Read the Linux From Scratch Book Online

Two versions of the LFS Book are available for viewing online, the stable released book and the daily rendered development book:

Current Stable

This is the latest released LFS book that is considered stable. Most people will want to read this book.

As a result of bugs and security warnings, please be sure to read both the errata page and the Security Advisories for any modifications needed to the LFS build.

Stable LFS Errata

LFS Security Advisories

Stable LFS

Current Development

This is the LFS Book in its current development state. While it may provide more features and updated upstream packages than the stable book, it is more prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities. Use with care.

Security vulnerabilities and other bugs may be present in the bug database but there may be others not yet reported.

Development LFS

Note: There is an automatically generated wget list available to fetch all LFS Book packages automatically.

Systemd version of LFS

Current Stable

This is the latest released LFS systemd book, considered stable. Most people will want to read this book.

As a result of bugs and security warnings, please be sure to read both the errata page and the Security Advisories for any modifications needed to the LFS build.

Stable LFS systemd Errata

LFS Security Advisories

Stable LFS systemd

Current Development

This is the LFS systemd Book in its current development state. Whilst it may provide more features and updated upstream packages than the stable book, it is more prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities. Use with care.

Development LFS systemd

Translations

The LFS book has been translated in various languages. Note that these translations were done by volunteers and may contain translation errors which the LFS team cannot control. In that case, contact the translator directly.

Please note that all versions of LFS <= 5.1 contain instructions that create an English-only system and therefore will require additional undocumented work (i.e. setting LANG and font) in order for the system to be useful in another language.

If you have translated the LFS book or if you are aware of translations not in this list, please send us an e-mail to the site webmaster with the URL to the translation.

Brazilian Portuguese

Homepage  |  Download  |  Multiple versions are available
Translated by Jamenson Espindula

Chinese

Website  |  LFS 12.1 (sysv)  |  LFS 12.1 (systemd)  |  Errata in 12.1 Translations  |  LFS development (sysv)  |  LFS development (systemd)
Translated by Xi Ruoyao
If you find any issue or potential improvement of the translation, please report to the issue tracker of the the GitHub repository.

LFS 7.7 (systemd) (historical)
Translated by The LCTT Team

LFS 6.2 (historical)
Translated by Jin Buguo(Chapter 0 - 5), ipconfigme(Chapter 6 -7), bobkey(Chapter 8 - 9)

French

Website |  Download |  Stable Version
Translated by Traduc.org

German

Website |  LFS 6.4 (historical)
Translated by Thomas Reitelbach

Italian

Website | LFS 6.0 (historical) | LFS 6.0 (Mirrored)
Translated by ILDP

Website |  LFS 6.1.1 (historical) |  LFS 6.1 (historical) |  LFS 6.0 (historical)
Translated by Giulio Daprelà

Japanese

Website
Translated by Michio Matsuyama

Korean

Website |  LFS 9.1 (historical)
Translated by Jongmin Kim