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).
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 Chapter 1 - Book Version
We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below in Appendix C - Official download locations . 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.
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 Chapter 2 - How to install the software.
The list below is current as of January 5th, 2001