Beyond Linux ® From Scratch

Installation of Certificate Authority Certificates

First create a script to reformat a certificate into a form needed by openssl. As the root user:

cat > /usr/bin/make-cert.pl << "EOF"
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Used to generate PEM encoded files from Mozilla certdata.txt.
# Run as ./make-cert.pl > certificate.crt
#
# Parts of this script courtesy of RedHat (mkcabundle.pl)
#
# This script modified for use with single file data (tempfile.cer) extracted
# from certdata.txt, taken from the latest version in the Mozilla NSS source.
# mozilla/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt
#
# Authors: DJ Lucas
#          Bruce Dubbs
#
# Version 20120211

my $certdata = './tempfile.cer';

open( IN, "cat $certdata|" )
    || die "could not open $certdata";

my $incert = 0;

while ( <IN> )
{
    if ( /^CKA_VALUE MULTILINE_OCTAL/ )
    {
        $incert = 1;
        open( OUT, "|openssl x509 -text -inform DER -fingerprint" )
            || die "could not pipe to openssl x509";
    }

    elsif ( /^END/ && $incert )
    {
        close( OUT );
        $incert = 0;
        print "\n\n";
    }

    elsif ($incert)
    {
        my @bs = split( /\\/ );
        foreach my $b (@bs)
        {
            chomp $b;
            printf( OUT "%c", oct($b) ) unless $b eq '';
        }
    }
}
EOF

chmod +x /usr/bin/make-cert.pl

The following script creates the certificates and a bundle of all the certificates. It creates a ./certs directory and ./BLFS-ca-bundle-${VERSION}.crt. Again create this script as the root user:

cat > /usr/bin/make-ca.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin make-ca.sh
# Script to populate OpenSSL's CApath from a bundle of PEM formatted CAs
#
# The file certdata.txt must exist in the local directory
# Version number is obtained from the version of the data.
#
# Authors: DJ Lucas
#          Bruce Dubbs
#
# Version 20120211

certdata="certdata.txt"

if [ ! -r $certdata ]; then
  echo "$certdata must be in the local directory"
  exit 1
fi

REVISION=$(grep CVS_ID $certdata | cut -f4 -d'$')

if [ -z "${REVISION}" ]; then
  echo "$certfile has no 'Revision' in CVS_ID"
  exit 1
fi

VERSION=$(echo $REVISION | cut -f2 -d" ")

TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
TRUSTATTRIBUTES="CKA_TRUST_SERVER_AUTH"
BUNDLE="BLFS-ca-bundle-${VERSION}.crt"
CONVERTSCRIPT="/usr/bin/make-cert.pl"
SSLDIR="/etc/ssl"

mkdir "${TEMPDIR}/certs"

# Get a list of starting lines for each cert
CERTBEGINLIST=$(grep -n "^# Certificate" "${certdata}" | cut -d ":" -f1)

# Get a list of ending lines for each cert
CERTENDLIST=`grep -n "^CKA_TRUST_STEP_UP_APPROVED" "${certdata}" | cut -d ":" -f 1`

# Start a loop
for certbegin in ${CERTBEGINLIST}; do
  for certend in ${CERTENDLIST}; do
    if test "${certend}" -gt "${certbegin}"; then
      break
    fi
  done

  # Dump to a temp file with the name of the file as the beginning line number
  sed -n "${certbegin},${certend}p" "${certdata}" > "${TEMPDIR}/certs/${certbegin}.tmp"
done

unset CERTBEGINLIST CERTDATA CERTENDLIST certbegin certend

mkdir -p certs
rm -f certs/*      # Make sure the directory is clean

for tempfile in ${TEMPDIR}/certs/*.tmp; do
  # Make sure that the cert is trusted...
  grep "CKA_TRUST_SERVER_AUTH" "${tempfile}" | \
    egrep "TRUST_UNKNOWN|NOT_TRUSTED" > /dev/null

  if test "${?}" = "0"; then
    # Throw a meaningful error and remove the file
    cp "${tempfile}" tempfile.cer
    perl ${CONVERTSCRIPT} > tempfile.crt
    keyhash=$(openssl x509 -noout -in tempfile.crt -hash)
    echo "Certificate ${keyhash} is not trusted!  Removing..."
    rm -f tempfile.cer tempfile.crt "${tempfile}"
    continue
  fi

  # If execution made it to here in the loop, the temp cert is trusted
  # Find the cert data and generate a cert file for it

  cp "${tempfile}" tempfile.cer
  perl ${CONVERTSCRIPT} > tempfile.crt
  keyhash=$(openssl x509 -noout -in tempfile.crt -hash)
  mv tempfile.crt "certs/${keyhash}.pem"
  rm -f tempfile.cer "${tempfile}"
  echo "Created ${keyhash}.pem"
done

# Remove blacklisted files
# MD5 Collision Proof of Concept CA
if test -f certs/8f111d69.pem; then
  echo "Certificate 8f111d69 is not trusted!  Removing..."
  rm -f certs/8f111d69.pem
fi

# Finally, generate the bundle and clean up.
cat certs/*.pem >  ${BUNDLE}
rm -r "${TEMPDIR}"
EOF

chmod +x /usr/bin/make-ca.sh

Add a short script to remove expired certificates from a directory. Again create this script as the root user:

cat > /usr/sbin/remove-expired-certs.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin /usr/sbin/remove-expired-certs.sh
#
# Version 20120211

# Make sure the date is parsed correctly on all systems
mydate()
{
  local y=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f4 )
  local M=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f1 )
  local d=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f2 )
  local m

  if [ ${d} -lt 10 ]; then d="0${d}"; fi

  case $M in
    Jan) m="01";;
    Feb) m="02";;
    Mar) m="03";;
    Apr) m="04";;
    May) m="05";;
    Jun) m="06";;
    Jul) m="07";;
    Aug) m="08";;
    Sep) m="09";;
    Oct) m="10";;
    Nov) m="11";;
    Dec) m="12";;
  esac

  certdate="${y}${m}${d}"
}

OPENSSL=/usr/bin/openssl
DIR=/etc/ssl/certs

if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
  DIR="$1"
fi

certs=$( find ${DIR} -type f -name "*.pem" -o -name "*.crt" )
today=$( date +%Y%m%d )

for cert in $certs; do
  notafter=$( $OPENSSL x509 -enddate -in "${cert}" -noout )
  date=$( echo ${notafter} |  sed 's/^notAfter=//' )
  mydate "$date"

  if [ ${certdate} -lt ${today} ]; then
     echo "${cert} expired on ${certdate}! Removing..."
     rm -f "${cert}"
  fi
done
EOF

chmod u+x /usr/sbin/remove-expired-certs.sh

The following commands will fetch the certificates and convert them to the correct format. If desired, a web browser may be used instead of wget but the file will need to be saved with the name certdata.txt. These commands can be repeated as necessary to update the CA Certificates.

URL=http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/certdata.txt &&
rm -f certdata.txt &&
wget $URL          &&
make-ca.sh         &&
unset URL

Now, as the root user:

SSLDIR=/etc/ssl                                              &&
remove-expired-certs.sh certs                                &&
install -d ${SSLDIR}/certs                                   &&
cp -v certs/*.pem ${SSLDIR}/certs                            &&
c_rehash                                                     &&
install BLFS-ca-bundle*.crt ${SSLDIR}/ca-bundle.crt          &&
ln -sfv ../ca-bundle.crt ${SSLDIR}/certs/ca-certificates.crt &&
unset SSLDIR

Finally, clean up the current directory:

rm -r certs BLFS-ca-bundle*

After installing or updating certificates, if OpenJDK is installed, update the certificates for Java using the procedures at JRE Certificate Authorithy Certificates.

Installed Programs: make-ca.sh, make-cert.pl and remove-expired-certs.sh

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/ssl/certs

Short Descriptions

make-ca.sh	is a shell script that reformats the `certdata.txt` file for use by openssl.
make-cert.pl	is a utility perl script that converts a single binary certificate (.der format) into .pem format.
remove-expired-certs.sh	is a utility shell script that removes expired certificates from a directory. The default directory is `/etc/ssl/certs`.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

ConsoleKit2-1.0.0

Introduction to ConsoleKit

The ConsoleKit package is a framework for keeping track of the various users, sessions, and seats present on a system. It provides a mechanism for software to react to changes of any of these items or of any of the metadata associated with them.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/Consolekit2/ConsoleKit2/releases/download/1.0.0/ConsoleKit2-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a89382ac18c11eda349053ed37114264
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

ConsoleKit Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104 and Xorg Libraries

Warning

If you intend NOT to install polkit, you will need to manually edit the ConsoleKit.conf file to lock down the service. Failure to do so may be a huge SECURITY HOLE.

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/consolekit

Installation of ConsoleKit

Install ConsoleKit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --enable-udev-acl    \
            --enable-pam-module  \
            --enable-polkit      \
            --with-xinitrc-dir=/etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc.d \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-1.0.0           \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no                     &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mv -v /etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc.d/90-consolekit{,.sh}

Command Explanations

--enable-udev-acl: This switch enables building of the udev-acl tool, which is used to allow normal users to access device nodes normally only accessible to root.

--enable-pam-module: This switch enables building of the ConsoleKit PAM module which is needed for ConsoleKit to work correctly with PAM. Remove if Linux PAM is NOT installed.

--enable-polkit: Enable PolicyKit support.

--with-xinitrc-dir=/etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc.d: Fix the location of the 90-consolekit.sh script. Notice that the script has been renamed after installation, because xinitrc only sources script names ending with extension .sh.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no: Disable attempting to build with systemd libraries.

--enable-docbook-docs: Use this switch if xmlto is installed and you wish to build the API documentation.

Configuring ConsoleKit

PAM Module Configuration

If you use Linux PAM, it needs to be configured to activate ConsoleKit upon user login. This can be achieved by editing the /etc/pam.d/system-session file as the root user:

cat >> /etc/pam.d/system-session << "EOF"
# Begin ConsoleKit addition

session   optional    pam_loginuid.so
session   optional    pam_ck_connector.so nox11

# End ConsoleKit addition
EOF

You will also need a helper script that creates a file in /var/run/console named as the currently logged in user and that contains the D-Bus address of the session. You can create the script by running the following commands as the root user:

cat > /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/pam-foreground-compat.ck << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
TAGDIR=/var/run/console

[ -n "$CK_SESSION_USER_UID" ] || exit 1
[ "$CK_SESSION_IS_LOCAL" = "true" ] || exit 0

TAGFILE="$TAGDIR/`getent passwd $CK_SESSION_USER_UID | cut -f 1 -d:`"

if [ "$1" = "session_added" ]; then
    mkdir -p "$TAGDIR"
    echo "$CK_SESSION_ID" >> "$TAGFILE"
fi

if [ "$1" = "session_removed" ] && [ -e "$TAGFILE" ]; then
    sed -i "\%^$CK_SESSION_ID\$%d" "$TAGFILE"
    [ -s "$TAGFILE" ] || rm -f "$TAGFILE"
fi
EOF
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-session.d/pam-foreground-compat.ck

See /usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit/spec/ConsoleKit.html for more configuration.

Installed Programs: ck-history, ck-launch-session, ck-list-sessions, ck-log-system-restart, ck-log-system-start, ck-log-system-stop and console-kit-daemon

Installed Libraries: libck-connector.so and pam_ck_connector.so

Installed Directories: /{etc,usr/{include,lib},var/{log,run}}/ConsoleKit and /usr/share/doc/ConsoleKit-1.0.0

Short Descriptions

ck-history	is a utility that provides information from the ConsoleKit database about what users have logged into the system.
ck-launch-session	is a utility for starting a command in its own ConsoleKit session.
ck-list-sessions	list sessions with respective properties. Also good for debugging purposes.
ck-log-system-restart	write system restart to log.
ck-log-system-start	write system start to log.
ck-log-system-stop	write system stop to log.
console-kit-daemon	is the ConsoleKit daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 06:48:24 -0700

CrackLib-2.9.6

Introduction to CrackLib

The CrackLib package contains a library used to enforce strong passwords by comparing user selected passwords to words in chosen word lists.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/cracklib/cracklib/releases/download/cracklib-2.9.6/cracklib-2.9.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c52f463585d85924b28cdc1e373ae06d
Download size: 628 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Recommended word list for English-speaking countries (size: 5.3 MB; md5sum: cae1257e3a9f95c917cc9dbbab852316): https://github.com/cracklib/cracklib/releases/download/cracklib-2.9.6/cracklib-words-2.9.6.gz

There are additional word lists available for download, e.g., from http://www.cotse.com/tools/wordlists.htm. CrackLib can utilize as many, or as few word lists you choose to install.

Important

Users tend to base their passwords on regular words of the spoken language, and crackers know that. CrackLib is intended to filter out such bad passwords at the source using a dictionary created from word lists. To accomplish this, the word list(s) for use with CrackLib must be an exhaustive list of words and word-based keystroke combinations likely to be chosen by users of the system as (guessable) passwords.

The default word list recommended above for downloading mostly satisfies this role in English-speaking countries. In other situations, it may be necessary to download (or even create) additional word lists.

Note that word lists suitable for spell-checking are not usable as CrackLib word lists in countries with non-Latin based alphabets, because of “word-based keystroke combinations” that make bad passwords.

CrackLib Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cracklib

Installation of CrackLib

Install CrackLib by running the following commands:

sed -i '/skipping/d' util/packer.c &&

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --with-default-dict=/lib/cracklib/pw_dict &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install                      &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libcrack.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libcrack.so) /usr/lib/libcrack.so

Issue the following commands as the root user to install the recommended word list and create the CrackLib dictionary. Other word lists (text based, one word per line) can also be used by simply installing them into /usr/share/dict and adding them to the create-cracklib-dict command.

install -v -m644 -D    ../cracklib-words-2.9.6.gz \
                         /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.gz     &&

gunzip -v                /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.gz     &&
ln -v -sf cracklib-words /usr/share/dict/words                 &&
echo $(hostname) >>      /usr/share/dict/cracklib-extra-words  &&
install -v -m755 -d      /lib/cracklib                         &&

create-cracklib-dict     /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words \
                         /usr/share/dict/cracklib-extra-words

If desired, check the proper operation of the library as an unprivileged user by issuing the following command:

make test

Important

If you are installing CrackLib after your LFS system has been completed and you have the Shadow package installed, you must reinstall Shadow-4.2.1 if you wish to provide strong password support on your system. If you are now going to install the Linux-PAM-1.2.1 package, you may disregard this note as Shadow will be reinstalled after the Linux-PAM installation.

Command Explanations

sed -i '/skipping/d' util/packer.c: Remove a meaningless warning.

--with-default-dict=/lib/cracklib/pw_dict: This parameter forces the installation of the CrackLib dictionary to the /lib hierarchy.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

mv -v /usr/lib/libcrack.so.2* /lib and ln -v -sf ../../lib/libcrack.so.2.8.1 ...: These two commands move the libcrack.so.2.9.0 library and associated symlink from /usr/lib to /lib, then recreates the /usr/lib/libcrack.so symlink pointing to the relocated file.

install -v -m644 -D ...: This command creates the /usr/share/dict directory (if it doesn't already exist) and installs the compressed word list there.

ln -v -s cracklib-words /usr/share/dict/words: The word list is linked to /usr/share/dict/words as historically, words is the primary word list in the /usr/share/dict directory. Omit this command if you already have a /usr/share/dict/words file installed on your system.

echo $(hostname) >>...: The value of hostname is echoed to a file called cracklib-extra-words. This extra file is intended to be a site specific list which includes easy to guess passwords such as company or department names, user's names, product names, computer names, domain names, etc.

create-cracklib-dict ...: This command creates the CrackLib dictionary from the word lists. Modify the command to add any additional word lists you have installed.

Installed Programs: cracklib-check, cracklib-format, cracklib-packer, cracklib-unpacker and create-cracklib-dict

Installed Libraries: libcrack.so and the _cracklibmodule.so Python module

Installed Directories: /lib/cracklib, /usr/share/dict and /usr/share/cracklib

Short Descriptions

cracklib-check	is used to determine if a password is strong.
cracklib-format	is used to format text files (lowercases all words, removes controle characters and sorts the lists).
cracklib-packer	creates a database with words read from standard input.
cracklib-unpacker	displays on standard output the database specified.
create-cracklib-dict	is used to create the CrackLib dictionary from the given word list(s).
`libcrack.so`	provides a fast dictionary lookup method for strong password enforcement.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

Cyrus SASL-2.1.26

Introduction to Cyrus SASL

The Cyrus SASL package contains a Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols. To use SASL, a protocol includes a command for identifying and authenticating a user to a server and for optionally negotiating protection of subsequent protocol interactions. If its use is negotiated, a security layer is inserted between the protocol and the connection.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a7f4e5e559a0e37b3ffc438c9456e425
Download size: 5.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26-fixes-3.patch

Cyrus SASL Dependencies

Required

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1, krb4 and Dmalloc

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cyrus-sasl

Installation of Cyrus SASL

Install Cyrus SASL by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../cyrus-sasl-2.1.26-fixes-3.patch &&
autoreconf -fi &&

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --enable-auth-sasldb \
            --with-dbpath=/var/lib/sasl/sasldb2 \
            --with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd &&
make -j1

This package does not come with a test suite. If you are planning on using the GSSAPI authentication mechanism, it is recommended to test it after installing the package using the sample server and client programs which were built in the preceding step. Instructions for performing the tests can be found at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/cyrus-sasl.txt.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26 &&
install -v -m644  doc/{*.{html,txt,fig},ONEWS,TODO} \
    saslauthd/LDAP_SASLAUTHD /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26 &&
install -v -dm700 /var/lib/sasl

Command Explanations

--with-dbpath=/var/lib/sasl/sasldb2: This switch forces the sasldb database to be created in /var/lib/sasl instead of /etc.

--with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd: This switch forces saslauthd to use the FHS compliant directory /var/run/saslauthd for variable run-time data.

--enable-auth-sasldb: This switch enables SASLDB authentication backend.

--with-dblib=gdbm: This switch forces GDBM to be used instead of Berkeley DB.

--with-ldap: This switch enables the OpenLDAP support.

--enable-ldapdb: This switch enables the LDAPDB authentication backend. There is a circular dependency with this parameter. See http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cyrus-sasl for a solution to this problem.

--enable-java: This switch enables compiling of the Java support libraries.

--enable-login: This option enables unsupported LOGIN authentication.

--enable-ntlm: This option enables unsupported NTLM authentication.

install -v -m644 ...: These commands install documentation which is not installed by the make install command.

install -v -m700 -d /var/lib/sasl: This directory must exist when starting saslauthd or using the sasldb plugin. If you're not going to be running the daemon or using the plugins, you may omit the creation of this directory.

Configuring Cyrus SASL

Config Files

/etc/saslauthd.conf (for saslauthd LDAP configuration) and /etc/sasl2/Appname.conf (where "Appname" is the application defined name of the application)

Configuration Information

See file:///usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/sysadmin.html for information on what to include in the application configuration files.

See file:///usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/LDAP_SASLAUTHD for configuring saslauthd with OpenLDAP.

See file:///usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/gssapi.html for configuring saslauthd with Kerberos.

Init Script

If you need to run the saslauthd daemon at system startup, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/saslauthd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package using the following command:

make install-saslauthd

Note

You'll need to modify /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and replace the AUTHMECH parameter with your desired authentication mechanism.

