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<sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
Below is a list of all the packages you need to download for building
the basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions of
the software that is known to work and which this book is based on. If you
experience problems which you can't solve yourself, download the version that
is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).
</para>
<para>
If the packages.linuxfromscratch.org server isn't allowing connections
anymore try one of our mirror sites. The addresses of the mirror sites
can be found in <ulink url="ch01-version.html">Chapter 1 - Book
Version</ulink>
</para>
<para>
We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
in <ulink url="appendixc.html">Appendix C - Official download locations
</ulink>. The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of packages
that are recommended for use in this book. If you're looking
for newer versions than the ones listed here you can have a look in
Appendix C.
</para>
<para>
Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are files
compressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to handle bz2
files, please read <ulink url="ch02-install.html">Chapter 2 - How to install
the software</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
The list below is current as of January 5th, 2001
</para>
</sect1>
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