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+<sect1 id="ch02-install">
+<title>How to install the software</title>
+
+<para>
+Before you can actually start doing something with a package, you need
+to unpack it first. Often you will find the package files being tar'ed and
+gzip'ed (you can determind this by looking at the extension of the file.
+tar'ed and gzip'ed archives have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension for
+example)). I'm not going to write down every time how to ungzip and how 
+to untar an archive. I will tell you how to do that once, in this paragraph. 
+There is also the possibility  that you have the ability of downloading 
+a .tar.bz2 file. Such a file is tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program. 
+Bzip2 achieves a better compression than the commonly used gzip does. In 
+order to use bz2 archives you need to have the bzip2 program installed. 
+Most if not every distribution comes with this program so chances are 
+high it is already installed on your system. If not, install it using 
+your distribution's installation tool.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To start with, change to the $LFS/usr/src directory by running:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+        <userinput>cd $LFS/usr/src</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+When you have a file that is tar'ed and gzip'ed, you unpack it by
+running either one of the following two commands, depending on the
+filename format:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+        <userinput>tar xvzf filename.tar.gz</userinput>
+        <userinput>tar xvzf filename.tgz</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+
+<para>
+When you have a file that is tar'ed and bzip'ed, you unpack it by
+running:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+        <userinput>bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar xv</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+Some tar programs (most of them nowadays but not all of them) are
+slightly modified to be able to use bzip2 files directly using either
+the I or the y tar parameter which works the same as the z tar parameter
+to handle gzip archives.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+When you have a file that is tar'ed, you unpack it by running:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+        <userinput>tar xvf filename.tar</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+When the archive is unpacked a new directory will be created under the
+current directory (and this document assumes that you unpack the archives
+under the $LFS/usr/src directory). You have to enter that new directory
+before you continue with the installation instructions. So everytime the
+book is going to install a program, it's up to you to unpack the source
+archive.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+After you have installed a package you can do two things with it. You can
+either delete the directory that contains the sources or you can keep it.
+If you decide to keep it, that's fine by me. But if you need the same package
+again in a later chapter you need to delete the directory first before using
+it again. If you don't do this, you might end up in trouble because old
+settings will be used (settings that apply to your normal Linux system but
+which don't always apply to your LFS system). Doing a simple make clean
+or make distclean does not always guarantee a totally clean source tree. 
+The configure script can also have files lying around in various 
+subdirectories which aren't always removed by a make clean process.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+There is on exception to that rule: don't remove the linux kernel source
+tree. A lot of programs need the kernel headers, so that's the only
+directory you don't want to remove, unless you are not going to
+compile any software anymore.
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+