Installed Programs: pluginviewer, saslauthd, sasldblistusers2, saslpasswd2 and testsaslauthd

Installed Library: libsasl2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/sasl, /usr/lib/sasl2, /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26 and /var/lib/sasl

Short Descriptions

pluginviewer	is used to list loadable SASL plugins and their properties.
saslauthd	is the SASL authentication server.
sasldblistusers2	is used to list the users in the SASL password database `sasldb2`.
saslpasswd2	is used to set and delete a user's SASL password and mechanism specific secrets in the SASL password database `sasldb2`.
testsaslauthd	is a test utility for the SASL authentication server.
`libsasl2.so`	is a general purpose authentication library for server and client applications.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

GnuPG-2.1.7

Introduction to GnuPG

The GnuPG package is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described by several RFCs. GnuPG 2 is the stable version of GnuPG integrating support for OpenPGP and S/MIME.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.1.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: ebdf92b15b8bcd8579b643c7f41a3238
Download size: 4.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 105 MB (including tests)
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (including tests)

GnuPG 2 Dependencies

Required

Libassuan-2.3.0, libgcrypt-1.6.3, Libksba-1.3.3, and NPth-1.2

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, libusb-compat-0.1.5, an MTA, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx), and GNU adns

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnupg2

Installation of GnuPG

Warning

If you are upgrading from gnupg prior to version 2.1, upstream developers recommend to backup ~/.gnupg, because some additional configuration will probably be necessary, and you could lose your keys. You can find instructions at http://jo-ke.name/wp/?p=111 and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG#.22Lost.22_keys.2C_upgrading_to_gnupg_version_2.1.

If the top directory path where the source is unpacked contains symbolic links, the openpgp tests might fail. If this is your case and you wish to run the test suite, fix that with:

sed -e 's|\(GNUPGHOME\)=\$(abs_builddir)|\1=`/bin/pwd`|' \
    -i tests/openpgp/Makefile.in

Install GnuPG by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-symcryptrun \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7 &&
make &&

makeinfo --html --no-split \
         -o doc/gnupg_nochunks.html doc/gnupg.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext       \
         -o doc/gnupg.txt           doc/gnupg.texi

If you have texlive-20150521 installed and you wish to create documentation in alternate formats, issue the following commands:

make -C doc pdf ps html

To test the results, issue: make check.

Note that if you have already installed GnuPG, the instructions below will overwrite /usr/share/man/man1/gpg-zip.1. Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7/html            &&
install -v -m644    doc/gnupg_nochunks.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7/html/gnupg.html &&
install -v -m644    doc/*.texi doc/gnupg.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7

We recommend the creation of symlinks for compatibility with the first version of GnuPG, because some programs or scripts need them. Issue, as root user:

for f in gpg gpgv
do
  ln -svf ${f}2.1 /usr/share/man/man1/$f.1 &&
  ln -svf ${f}2   /usr/bin/$f
done
unset f

If you created alternate formats of the documentation, install it using the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 doc/gnupg.html/* \
                 /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gnupg.{pdf,dvi,ps} \
                 /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7

Command Explanations

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7: This switch changes the default docdir to /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7.

--enable-symcryptrun: This switch enables building the symcryptrun program.

Installed Programs: addgnupghome, applygnupgdefaults, dirmngr, dirmngr-client, g13, gpg-agent, gpg-connect-agent, gpg, gpg2, gpgconf, gpgkey2ssh, gpgparsemail, gpgsm, gpgtar, gpgv, gpgv2, kbxutil, symcryptrun, and watchgnupg

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/gnupg-2.1.7 and /usr/share/gnupg

Short Descriptions

addgnupghome	is used to create and populate user's `~/.gnupg` directories
applygnupgdefaults	is a wrapper script used to run gpgconf with the `--apply-defaults` parameter on all user's GnuPG home directories.
dirmngr	is a tool that takes care of accessing the OpenPGP keyservers.
dirmngr-client	is a tool to contact a running dirmngr and test whether a certificate has been revoked.
g13	is a tool to create, mount or unmount an encrypted file system container.
gpg-agent	is a daemon used to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg2 and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities.
gpg-connect-agent	is a utility used to communicate with a running gpg-agent.
gpg	(optional) is a symlink to gpg2 for compatibility with the first version of GnuPG.
gpg2	is the OpenPGP part of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). It is a tool used to provide digital encryption and signing services using the OpenPGP standard.
gpgconf	is a utility used to automatically and reasonably safely query and modify configuration files in the `~/.gnupg` home directory. It is designed not to be invoked manually by the user, but automatically by graphical user interfaces.
gpgkey2ssh	is a utility used to get the correctly formated key for ssh usage.
gpgparsemail	is a utility currently only useful for debugging. Run it with `--help` for usage information.
gpgsm	is a tool similar to gpg2 used to provide digital encryption and signing services on X.509 certificates and the CMS protocol. It is mainly used as a backend for S/MIME mail processing.
gpgtar	is a tool to encrypt or sign files into an archive.
gpgv	(optional) is a symlink to gpgv2 for compatibility with the first version of GnuPG.
gpgv2	is a verify only version of gpg2.
kbxutil	is used to list, export and import Keybox data.
symcryptrun	is a simple symmetric encryption tool.
watchgnupg	is used to listen to a Unix Domain socket created by any of the GnuPG tools.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1

Introduction to GnuTLS

The GnuTLS package contains libraries and userspace tools which provide a secure layer over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implements the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group. Quoting from the TLS protocol specification:

“The TLS protocol provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.”

GnuTLS provides support for TLS 1.2, TLS 1.1, TLS 1.0, and SSL 3.0 protocols, TLS extensions, including server name and max record size. Additionally, the library supports authentication using the SRP protocol, X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys, along with support for the TLS Pre-Shared-Keys (PSK) extension, the Inner Application (TLS/IA) extension and X.509 and OpenPGP certificate handling.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.4/gnutls-3.4.4.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 474efaba6fd6c6c6c0ebac2a3f431946
Download size: 6.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 130 MB (146 MB, with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (4.0 SBU, with tests)

GnuTLS Dependencies

Required

Nettle-3.1.1

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, GTK-Doc-1.24, Guile-2.0.11, libidn-1.32, texlive-20150521 or install-tl-unx, Unbound-1.5.4 (to build the DANE library), Valgrind-3.10.1 (used during the test suite), autogen, and Trousers (Trusted Platform Module support)

Note

Note that if you do not install libtasn1-4.6, an older version shipped in the GnuTLS tarball will be used instead.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnutls

Installation of GnuTLS

Install GnuTLS by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-default-trust-store-file=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you did not pass the --enable-gtk-doc parameter to the configure script, you can install the API documentation to the /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnutls directory using the following command as the root user:

make -C doc/reference install-data-local

Command Explanations

--with-default-trust-store-file=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt: This switch tells configure where to find the CA Certificates.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--enable-openssl-compatibility: Use this switch if you wish to build the OpenSSL compatibility library.

--without-p11-kit: use this switch if you have not installed p11-kit.

Installed Programs: certtool, crywrap, danetool, gnutls-cli, gnutls-cli-debug, gnutls-serv, ocsptool, p11tool, psktool, and srptool

Installed Libraries: libgnutls.so, libgnutls-dane.so, libgnutlsxx.so, and /usr/lib/guile/2.0/guile-gnutls-v-2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/{gtk-doc/html,guile/site}}/gnutls

Short Descriptions

certtool	is used to generate X.509 certificates, certificate requests, and private keys.
crywrap	is a simple wrapper that waits for TLS/SSL connections, and proxies them to an unencrypted location. Only installed if libidn-1.32 is present.
danetool	is a tool used to generate and check DNS resource records for the DANE protocol.
gnutls-cli	is a simple client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
gnutls-cli-debug	is a simple client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer and produces very verbose progress results.
gnutls-serv	is a simple server program that listens to incoming TLS connections.
ocsptool	is a program that can parse and print information about OCSP requests/responses, generate requests and verify responses.
p11tool	is a program that allows handling data from PKCS #11 smart cards and security modules.
psktool	is a simple program that generates random keys for use with TLS-PSK.
srptool	is a simple program that emulates the programs in the Stanford SRP (Secure Remote Password) libraries using GnuTLS.
`libgnutls.so`	contains the core API functions and X.509 certificate API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GPGME-1.6.0

Introduction to GPGME

The GPGME package is a C library that allows cryptography support to be added to a program. It is designed to make access to public key crypto engines like GnuPG or GpgSM easier for applications. GPGME provides a high-level crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/gpgme-1.6.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 60d730d22e8065fd5de309e8b98e304b
Download size: 964 KB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB (without the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (without the test suite)

GPGME Dependencies

Required

Libassuan-2.3.0

Optional

GnuPG-2.1.7 (used during the testsuite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gpgme

Installation of GPGME

Install GPGME by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: gpgme-config and gpgme-tool

Installed Libraries: libgpgme-pthread.so and libgpgme.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpgme

Short Descriptions

gpgme-config	is used to obtain GPGME compilation and linking information.
gpgme-tool	prints fingerprint and keyid with keyservers.
`libgpgme-pthread.so`	contains the GPGME API functions for applications using pthread.
`libgpgme.so`	contains the GPGME API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Haveged-1.9.1

Introduction to Haveged

The Haveged package contains a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers and feeds the /dev/random device.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/haveged/haveged-1.9.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 015ff58cd10607db0e0de60aeca2f5f8
Download size: 468 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged

Installation of Haveged

Install Haveged by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mkdir -pv    /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.1 &&
cp -v README /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.1

Configuring haveged

Boot Script

If you want the Haveged daemon to start automatically when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/haveged init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-haveged

Installed Programs: haveged

Installed Libraries: libhavege.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/haveged

Short Descriptions

haveged

is a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers harvested from the indirect effects of hardware events based on hidden processor states (caches, branch predictors, memory translation tables, etc).

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Iptables-1.4.21

Introduction to Iptables

The next part of this chapter deals with firewalls. The principal firewall tool for Linux is Iptables. You will need to install Iptables if you intend on using any form of a firewall.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/files/iptables-1.4.21.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.netfilter.org/pub/iptables/iptables-1.4.21.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 536d048c8e8eeebcd9757d0863ebb0c0
Download size: 536 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/iptables

Kernel Configuration

A firewall in Linux is accomplished through a portion of the kernel called netfilter. The interface to netfilter is Iptables. To use it, the appropriate kernel configuration parameters are found in:

[*] Networking support  --->                                    [CONFIG_NET]
      Networking Options  --->
        [*] Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter) ---> [CONFIG_NETFILTER]

Installation of Iptables

Note

The installation below does not include building some specialized extension libraries which require the raw headers in the Linux source code. If you wish to build the additional extensions (if you aren't sure, then you probably don't), you can look at the INSTALL file to see an example of how to change the KERNEL_DIR= parameter to point at the Linux source code. Note that if you upgrade the kernel version, you may also need to recompile Iptables and that the BLFS team has not tested using the raw kernel headers.

For some non-x86 architectures, the raw kernel headers may be required. In that case, modify the KERNEL_DIR= parameter to point at the Linux source code.

Install Iptables by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --sbindir=/sbin \
            --enable-libipq \
            --with-xtlibdir=/lib/xtables &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -sfv ../../sbin/xtables-multi /usr/bin/iptables-xml &&

for file in ip4tc ip6tc ipq iptc xtables
do
  mv -v /usr/lib/lib${file}.so.* /lib &&
  ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/lib${file}.so) /usr/lib/lib${file}.so
done

Command Explanations

--with-xtlibdir=/lib/xtables: Ensure all Iptables modules are installed in the /lib/xtables directory.

--enable-libipq: This switch enables building of libipq.so which can be used by some packages outside of BLFS.

--enable-nfsynproxy: This switch enables installation of nfsynproxy SYNPROXY configuration tool.

ln -sfv ../../sbin/xtables-multi /usr/bin/iptables-xml: Ensure the symbolic link for iptables-xml is relative.

Configuring Iptables

Introductory instructions for configuring your firewall are presented in the next section: Firewalling

Boot Script

To set up the iptables firewall at boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-iptables

Installed Programs: ip6tables, ip6tables-restore, ip6tables-save, iptables, iptables-restore, iptables-save, iptables-xml, nfsynproxy (optional) and xtables-multi

Installed Libraries: libip4tc.so, libip6tc.so, libipq.so, libiptc.so, and libxtables.so

Installed Directories: /lib/xtables and /usr/include/libiptc

Short Descriptions

iptables	is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules in the Linux kernel.
iptables-restore	is used to restore IP Tables from data specified on STDIN. Use I/O redirection provided by your shell to read from a file.
iptables-save	is used to dump the contents of an IP Table in easily parseable format to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to a file.
iptables-xml	is used to convert the output of iptables-save to an XML format. Using the `iptables.xslt` stylesheet converts the XML back to the format of iptables-restore.
ip6tables*	are a set of commands for IPV6 that parallel the iptables commands above.
nfsynproxy	(optional) configuration tool. SYNPROXY target makes handling of large SYN floods possible without the large performance penalties imposed by the connection tracking in such cases.
xtables-multi	is a binary that behaves according to the name it is called by.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Setting Up a Network Firewall

Before you read this part of the chapter, you should have already installed iptables as described in the previous section.

Introduction to Firewall Creation

The general purpose of a firewall is to protect a computer or a network against malicious access.

In a perfect world, every daemon or service on every machine is perfectly configured and immune to flaws such as buffer overflows or other problems regarding its security. Furthermore, you trust every user accessing your services. In this world, you do not need to have a firewall.

In the real world however, daemons may be misconfigured and exploits against essential services are freely available. You may wish to choose which services are accessible by certain machines or you may wish to limit which machines or applications are allowed external access. Alternatively, you may simply not trust some of your applications or users. You are probably connected to the Internet. In this world, a firewall is essential.

Don't assume however, that having a firewall makes careful configuration redundant, or that it makes any negligent misconfiguration harmless. It doesn't prevent anyone from exploiting a service you intentionally offer but haven't recently updated or patched after an exploit went public. Despite having a firewall, you need to keep applications and daemons on your system properly configured and up to date. A firewall is not a cure all, but should be an essential part of your overall security strategy.

Meaning of the Word "Firewall"

The word firewall can have several different meanings.

Personal Firewall

This is a hardware device or software program commercially sold (or offered via freeware) by companies such as Symantec which claims that it secures a home or desktop computer connected to the Internet. This type of firewall is highly relevant for users who do not know how their computers might be accessed via the Internet or how to disable that access, especially if they are always online and connected via broadband links.

Masquerading Router

This is a system placed between the Internet and an intranet. To minimize the risk of compromising the firewall itself, it should generally have only one role—that of protecting the intranet. Although not completely risk free, the tasks of doing the routing and IP masquerading (rewriting IP headers of the packets it routes from clients with private IP addresses onto the Internet so that they seem to come from the firewall itself) are commonly considered relatively secure.

BusyBox

This is often an old computer you may have retired and nearly forgotten, performing masquerading or routing functions, but offering non-firewall services such as a web-cache or mail. This may be used for home networks, but is not to be considered as secure as a firewall only machine because the combination of server and router/firewall on one machine raises the complexity of the setup.

Firewall with a Demilitarized Zone [Not Further Described Here]

This box performs masquerading or routing, but grants public access to some branch of your network which, because of public IPs and a physically separated structure, is essentially a separate network with direct Internet access. The servers on this network are those which must be easily accessible from both the Internet and intranet. The firewall protects both networks. This type of firewall has a minimum of three network interfaces.

Packetfilter

This type of firewall does routing or masquerading, but does not maintain a state table of ongoing communication streams. It is fast, but quite limited in its ability to block undesired packets without blocking desired packets.

Now You Can Start to Build your Firewall

Caution

This introduction on how to setup a firewall is not a complete guide to securing systems. Firewalling is a complex issue that requires careful configuration. The scripts quoted here are simply intended to give examples of how a firewall works. They are not intended to fit into any particular configuration and may not provide complete protection from an attack.

Customization of these scripts for your specific situation will be necessary for an optimal configuration, but you should make a serious study of the iptables documentation and creating firewalls in general before hacking away. Have a look at the list of links for further reading at the end of this section for more details. There you will find a list of URLs that contain quite comprehensive information about building your own firewall.

The firewall configuration script installed in the iptables section differs from the standard configuration script. It only has two of the standard targets: start and status. The other targets are clear and lock. For instance if you issue:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables start

the firewall will be restarted just as it is upon system startup. The status target will present a list of all currently implemented rules. The clear target turns off all firewall rules and the lock target will block all packets in and out of the computer with the exception of the loopback interface.

The main startup firewall is located in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables. The sections below provide three different approaches that can be used for a system.

Note

You should always run your firewall rules from a script. This ensures consistency and a record of what was done. It also allows retention of comments that are essential for understanding the rules long after they were written.

Personal Firewall

A Personal Firewall is designed to let you access all the services offered on the Internet, but keep your box secure and your data private.

Below is a slightly modified version of Rusty Russell's recommendation from the Linux 2.4 Packet Filtering HOWTO. It is still applicable to the Linux 2.6 kernels.

cat > /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh

# Begin rc.iptables

# Insert connection-tracking modules
# (not needed if built into the kernel)
modprobe nf_conntrack
modprobe xt_LOG

# Enable broadcast echo Protection
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts

# Disable Source Routed Packets
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/accept_source_route

# Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies

# Disable ICMP Redirect Acceptance
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/accept_redirects

# Do not send Redirect Messages
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/send_redirects
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/send_redirects

# Drop Spoofed Packets coming in on an interface, where responses
# would result in the reply going out a different interface.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter

# Log packets with impossible addresses.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/log_martians

# be verbose on dynamic ip-addresses  (not needed in case of static IP)
echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr

# disable Explicit Congestion Notification
# too many routers are still ignorant
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

# Set a known state
iptables -P INPUT   DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT  DROP

# These lines are here in case rules are already in place and the
# script is ever rerun on the fly. We want to remove all rules and
# pre-existing user defined chains before we implement new rules.
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -Z

iptables -t nat -F

# Allow local-only connections
iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT

# Free output on any interface to any ip for any service
# (equal to -P ACCEPT)
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

# Permit answers on already established connections
# and permit new connections related to established ones
# (e.g. port mode ftp)
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

# Log everything else. What's Windows' latest exploitable vulnerability?
iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:INPUT "

# End $rc_base/rc.iptables
EOF
chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables

This script is quite simple, it drops all traffic coming into your computer that wasn't initiated from your computer, but as long as you are simply surfing the Internet you are unlikely to exceed its limits.

If you frequently encounter certain delays at accessing FTP servers, take a look at BusyBox example number 4.

Even if you have daemons or services running on your system, these will be inaccessible everywhere but from your computer itself. If you want to allow access to services on your machine, such as ssh or ping, take a look at BusyBox.

Masquerading Router

A true Firewall has two interfaces, one connected to an intranet, in this example eth0, and one connected to the Internet, here ppp0. To provide the maximum security for the firewall itself, make sure that there are no unnecessary servers running on it such as X11 et al. As a general principle, the firewall itself should not access any untrusted service (think of a remote server giving answers that makes a daemon on your system crash, or even worse, that implements a worm via a buffer-overflow).

cat > /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh

# Begin rc.iptables

echo
echo "You're using the example configuration for a setup of a firewall"
echo "from Beyond Linux From Scratch."
echo "This example is far from being complete, it is only meant"
echo "to be a reference."
echo "Firewall security is a complex issue, that exceeds the scope"
echo "of the configuration rules below."
echo "You can find additional information"
echo "about firewalls in Chapter 4 of the BLFS book."
echo "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs"
echo

# Insert iptables modules (not needed if built into the kernel).

modprobe nf_conntrack
modprobe nf_conntrack_ftp
modprobe xt_conntrack
modprobe xt_LOG
modprobe xt_state

# Enable broadcast echo Protection
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts

# Disable Source Routed Packets
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route

# Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies

# Disable ICMP Redirect Acceptance
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects

# Don't send Redirect Messages
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/send_redirects

# Drop Spoofed Packets coming in on an interface where responses
# would result in the reply going out a different interface.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter

# Log packets with impossible addresses.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians

# Be verbose on dynamic ip-addresses  (not needed in case of static IP)
echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr

# Disable Explicit Congestion Notification
# Too many routers are still ignorant
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

# Set a known state
iptables -P INPUT   DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT  DROP

# These lines are here in case rules are already in place and the
# script is ever rerun on the fly. We want to remove all rules and
# pre-existing user defined chains before we implement new rules.
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -Z

iptables -t nat -F

# Allow local connections
iptables -A INPUT  -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT

# Allow forwarding if the initiated on the intranet
iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD ! -i ppp+ -m conntrack --ctstate NEW       -j ACCEPT

# Do masquerading
# (not needed if intranet is not using private ip-addresses)
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp+ -j MASQUERADE

# Log everything for debugging
# (last of all rules, but before policy rules)
iptables -A INPUT   -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:INPUT "
iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:FORWARD "
iptables -A OUTPUT  -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:OUTPUT "

# Enable IP Forwarding
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
EOF
chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables

With this script your intranet should be reasonably secure against external attacks. No one should be able to setup a new connection to any internal service and, if it's masqueraded, makes your intranet invisible to the Internet. Furthermore, your firewall should be relatively safe because there are no services running that a cracker could attack.

