development Team

Copyright © 2001-2003 BLFS Development Team

This book follows on from the Linux From Scratch book. It introduces and guides the reader through additions to the system including networking, X support, sound support and printer and scanner support.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the LFS community

Table of Contents

Who would want to read this book

Organization

Part I - Introduction
Part II - Post LFS Configuration and Extra Software
Part III - General Libraries and Utilities
Part IV - Connecting to a Network
Part V - Basic Networking
Part VI - Server Networking
Part VII - Content Serving
Part VIII - X + Window Managers
Part IX - KDE
Part X - GNOME
Part XI - X Software
Part XII - Multimedia
Part XIII - Printing, Scanning and Typesetting
Appendices

I. Introduction

1. Welcome to BLFS

Acknowledgments
Credits
Which sections of the book do I want?
Conventions used in this book
Book version
Mirror sites
Changelog
Mailing lists
News server
Asking for help and the FAQ
Contact information

2. Important Information

Getting and unpacking the software
The /usr versus /usr/local debate
Using BLFS bootscripts
Going Beyond BLFS

II. Post LFS Configuration and Extra Software

3. After LFS Configuration Issues

Creating a Custom Bootdisk
Configuring for Adding Users
/etc/inputrc
The Bash Shell Startup Files
/etc/vimrc, ~/.vimrc
/etc/issue (Customizing your logon)
Random number generation
Compressing man and info pages

4. Security

Shadow-4.0.3
Linux-PAM-0.77
iptables-1.2.8
Setting up a network firewall
GnuPG-1.2.3
Tripwire-2.3.1-2

5. Filesystems

Ext3
ReiserFS-3.6.11
XFS-2.5.6

Vim-6.2
Emacs-21.3
nano-1.2.2
JOE-2.9.8

Tcsh-6.12.00
ZSH-4.1.1

III. General Libraries and Utilities

8. General Libraries

OpenSSL-0.9.7b
pcre-4.3
popt-1.7
slang-1.4.9
FAM-2.6.9
libxml-1.8.17
libxml2-2.5.11
libxslt-1.0.33
readline-4.3
gmp-4.1.2
gdbm-1.8.3
GLib-1.2.10
GLib-2.2.3
expat-1.95.6
libesmtp-1.0
aspell-0.50.3
ispell-3.2.06.epa6
Guile-1.6.4
slib-2d6
G-Wrap-1.3.4
LZO-1.08

9. Graphics Libraries

lcms-1.11
libjpeg-6b
libpng-1.2.5
libtiff-3.5.7
libungif-4.1.0b1
libmng-1.0.5
Imlib-1.9.14
AAlib-1.4rc5
SVGAlib-1.4.3
DirectFB-0.9.19
Imlib2-1.1.0

10. General Utilities

bc-1.06
rep-gtk-0.18
Compface-1.4

11. System Utilities

GPM-1.20.1
Fcron-2.9.3
hdparm-5.4
which-2.14 and alternatives
UnZip-5.50
Zip-2.3
PCI Utilities-2.1.11
pkgconfig-0.15.0
cpio-2.5
MC-4.6.0

12. Programming

Python-2.3.1
perl modules
librep-0.16.2
J2SDK-1.4.1
Ruby-1.8.0
GCC-3.3.1
Tcl-8.4.4
Tk-8.4.4
GCC-2.95.3
NASM-0.98.37

IV. Connecting to a Network

13. Dial-up networking

PPP-2.4.1
WvDial-1.53

14. DHCP Clients

Configuring the LFS bootscripts to support DHCP clients
DHCP-3.0pl2
dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl4

15. Other Connections

RP-PPPoE-3.5

V. Basic Networking

16. Networking Libraries

cURL-7.10.7
WvStreams-3.70
GNet-2.0.4
libsoup-1.99.23

17. Text Web Browsers

Links-2.1pre11
Lynx-2.8.4
w3m-0.4.1

18. Basic Networking Programs

NcFTP-3.1.6
OpenSSH-3.7.1p1 client
rsync-2.5.6 client
CVS-1.11.6
Wget-1.8.2
tcpwrappers-7.6
portmap-5
Inetutils-1.4.2
NFS Utilities-1.0.3
NCPFS-2.2.3

19. Basic Networking Utilities

Traceroute-1.4a12
Nmap-3.30
Whois-4.6.7
BIND-utils-9.2.2

20. Mail/News Clients

Nail-10.5
Procmail-3.22
Fetchmail-6.2.3
Mutt-1.4.1i
Pine-4.56
slrn-0.9.7.4
Other Mail and News programs

21. D.J. Bernstein's Utilities

daemontools-0.76
daemontools-man-0.76
ucspi-tcp-0.88

VI. Server Networking

22. Mail Server Software

Postfix-2.0.16
qmail-1.03
Sendmail-8.12.10
Exim-4.24
Qpopper-4.0.5
Courier-0.42.2

23. Other Server Software

BIND-9.2.2
Running a CVS server
DHCP-3.0pl2
Leafnode-1.9.43
OpenSSH-3.7.1p1
rsync-2.5.6
OpenLDAP-2.1.22
Samba-2.2.8a
xinetd-2.3.12

VII. Content Serving

24. Databases

db-4.1.25
db-3.3.11
MySQL-4.0.15
PostgreSQL-7.3.4

25. Web serving

Apache-2.0.47
PHP-4.3.3
ProFTPD-1.2.8p

VIII. X + Window Managers

26. Installing X

XFree86-4.3.0.1
Setting up XFree86 Components

27. X Libraries

FreeType-2.1.5
fontconfig-2.2.1
Qt-3.1.2
GTK+-1.2.10
Pango-1.2.5
ATK-1.2.4
GTK+-2.2.4
LessTif-0.93.46
startup-notification-0.5

