Beyond Linux From Scratch

Version 5.0-PRE1

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
Change Log
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
Optional Patches
Using BLFS Boot Scripts
Going Beyond BLFS

II. Post LFS Configuration and Extra Software

3. After LFS Configuration Issues

Creating a Custom Boot Disk
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

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

5. File Systems

Ext3
ReiserFS-3.6.11
XFS-2.5.6

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

ASH-0.4.0
Tcsh-6.12.00
ZSH-4.1.1

III. General Libraries and Utilities

8. General Libraries

OpenSSL-0.9.7c
pcre-4.3
popt-1.7
slang-1.4.9
FAM-2.6.10
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-2.3.2
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-0.98.38

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-3.7.1p2 client
rsync-2.5.6 client
CVS-1.11.6
Wget-1.8.2
tcpwrappers-7.6
portmap-5
Inetutils-1.4.2
NCPFS-2.2.3
NTP-4.1.2

19. Basic Networking Utilities

Traceroute-1.4a12
Nmap-3.30
Whois-4.6.7
BIND Utilities-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-0.43.2

23. Other Server Software

BIND-9.2.2
Running a CVS server
DHCP-3.0pl2
Leafnode-1.9.43
OpenSSH-3.7.1p2
rsync-2.5.6
OpenLDAP-2.1.22
Samba-2.2.8a
xinetd-2.3.12

VII. Content Serving

24. Databases

Berkeley DB-4.1.25
Berkeley 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. X Window Environment

XFree86-4.3.0.1
XFree86 Components

27. X Libraries

FreeType-2.1.5
Fontconfig-2.2.1
Qt-3.2.1
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-4.0.0

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. GNOME Libraries

32. GNOME core

GNOME Desktop-2.2.2
GNOME Panel-2.2.2.2
GNOME Session-2.2.2
Control Center-2.2.2

33. Additional GNOME Packages

GNOME Terminal-2.2.2
GNOME System Monitor-2.0.5
GNOME Applets-2.2.2
GNOME Utilities-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

34. Other GNOME Packages

GConf Editor-0.4.1
GDM-2.4.1.4

35. Configuring GNOME

Configuring the core GNOME packages

36. GNOME 1.4 Libraries

Pre-installation configuration
ORBit-0.5.17
OAF-0.6.10
GNOME Libraries-1.4.2
GDK Pixel Buffer-0.22.0
GNOME Print-0.37
Bonobo-1.0.22
GConf-1.0.9
GNOME Virtual File System-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

37. Individual Office Programs

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

38. Office Suites

KOffice-1.2.1
OpenOffice-1.1.0

39. Graphical Web Browsers

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

40. Other X-based Internet Programs

Pan-0.14.2
Balsa-2.0.14

XII. Multimedia

41. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

ALSA-0.9.6
ALSA Driver-0.9.6
ALSA Library-0.9.6
ALSA Utilities-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
XviD-0.9.2
xine Libraries-1-rc0a

42. Audio utilities

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

43. Video utilities

FFmpeg-0.4.7
Avifile-0.7.38
MPlayer-1.0pre1
xine User Interface-0.9.22
transcode-0.6.10

44. 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

45. Printing

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

46. Scanning

SANE-1.0.12
XSane-0.91
GOCR-0.37

47. Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

SGML Common-0.6.3
DocBook SGML DTD-3.1
DocBook SGML DTD-4.2
OpenSP-1.5
OpenJade-1.3.2
DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets-1.78

48. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

DocBook XML DTD-4.2
DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.62.4

49. PostScript

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

50. 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

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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