Note

If the interface you're connecting to the Internet doesn't connect via PPP, you will need to change <ppp+> to the name of the interface (e.g., eth1) which you are using.

BusyBox

This scenario isn't too different from the Masquerading Router, but additionally offers some services to your intranet. Examples of this can be when you want to administer your firewall from another host on your intranet or use it as a proxy or a name server.

Note

Outlining a true concept of how to protect a server that offers services on the Internet goes far beyond the scope of this document. See the references at the end of this section for more information.

Be cautious. Every service you have enabled makes your setup more complex and your firewall less secure. You are exposed to the risks of misconfigured services or running a service with an exploitable bug. A firewall should generally not run any extra services. See the introduction to the Masquerading Router for some more details.

If you want to add services such as internal Samba or name servers that do not need to access the Internet themselves, the additional statements are quite simple and should still be acceptable from a security standpoint. Just add the following lines into the script before the logging rules.

iptables -A INPUT  -i ! ppp+  -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o ! ppp+  -j ACCEPT

If daemons, such as squid, have to access the Internet themselves, you could open OUTPUT generally and restrict INPUT.

iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

However, it is generally not advisable to leave OUTPUT unrestricted. You lose any control over trojans who would like to "call home", and a bit of redundancy in case you've (mis-)configured a service so that it broadcasts its existence to the world.

To accomplish this, you should restrict INPUT and OUTPUT on all ports except those that it's absolutely necessary to have open. Which ports you have to open depends on your needs: mostly you will find them by looking for failed accesses in your log files.

Have a Look at the Following Examples:

Squid is caching the web:

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT  -p tcp --sport 80 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED \
  -j ACCEPT

Your caching name server (e.g., named) does its lookups via UDP:
```
iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
```

You want to be able to ping your computer to ensure it's still alive:

iptables -A INPUT  -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type echo-reply   -j ACCEPT

If you are frequently accessing FTP servers or enjoy chatting, you might notice certain delays because some implementations of these daemons have the feature of querying an identd on your system to obtain usernames. Although there's really little harm in this, having an identd running is not recommended because many security experts feel the service gives out too much additional information.

To avoid these delays you could reject the requests with a 'tcp-reset':
```
iptables -A INPUT  -p tcp --dport 113 -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
```
To log and drop invalid packets (packets that came in after netfilter's timeout or some types of network scans) insert these rules at the top of the chain:
```
iptables -I INPUT 0 -p tcp -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID \
  -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL:INVALID "
iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j DROP
```
Anything coming from the outside should not have a private address, this is a common attack called IP-spoofing:
```
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -s 10.0.0.0/8     -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -s 172.16.0.0/12  -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
```
There are other addresses that you may also want to drop: 0.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 224.0.0.0/3 (multicast and experimental), 169.254.0.0/16 (Link Local Networks), and 192.0.2.0/24 (IANA defined test network).

If your firewall is a DHCP client, you need to allow those packets:

iptables -A INPUT  -i ppp0 -p udp -s 0.0.0.0 --sport 67 \
   -d 255.255.255.255 --dport 68 -j ACCEPT

To simplify debugging and be fair to anyone who'd like to access a service you have disabled, purposely or by mistake, you could REJECT those packets that are dropped.

Obviously this must be done directly after logging as the very last lines before the packets are dropped by policy:
```
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT
```

These are only examples to show you some of the capabilities of the firewall code in Linux. Have a look at the man page of iptables. There you will find much more information. The port numbers needed for this can be found in /etc/services, in case you didn't find them by trial and error in your log file.

Conclusion

Finally, there is one fact you must not forget: The effort spent attacking a system corresponds to the value the cracker expects to gain from it. If you are responsible for valuable information, you need to spend the time to protect it properly.

Extra Information

Where to Start with Further Reading on Firewalls

www.netfilter.org - Homepage of the netfilter/iptables project
Netfilter related FAQ
Netfilter related HOWTO's
en.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-firewall.html
en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html
en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html
www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/
www.little-idiot.de/firewall (German & outdated, but very comprehensive)
linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/03/10/netadmin/ddos.html
staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos
www.e-infomax.com/ipmasq
www.circlemud.org/~jelson/writings/security/index.htm
www.securityfocus.com
www.cert.org - tech_tips
security.ittoolbox.com
www.insecure.org/reading.html

Last updated on 2014-08-10 11:18:14 -0700

libcap-2.24 with PAM

Introduction to libcap with PAM

The libcap package was installed in LFS, but if PAM support is desired, it needs to be reinstalled after PAM is built.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/libcap-2.24.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/libcap-2.24.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d43ab9f680435a7fff35b4ace8d45b80
Download size: 62 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libcap Dependencies

Required

Linux-PAM-1.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libcap

Installation of libcap

Install libcap by running the following commands:

sed -i 's:LIBDIR:PAM_&:g' pam_cap/Makefile &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

If you want to disable installing the static library, use this sed:

sed -i '/install.*STALIBNAME/ s/^/#/' libcap/Makefile

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr \
     SBINDIR=/sbin \
     PAM_LIBDIR=/lib \
     RAISE_SETFCAP=no install

Still as the root user, clean up some library locations and permissions:

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libcap.so &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libcap.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/libcap.so.2 /usr/lib/libcap.so

Command Explanations

sed -i '...', PAM_LIBDIR=/lib: These correct PAM module install location.

RAISE_SETFCAP=no: This parameter skips trying to use setcap on itself. This avoids an installation error if the kernel or file system do not support extended capabilities.

Installed Programs: capsh, getcap, getpcaps, and setcap

Installed Library: libcap.{so,a}

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

capsh	is a shell wrapper to explore and constrain capability support.
getcap	examines file capabilities.
getpcaps	displays the capabilities on the queried process(es).
setcap	sets file file capabilities.
`libcap.{so,a}`	contains the libcap API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Linux-PAM-1.2.1

Introduction to Linux PAM

The Linux PAM package contains Pluggable Authentication Modules used to enable the local system administrator to choose how applications authenticate users.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://linux-pam.org/library/Linux-PAM-1.2.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9dc53067556d2dd567808fd509519dd6
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional Documentation

Download (HTTP): http://linux-pam.org/documentation/Linux-PAM-1.2.0-docs.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 558378b8be9b8b5c987326f4529f2130
Download size 480 KB

Linux PAM Dependencies

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, CrackLib-2.9.6, libtirpc-0.3.2 and Prelude

Optional (To Rebuild the Documentation)

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, fop-2.0, libxslt-1.1.28 and w3m-0.5.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/linux-pam

Installation of Linux PAM

If you downloaded the documentation, unpack the tarball by issuing the following command.

tar -xf ../Linux-PAM-1.2.0-docs.tar.bz2 --strip-components=1

Install Linux PAM by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libdir=/usr/lib \
            --enable-securedir=/lib/security \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/Linux-PAM-1.2.1 &&
make

To test the results, a suitable /etc/pam.d/other configuration file must exist.

Reinstallation or upgrade of Linux PAM

If you have a system with Linux PAM installed and working, be careful when modifying the files in /etc/pam.d, since your system may become totally unusable. If you want to run the tests, you do not need to create another /etc/pam.d/other file. The installed one can be used for that purpose.

You should also be aware that make install overwrites the configuration files in /etc/security as well as /etc/environment. In case you have modified those files, be sure to backup them.

For a first installation, create the configuration file by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /etc/pam.d &&

cat > /etc/pam.d/other << "EOF"
auth     required       pam_deny.so
account  required       pam_deny.so
password required       pam_deny.so
session  required       pam_deny.so
EOF

Now run the tests by issuing make check. Ensure there are no errors produced by the tests before continuing the installation. Note that the checks are quite long. It may be useful to redirect the output to a log file in order to inspect it thoroughly.

Only in case of a first installation, remove the configuration file created earlier by issuing the following command as the root user:

rm -fv /etc/pam.d/*

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 4755 /sbin/unix_chkpwd &&

for file in pam pam_misc pamc
do
  mv -v /usr/lib/lib${file}.so.* /lib &&
  ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/lib${file}.so) /usr/lib/lib${file}.so
done

Command Explanations

--enable-securedir=/lib/security: This switch sets install location for the PAM modules.

chmod -v 4755 /sbin/unix_chkpwd: The unix_chkpwd helper program must be setuid so that non-root processes can access the shadow file.

Configuring Linux-PAM

Config Files

/etc/security/* and /etc/pam.d/*

Configuration Information

Configuration information is placed in /etc/pam.d/. Below is an example file:

# Begin /etc/pam.d/other

auth            required        pam_unix.so     nullok
account         required        pam_unix.so
session         required        pam_unix.so
password        required        pam_unix.so     nullok

# End /etc/pam.d/other

Now set up some generic files. As root:

cat > /etc/pam.d/system-account << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/system-account

account   required    pam_unix.so

# End /etc/pam.d/system-account
EOF

cat > /etc/pam.d/system-auth << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/system-auth

auth      required    pam_unix.so

# End /etc/pam.d/system-auth
EOF

cat > /etc/pam.d/system-session << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/system-session

session   required    pam_unix.so

# End /etc/pam.d/system-session
EOF

The remaining generic file depends on wheather CrackLib-2.9.6 is installed. If it is installed, use:

cat > /etc/pam.d/system-password << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/system-password

# check new passwords for strength (man pam_cracklib)
password  required    pam_cracklib.so   type=Linux retry=3 difok=5 \
                                        difignore=23 minlen=9 dcredit=1 \
                                        ucredit=1 lcredit=1 ocredit=1 \
                                        dictpath=/lib/cracklib/pw_dict
# use sha512 hash for encryption, use shadow, and use the
# authentication token (chosen password) set by pam_cracklib
# above (or any previous modules)
password  required    pam_unix.so       sha512 shadow use_authtok

# End /etc/pam.d/system-password
EOF

Note

In its default configuration, pam_cracklib will allow multiple case passwords as short as 6 characters, even with the minlen value set to 11. You should review the pam_cracklib(8) man page and determine if these default values are acceptable for the security of your system.

If CrackLib-2.9.6 is NOT installed, use:

cat > /etc/pam.d/system-password << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/system-password

# use sha512 hash for encryption, use shadow, and try to use any previously
# defined authentication token (chosen password) set by any prior module
password  required    pam_unix.so       sha512 shadow try_first_pass

# End /etc/pam.d/system-password
EOF

Now add a restrictive /etc/pam.d/other configuration file. With this file, programs that are PAM aware will not run unless a configuration file specifically for that application is created.

cat > /etc/pam.d/other << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/other

auth        required        pam_warn.so
auth        required        pam_deny.so
account     required        pam_warn.so
account     required        pam_deny.so
password    required        pam_warn.so
password    required        pam_deny.so
session     required        pam_warn.so
session     required        pam_deny.so

# End /etc/pam.d/other
EOF

The PAM man page (man pam) provides a good starting point for descriptions of fields and allowable entries. The Linux-PAM System Administrators' Guide is recommended for additional information.

Refer to http://debian.securedservers.com/kernel/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html for a list of various third-party modules available.

Important

You should now reinstall the Shadow-4.2.1 package.

Installed Program: mkhomedir_helper, pam_tally, pam_tally2, pam_timestamp_check, unix_chkpwd and unix_update

Installed Libraries: libpam.so, libpamc.so and libpam_misc.so

Installed Directories: /etc/security, /lib/security, /usr/include/security and /usr/share/doc/Linux-PAM-1.2.1

Short Descriptions

mkhomedir_helper	is a helper binary that creates home directories.
pam_tally	is used to interrogate and manipulate the login counter file.
pam_tally2	is used to interrogate and manipulate the login counter file, but does not have some limitations that pam_tally does.
pam_timestamp_check	is used to check if the default timestamp is valid
unix_chkpwd	is a helper binary that verifies the password of the current user.
unix_update	is a helper binary that updates the password of a given user.
`libpam.so`	provides the interfaces between applications and the PAM modules.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 09:02:25 -0700

MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2

Introduction to MIT Kerberos V5

MIT Kerberos V5 is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol. It centralizes the authentication database and uses kerberized applications to work with servers or services that support Kerberos allowing single logins and encrypted communication over internal networks or the Internet.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dist/krb5/1.13/krb5-1.13.2-signed.tar
Download MD5 sum: f7ebfa6c99c10b16979ebf9a98343189
Download size: 12 MB
Estimated disk space required: 142 MB (Additional 28 MB for the testsuite)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (additional 5.0 SBU for the testsuite)

MIT Kerberos V5 Dependencies

Optional

DejaGnu-1.5.3 (for full test coverage), GnuPG-2.1.7 (to authenticate the package), keyutils-1.5.9, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, Python-2.7.10 (used during the testsuite) and rpcbind-0.2.3 (used during the testsuite)

Note

Some sort of time synchronization facility on your system (like ntp-4.2.8p3) is required since Kerberos won't authenticate if there is a time difference between a kerberized client and the KDC server.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mitkrb

Installation of MIT Kerberos V5

MIT Kerberos V5 is distributed in a TAR file containing a compressed TAR package and a detached PGP-2 ASC file. You'll need to unpack the distribution tar file, then unpack the compressed tar file before starting the build.

After unpacking the distribution tarball and if you have GnuPG-2.1.7 installed, you can authenticate the package. First, check the contents of the file krb5-1.13.2.tar.gz.asc.

gpg2 --verify krb5-1.13.2.tar.gz.asc krb5-1.13.2.tar.gz

You will probably see output similar to:

gpg: Signature made Fri May  8 23:40:13 2015 utc using RSA key ID 0055C305
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

You can import the public key with:

gpg2 --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0055C305

Now re-verify the package with the first command above. You should get a indication of a good signature, but the key will still not be certified with a trusted signature. Trusting the downloaded key is a separate operation but it is up to you to determine the level of trust.

Build MIT Kerberos V5 by running the following commands:

cd src &&

sed -e "s@python2.5/Python.h@& python2.7/Python.h@g" \
    -e "s@-lpython2.5]@&,\n  AC_CHECK_LIB(python2.7,main,[PYTHON_LIB=-lpython2.7])@g" \
    -i configure.in &&

sed -e 's@\^u}@^u cols 300}@' \
    -i tests/dejagnu/config/default.exp &&

autoconf &&
./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --sysconfdir=/etc        \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib \
            --with-system-et         \
            --with-system-ss         \
            --with-system-verto=no   \
            --enable-dns-for-realm &&
make

To test the build, issue: make check. You need at least Tcl-8.6.4, which is used to drive the testsuite. Furthermore, DejaGnu-1.5.3 must be available for some of the tests to run. If you have a former version of MIT Kerberos V5 installed, it may happen that the test suite pick up the installed versions of the libraries, rather than the newly built ones. If so, it is better to run the tests after the installation.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

for LIBRARY in gssapi_krb5 gssrpc k5crypto kadm5clnt kadm5srv \
               kdb5 kdb_ldap krad krb5 krb5support verto ; do
    chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/lib$LIBRARY.so
done          &&
unset LIBRARY &&

mv -v /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3*        /lib &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3*    /lib &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0* /lib &&

ln -v -sf ../../lib/libkrb5.so.3.3        /usr/lib/libkrb5.so        &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libk5crypto.so.3.1    /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so    &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libkrb5support.so.0.1 /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so &&

mv -v /usr/bin/ksu /bin &&
chmod -v 755 /bin/ksu   &&

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/krb5-1.13.2 &&
cp -vfr ../doc/*  /usr/share/doc/krb5-1.13.2

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: The first sed fixes Python detection. The second one increases the width of the virtual terminal used for some tests, to prevent some spurious characters to be echoed, which is taken as a failure.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This parameter is used so that the Kerberos variable run-time data is located in /var/lib instead of /usr/var.

--with-system-et: This switch causes the build to use the system-installed versions of the error-table support software.

--with-system-ss: This switch causes the build to use the system-installed versions of the subsystem command-line interface software.

--with-system-verto=no: This switch fixes a bug in the package: it does not recognize its own verto library installed previously. This is not a problem, if reinstalling the same version, but if you are updating, the old library is used as system's one, instead of installing the new version.

--enable-dns-for-realm: This switch allows realms to be resolved using the DNS server.

mv -v /usr/bin/ksu /bin: Moves the ksu program to the /bin directory so that it is available when the /usr filesystem is not mounted.

--with-ldap: Use this switch if you want to compile OpenLDAP database backend module.

Configuring MIT Kerberos V5

Config Files

/etc/krb5.conf and /var/lib/krb5kdc/kdc.conf

Configuration Information

Kerberos Configuration

Tip

You should consider installing some sort of password checking dictionary so that you can configure the installation to only accept strong passwords. A suitable dictionary to use is shown in the CrackLib-2.9.6 instructions. Note that only one file can be used, but you can concatenate many files into one. The configuration file shown below assumes you have installed a dictionary to /usr/share/dict/words.

Create the Kerberos configuration file with the following commands issued by the root user:

cat > /etc/krb5.conf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/krb5.conf

[libdefaults]
    default_realm = <LFS.ORG>
    encrypt = true

[realms]
    <LFS.ORG> = {
        kdc = <belgarath.lfs.org>
        admin_server = <belgarath.lfs.org>
        dict_file = /usr/share/dict/words
    }

[domain_realm]
    .<lfs.org> = <LFS.ORG>

[logging]
    kdc = SYSLOG[:INFO[:AUTH]]
    admin_server = SYSLOG[INFO[:AUTH]]
    default = SYSLOG[[:SYS]]

# End /etc/krb5.conf
EOF

You will need to substitute your domain and proper hostname for the occurrences of the <belgarath> and <lfs.org> names.

default_realm should be the name of your domain changed to ALL CAPS. This isn't required, but both Heimdal and MIT recommend it.

encrypt = true provides encryption of all traffic between kerberized clients and servers. It's not necessary and can be left off. If you leave it off, you can encrypt all traffic from the client to the server using a switch on the client program instead.

The [realms] parameters tell the client programs where to look for the KDC authentication services.

The [domain_realm] section maps a domain to a realm.

Create the KDC database:

kdb5_util create -r <LFS.ORG> -s

Now you should populate the database with principals (users). For now, just use your regular login name or root.

kadmin.local
kadmin.local: add_policy dict-only
kadmin.local: addprinc -policy dict-only <loginname>

The KDC server and any machine running kerberized server daemons must have a host key installed:

kadmin.local: addprinc -randkey host/<belgarath.lfs.org>

After choosing the defaults when prompted, you will have to export the data to a keytab file:

kadmin.local: ktadd host/<belgarath.lfs.org>

This should have created a file in /etc named krb5.keytab (Kerberos 5). This file should have 600 (root rw only) permissions. Keeping the keytab files from public access is crucial to the overall security of the Kerberos installation.

Exit the kadmin program (use quit or exit) and return back to the shell prompt. Start the KDC daemon manually, just to test out the installation:

/usr/sbin/krb5kdc

Attempt to get a ticket with the following command:

kinit <loginname>

You will be prompted for the password you created. After you get your ticket, you can list it with the following command:

klist

Information about the ticket should be displayed on the screen.