28. Window Managers

sawfish-1.3
fluxbox-0.9.5
metacity-2.4.55
xfce-3.8.18

IX. KDE

29. KDE Core Packages

aRts-1.1.4
kdelibs-3.1.4
kdebase-3.1.4
Configuring the core KDE packages

30. KDE Additional Packages

kdemultimedia-3.1.4
kdenetwork-3.1.4
kdegraphics-3.1.4
kdepim-3.1.4
kdeadmin-3.1.4
kdegames-3.1.4
kdeutils-3.1.4
kdeedu-3.1.4
kdeartwork-3.1.4
kdetoys-3.1.4
kdeaddons-3.1.4

31. Other KDE Packages

kdoc

32. GNOME Libraries

33. GNOME core

gnome-desktop-2.2.2
gnome-panel-2.2.2.2
gnome-session-2.2.2
control-center-2.2.2

34. Additional GNOME Packages

gnome-terminal-2.2.2
gnome-system-monitor-2.0.5
gnome-applets-2.2.2
gnome-utils-2.2.3
gnome-games-2.2.1
nautilus-2.2.4
yelp-2.2.3
bug-buddy-2.2.106
gedit-2.2.2
eog-2.2.2
gstreamer-0.6.2
gst-plugins-0.6.2
gnome-media-2.2.2
nautilus-media-0.2.2
gnome2-user-docs-2.0.6

35. Other GNOME Packages

gconf-editor-0.4.1
gdm-2.4.1.4

36. Configuring GNOME

Configuring the core GNOME packages

37. GNOME 1.4 Libraries

pre-installation configuration
ORBit-0.5.17
oaf-0.6.10
gnome-libs-1.4.2
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0
gnome-print-0.37
bonobo-1.0.22
GConf-1.0.9
gnome-vfs-1.0.5
libglade-0.17
gal-0.24
guppi-0.40.3
libcapplet-1.5.11
soup-0.7.11
gtkhtml-1.1.7
libghttp-1.0.9

XI. X Software

38. Individual Office Programs

AbiWord-2.0.0
Gnumeric-1.2.0
GnuCash-1.8.7
GIMP-1.2.5
Evolution-1.4.4

39. Office Suites

KOffice-1.2.1
OpenOffice-1.1rc4

40. Graphical Web Browsers

Mozilla-1.4
Galeon-1.3.7
Konqueror-3.1.4
Dillo-0.7.3

41. Other X-based Internet Programs

Pan-0.14.2
Balsa-2.0.14

XII. Multimedia

42. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

ALSA-0.9.6
ALSA-driver-0.9.6
ALSA-lib-0.9.6
ALSA-utils-0.9.6
ALSA-tools-0.9.6
ALSA-OSS-0.9.6
aRts-1.1.4
Audio File-0.2.3
EsounD-0.2.30
SDL-1.2.6
libao-0.8.3
libogg-1.0
libvorbis-1.0
NAS-1.6
libmpeg3-1.5.2
libmad-0.15.0b
OpenQuicktime-1.0
libFAME-0.9.0
Speex-1.0.1
id3lib-3.8.3
FLAC-1.1.0
libdvdread-0.9.4
libdvdcss-1.2.8
libdv-0.99
liba52-0.7.4

43. Audio utilities

mpg123-0.59r
Vorbis-Tools-1.0
XMMS-1.2.7
LAME-3.93.1
CDParanoia-III-9.8

44. Video utilities

XviD-0.9.2
FFmpeg-0.4.7
Avifile-0.7.38
MPlayer-1.0pre1
xine-lib-1-rc0a
xine-ui-0.9.22
transcode-0.6.10

45. CD-Writing utilities

Configuring your kernel for CD-Writing
Cdrtools-2.00.3
Cdrdao-1.1.7
UDFtools-1.0.0b2

XIII. Printing, Scanning and Typesetting

46. Printing

CUPS-1.1.19
LPRng-3.8.22
AFPL Ghostscript-8.11
ESP Ghostscript-7.07.1rc2

47. Scanning

SANE-1.0.12
XSane-0.91

48. Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

sgml-common-0.6.3
sgml-dtd-3.1
sgml-dtd-4.2
OpenSP-1.5
OpenJade-1.3.2
docbook-dsssl-1.78

49. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

xml-dtd-4.2
docbook-xsl-1.61.3

50. PostScript

a2ps-4.13b
enscript-1.6.1
PSUtils-p17
GSview-4.4
Xpdf-2.02pl1
Other PostScript programs

51. Typesetting

TeX-2.0.2

XIV. Appendices

A. List of rc?.d symlinks used in LFS/BLFS

rc0.d
rc1.d
rc2.d
rc3.d
rc4.d
rc5.d
rc6.d

B. Installing in non-default locations

C. Packages which are no longer in the main BLFS Book

gnome-common-1.2.4
libzvt-2.0.1
enlightenment-0.16.5
fnlib-0.5
pspell-.12.2
nessus
bonobo-conf-0.16
STLport-4.5.3

List of Tables
A-1. rc0.d symlinks
A-2. rc1.d symlinks
A-3. rc2.d symlinks
A-4. rc3.d symlinks
A-5. rc4.d symlinks
A-6. rc5.d symlinks
A-7. rc6.d symlinks

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