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<sect1 id="intro-important-unpacking">
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<?dbhtml filename="unpacking.html" dir="introduction"?>
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<title>Getting and unpacking the software</title>
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<para>Those people who have built a <acronym>LFS</acronym> system will be aware
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of the general principles of downloading and unpacking software. We will
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however repeat some of that information here for those new to building
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their own software.</para>
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<para>Each set of installation instructions contains a <acronym>URL</acronym>
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from which you can download the package. We do however keep a selection of
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patches available via http. These are referenced as needed in the
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installation instructions.</para>
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<para>While you can keep the source tarballs anywhere you like, we
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assume that you have unpacked them and unzipped any required patches
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into <filename>/usr/src</filename>.</para>
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<para>We can not emphasize strongly enough that you should start from a
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<emphasis>clean source tree</emphasis> each time. This means that if
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you have had an error, it's usually best to delete the source tree and
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re-unpack it <emphasis>before</emphasis> trying again. This obviously
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doesn't apply if you're an advanced user used to hacking Makefiles and C
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code, but if in doubt, start from a clean tree.</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Unpacking the software</title>
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<para>If a file is tar'ed and gzip'ed, it is unpacked by running one of
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the following two commands, depending on the filename:</para>
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<screen><command>tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
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tar -xvzf filename.tgz
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tar -xvzf filename.tar.Z</command></screen>
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<para>If a file is tar'ed and bzip2'ed, it can usually be unpacked by
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running:</para>
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<screen><command>tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2</command></screen>
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<para>You can also use a slightly different method:</para>
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<screen><command>bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xv</command></screen>
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<para>Finally, you need to be able to unpack patches which are generally
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not tar'ed. The best way to do this is to copy the patch file to
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<filename>/usr/src</filename> and then to run one of the following
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commands depending on whether the file is .gz or .bz2:</para>
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<screen><command>gunzip patchname.gz
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bunzip2 patchname.bz2</command></screen>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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