To test the functionality of the keytab file, issue the following command:

ktutil
ktutil: rkt /etc/krb5.keytab
ktutil: l

This should dump a list of the host principal, along with the encryption methods used to access the principal.

At this point, if everything has been successful so far, you can feel fairly confident in the installation and configuration of the package.

Additional Information

For additional information consult the documentation for krb5-1.13.2 on which the above instructions are based.

Init Script

If you want to start Kerberos services at boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/krb5 init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package using the following command:

make install-krb5

Installed Programs: gss-client, gss-server, k5srvutil, kadmin, kadmin.local, kadmind, kdb5_ldap_util (optional), kdb5_util, kdestroy, kinit, klist, kpasswd, kprop, kpropd, kproplog, krb5-config, krb5kdc, krb5-send-pr, ksu, kswitch, ktutil, kvno, sclient, sim_client, sim_server, sserver, uuclient and uuserver

Installed Libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so, libgssrpc.so, libk5crypto.so, libkadm5clnt_mit.so, libkadm5clnt.so, libkadm5srv_mit.so, libkadm5srv.so, libkdb_ldap.so (optional), libkdb5.so, libkrad.so, libkrb5.so, libkrb5support.so, libverto.so, and some plugins under the /usr/lib/krb5 tree

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{gssapi,gssrpc,kadm5,krb5}, /usr/lib/krb5, /usr/share/{doc/krb5-1.13.2,examples/krb5}, and /var/lib/{,run}/krb5kdc

Short Descriptions

gss-client	is a GSSAPI test client.
gss-server	is a GSSAPI test server.
k5srvutil	is a host keytable manipulation utility.
kadmin	is a utility used to make modifications to the Kerberos database.
kadmin.local	is a utility similar at kadmin, but if the database is db2, the local client kadmin.local, is intended to run directly on the master KDC without Kerberos authentication.
kadmind	is a server for administrative access to a Kerberos database.
kdb5_ldap_util (optional)	allows an administrator to manage realms, Kerberos services and ticket policies.
kdb5_util	is the KDC database utility.
kdestroy	removes the current set of tickets.
kinit	is used to authenticate to the Kerberos server as a principal and acquire a ticket granting ticket that can later be used to obtain tickets for other services.
klist	reads and displays the current tickets in the credential cache.
kpasswd	is a program for changing Kerberos 5 passwords.
kprop	takes a principal database in a specified format and converts it into a stream of database records.
kpropd	receives a database sent by kprop and writes it as a local database.
kproplog	displays the contents of the KDC database update log to standard output.
krb5-config	gives information on how to link programs against libraries.
krb5kdc	is the Kerberos 5 server.
krb5-send-pr	send problem report (PR) to a central support site.
ksu	is the super user program using Kerberos protocol. Requires a properly configured `/etc/shells` and `~/.k5login` containing principals authorized to become super users.
kswitch	makes the specified credential cache the primary cache for the collection, if a cache collection is available.
ktutil	is a program for managing Kerberos keytabs.
kvno	prints keyversion numbers of Kerberos principals.
sclient	used to contact a sample server and authenticate to it using Kerberos 5 tickets, then display the server's response.
sim_client	is a simple UDP-based sample client program, for demonstration.
sim_server	is a simple UDP-based server application, for demonstration.
sserver	is the sample Kerberos 5 server.
uuclient	is an another sample client.
uuserver	is an another sample server.
`libgssapi_krb5.so`	contain the Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSSAPI) functions which provides security services to callers in a generic fashion, supportable with a range of underlying mechanisms and technologies and hence allowing source-level portability of applications to different environments.
`libkadm5clnt.so`	contains the administrative authentication and password checking functions required by Kerberos 5 client-side programs.
`libkadm5srv.so`	contain the administrative authentication and password checking functions required by Kerberos 5 servers.
`libkdb5.so`	is a Kerberos 5 authentication/authorization database access library.
`libkrad.so`	contains the internal support library for RADIUS functionality.
`libkrb5.so`	is an all-purpose Kerberos 5 library.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Nettle-3.1.1

Introduction to Nettle

The Nettle package contains the low-level cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in many contexts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b40fa88dc32f37a182b6b42092ebb144
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 60 MB (additional 88 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for the tests)

Nettle Dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d (for examples)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nettle

Installation of Nettle

Install Nettle by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

If you want to disable installing the static library, use this sed:

sed -i '/^install-here/ s/ install-static//' Makefile

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod   -v   755 /usr/lib/lib{hogweed,nettle}.so &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/nettle-3.1.1  &&
install -v -m644 nettle.html /usr/share/doc/nettle-3.1.1

Installed Programs: nettle-hash, nettle-lfib-stream, nettle-pbkdf2, pkcs1-conv and sexp-conv

Installed Libraries: libhogweed.{so,a} and libnettle.{so,a}

Installed Directory: /usr/include/nettle and /usr/share/doc/nettle-3.1.1

Short Descriptions

nettle-hash	calulates a hash value using a specified algorithm.
nettle-lfib-stream	outputs a sequence of pseudorandom (non-cryptographic) bytes, using Knuth's lagged fibonacci generator. The stream is useful for testing, but should not be used to generate cryptographic keys or anything else that needs real randomness.
nettle-pbkdf2	password-based key derivation function that take as input a password or passphrase and typically strengthen it and protect against certain pre-computation attacks by using salting and expensive computation.
pkcs1-conv	converts private and public RSA keys from PKCS #1 format to sexp format.
sexp-conv	converts an s-expression to a different encoding.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

NSS-3.20

Introduction to NSS

The Network Security Services (NSS) package is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security standards. This is useful for implementing SSL and S/MIME or other Internet security standards into an application.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_20_RTM/src/nss-3.20.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: db83988499d1eb3b623d77ecf495b0f5
Download size: 6.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 84 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/nss-3.20-standalone-1.patch

NSS Dependencies

Required

NSPR-4.10.9

Installation of NSS

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install NSS by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../nss-3.20-standalone-1.patch &&

cd nss &&
make BUILD_OPT=1                      \
  NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/nspr  \
  USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1                   \
  ZLIB_LIBS=-lz                       \
  $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo USE_64=1) \
  $([ -f /usr/include/sqlite3.h ] && echo NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1) -j1

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

cd ../dist                                                       &&
install -v -m755 Linux*/lib/*.so              /usr/lib           &&
install -v -m644 Linux*/lib/{*.chk,libcrmf.a} /usr/lib           &&
install -v -m755 -d                           /usr/include/nss   &&
cp -v -RL {public,private}/nss/*              /usr/include/nss   &&
chmod -v 644                                  /usr/include/nss/* &&
install -v -m755 Linux*/bin/{certutil,nss-config,pk12util} /usr/bin &&
install -v -m644 Linux*/lib/pkgconfig/nss.pc  /usr/lib/pkgconfig

Command Explanations

BUILD_OPT=1: This option is passed to make so that the build is performed with no debugging symbols built into the binaries and the default compiler optimizations are used.

NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/nspr: This option sets the location of the nspr headers.

USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1: This option is passed to make to ensure that the libssl3.so library is linked to the system installed zlib instead of the in-tree version.

ZLIB_LIBS=-lz: This option provides the linker flags needed to link to the system zlib.

$([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo USE_64=1): The USE_64=1 option is required on x86_64, otherwise make will try (and fail) to create 32-bit objects. The [ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] test ensures it has no effect on a 32 bit system.

([ -f /usr/include/sqlite3.h ] && echo NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1): This tests if sqlite is installed and if so it echos the option NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 to make so that libsoftokn3.so will link against the system version of sqlite.

Installed Programs: certutil, nss-config, and pk12util

Installed Libraries: libcrmf.a, libfreebl3.so, libnss3.so, libnssckbi.so, libnssdbm3.so, libnsssysinit.so, libnssutil3.so, libsmime3.so, libsoftokn3.so, and libssl3.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/nss

Short Descriptions

certutil	is the Mozilla Certificate Database Tool. It is a command-line utility that can create and modify the Netscape Communicator cert8.db and key3.db database files. It can also list, generate, modify, or delete certificates within the cert8.db file and create or change the password, generate new public and private key pairs, display the contents of the key database, or delete key pairs within the key3.db file.
nss-config	is used to determine the NSS library settings of the installed NSS libraries.
pk12util	is a tool for importing certificates and keys from pkcs #12 files into NSS or exporting them. It can also list certificates and keys in such files.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

OpenSSH-7.1p1

Introduction to OpenSSH

The OpenSSH package contains ssh clients and the sshd daemon. This is useful for encrypting authentication and subsequent traffic over a network. The ssh and scp commands are secure implementions of telnet and rcp respectively.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.1p1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.1p1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8709736bc8a8c253bc4eeb4829888ca5
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 44 MB (52 MB, with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (running the tests takes 10+ minutes, irrespective of processor speed)

OpenSSH Dependencies

Installation of OpenSSH

OpenSSH runs as two processes when connecting to other computers. The first process is a privileged process and controls the issuance of privileges as necessary. The second process communicates with the network. Additional installation steps are necessary to set up the proper environment, which are performed by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install  -v -m700 -d /var/lib/sshd &&
chown    -v root:sys /var/lib/sshd &&

groupadd -g 50 sshd        &&
useradd  -c 'sshd PrivSep' \
         -d /var/lib/sshd  \
         -g sshd           \
         -s /bin/false     \
         -u 50 sshd

Install OpenSSH by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh             \
            --with-md5-passwords              \
            --with-privsep-path=/var/lib/sshd &&
make

The testsuite requires an installed copy of scp to complete the multiplexing tests. To run the test suite, first copy the scp program to /usr/bin, making sure that you back up any existing copy first.

To test the results, issue: make tests.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755    contrib/ssh-copy-id /usr/bin     &&

install -v -m644    contrib/ssh-copy-id.1 \
                    /usr/share/man/man1              &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/openssh-7.1p1     &&
install -v -m644    INSTALL LICENCE OVERVIEW README* \
                    /usr/share/doc/openssh-7.1p1

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh: This prevents the configuration files from being installed in /usr/etc.

--with-md5-passwords: This enables the use of MD5 passwords.

--with-pam: This parameter enables Linux-PAM support in the build.

--with-xauth=/usr/bin/xauth: Set the default location for the xauth binary for X authentication. Change the location if xauth will be installed to a different path. This can also be controlled from sshd_config with the XAuthLocation keyword. You can omit this switch if Xorg is already installed.

--with-kerberos5=/usr: This option is used to include Kerberos 5 support in the build.

--with-libedit: This option enables line editing and history features for sftp.

Configuring OpenSSH

Config Files

~/.ssh/*, /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and /etc/ssh/sshd_config

There are no required changes to any of these files. However, you may wish to view the /etc/ssh/ files and make any changes appropriate for the security of your system. One recommended change is that you disable root login via ssh. Execute the following command as the root user to disable root login via ssh:

echo "PermitRootLogin no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

If you want to be able to log in without typing in your password, first create ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub with ssh-keygen and then copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote computer that you want to log into. You'll need to change REMOTE_USERNAME and REMOTE_HOSTNAME for the username and hostname of the remote computer and you'll also need to enter your password for the ssh-copy-id command to succeed:

ssh-keygen &&
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub REMOTE_USERNAME@REMOTE_HOSTNAME

Once you've got passwordless logins working it's actually more secure than logging in with a password (as the private key is much longer than most people's passwords). If you would like to now disable password logins, as the root user:

echo "PasswordAuthentication no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config &&
echo "ChallengeResponseAuthentication no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

If you added LinuxPAM support and you want ssh to use it then you will need to add a configuration file for sshd and enable use of LinuxPAM. Note, ssh only uses PAM to check passwords, if you've disabled password logins these commands are not needed. If you want to use PAM issue the following commands as the root user:

sed 's@d/login@d/sshd@g' /etc/pam.d/login > /etc/pam.d/sshd &&
chmod 644 /etc/pam.d/sshd &&
echo "UsePAM yes" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Additional configuration information can be found in the man pages for sshd, ssh and ssh-agent.

Boot Script

To start the SSH server at system boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-sshd

Installed Programs: scp, sftp, slogin (symlink to ssh), ssh, ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-copy-id, ssh-keygen, ssh-keyscan, and sshd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/ssh, /usr/share/doc/openssh-7.1p1, and /var/lib/sshd

Short Descriptions

scp	is a file copy program that acts like rcp except it uses an encrypted protocol.
sftp	is an FTP-like program that works over the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols.
slogin	is a symlink to ssh.
ssh	is an rlogin/rsh-like client program except it uses an encrypted protocol.
sshd	is a daemon that listens for ssh login requests.
ssh-add	is a tool which adds keys to the ssh-agent.
ssh-agent	is an authentication agent that can store private keys.
ssh-copy-id	is a script that enables logins on remote machine using local keys.
ssh-keygen	is a key generation tool.
ssh-keyscan	is a utility for gathering public host keys from a number of hosts.

Last updated on 2015-09-08 09:43:51 -0700

OpenSSL-1.0.2d

Introduction to OpenSSL

The OpenSSL package contains management tools and libraries relating to cryptography. These are useful for providing cryptography functions to other packages, such as OpenSSH, email applications and web browsers (for accessing HTTPS sites).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2d.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 38dd619b2e77cbac69b99f52a053d25a
Download size: 5.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 49 MB (additional 2 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for tests)

OpenSSL Dependencies

Optional

MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/OpenSSL

Installation of OpenSSL

Install OpenSSL with the following commands:

./config --prefix=/usr         \
         --openssldir=/etc/ssl \
         --libdir=lib          \
         shared                \
         zlib-dynamic &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -j1 test.

If you want to disable installing the static libraries, use this sed:

sed -i 's# libcrypto.a##;s# libssl.a##' Makefile

Now, as the root user:

make MANDIR=/usr/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl install &&
install -dv -m755 /usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2d  &&
cp -vfr doc/*     /usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2d

Command Explanations

shared: This parameter forces the creation of shared libraries along with the static libraries.

zlib-dynamic: This parameter adds compression/decompression functionality using the libz library.

no-rc5 no-idea: When added to the ./config command, this will eliminate the building of those encryption methods. Patent licenses may be needed for you to utilize either of those methods in your projects.

make MANDIR=/usr/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl install: This command installs OpenSSL with the man pages in /usr/share/man instead of /etc/ssl/man and appends "ssl" suffix to the manual page names to avoid conflicts with manual pages installed by other packages.

Configuring OpenSSL

Config Files

/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

Configuration Information

Most users will want to install Certificate Authority Certificates for validation of downloaded certificates. For example, these certificates can be used by git-2.5.0, cURL-7.44.0 or Wget-1.16.3 when accessing secure (https protocol) sites. To do this, follow the instructions from the Certificate Authority Certificates page.

Users who just want to use OpenSSL for providing functions to other programs such as OpenSSH and web browsers do not need to worry about additional configuration. This is an advanced topic and so those who do need it would normally be expected to either know how to properly update /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf or be able to find out how to do it.

Installed Programs: c_rehash and openssl

Installed Libraries: libcrypto.{so,a} and libssl.{so,a}

Installed Directories: /etc/ssl, /usr/include/openssl, /usr/lib/engines and /usr/share/doc/openssl-1.0.2d

Short Descriptions

c_rehash	is a Perl script that scans all files in a directory and adds symbolic links to their hash values.
openssl	is a command-line tool for using the various cryptography functions of OpenSSL's crypto library from the shell. It can be used for various functions which are documented in man 1 openssl.
`libcrypto.{so,a}`	implements a wide range of cryptographic algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided by this library are used by the OpenSSL implementations of SSL, TLS and S/MIME, and they have also been used to implement OpenSSH, OpenPGP, and other cryptographic standards.
`libssl.{so,a}`	implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols. It provides a rich API, documentation on which can be found by running man 3 ssl.

Last updated on 2015-09-08 09:43:51 -0700

p11-kit-0.23.1

Introduction to p11-kit

The p11-kit package Provides a way to load and enumerate PKCS #11 (a Cryptographic Token Interface Standard) modules.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/releases/p11-kit-0.23.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 96f073270c489c9a594e1c9413f42db8
Download size: 972 KB
Estimated disk space required: 64 MB (additional 6 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for tests)

p11-kit Dependencies

Optional

NSS-3.20, GTK-Doc-1.24 and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/p11-kit

Installation of p11-kit

Install p11-kit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-hash-impl=freebl: Use this switch if you want to use Freebl library from NSS for SHA1 and MD5 hashing.

--enable-doc: Use this switch if you have installed GTK-Doc-1.24 and libxslt-1.1.28 and wish to rebuild the documentation and generate manual pages.

Installed Program: p11-kit and trust

Installed Libraries: libp11-kit.so and p11-kit-proxy.so

Installed Directories: /etc/pkcs11, /usr/include/p11-kit-1, /usr/lib/{p11-kit,pkcs11}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/p11-kit, and /usr/share/p11-kit

Short Descriptions

p11-kit	is a command line tool that can be used to perform operations on PKCS#11 modules configured on the system.
trust	is a command line tool to examine and modify the shared trust policy store.
`libp11-kit.so`	contains functions used to coordinate initialization and finalization of any PKCS#11 module.
`p11-kit-proxy.so`	is the PKCS#11 proxy module.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

Polkit-0.113

Introduction to Polkit

Polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to communicate with privileged processes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-0.113.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4b77776c9e4f897dcfe03b2c34198edf
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Polkit Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, and JS-17.0.0

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, GTK-Doc-1.24, libxslt-1.1.28 and Linux-PAM-1.2.1

Note

If libxslt-1.1.28 is installed, then docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 are required. If you have installed libxslt-1.1.28, but you do not want to install any of the DocBook packages mentioned, you will need to use --disable-man-pages in the instructions below.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/polkit

Installation of Polkit

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the polkitd daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &&
useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
        -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd

Install Polkit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                \
            --sysconfdir=/etc            \
            --localstatedir=/var         \
            --disable-static             \
            --enable-libsystemd-login=no \
            --with-authfw=shadow         &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that system D-Bus daemon must be running for the testsuite to complete. There is also a warning about ConsoleKit database not present, but that one can be safely ignored.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-libsystemd-login=no: This parameter fixes building without systemd, which is not part of LFS/BLFS. If you use systemd, replace "no" by "yes".

--with-authfw=shadow: This parameter configures the package to use the Shadow rather than the Linux PAM Authentication framework. Remove it if you would like to use Linux PAM.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring Polkit

PAM Configuration

Note

If you did not build Polkit with Linux PAM support, you can skip this section.

If you have built Polkit with Linux PAM support, you need to modify the default PAM configuration file which was installed by default to get Polkit to work correctly with BLFS. Issue the following commands as the root user to create the configuration file for Linux PAM:

cat > /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1

auth     include        system-auth
account  include        system-account
password include        system-password
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/polkit-1
EOF

Installed Programs: pkaction, pkcheck, pk-example-frobnicate, pkexec, pkttyagent and polkitd

Installed Libraries: libpolkit-agent-1.so and libpolkit-gobject-1.so

Installed Directories: /etc/polkit-1, /usr/include/polkit-1, /usr/lib/polkit-1, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1 and /usr/share/polkit-1

Short Descriptions

pkaction	is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions.
pkcheck	is used to check whether a process is authorized for action.
pk-example-frobnicate	is an example program to test the pkexec command.
pkexec	allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
pkttyagent	is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject.
polkitd	provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the system message bus.
`libpolkit-agent-1.so`	contains the Polkit authentication agent API functions.
`libpolkit-gobject-1.so`	contains the Polkit authorization API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Shadow-4.2.1

Introduction to Shadow

Shadow was indeed installed in LFS and there is no reason to reinstall it unless you installed CrackLib or Linux-PAM after your LFS system was completed. If you have installed CrackLib after LFS, then reinstalling Shadow will enable strong password support. If you have installed Linux-PAM, reinstalling Shadow will allow programs such as login and su to utilize PAM.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/shadow-4.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2bfafe7d4962682d31b5eba65dba4fc8
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 53 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Shadow Dependencies

Required

Linux-PAM-1.2.1 or CrackLib-2.9.6

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/shadow

Installation of Shadow

Important

The installation commands shown below are for installations where Linux-PAM has been installed (with or without a CrackLib installation) and Shadow is being reinstalled to support the Linux-PAM installation.

If you are reinstalling Shadow to provide strong password support using the CrackLib library without using Linux-PAM, ensure you add the --with-libcrack parameter to the configure script below and also issue the following command:

sed -i 's@DICTPATH.*@DICTPATH\t/lib/cracklib/pw_dict@' etc/login.defs

Reinstall Shadow by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/groups$(EXEEXT) //' src/Makefile.in &&
find man -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i 's/groups\.1 / /' {} \; &&

sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512@' \
       -e 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@' etc/login.defs &&

sed -i 's/1000/999/' etc/useradd &&

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/passwd /bin

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/groups$(EXEEXT) //' src/Makefile.in: This sed is used to suppress the installation of the groups program as the version from the Coreutils package installed during LFS is preferred.

find man -name Makefile.in -exec ... {} \;: This command is used to suppress the installation of the groups man pages so the existing ones installed from the Coreutils package are not replaced.

sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512@' -e 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@' etc/login.defs: Instead of using the default 'DES' method, this command modifies the installation to use the more secure 'SHA512' method of hashing passwords, which also allows passwords longer than eight characters. It also changes the obsolete /var/spool/mail location for user mailboxes that Shadow uses by default to the /var/mail location.

sed -i 's/1000/999/' etc/useradd: Make a minor change to make the default useradd consistent with the LFS groups file.

--with-group-name-max-length=32: The maximum user name is 32 characters. Make the maximum group name the same.

mv -v /usr/bin/passwd /bin: The passwd program may be needed during times when the /usr filesystem is not mounted so it is moved into the root partition.

Configuring Shadow

Shadow's stock configuration for the useradd utility may not be desirable for your installation. One default parameter causes useradd to create a mailbox file for any newly created user. useradd will make the group ownership of this file to the mail group with 0660 permissions. If you would prefer that these mailbox files are not created by useradd, issue the following command as the root user:

sed -i 's/yes/no/' /etc/default/useradd

Configuring Linux-PAM to Work with Shadow

Note

The rest of this page is devoted to configuring Shadow to work properly with Linux-PAM. If you do not have Linux-PAM installed, and you reinstalled Shadow to support strong passwords via the CrackLib library, no further configuration is required.

Config Files

/etc/pam.d/* or alternatively /etc/pam.conf, /etc/login.defs and /etc/security/*

Configuration Information

Configuring your system to use Linux-PAM can be a complex task. The information below will provide a basic setup so that Shadow's login and password functionality will work effectively with Linux-PAM. Review the information and links on the Linux-PAM-1.2.1 page for further configuration information. For information specific to integrating Shadow, Linux-PAM and CrackLib, you can visit the following link:

http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/pam_cracklib.html

Configuring /etc/login.defs

The login program currently performs many functions which Linux-PAM modules should now handle. The following sed command will comment out the appropriate lines in /etc/login.defs, and stop login from performing these functions (a backup file named /etc/login.defs.orig is also created to preserve the original file's contents). Issue the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m644 /etc/login.defs /etc/login.defs.orig &&
for FUNCTION in FAIL_DELAY               \
                FAILLOG_ENAB             \
                LASTLOG_ENAB             \
                MAIL_CHECK_ENAB          \
                OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB      \
                PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB     \
                QUOTAS_ENAB              \
                CONSOLE MOTD_FILE        \
                FTMP_FILE NOLOGINS_FILE  \
                ENV_HZ PASS_MIN_LEN      \
                SU_WHEEL_ONLY            \
                CRACKLIB_DICTPATH        \
                PASS_CHANGE_TRIES        \
                PASS_ALWAYS_WARN         \
                CHFN_AUTH ENCRYPT_METHOD \
                ENVIRON_FILE
do
    sed -i "s/^${FUNCTION}/# &/" /etc/login.defs
done

Configuring the /etc/pam.d/ Files

As mentioned previously in the Linux-PAM instructions, Linux-PAM has two supported methods for configuration. The commands below assume that you've chosen to use a directory based configuration, where each program has its own configuration file. You can optionally use a single /etc/pam.conf configuration file by using the text from the files below, and supplying the program name as an additional first field for each line.

As the root user, replace the following Linux-PAM configuration files in the /etc/pam.d/ directory (or add the contents to the /etc/pam.conf file) using the following commands:

'login'

cat > /etc/pam.d/login << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/login

# Set failure delay before next prompt to 3 seconds
auth      optional    pam_faildelay.so  delay=3000000

# Check to make sure that the user is allowed to login
auth      requisite   pam_nologin.so

# Check to make sure that root is allowed to login
# Disabled by default. You will need to create /etc/securetty
# file for this module to function. See man 5 securetty.
#auth      required    pam_securetty.so

# Additional group memberships - disabled by default
#auth      optional    pam_group.so

# include the default auth settings
auth      include     system-auth

# check access for the user
account   required    pam_access.so

# include the default account settings
account   include     system-account

# Set default environment variables for the user
session   required    pam_env.so

# Set resource limits for the user
session   required    pam_limits.so

# Display date of last login - Disabled by default
#session   optional    pam_lastlog.so

# Display the message of the day - Disabled by default
#session   optional    pam_motd.so

# Check user's mail - Disabled by default
#session   optional    pam_mail.so      standard quiet

# include the default session and password settings
session   include     system-session
password  include     system-password

# End /etc/pam.d/login
EOF

'passwd'

cat > /etc/pam.d/passwd << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/passwd

password  include     system-password

# End /etc/pam.d/passwd
EOF

'su'

cat > /etc/pam.d/su << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/su

# always allow root
auth      sufficient  pam_rootok.so
auth      include     system-auth

# include the default account settings
account   include     system-account

# Set default environment variables for the service user
session   required    pam_env.so

# include system session defaults
session   include     system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/su
EOF

'chage'

cat > /etc/pam.d/chage << "EOF"
#Begin /etc/pam.d/chage

# always allow root
auth      sufficient  pam_rootok.so

# include system defaults for auth account and session
auth      include     system-auth
account   include     system-account
session   include     system-session

# Always permit for authentication updates
password  required    pam_permit.so

# End /etc/pam.d/chage
EOF

Other common programs

for PROGRAM in chfn chgpasswd chpasswd chsh groupadd groupdel \
               groupmems groupmod newusers useradd userdel usermod
do
    install -v -m644 /etc/pam.d/chage /etc/pam.d/${PROGRAM}
    sed -i "s/chage/$PROGRAM/" /etc/pam.d/${PROGRAM}
done

Warning

At this point, you should do a simple test to see if Shadow is working as expected. Open another terminal and log in as a user, then su to root. If you do not see any errors, then all is well and you should proceed with the rest of the configuration. If you did receive errors, stop now and double check the above configuration files manually. You can also run the test suite from the Linux-PAM package to assist you in determining the problem. If you cannot find and fix the error, you should recompile Shadow adding the --without-libpam switch to the configure command in the above instructions (also move the /etc/login.defs.orig backup file to /etc/login.defs). If you fail to do this and the errors remain, you will be unable to log into your system.

Configuring Login Access

Instead of using the /etc/login.access file for controlling access to the system, Linux-PAM uses the pam_access.so module along with the /etc/security/access.conf file. Rename the /etc/login.access file using the following command:

[ -f /etc/login.access ] && mv -v /etc/login.access{,.NOUSE}

Configuring Resource Limits

Instead of using the /etc/limits file for limiting usage of system resources, Linux-PAM uses the pam_limits.so module along with the /etc/security/limits.conf file. Rename the /etc/limits file using the following command:

[ -f /etc/limits ] && mv -v /etc/limits{,.NOUSE}

Caution

Be sure to test the login capabilities of the system before logging out. Errors in the configuration can casue a permanent lockout requiring a boot from an external source to correct the problem.

A list of the installed files, along with their short descriptions can be found at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.8/chapter06/shadow.html#contents-shadow.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 13:06:01 -0700

ssh-askpass-7.1p1

Introduction to ssh-askpass

The ssh-askpass is a generic executable name for many packages, with similar names, that provide a interactive X service to grab password for packages requiring administrative privileges to be run. It prompts the user with a window box where the necessary password can be inserted. Here, we choose Damien Miller's package distributed in the OpenSSH tarball.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.1p1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-7.1p1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8709736bc8a8c253bc4eeb4829888ca5
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 8.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

ssh-askpass Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28, Sudo-1.8.14p3 (runtime), Xorg Libraries, and X Window System (runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ssh-askpass

Installation of ssh-askpass

Install ssh-askpass by running the following commands:

cd contrib &&
make gnome-ssh-askpass2

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib  &&
install -v -m755    gnome-ssh-askpass2 \
                    /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib  &&
ln -sv -f contrib/gnome-ssh-askpass2 \
                    /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass

The use of /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib and a symlink is justified by the eventual necessity of a different program for that service.

Configuring ssh-askpass

Configuration Information

As the root user, configure Sudo-1.8.14p3 to use ssh-askpass:

cat >> /etc/sudo.conf << "EOF" &&
# Path to askpass helper program
Path askpass /usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass
EOF
chmod -v 0644 /etc/sudo.conf

If a given graphical <application> requires administrative privileges, use sudo -A <application> from an x-terminal, from a Window Manager menu and/or replace "Exec=<application> ..." by "Exec=sudo -A <application> ..." in the <application>.desktop file.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/libexec/openssh/contrib

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

stunnel-5.23

Introduction to stunnel

The stunnel package contains a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) so you can easily communicate with clients over secure channels. stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used Inetd daemons such as POP-2, POP-3, and IMAP servers, along with standalone daemons such as NNTP, SMTP, and HTTP. stunnel can also be used to tunnel PPP over network sockets without changes to the server package source code.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.stunnel.org/downloads/stunnel-5.23.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.stunnel.org/stunnel/archive/5.x/stunnel-5.23.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 55470899902f706e2cd39a614524ca1a
Download size: 620 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

stunnel Dependencies

Required

Optional

tcpwrappers and TOR

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/stunnel

Installation of stunnel

The stunnel daemon will be run in a chroot jail by an unprivileged user. Create the new user and group using the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 51 stunnel &&
useradd -c "stunnel Daemon" -d /var/lib/stunnel \
        -g stunnel -s /bin/false -u 51 stunnel

Note

A signed SSL Certificate and a Private Key is necessary to run the stunnel daemon. After the package is installed, there are instructions to generate them. However, if you own or have already created a signed SSL Certificate you wish to use, copy it to /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem before starting the build (ensure only root has read and write access). The .pem file must be formatted as shown below:

Install stunnel by running the following commands:

Note

For some systems with binutils versions prior to 2.25, configure may fail. If necessary, fix it either with:

sed -i '/LDFLAGS.*static_flag/ s/^/#/' configure

or, if LLVM-3.7.0 with Clang is installed, you can replace ./configure ... with CC=clang ./configure ... in the first command below.

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-systemd    &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/stunnel-5.23 install

If you do not already have a signed SSL Certificate and Private Key, create the stunnel.pem file in the /etc/stunnel directory using the command below. You will be prompted to enter the necessary information. Ensure you reply to the

Common Name (FQDN of your server) [localhost]:

prompt with the name or IP address you will be using to access the service(s).

To generate a certificate, as the root user, issue:

make cert

Command Explanations

--disable-systemd: This switch disables systemd socket activation support which is not available in BLFS.

make docdir=... install: This command installs the package and changes the documentation installation directory to standard naming conventions.

Configuring stunnel

Config Files

/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

Configuration Information

As the root user, create the directory used for the .pid file created when the stunnel daemon starts:

install -v -m750 -o stunnel -g stunnel -d /var/lib/stunnel/run &&
chown stunnel:stunnel /var/lib/stunnel

Next, create a basic /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf configuration file using the following commands as the root user:

cat >/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf << "EOF" &&
; File: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

; Note: The pid and output locations are relative to the chroot location.

pid    = /run/stunnel.pid
chroot = /var/lib/stunnel
client = no
setuid = stunnel
setgid = stunnel
cert   = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem

;debug = 7
;output = stunnel.log

;[https]
;accept  = 443
;connect = 80
;; "TIMEOUTclose = 0" is a workaround for a design flaw in Microsoft SSL
;; Microsoft implementations do not use SSL close-notify alert and thus
;; they are vulnerable to truncation attacks
;TIMEOUTclose = 0

EOF
chmod -v 644 /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

Finally, add the service(s) you wish to encrypt to the configuration file. The format is as follows:

[<service>]
accept  = <hostname:portnumber>
connect = <hostname:portnumber>

If you use stunnel to encrypt a daemon started from [x]inetd, you may need to disable that daemon in the /etc/[x]inetd.conf file and enable a corresponding <service>_stunnel service. You may have to add an appropriate entry in /etc/services as well.

For a full explanation of the commands and syntax used in the configuration file, issue man stunnel.

Boot Script

To automatically start the stunnel daemon when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/stunnel bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-stunnel

Installed Programs: stunnel and stunnel3

Installed Library: libstunnel.so

Installed Directories: /{etc,{usr,var}/lib}/stunnel and /usr/share/doc/stunnel-5.23

Short Descriptions

stunnel	is a program designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote clients and local ({x}inetd-startable) or remote servers.
stunnel3	is a Perl wrapper script to use stunnel 3.x syntax with stunnel >=4.05.
`libstunnel.so`	contains the API functions required by stunnel.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Sudo-1.8.14p3

Introduction to Sudo

The Sudo package allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.sudo.ws/dist/sudo-1.8.14p3.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/sudo-1.8.14p3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 93dbd1e47c136179ff1b01494c1c0e75
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with tests)

Sudo Dependencies

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, MTA (that provides a sendmail command), AFS, FWTK, and Opie

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sudo

Installation of Sudo

Install Sudo by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr              \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib      \
            --with-secure-path         \
            --with-all-insults         \
            --with-env-editor          \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/sudo-1.8.14p3 \
            --with-passprompt="[sudo] password for %p" &&
make

To test the results, issue: env LC_ALL=C make check 2>&1 | tee ../make-check.log. Check the results with grep failed ../make-check.log.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -sfv libsudo_util.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/sudo/libsudo_util.so.0

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib: This switch controls where private programs are installed. Everything in that directory is a library, so they belong under /usr/lib instead of /usr/libexec.

--with-secure-path: This switch transparently adds /sbin and /usr/sbin directories to the PATH environment variable.

--with-all-insults: This switch includes all the sudo insult sets.

--with-env-editor: This switch enables use of the environment variable EDITOR for visudo.

--with-passprompt: This switch sets the prompt.

--without-pam: Avoids building PAM support when PAM is installed on the system.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Note

There are many options to sudo's configure command. Check the configure --help output for a complete list.

ln -sfv libsudo_util...: works around a bug in the installation process, which links to the previously installed version (if there is one) instead of the new one.

Configuring Sudo

Config File

/etc/sudoers

Configuration Information

The sudoers file can be quite complicated. It is composed of two types of entries: aliases (basically variables) and user specifications (which specify who may run what). The installation installs a default configuration that has no privileges installed for any user.

One example usage is to allow the system administrator to execute any program without typing a password each time root privileges are needed. This can be configured as:

# User alias specification
User_Alias  ADMIN = YourLoginId

# Allow people in group ADMIN to run all commands without a password
ADMIN       ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

For details, see man sudoers.

Note

The Sudo developers highly recommend using the visudo program to edit the sudoers file. This will provide basic sanity checking like syntax parsing and file permission to avoid some possible mistakes that could lead to a vulnerable configuration.

If PAM is installed on the system, Sudo is built with PAM support. In that case, issue the following command as the root user to create the PAM configuration file:

cat > /etc/pam.d/sudo << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/sudo

# include the default auth settings
auth      include     system-auth

# include the default account settings
account   include     system-account

# Set default environment variables for the service user
session   required    pam_env.so

# include system session defaults
session   include     system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/sudo
EOF
chmod 644 /etc/pam.d/sudo

Installed Programs: sudo, sudoedit (symlink), sudoreplay, and visudo

Installed Libraries: group_file.so, libsudo_util.so, sudoers.so, sudo_noexec.so, and system_group.so

Installed Directories: /etc/sudoers.d, /usr/lib/sudo, /usr/share/doc/sudo-1.8.14p3, and /var/{lib,run}/sudo

Short Descriptions

sudo	executes a command as another user as permitted by the `/etc/sudoers` configuration file.
sudoedit	is a symlink to sudo that implies the `-e` option to invoke an editor as another user.
sudoreplay	is used to play back or list the output logs created by sudo.
visudo	allows for safer editing of the `sudoers` file.

Last updated on 2015-09-08 09:43:51 -0700

Tripwire-2.4.2.2

Introduction to Tripwire

The Tripwire package contains programs used to verify the integrity of the files on a given system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tripwire/tripwire-2.4.2.2-src.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2462ea16fb0b5ae810471011ad2f2dd6
Download size: 704 KB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (includes interactive time during install)

Tripwire Dependencies

Optional

An MTA

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tripwire

Installation of Tripwire

Compile Tripwire by running the following commands:

sed -i -e 's@TWDB="${prefix}@TWDB="/var@' install/install.cfg            &&
sed -i -e 's/!Equal/!this->Equal/' src/cryptlib/algebra.h                &&
sed -i -e '/stdtwadmin.h/i#include <unistd.h>' src/twadmin/twadmincl.cpp &&
sed -i -e '/TWMAN/ s|${prefix}|/usr/share|' \
       -e '/TWDOCS/s|${prefix}/doc/tripwire|/usr/share/doc/tripwire-2.4.2.2|' \
       install/install.cfg                                               &&
sed -i -e 's/eArchiveOpen e\([^)]*)\)/throw ( eArchiveOpen\1 )/' \
       -e '/throw e;/d' src/core/archive.cpp                             &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/tripwire                     &&
make

Note

The default configuration is to use a local MTA. If you don't have an MTA installed and have no wish to install one, modify install/install.cfg to use an SMTP server instead. Otherwise the install will fail.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
cp -v policy/*.txt /usr/share/doc/tripwire-2.4.2.2

Command Explanations

sed -i -e 's@TWDB="${prefix}@TWDB="/var@' install/install.cfg: This command tells the package to install the program database and reports in /var/lib/tripwire.

sed ... src/cryptlib/algebra.h: Fix a compilation issue with gcc-4.7.

sed ... src/twadmin/twadmincl.cpp: Fix a compilation issue with gcc-4.7.

sed ... install/install.cfg: Fix the location of the man and doc directories.

sed ... src/core/archive.cpp: Fix compilation with gcc-4.9.

make install: This command creates the Tripwire security keys as well as installing the binaries. There are two keys: a site key and a local key which are stored in /etc/tripwire/.

Note

During make install, several questions are asked, including passwords. If you want to make a script, you have to apply a sed before running make install:

sed -i -e 's@install/install.sh@& -n -s<site-password> -l<local-password>@' Makefile

Of course, you should do this with dummy passwords and change them later.

cp -v policy/*.txt /usr/doc/tripwire: This command installs the tripwire sample policy files with the other tripwire documentation.

Configuring Tripwire

Config Files

/etc/tripwire/*

Configuration Information

Tripwire uses a policy file to determine which files are integrity checked. The default policy file (/etc/tripwire/twpol.txt) is for a default installation and will need to be updated for your system.

Policy files should be tailored to each individual distribution and/or installation. Some example policy files can be found in /usr/share/doc/tripwire/.

If desired, copy the policy file you'd like to try into /etc/tripwire/ instead of using the default policy file, twpol.txt. It is, however, recommended that you edit your policy file. Get ideas from the examples above and read /usr/share/doc/tripwire/policyguide.txt for additional information. twpol.txt is a good policy file for learning about Tripwire as it will note any changes to the file system and can even be used as an annoying way of keeping track of changes for uninstallation of software.

After your policy file has been edited to your satisfaction you may begin the configuration steps (perform as the root) user:

twadmin --create-polfile --site-keyfile /etc/tripwire/site.key \
    /etc/tripwire/twpol.txt &&
tripwire --init

Depending on your system and the contents of the policy file, the initialization phase above can take a relatively long time.

Usage Information

Tripwire will identify file changes in the critical system files specified in the policy file. Using Tripwire while making frequent changes to these directories will flag all these changes. It is most useful after a system has reached a configuration that the user considers stable.

To use Tripwire after creating a policy file to run a report, use the following command:

tripwire --check > /etc/tripwire/report.txt

View the output to check the integrity of your files. An automatic integrity report can be produced by using a cron facility to schedule the runs.

Reports are stored in binary and, if desired, encrypted. View reports, as the root user, with:

twprint --print-report -r /var/lib/tripwire/report/<report-name.twr>

After you run an integrity check, you should examine the report (or email) and then modify the Tripwire database to reflect the changed files on your system. This is so that Tripwire will not continually notify you that files you intentionally changed are a security violation. To do this you must first ls -l /var/lib/tripwire/report/ and note the name of the newest file which starts with your system name as presented by the command uname -n and ends in .twr. These files were created during report creation and the most current one is needed to update the Tripwire database of your system. As the root user, type in the following command making the appropriate report name:

tripwire --update --twrfile /var/lib/tripwire/report/<report-name.twr>

You will be placed into Vim with a copy of the report in front of you. If all the changes were good, then just type :wq and after entering your local key, the database will be updated. If there are files which you still want to be warned about, remove the 'x' before the filename in the report and type :wq.

Changing the Policy File

If you are unhappy with your policy file and would like to modify it or use a new one, modify the policy file and then execute the following commands as the root user:

twadmin --create-polfile /etc/tripwire/twpol.txt &&
tripwire --init

Installed Programs: siggen, tripwire, twadmin, and twprint

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/tripwire, /var/lib/tripwire, and /usr/share/doc/tripwire

Short Descriptions

siggen	is a signature gathering utility that displays the hash function values for the specified files.
tripwire	is the main file integrity checking program.
twadmin	administrative and utility tool used to perform certain administrative functions related to Tripwire files and configuration options.
twprint	prints Tripwire database and report files in clear text format.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Chapter 5. File Systems and Disk Management

Journaling file systems reduce the time needed to recover a file system that was not unmounted properly. While this can be extremely important in reducing downtime for servers, it has also become popular for desktop environments. This chapter contains other journaling file systems you can use instead of the default LFS extended file system (ext2/3/4). It also provides introductory material on managing disk arrays.

About initramfs

The only purpose of an initramfs is to mount the root filesystem. The initramfs is a complete set of directories that you would find on a normal root filesystem. It is bundled into a single cpio archive and compressed with one of several compression algorithms.

At boot time, the boot loader loads the kernel and the initramfs image into memory and starts the kernel. The kernel checks for the presence of the initramfs and, if found, mounts it as / and runs /init. The init program is typically a shell script. Note that the boot process takes longer, possibly significantly longer, if an initramfs is used.

For most distributions, kernel modules are the biggest reason to have an initramfs. In a general distribution, there are many unknowns such as file system types and disk layouts. In a way, this is the opposite of LFS where the system capabilities and layout are known and a custom kernel is normally built. In this situation, an initramfs is rarely needed.

There are only four primary reasons to have an initramfs in the LFS environment: loading the rootfs from a network, loading it from an LVM logical volume, having an encrypted rootfs where a password is required, or for the convenience of specifying the rootfs as a LABEL or UUID. Anything else usually means that the kernel was not configured properly.

Building an initramfs

If you do decide to build an initramfs, the following scripts will provide a basis to do it. The scripts will allow specifying a rootfs via partition UUID or partition LABEL or a rootfs on an LVM logical volume. They do not support an encrypted root file system or mounting the rootfs over a network card. For a more complete capability see the LFS Hints or dracut.

To install these scripts, run the following commands as the root user:

cat > /sbin/mkinitramfs << "EOF"
#!/bin/bash
# This file based in part on the mkinitrafms script for the LFS LiveCD
# written by Alexander E. Patrakov and Jeremy Huntwork.

copy()
{
  local file

  if [ "$2" == "lib" ]; then
    file=$(PATH=/lib:/usr/lib type -p $1)
  else
    file=$(type -p $1)
  fi

  if [ -n $file ] ; then
    cp $file $WDIR/$2
  else
    echo "Missing required file: $1 for directory $2"
    rm -rf $WDIR
    exit 1
  fi
}

if [ -z $1 ] ; then
  INITRAMFS_FILE=initrd.img-no-kmods
else
  KERNEL_VERSION=$1
  INITRAMFS_FILE=initrd.img-$KERNEL_VERSION
fi

if [ -n "$KERNEL_VERSION" ] && [ ! -d "/lib/modules/$1" ] ; then
  echo "No modules directory named $1"
  exit 1
fi

printf "Creating $INITRAMFS_FILE... "

binfiles="sh cat cp dd killall ls mkdir mknod mount "
binfiles="$binfiles umount sed sleep ln rm uname"

# Systemd installs udevadm in /bin. Other udev implementations have it in /sbin
if [ -x /bin/udevadm ] ; then binfiles="$binfiles udevadm"; fi

sbinfiles="modprobe blkid switch_root"

#Optional files and locations
for f in mdadm udevd udevadm; do
  if [ -x /sbin/$f ] ; then sbinfiles="$sbinfiles $f"; fi
done

unsorted=$(mktemp /tmp/unsorted.XXXXXXXXXX)

DATADIR=/usr/share/mkinitramfs
INITIN=init.in

# Create a temporrary working directory
WDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/initrd-work.XXXXXXXXXX)

# Create base directory structure
mkdir -p $WDIR/{bin,dev,lib/firmware,run,sbin,sys,proc}
mkdir -p $WDIR/etc/{modprobe.d,udev/rules.d}
touch $WDIR/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
ln -s lib $WDIR/lib64

# Create necessary device nodes
mknod -m 640 $WDIR/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 664 $WDIR/dev/null    c 1 3

# Install the udev configuration files
if [ -f /etc/udev/udev.conf ]; then
  cp /etc/udev/udev.conf $WDIR/etc/udev/udev.conf
fi

for file in $(find /etc/udev/rules.d/ -type f) ; do
  cp $file $WDIR/etc/udev/rules.d
done

# Install any firmware present
cp -a /lib/firmware $WDIR/lib

# Copy the RAID configuration file if present
if [ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ] ; then
  cp /etc/mdadm.conf $WDIR/etc
fi

# Install the init file
install -m0755 $DATADIR/$INITIN $WDIR/init

if [  -n "$KERNEL_VERSION" ] ; then
  if [ -x /bin/kmod ] ; then
    binfiles="$binfiles kmod"
  else
    binfiles="$binfiles lsmod"
    sbinfiles="$sbinfiles insmod"
  fi
fi

# Install basic binaries
for f in $binfiles ; do
  ldd /bin/$f | sed "s/\t//" | cut -d " " -f1 >> $unsorted
  copy $f bin
done

# Add lvm if present
if [ -x /sbin/lvm ] ; then sbinfiles="$sbinfiles lvm dmsetup"; fi

for f in $sbinfiles ; do
  ldd /sbin/$f | sed "s/\t//" | cut -d " " -f1 >> $unsorted
  copy $f sbin
done

# Add udevd libraries if not in /sbin
if [ -x /lib/udev/udevd ] ; then
  ldd /lib/udev/udevd | sed "s/\t//" | cut -d " " -f1 >> $unsorted
elif [ -x /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd ] ; then
  ldd /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd | sed "s/\t//" | cut -d " " -f1 >> $unsorted
fi

# Add module symlinks if appropriate
if [ -n "$KERNEL_VERSION" ] && [ -x /bin/kmod ] ; then
  ln -s kmod $WDIR/bin/lsmod
  ln -s kmod $WDIR/bin/insmod
fi

# Add lvm symlinks if appropriate
# Also copy the lvm.conf file
if  [ -x /sbin/lvm ] ; then
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvchange
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvrename
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvextend
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvcreate
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvdisplay
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/lvscan

  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/pvchange
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/pvck
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/pvcreate
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/pvdisplay
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/pvscan

  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/vgchange
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/vgcreate
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/vgscan
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/vgrename
  ln -s lvm $WDIR/sbin/vgck
  # Conf file(s)
  cp -a /etc/lvm $WDIR/etc
fi

# Install libraries
sort $unsorted | uniq | while read library ; do
  if [ "$library" == "linux-vdso.so.1" ] ||
     [ "$library" == "linux-gate.so.1" ]; then
    continue
  fi

  copy $library lib
done

if [ -d /lib/udev ]; then
  cp -a /lib/udev $WDIR/lib
fi
if [ -d /lib/systemd ]; then
  cp -a /lib/systemd $WDIR/lib
fi

# Install the kernel modules if requested
if [ -n "$KERNEL_VERSION" ]; then
  find                                                                        \
     /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/{crypto,fs,lib}                      \
     /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/{block,ata,md,firewire}      \
     /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/{scsi,message,pcmcia,virtio} \
     /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/usb/{host,storage}           \
     -type f 2> /dev/null | cpio --make-directories -p --quiet $WDIR

  cp /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/modules.{builtin,order}                     \
            $WDIR/lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION

  depmod -b $WDIR $KERNEL_VERSION
fi

( cd $WDIR ; find . | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip -9 ) > $INITRAMFS_FILE

# Remove the temporary directory and file
rm -rf $WDIR $unsorted
printf "done.\n"

EOF

chmod 0755 /sbin/mkinitramfs

mkdir -p /usr/share/mkinitramfs &&
cat > /usr/share/mkinitramfs/init.in << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

problem()
{
   printf "Encountered a problem!\n\nDropping you to a shell.\n\n"
   sh
}

no_device()
{
   printf "The device %s, which is supposed to contain the\n" $1
   printf "root file system, does not exist.\n"
   printf "Please fix this problem and exit this shell.\n\n"
}

no_mount()
{
   printf "Could not mount device %s\n" $1
   printf "Sleeping forever. Please reboot and fix the kernel command line.\n\n"
   printf "Maybe the device is formatted with an unsupported file system?\n\n"
   printf "Or maybe filesystem type autodetection went wrong, in which case\n"
   printf "you should add the rootfstype=... parameter to the kernel command line.\n\n"
   printf "Available partitions:\n"
}

do_mount_root()
{
   mkdir /.root
   [ -n "$rootflags" ] && rootflags="$rootflags,"
   rootflags="$rootflags$ro"

   case "$root" in
      /dev/* ) device=$root ;;
      UUID=* ) eval $root; device="/dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID"  ;;
      LABEL=*) eval $root; device="/dev/disk/by-label/$LABEL" ;;
      ""     ) echo "No root device specified." ; problem    ;;
   esac

   while [ ! -b "$device" ] ; do
       no_device $device
       problem
   done

   if ! mount -n -t "$rootfstype" -o "$rootflags" "$device" /.root ; then
       no_mount $device
       cat /proc/partitions
       while true ; do sleep 10000 ; done
   else
       echo "Successfully mounted device $root"
   fi
}

init=/sbin/init
root=
rootdelay=
rootfstype=auto
ro="ro"
rootflags=
device=

mount -n -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
mount -n -t proc     proc     /proc
mount -n -t sysfs    sysfs    /sys
mount -n -t tmpfs    tmpfs    /run

read -r cmdline < /proc/cmdline

for param in $cmdline ; do
  case $param in
    init=*      ) init=${param#init=}             ;;
    root=*      ) root=${param#root=}             ;;
    rootdelay=* ) rootdelay=${param#rootdelay=}   ;;
    rootfstype=*) rootfstype=${param#rootfstype=} ;;
    rootflags=* ) rootflags=${param#rootflags=}   ;;
    ro          ) ro="ro"                         ;;
    rw          ) ro="rw"                         ;;
  esac
done

# udevd location depends on version
if [ -x /sbin/udevd ]; then
  UDEVD=/sbin/udevd
elif [ -x /lib/udev/udevd ]; then
  UDEVD=/lib/udev/udevd
elif [ -x /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd ]; then
  UDEVD=/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
else
  echo "Cannot find udevd nor systemd-udevd"
  problem
fi

${UDEVD} --daemon --resolve-names=never
udevadm trigger
udevadm settle

if [ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ] ; then mdadm -As                       ; fi
if [ -x /sbin/vgchange  ] ; then /sbin/vgchange -a y > /dev/null ; fi
if [ -n "$rootdelay"    ] ; then sleep "$rootdelay"              ; fi

do_mount_root

killall -w ${UDEVD##*/}

exec switch_root /.root "$init" "$@"

EOF

Using an initramfs

Required Runtime Dependency

cpio-2.11

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/initramfs

To build an initramfs, run the following as the root user:

mkinitramfs [KERNEL VERSION]

The optional argument is the directory where the appropriate kernel modules are located. This must be a subdirectory of /lib/modules. If no modules are specified, then the initramfs is named initrd.img-no-kmods. If a kernel version is specified, the initrd is named initrd.img-$KERNEL_VERSION and is only appropriate for the specific kernel specified. The output file will be placed in the current directory.

After generating the initrd, copy it to the /boot directory.

Now edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and add a new menuentry. Below are several examples.

# Generic initramfs and root fs identified by UUID
menuentry "LFS Dev (LFS-7.0-Feb14) initrd, Linux 3.0.4"
{
  linux  /vmlinuz-3.0.4-lfs-20120214 root=UUID=54b934a9-302d-415e-ac11-4988408eb0a8 ro
  initrd /initrd.img-no-kmods
}

# Generic initramfs and root fs on LVM partition
menuentry "LFS Dev (LFS-7.0-Feb18) initrd lvm, Linux 3.0.4"
{
  linux  /vmlinuz-3.0.4-lfs-20120218 root=/dev/mapper/myroot ro
  initrd /initrd.img-no-kmods
}

# Specific initramfs and root fs identified by LABEL
menuentry "LFS Dev (LFS-7.1-Feb20) initrd label, Linux 3.2.6"
{
  linux  /vmlinuz-3.2.6-lfs71-120220 root=LABEL=lfs71 ro
  initrd /initrd.img-3.2.6-lfs71-120220
}

Finally, reboot the system and select the desired system.

Last updated on 2014-06-09 07:57:13 -0700

Fuse-2.9.4

Introduction to Fuse

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. Fuse also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse-2.9.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ecb712b5ffc6dffd54f4a405c9b372d8
Download size: 564 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.9 MB (with API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Fuse Dependencies

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 (to build the API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fuse

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

File systems  --->
  <*/M> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support [CONFIG_FUSE_FS]

Installation of Fuse

Note

After the configure script has finished you will see a warning shown below. You can safely disregard this warning.

configure: WARNING:
******************************************************************
* Please install util-linux version 2.18 or later which supports *
* --fake and --no-canonicalize options in mount and umount       *
******************************************************************

Install Fuse by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static INIT_D_PATH=/tmp/init.d &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue doxygen doc/Doxyfile.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mv -v   /usr/lib/libfuse.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/libfuse.so.2.9.4 /usr/lib/libfuse.so &&
rm -rf  /tmp/init.d &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.4 &&
install -v -m644    doc/{how-fuse-works,kernel.txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.4

If you built the API documentation, install it as the root user by issuing the following commands:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.4/api &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.4/api

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

INIT_D_PATH=/tmp/init.d: This parameter installs the bootscript into /tmp/init.d as a bootscript is not required.

mv -v /usr/lib/libfuse.so.* /lib: This moves the FUSE library to the root filesystem so that it is available early in the boot process in case /usr is mounted on a separate partition and ntfs-3g-2015.3.14 is built with a system-installed version of FUSE.

rm -rf /tmp/init.d: This removes the unneeded bootscript.

Configuring fuse

Config Files

Some options regarding mount policy can be set in the file /etc/fuse.conf. To install the file run the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/fuse.conf << "EOF"
# Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users.
# The default is 1000.
#
#mount_max = 1000

# Allow non-root users to specify the 'allow_other' or 'allow_root'
# mount options.
#
#user_allow_other
EOF

Additional information about the meaning of the configuration options are found in the man page.

Installed Programs: fusermount, mount.fuse, and ulockmgr_server

Installed Libraries: libfuse.so and libulockmgr.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/fuse and /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.9.4

Short Descriptions

fusermount	is a set users ID root program to mount and unmount Fuse filesystems.
mount.fuse	is the command mount would call to mount a Fuse filesystem.
ulockmgr_server	is the Userspace Lock Manager Server for Fuse filesystems.
`libfuse.so`	contains the FUSE API functions.
`libulockmgr.so`	contains the Userspace Lock Manager API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

jfsutils-1.1.15

Introduction to jfsutils

The jfsutils package contains administration and debugging tools for the jfs file system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://jfs.sourceforge.net/project/pub/jfsutils-1.1.15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8809465cd48a202895bc2a12e1923b5d
Download size: 532 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/jfs

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

File systems  --->
  <*/M> JFS filesystem support [CONFIG_JFS_FS]

Installation of jfsutils

Install jfsutils by running the following commands:

sed "s@<unistd.h>@&\n#include <sys/types.h>@g" -i fscklog/extract.c &&
./configure &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed "s@<unistd.h>@&\n#include <sys/types.h>@g" -i fscklog/extract.c: Fixes building with Glibc 2.17.

Installed Programs: fsck.jfs, jfs_debugfs, jfs_fsck, jfs_fscklog, jfs_logdump, jfs_mkfs, jfs_tune, mkfs.jfs

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

fsck.jfs	is used to replay the JFS transaction log, check a JFS formatted device for errors, and fix any errors found.
jfs_fsck	is a hard link to fsck.jfs.
mkfs.jfs	constructs an JFS file system.
jfs_mkfs	is a hard link to mkfs.jfs.
jfs_debugfs	is a program which can be used to perform various low-level actions on a JFS formatted device.
jfs_fscklog	extracts a JFS fsck service log into a file and/or formats and displays the extracted file.
jfs_logdump	dumps the contents of the journal log from the specified JFS formatted device into output file ./jfslog.dmp.
jfs_tune	adjusts tunable file system parameters on JFS file systems.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

LVM2-2.02.130

Introduction to LVM2

The LVM2 package is a package that manages logical partitions. It allows spanning of file systems across multiple physical disks and disk partitions and provides for dynamic growing or shrinking of logical partitions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/releases/LVM2.2.02.130.tgz
Download MD5 sum: e7ae07e413120713549cc6dd2a558c75
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 32 MB (42 MB with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (9.7 SBU with tests)

LVM2 Dependencies

Optional

mdadm-3.3.4 (for checks) and xfsprogs-4.2.0 (for checks)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lvm2

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Note

There are several other Device Mapper options in the kernel beyond those listed below. In order to get reasonable results if running the regression tests, all must be enabled either internally or as a module.

Device Drivers --->
  [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) ---> [CONFIG_MD]
    <*/M>   Device mapper support                         [CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM]
    <*/M/ >   Crypt target support                        [CONFIG_DM_CRYPT]
    <*/M/ >   Snapshot target                             [CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT]
    <*/M/ >   Mirror target                               [CONFIG_DM_MIRROR]

Installation of LVM2

Install LVM2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --exec-prefix=      \
            --with-confdir=/etc \
            --enable-applib     \
            --enable-cmdlib     \
            --enable-pkgconfig  \
            --enable-udev_sync  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check as the root user. At least one partition on a hard drive must be set up as a Linux LVM partition (type 8e00). The test timings are very dependent on the speed of the disk(s), and on the number of enabled kernel options. A small number of tests may fail.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-applib: This switch enables building of the shared application library.

--enable-cmdlib: This switch enables building of the shared command library. It is required when building the event daemon.

--enable-pkgconfig: This switch enables installation of pkg-config support files.

--enable-udev_sync: This switch enables synchronisation with Udev processing.

--enable-dmeventd: This switch enables building of the Device Mapper event daemon.

Installed Programs: blkdeactivate, dmeventd (optional), dmsetup, fsadm, lvm, lvmconf, lvmdump, and vgimportclone. There are also numerous symbolic links to lvm that implement specific functionalities

Installed Libraries: libdevmapper.so, liblvm2app.so and liblvm2cmd.so; optional: libdevmapper-event.so, libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so, libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so, libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so, libdevmapper-event-lvm2raid.so, and libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so

Installed Directories: /etc/lvm and /lib/device-mapper (optional)

Short Descriptions

blkdeactivate	utility to deactivate block device.
dmeventd	(optional) is the Device Mapper event daemon.
dmsetup	is a low level logical volume management tool.
fsadm	is a utility used to resize or check filesystem on a device.
lvm	provides the command-line tools for LVM2. Commands are implemented via sympolic links to this program to manage physical devices (pv), volume groups (vg) and logical volumes (lv*).
lvmconf	is a script that modifies the locking configuration in the LVM2 configuration file.
lvmdump	is a tool used to dump various information concerning LVM2.
vgimportclone	is used to import a duplicated VG (e.g. hardware snapshot).
`libdevmapper.so`	contains the Device Mapper API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

About Logical Volume Management (LVM)

LVM manages disk drives. It allows multiple drives and partitions to be combined into larger volume groups, assists in making backups through a snapshot, and allows for dynamic volume resizing. It can also provide mirroring similar to a RAID 1 array.

A complete discussion of LVM is beyond the scope of this introduction, but basic concepts are presented below.

To run any of the commands presented here, the LVM2-2.02.130 package must be installed. All commands must be run as the root user.

Management of disks with lvm is accomplished using the following concepts:

physical volumes: These are physical disks or partitions such as /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdb.
volume groups: These are named groups of physical volumes that can be manipulated by the administrator. The number of physical volumes that make up a volume group is arbitrary. Physical volumes can be dynamically added or removed from a volume group.
logical volumes: Volume groups may be subdivided into logical volumes. Each logical volume can then be individually formatted as if it were a regular Linux partition. Logical volumes may be dynamically resized by the administrator according to need.

To give a concrete example, suppose that you have two 2 TB disks. Also suppose a really large amount of space is required for a very large database, mounted on /srv/mysql. This is what the initial set of partitions would look like:

Partition  Use    Size      Partition Type
/dev/sda1  /boot  100MB     83 (Linux)
/dev/sda2  /       10GB     83 (Linux)
/dev/sda3  swap     2GB     82 (Swap)
/dev/sda4  LVM    remainder 8e (LVM)
/dev/sdb1  swap     2GB     82 (Swap)
/dev/sdb2  LVM    remainder 8e (LVM)

First initialize the physical volumes:

pvcreate /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb2

Next create a volume group named lfs-lvm:

vgcreate lfs-lvm /dev/sda4  /dev/sdb2

The status of the volume group can be checked by running the command vgscan. Now create the logical volumes. Since there is about 3900 GB available, leave about 900 GB free for expansion. Note that the logical volume named mysql is larger than any physical disk.

lvcreate --name mysql --size 2500G lfs-lvm
lvcreate --name home  --size  500G lfs-lvm

Finally the logical volumes can be formatted and mounted. In this example, the jfs file system (jfsutils-1.1.15) is used for demonstration purposes.

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/lfs-lvm/home
mkfs -t jfs  /dev/lfs-lvm/mysql
mount /dev/lfs-lvm/home /home
mkdir -p /srv/mysql
mount /dev/lfs-lvm/mysql /srv/mysql

The LFS boot scripts automatically make these file systems available to the system in the checkfs script. Edit the /etc/fstab file as required to automatically mount them.

A LVM logical volume can host a root filesystem, but requires the use of an initramfs (initial RAM file system) and is not discussed here.

For a more information about LVM, see the LVM HOWTO and the lvm man pages.

Last updated on 2013-02-11 10:51:17 -0800

About RAID

The storage technology known as RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) combines multiple physical disks into a logical unit. The drives can generally be combined to provide data redundancy or to extend the size of logical units beyond the capability of the physical disks or both. The technology also allows for providing hardware maintenance without powering down the system.

The types of RAID organization are described in the RAID Wiki.

Note that while RAID provides protection against disk failures, it is not a substitute for backups. A file deleted is still deleted on all the disks of a RAID array. Modern backups are generally done via rsync-3.1.1.

There are three major types of RAID implementation: Hardware RAID, BIOS-based RAID, and Software RAID.

Hardware RAID

Hardware based RAID provides capability through proprietary hardware and data layouts. The control and configuration is generally done via firmware in conjunction with executable programs made available by the device manufacturer. The capabilities are generally supplied via a PCI card, although there are some instances of RAID components integrated in to the motherboard. Hardware RAID may also be available in a stand-alone enclosure.

One advantage of hardware-based RAID is that the drives are offered to the operating system as a logical drive and no operating system dependent configuration is needed.

Disadvantages include difficulties in transferring drives from one system to another, updating firmware, or replacing failed RAID hardware.

BIOS-based RAID

Some computers offter a hardware-like RAID implementation in the system BIOS. Sometime this is referred to as 'fake' RAID as the capabilites are generally incorporated into firmware without any hardware acceleration.

The advantages and disadvantages of BIOS-based RAID are generally the same as hardware RAID with the additional disadvantage that there is no hardware acceleration.

In some cases, BIOS-based RAID firmware is enabled by default (e.g. some DELL systems). If software RAID is desired, this option must be explicitly disabled in the BIOS.

Software RAID

Software based RAID is the most flexible form of RAID. It is easy to install and update and provides full capability on all or part of any drives available to the system. In BLFS, the RAID software is found in mdadm-3.3.4.

Configuring a RAID device is straight forward using mdadm. Generally devices are created in the /dev directory as /dev/mdx where x is an integer.

The first step in creating a RAID array is to use partitioning software such as fdisk or parted-3.2 to define the partitions needed for the array. Usually, there will be one partition on each drive participating in the RAID array, but that is not strictly necessary. For this example, there will be four disk drives: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd. They will be partitioned as follows:

Partition Size     Type                Use
sda1:     100 MB   fd Linux raid auto  /boot    (RAID 1) /dev/md0
sda2:      10 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /        (RAID 1) /dev/md1
sda3:       2 GB   83 Linux swap       swap
sda4      300 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /home    (RAID 5) /dev/md2

sdb1:     100 MB   fd Linux raid auto  /boot    (RAID 1) /dev/md0
sdb2:      10 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /        (RAID 1) /dev/md1
sdb3:       2 GB   83 Linux swap       swap
sdb4      300 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /home    (RAID 5) /dev/md2

sdc1:      12 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /usr/src (RAID 0) /dev/md3
sdc2:     300 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /home    (RAID 5) /dev/md2

sdd1:      12 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /usr/src (RAID 0) /dev/md3
sdd2:     300 GB   fd Linux raid auto  /home    (RAID 5) /dev/md2

Is this arrangement, a separate boot partition is created as the first small RAID array and a root filesystem as the secong RAID array, both mirrored. The third partition is a large (about 1TB) array for the /home directory. This provides an ability to stripe data across multiple devices, improving speed for botih reading and writing large files. Finally, a fourth array is created that concatenates two partitions into a larger device.

Note

All mdadm commands must be run as the root user.

To create these RAID arrays the commands are:

/sbin/mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
/sbin/mdadm -Cv /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
/sbin/mdadm -Cv /dev/md3 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
/sbin/mdadm -Cv /dev/md2 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 \
        /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2

The devices created can be examined by device. For example, to see the details of /dev/md1, use /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md1:

        Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Tue Feb  7 17:08:45 2012
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 10484664 (10.00 GiB 10.74 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 10484664 (10.00 GiB 10.74 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Tue Feb  7 23:11:53 2012
          State : clean
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           Name : core2-blfs:0  (local to host core2-blfs)
           UUID : fcb944a4:9054aeb2:d987d8fe:a89121f8
         Events : 17

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1
       1       8       17        1      active sync   /dev/sdb1

From this point, the partitions can be formated with the filesystem of choice (e.g. ext3, ext4, xfsprogs-4.2.0, reiserfsprogs-3.6.24, etc). The formatted partitions can then be mounted. The /etc/fstab ifile can use the devices created for mounting at boot time and the linux command line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg can specify root=/dev/md1.

Note

The swap devices should be specified in the /etc/fstab file as normal. The kernel normally stripes swap data across multiple swap files and should not be made part of a RAID array.

For further options and management details of RAID devices, refer to man mdadm.

Additional details for monitoring RAID arrays and dealing with problems can be found at the Linux RAID Wiki.

Last updated on 2013-02-11 10:51:17 -0800

mdadm-3.3.4

Introduction to mdadm

The mdadm package contains administration tools for software RAID.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-3.3.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7ca8b114710f98f53f20c5787b674a09
Download size: 404 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (23 SBU, with tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mdadm

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel, if necessary. Only the RAID types desired are required.

Device Drivers --->
  [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) ---> [CONFIG_MD]
    <*> RAID support                                      [CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD]
    [*]   Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot       [CONFIG_MD_AUTODETECT]
    <*/M>  Linear (append) mode                           [CONFIG_MD_LINEAR]
    <*/M>  RAID-0 (striping) mode                         [CONFIG_MD_RAID0]
    <*/M>  RAID-1 (mirroring) mode                        [CONFIG_MD_RAID1]
    <*/M>  RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode               [CONFIG_MD_RAID10]
    <*/M>  RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode                      [CONFIG_MD_RAID456]

Installation of mdadm

Install mdadm by running the following commands:

make

If you wish to run the tests, ensure that your kernel supports RAID and that a version of mdadm is not already running, and issue: make test and then, as the root user: ./test --keep-going --logdir=tests-logs --save-logs. Some tests fail for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

make everything: This optional target creates extra programs, particularly a statically-linked version of mdadm and also versions of mdassemble. These all need to be manually installed.

--keep-going: Run the tests to the end, even if one or more tests fail.

--logdir=tests-logs: Defines that the directory where tests logs are saved.

--save-logs: Instructs the test suite to save the logs.

--tests=<test1,test2,...>: Optional comma separated list of tests to be executed (all tests, if this option is not passed).

Installed Programs: mdadm, mdmon and optionally mdassemble

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

mdadm	manages MD devices aka Linux Software RAID.
mdmon	monitors MD external metadata arrays.
mdassemble	is a tiny program that can be used to assemble MD devices inside an initial ramdisk (initrd) or initramfs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

ntfs-3g-2015.3.14

Introduction to Ntfs-3g

The Ntfs-3g package contains a stable, read-write open source driver for NTFS partitions. NTFS partitions are used by most Microsoft operating systems. Ntfs-3g allows you to mount NTFS partitions in read-write mode from your Linux system. It uses the FUSE kernel module to be able to implement NTFS support in user space.

This package contains both the NTFS-3g driver itself and various utilities useful for manipulating NTFS partitions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://tuxera.com/opensource/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2015.3.14.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 8cd57768310e3b2be39b3191d808e241
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Ntfs-3g Dependencies

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

File systems  --->
  <*/M> FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support [CONFIG_FUSE_FS]

Installation of Ntfs-3g

Install Ntfs-3g by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static --with-fuse=external &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -sv ../bin/ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs &&
ln -sv ntfs-3g.8 /usr/share/man/man8/mount.ntfs.8

If you want ordinary users to be able to mount NTFS partitions you'll need to set mount.ntfs with the root user ID. Note: it is probably unsafe to do this on a computer that needs to be secure (like a server). As the root user:

chmod -v 4755 /sbin/mount.ntfs

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-fuse=external: This switch dynamically links lowntfs-3g and ntfs-3g to external libfuse. Omit it if you have not installed Fuse-2.9.4 or if you want to use internal statically compiled libfuse.

--disable-ntfsprogs: Disables installation of various utilities used to manipulate NTFS partitions.

ln -sv ../bin/ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs: Creating /sbin/mount.ntfs makes mount default to using Ntfs-3g to mount NTFS partitions.

chmod -v 4755 /sbin/mount.ntfs: Making mount.ntfs setuid root allows non root users to mount NTFS partitions.

Using Ntfs-3g

To mount a Windows partition at boot time, put a line like this in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows auto defaults 0 0

To allow users to mount a usb stick with an NTFS filesystem on it, put a line similar to this (change sdc1 to whatever a usb stick would be on your system) in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb auto user,noauto,umask=0,utf8 0 0

In order for a user to be able to mount the usb stick, they will need to be able to write to /mnt/usb, so as the root user:

chmod -v 777 /mnt/usb

Installed Programs: lowntfs-3g, mkfs.ntfs, mkntfs, mount.lowntfs-3g, mount.ntfs, mount.ntfs-3g, ntfs-3g, ntfs-3g.probe, ntfs-3g.secaudit, ntfs-3g.usermap, ntfscat, ntfsclone, ntfscluster, ntfscmp, ntfscp, ntfsfix, ntfsinfo, ntfslabel, ntfsls, ntfsresize and ntfsundelete

Installed Library: libntfs-3g.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ntfs-3g and /usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g

Short Descriptions

lowntfs-3g	is similar to ntfs-3g but uses the Fuse low-level interface.
mkfs.ntfs	is a symlink to mkntfs.
mkntfs	creates an NTFS file system.
mount.lowntfs-3g	is a symlink to lowntfs-3g.
mount.ntfs	mounts an NTFS filesystem.
mount.ntfs-3g	is a symbolic link to ntfs-3g.
ntfs-3g	is an NTFS driver, which can create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams. It can also read and write files, including streams, sparse files and transparently compressed files. It can also handle special files like symbolic links, devices, and FIFOs; moreover it provides standard management of file ownership and permissions, including POSIX ACLs.
ntfs-3g.probe	tests if an NTFS volume is mountable read only or read-write, and exits with a status value accordingly. The volume can be a block device or image file.
ntfs-3g.secaudit	audits NTFS Security Data.
ntfs-3g.usermap	creates the file defining the mapping of Windows accounts to Linux logins for users who owns files which should be visible from both Windows and Linux.
ntfscluster	identifies files in a specified region of an NTFS volume
ntfscp	copies a file to an NTFS volume.
ntfsfix	fixes common errors and forces Windows to check an NTFS partition.
ntfsls	lists directory contents on an NTFS filesystem.
ntfscat	prints NTFS files and streams on the standard output.
ntfsclone	clones an NTFS filesystem.
ntfscmp	compares two NTFS filesystems and tells the differences.
ntfsinfo	dumps a file's attributes.
ntfslabel	displays or changes the label on an ntfs file system.
ntfsresize	resizes an NTFS filesystem without data loss.
ntfsundelete	recovers a deleted file from an NTFS volume.
`libntfs-3g.so`	contains the Ntfs-3g API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

gptfdisk-1.0.0

Introduction to gptfdisk

The gptfdisk package is a set of programs for creation and maintenance of GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk drives. A GPT partitioned disk is required for drives greater than 2 TB and is a modern replacement for legacy PC-BIOS partitioned disk drives that use a Master Boot Record (MBR). The main program, gdisk, has an inteface similar to the classic fdisk program.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gptfdisk/gptfdisk/1.0.0/gptfdisk-1.0.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2061f917af084215898d4fea04d8388f
Download size: 192 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/gptfdisk-1.0.0-convenience-1.patch

gptfdisk Dependencies

Optional

popt-1.16 (required to build sgdisk) and ICU-55.1 (for Unicode partition names)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gptdisk

Installation of gptfdisk

The gptfdisk package comes with a rudimentary Makefile. First we update it to provide a simple build and install interface. Install gptfdisk by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../gptfdisk-1.0.0-convenience-1.patch &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

ICU=1: Adding this option to the make command allows use of Unicode characters in partition names.

POPT=1: Adding this option to the make command is required to build sgdisk. If used, this option needs to be on both the make and the make install line.

Installed Programs: cgdisk, gdisk, fixparts, and sgdisk

Short Descriptions

cgdisk	is an is a curses-based text-mode tool for manipulating GPT partitions.
gdisk	is an interactive text-mode tool for manipulating GPT partitions.
fixparts	repairs mis-formatted MBR based disk partitions.
sgdisk	is a partition manipulation program for GPT partitions similar to sfdisk.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

parted-3.2

Introduction to parted

The Parted package is a disk partitioning and partition resizing tool.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0247b6a7b314f8edeb618159fa95f9cb
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB (additional 2 MB for the tests and additional 1 MB for optional PDF and Postscript documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (additional 0.6 SBU for the tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional, to fix build without device mapper support: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/parted-3.2-devmapper-1.patch

Parted Dependencies

Optional

Pth-2.0.7 texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/parted

Installation of parted

If you want to build without device mapper support, a fix is necessary:

patch -Np1 -i ../parted-3.2-devmapper-1.patch

Install Parted by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make &&

make -C doc html                                       &&
makeinfo --html      -o doc/html       doc/parted.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/parted.txt doc/parted.texi

If you have texlive-20150521 installed and wish to create PDF and Postcript documentation issue the following commands:

texi2pdf             -o doc/parted.pdf doc/parted.texi &&
texi2dvi             -o doc/parted.dvi doc/parted.texi &&
dvips                -o doc/parted.ps  doc/parted.dvi

If you wish to run the test suite, first remove a test that normally fails in BLFS, because it needs a locale C.UTF-8:

sed -i '/t0251-gpt-unicode.sh/d' tests/Makefile

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that many tests are skipped if not run as the root user.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/parted-3.2/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.2/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/{FAT,API,parted.{txt,html}} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.2

Install the optional PDF and Postscript documentation by issuing the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 doc/FAT doc/API doc/parted.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/parted-3.2

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-device-mapper: This option disables device mapper support. Add this parameter if you have not installed LVM2.

Installed Programs: parted and partprobe

Installed Libraries: libparted.so and libparted-fs-resize.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/parted and /usr/share/doc/parted-3.2

Short Descriptions

parted	is a partition manipulation program.
partprobe	informs the OS of partition table changes.
`libparted.so`	contains the Parted API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

reiserfsprogs-3.6.24

Introduction to reiserfsprogs

The reiserfsprogs package contains various utilities for use with the Reiser file system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jeffm/reiserfsprogs/v3.6.24/reiserfsprogs-3.6.24.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jeffm/reiserfsprogs/v3.6.24/reiserfsprogs-3.6.24.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 66787380fb418ff7d88a23e47cda7af6
Download size: 316 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/reiser

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following option in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

File systems --->
  <*/M> Reiserfs support [CONFIG_REISERFS_FS]

Installation of reiserfsprogs

Install reiserfsprogs by running the following commands:

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=gnu89" \
./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --sbindir=/sbin &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -std=gnu89": This environment variable fixes a build error with GCC 5.

--sbindir=/sbin: This switch ensures that the reiserfsprogs utilities are installed in /sbin.

Installed Programs: debugreiserfs, mkreiserfs, reiserfsck, reiserfstune, and resize_reiserfs

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

debugreiserfs	can sometimes help to solve problems with ReiserFS file systems. If it is called without options, it prints the super block of any ReiserFS file system found on the device.
mkreiserfs	creates a ReiserFS file system.
reiserfsck	is used to check or repair a ReiserFS file system.
reiserfstune	is used for tuning the ReiserFS journal. WARNING: Don't use this utility without first reading the man page thoroughly.
resize_reiserfs	is used to resize an unmounted ReiserFS file system.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

sshfs-fuse-2.5

Introduction to Sshfs Fuse

The Sshfs Fuse package contains a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. This is useful for mounting a remote computer that you have ssh access to as a local filesystem. This allows you to drag and drop files or run shell commands on the remote files as if they were on your local computer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/sshfs-fuse-2.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 17494910db8383a366b1301e5f5148a9
Download size: 136 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Sshfs Fuse Dependencies

Required

Fuse-2.9.4, GLib-2.44.1, and OpenSSH-7.1p1.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sshfs-fuse

Installation of Sshfs Fuse

Install Sshfs Fuse by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Using Sshfs Fuse

To mount an ssh server you need to be able to log into the server. For example, to mount your home folder on the computer called THINGY on the folder ~/MOUNTPATH (the directory must exist and you must have permissions to write to it):

sshfs THINGY:~ ~/MOUNTPATH

When you've finished work and want to unmount it again:

fusermount -u ~/MOUNTPATH

Installed Program: sshfs

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

sshfs

mounts an ssh server as a local file system.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

xfsprogs-4.2.0

Introduction to xfsprogs

The xfsprogs package contains administration and debugging tools for the XFS file system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsprogs-4.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e1b9438d3e6775b9df52cc9a13e9f9a6
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 62 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfs

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

File systems --->
  <*/M> XFS filesystem support [CONFIG_XFS_FS]

Installation of xfsprogs

Install xfsprogs by running the following commands:

make DEBUG=-DNDEBUG     \
     INSTALL_USER=root  \
     INSTALL_GROUP=root \
     LOCAL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--enable-readline"

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.2.0 install     &&
make PKG_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.2.0 install-dev &&
rm -rfv /usr/lib/libhandle.a                               &&
rm -rfv /lib/libhandle.{a,la,so}                           &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/libhandle.so.1 /usr/lib/libhandle.so     &&
sed -i "s@libdir='/lib@libdir='/usr/lib@" /usr/lib/libhandle.la

Command Explanations

make DEBUG=-DNDEBUG: Turns off debugging symbols.

INSTALL_USER=root INSTALL_GROUP=root: This sets the owner and group of the installed files.

LOCAL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="...": This passes extra configuration options to the configure script. The example --enable-readline parameter enables linking the XFS programs with the libreadline.so library, in order to allow editing interactive commands.

OPTIMIZER="...": Adding this parameter to the end of the make command overrides the default optimization settings.

Installed Programs: fsck.xfs, mkfs.xfs, xfs_admin, xfs_bmap, xfs_copy, xfs_db, xfs_estimate, xfs_freeze, xfs_fsr, xfs_growfs, xfs_info, xfs_io, xfs_logprint, xfs_mdrestore, xfs_metadump, xfs_mkfile, xfs_ncheck, xfs_quota, xfs_repair, and xfs_rtcp

Installed Libraries: libhandle.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xfs and /usr/share/doc/xfsprogs-4.2.0

Short Descriptions

fsck.xfs	simply exits with a zero status, since XFS partitions are checked at mount time.
mkfs.xfs	constructs an XFS file system.
xfs_admin	changes the parameters of an XFS file system.
xfs_bmap	prints block mapping for an XFS file.
xfs_copy	copies the contents of an XFS file system to one or more targets in parallel.
xfs_estimate	for each directory argument, estimates the space that directory would take if it were copied to an XFS filesystem (does not cross mount points).
xfs_db	is used to debug an XFS file system.
xfs_freeze	suspends access to an XFS file system.
xfs_fsr	applicable only to XFS filesystems, improves the organization of mounted filesystems, the reorganization algorithm operates on one file at a time, compacting or othewise improving the layout of the file extents (contiguous blocks of file data).
xfs_growfs	expands an XFS file system.
xfs_info	is equivalent to invoking xfs_growfs, but specifying that no change to the file system is to be made.
xfs_io	is a debugging tool like xfs_db, but is aimed at examining the regular file I/O path rather than the raw XFS volume itself.
xfs_logprint	prints the log of an XFS file system.
xfs_mdrestore	restores an XFS metadump image to a filesystem image.
xfs_metadump	copies XFS filesystem metadata to a file.
xfs_mkfile	creates an XFS file, padded with zeroes by default.
xfs_ncheck	generates pathnames from inode numbers for an XFS file system.
xfs_quota	is a utility for reporting and editing various aspects of filesystem quota.
xfs_repair	repairs corrupt or damaged XFS file systems.
xfs_rtcp	copies a file to the real-time partition on an XFS file system.
`libhandle.so`	contains XFS-specific functions that provide a way to perform certain filesystem operations without using a file descriptor to access filesystem objects.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Chapter 6. Editors

This chapter is referenced in the LFS book for those wishing to use other editors on their LFS system. You're also shown how some LFS installed programs benefit from being recompiled after GUI libraries have been installed.

Bluefish-2.2.7

Introduction to Bluefish

Bluefish is a GTK+ text editor targeted towards programmers and web designers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.bennewitz.com/bluefish/stable/source/bluefish-2.2.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 533c3ef1e7d5ec369893c0fd4094605c
Download size: 3.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 69 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Bluefish Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6. If both are installed, configure defaults to using GTK+ 3.

Optional

enchant-1.6.0 (for spell checking), Gucharmap-3.16.2, PCRE-8.37 and Jing

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bluefish

Installation of Bluefish

Install Bluefish by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bluefish-2.2.7 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
update-desktop-database

Installed Program: bluefish

Installed Libraries: several under /usr/lib/bluefish/

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/bluefish, /usr/share/bluefish, /usr/share/doc/bluefish-2.2.7, and /usr/share/xml/bluefish

Short Descriptions

bluefish

is a GTK+ text editor for markup and programming.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Ed-1.12

Introduction to Ed

Ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. Ed isn't something which many people use. It's described here because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these days.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ed/ed-1.12.tar.lz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ed/ed-1.12.tar.lz
Download MD5 sum: 67c96fc79c29e86fb8002759c4a20e16
Download size: 64 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Ed Dependencies

Required to uncompress the tarball

libarchive-3.1.2 (for bsdtar)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ed

Installation of Ed

Install Ed by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: ed and red

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

ed	is a line-oriented text editor.
red	is a restricted ed—it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Emacs-24.5

Introduction to Emacs

The Emacs package contains an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 50560ee00bac9bb9cf0e822764cd0832
Download size: 38 MB
Estimated disk space required: 482 MB
Estimated build time: 4.6 SBU

Emacs Dependencies

Optional

X Window System, alsa-lib-1.0.29, D-Bus-1.10.0, GConf-3.2.6, giflib-5.1.1, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1 (currently broken), gobject-introspection-1.44.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1, GPM-1.20.7, GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6, ImageMagick-6.9.2-0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, librsvg-2.40.10, LibTIFF-4.0.5, libxml2-2.9.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, Valgrind-3.10.1, intlfonts, libungif, libotf and m17n-lib - to correctly display such complex scripts as Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping support (Arabic and Farsi), and libXaw3d

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/emacs

Installation of Emacs

Install Emacs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --without-gnutls     \
            --localstatedir=/var &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite. If make succeeds, you can test the result by running src/emacs -Q, which is the program that will be installed, with its auxiliary files. This should start and display the application opening screen.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/emacs/24.5

gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

--without-gnutls: Currently, build is broken with gnutls-3.4 and later.

--localstatedir=/var: Create game score files in /var/games/emacs instead of /usr/var/games/emacs.

Installed Programs: ctags, ebrowse, emacs (symlink), emacs24.5, emacsclient, etags, and grep-changelog

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/libexec/emacs, /usr/share/emacs, and /var/games/emacs

Short Descriptions

ctags	creates cross-reference tagfile database files for source code.
ebrowse	permits browsing of C++ class hierarchies from within emacs.
emacs	is an editor.
emacsclient	attaches an emacs session to an already running emacsserver instance.
etags	is another program to generate source code cross-reference tagfiles.
grep-changelog	prints entries in Change Logs matching various criteria.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

JOE-4.1

Introduction to JOE

JOE (Joe's own editor) is a small text editor capable of emulating WordStar, Pico, and Emacs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/joe-editor/joe-4.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b8c9ab4295e3208ddbbaa9c1141564f9
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/joe

Installation of JOE

Install JOE by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/joe-4.1 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -vm 755 joe/util/{stringify,termidx,uniproc} /usr/bin &&

install -vdm755 /usr/share/joe/util &&
install -vm 644 joe/util/{*.txt,README} /usr/share/joe/util

Configuring JOE

Config Files

/etc/joe/jmacsrc, /etc/joe/joerc, /etc/joe/jpicorc, /etc/joe/jstarrc, /etc/joe/rjoerc, and ~/.joerc

Installed Programs: jmacs, joe, jpico, jstar, rjoe, stringify, termidx, and uniproc

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /{etc,/usr/share}/joe and /usr/share/doc/joe-4.1

Short Descriptions

jmacs	is a symbolic link to joe used to launch Emacs emulation mode.
joe	is a small text editor capable of emulating WordStar, Pico, and Emacs.
jpico	is a symbolic link to joe used to launch Pico emulation mode.
jstar	is a symbolic link to joe used to launch WordStar emulation mode.
rjoe	is a symbolic link to joe that restricts JOE to editing only files which are specified on the command-line.
stringify	is a program used by joe to convert rc and .jsf files into a C file (see /usr/share/joe/util/README).
termidx	is a program used by joe to generate the termcap index file (see /usr/share/joe/util/README).
uniproc	is a program used by joe to generate joe's unicode database file unicat.c from Blocks.txt CaseFolding.txt EastAsianWidth.txt and UnicodeData.txt (find them at /usr/share/joe/util; see /usr/share/joe/util/README).

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Nano-2.4.2

Introduction to Nano

The Nano package contains a small, simple text editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor in the Pine package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/nano-2.4.2.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nano/nano-2.4.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ce6968992fec4283c17984b53554168b
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 9.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Nano Dependencies

Optional

S-Lang-2.2.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Nano

Installation of Nano

Install Nano by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --enable-utf8     \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/nano-2.4.2 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/nanorc.sample /etc &&
install -v -m644 doc/texinfo/nano.html /usr/share/doc/nano-2.4.2

Command Explanations

--enable-utf8: This switch enables unicode support in Nano.

--with-slang: This forces Nano to use S-Lang. Use this if installed.

Configuring nano

Config Files

/etc/nanorc and ~/.nanorc

Configuration Information

Example configuration (create as a system-wide /etc/nanorc or a personal ~/.nanorc file)

set autoindent
set const
set fill 72
set historylog
set multibuffer
set nohelp
set regexp
set smooth
set suspend

Another example is the nanorc.sample file in the /etc directory. It includes color configurations and has some documentation included in the comments.

Installed Programs: nano and rnano (symlink)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/nano and /usr/share/doc/nano-2.4.2

Short Descriptions

nano	is a small, simple text editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor in the Pine package.
rnano	is a restricted mode for nano.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Vim-7.4

Introduction to Vim

The Vim package, which is an abbreviation for VI IMproved, contains a vi clone with extra features as compared to the original vi.

The default LFS instructions install vim as a part of the base system. If you would prefer to link vim against X, you should recompile vim to enable GUI mode. There is no need for special instructions since X support is automatically detected.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://vim.mirror.fr/unix//vim-7.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 607e135c559be642f210094ad023dc65
Download size: 9.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 90 MB
Estimated build time: 1.7 SBU

Vim Dependencies

Optional

GPM-1.20.7, Lua-5.3.1, Python-2.7.10, Ruby-2.2.3, Tcl-8.6.4, and LessTif

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vim

Installation of Vim

Note

If you recompile Vim to link against X and your X libraries are not on the root partition, you will no longer have an editor for use in emergencies. You may choose to install an additional editor, not link Vim against X, or move the current vim executable to the /bin directory under a different name such as vi.

Install Vim by running the following commands:

echo '#define SYS_VIMRC_FILE  "/etc/vimrc"' >>  src/feature.h &&
echo '#define SYS_GVIMRC_FILE "/etc/gvimrc"' >> src/feature.h &&

sed -i 's/luaL_optlong/(long)luaL_optinteger/' src/if_lua.c   &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge                &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test. The vim test suite outputs a lot of binary data to the screen, which can cause issues with the settings of the current terminal. This can be resolved by redirecting the output to a log file. Even if one of the tests fails to produce the file test.out in src/testdir, the remaining tests will still be executed. If all goes well,the final message in the log file will be ALL DONE. Note: Some color tests expect to be executed under the xterm terminal emulator.

Now, as the root user:

make install

By default, Vim's documentation is installed in /usr/share/vim. The following symlink allows the documentation to be accessed via /usr/share/doc/vim-7.4, making it consistent with the location of documentation for other packages:

ln -snfv ../vim/vim74/doc /usr/share/doc/vim-7.4

If you wish to update the runtime files, issue the following command (requires rsync-3.1.1):

rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="/dos/" --exclude="/spell/" \
    ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ ./runtime/

To install the runtime files and regenerate the tags file, as the root user issue:

make -C src installruntime &&
vim -c ":helptags /usr/share/doc/vim-7.4" -c ":q"

Command Explanations

sed -i ... src/if_lua.c: This sed fixes compilation with lua 5.3.

--with-features=huge: This switch enables all the additional features available in Vim, including support for multibyte characters.

--enable-gui=no: This will prevent compilation of the GUI. Vim will still link against X, so that some features such as the client-server model or the x11-selection (clipboard) are still available.

--without-x: If you prefer not to link Vim against X, use this switch.

--enable-perlinterp, --enable-pythoninterp, --enable-tclinterp, --enable-rubyinterp: These options include the Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby interpreters that allow using other application code in vim scripts.

Configuring Vim

Config Files

/etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc

Desktop File

If desired, create a menu entry for graphical vim, gvim.desktop, as the root user

cat > /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GVim Text Editor
Comment=Edit text files
Comment[pt_BR]=Edite arquivos de texto
TryExec=gvim
Exec=gvim -f %F
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=gvim.png
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;
EOF

Configuration Information

Vim has an integrated spell checker which you can enable it if you issue the following in a vim window:

:setlocal spell spelllang=ru

This setting will enable spell checking for the Russian language for the current session.

By default, Vim only installs spell files for the English language. If a spell file is not available for a language, then Vim will call the $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/spellfile.vim plugin and will try to obtain the *.spl and optionally *.sug from the vim ftp server, by using the $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim plugin.

Alternatively you can manually download the *.spl and *.sug files from: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/ and save them to ~/.vim/spell or in /usr/share/vim/vim74/spell/.

To find out what's new in Vim-7.4 issue the following command:

:help version-7.4

For additional information on setting up Vim configuration files, see The vimrc Files and http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Example_vimrc.

A list of the reinstalled files, along with their short descriptions can be found in the LFS Vim Installation Instructions

Installed Programs: gview, gvim, gvimdiff, rgview, and rgvim

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/vim

Short Descriptions

gview	starts gvim in read-only mode.
gvim	is the editor that runs under X and includes a GUI.
gvimdiff	edits two or three versions of a file with gvim and shows the differences.
rgview	is a restricted version of gview.
rgvim	is a restricted version of gvim.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

Other Editors

Geany is a text editor using the GTK+2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.
Leafpad is a very simple text editor using the GTK+2 toolkit.
mcedit is a text editor installed as part of MC-4.8.14.
pico is a text editor installed as a part of Re-alpine-2.03.

Last updated on 2015-07-23 15:14:29 -0700

Chapter 7. Shells

We are all familiar with the Bourne Again SHell, but there are two other user interfaces that are considered useful modern shells – the Berkeley Unix C shell and the Korn shell. This chapter installs packages compatible with these additional shell types.

Dash-0.5.8

Introduction to Dash

Dash is a POSIX compliant shell. It can be installed as /bin/sh or as the default shell for either root or a second user with a userid of 0. It depends on fewer libraries than the Bash shell and is therefore less likely to be affected by an upgrade problem or disk failure. Dash is also useful for checking that a script is completely compatible with POSIX syntax.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/files/dash-0.5.8.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5c152209680dab3c319e8923f6c51378
Download size: 220 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Dash Dependencies

Optional

libedit (command line editor library)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dash

Installation of Dash

Install Dash by running the following commands:

./configure --bindir=/bin --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you would like to make dash the default sh, recreate the /bin/sh symlink as the root user:

Note

If you create the symbolic link from dash to sh, you will need to reset the link to bash to build LFS.

ln -svf dash /bin/sh

Command Explanations

--bindir=/bin: This parameter places the dash binary into the root filesystem.

--with-libedit: To compile Dash with libedit support.

Configuring Dash

Config Files

Dash sources /etc/profile and ~/.profile

Configuration Information

Update /etc/shells to include the Dash shell by issuing the following command as the root user:

cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/dash
EOF

Installed Program: dash

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Description

dash

is a POSIX compliant shell.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Tcsh-6.19.00

Introduction to Tcsh

The Tcsh package contains “an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley Unix C shell (csh)”. This is useful as an alternative shell for those who prefer C syntax to that of the bash shell, and also because some programs require the C shell in order to perform installation tasks.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fossies.org/linux/misc/tcsh-6.19.00.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/tcsh/tcsh-6.19.00.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f5f854833578647795bc906dd4bcb5d5
Download size: 928 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tcsh

Installation of Tcsh

First, fix the package for gcc5 optimizations:

sed -e 's/ i)/ k)/' \
    -e '/ k)/  i \    k = i;' \
    -e '/\*cp/ a \    volatile size_t k;' \
    -i tc.alloc.c

Install Tcsh by running the following commands:

sed -i 's|fR/g|&m|' tcsh.man2html       &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin &&

make &&
sh ./tcsh.man2html

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install install.man &&

ln -v -sf tcsh   /bin/csh &&
ln -v -sf tcsh.1 /usr/share/man/man1/csh.1 &&

install -v -m755 -d          /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.19.00/html &&
install -v -m644 tcsh.html/* /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.19.00/html &&
install -v -m644 FAQ         /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.19.00

Command Explanations

sed -i 's|fR/g|&m|' tcsh.man2html: This updates some deprecated Perl code.

--bindir=/bin: This installs the tcsh program in /bin instead of /usr/bin.

sh ./tcsh.man2html: This creates HTML documentation from the formatted man page.

ln -v -sf tcsh /bin/csh: The FHS states that if there is a C shell installed, there should be a symlink from /bin/csh to it. This creates that symlink.

Configuring Tcsh

Config Files

There are numerous configuration files for the C shell. Examples of these are /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, /etc/csh.logout, ~/.tcshrc, ~/.cshrc, ~/.history, ~/.cshdirs, ~/.login, and ~/.logout. More information on these files can be found in the tcsh(1) man page.

Configuration Information

Update /etc/shells to include the C shell program names (as the root user):

cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
EOF

The following ~/.cshrc provides two alternative colour prompts and coloured ls output. If you prefer a global modification, issue the command as the root user, replacing ~/.cshrc by /etc/csh.cshrc.

cat > ~/.cshrc << "EOF"
# Original at:
# https://www.cs.umd.edu/~srhuang/teaching/code_snippets/prompt_color.tcsh.html

# Modified by the BLFS Development Team.

# Add these lines to your ~/.cshrc (or to /etc/csh.cshrc).

# Colors!
set     red="%{\033[1;31m%}"
set   green="%{\033[0;32m%}"
set  yellow="%{\033[1;33m%}"
set    blue="%{\033[1;34m%}"
set magenta="%{\033[1;35m%}"
set    cyan="%{\033[1;36m%}"
set   white="%{\033[0;37m%}"
set     end="%{\033[0m%}" # This is needed at the end...

# Setting the actual prompt.  Two separate versions for you to try, pick
# whichever one you like better, and change the colors as you want.
# Just don't mess with the ${end} guy in either line...  Comment out or
# delete the prompt you don't use.

set prompt="${green}%n${blue}@%m ${white}%~ ${green}%%${end} "
set prompt="[${green}%n${blue}@%m ${white}%~ ]${end} "

# This was not in the original URL above
# Provides coloured ls
alias ls ls --color=always

# Clean up after ourselves...
unset red green yellow blue magenta cyan yellow white end
EOF

Installed Program: tcsh

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/tcsh-6.19.00

Short Descriptions

tcsh

is an enhanced but completely compatible version of the Berkeley Unix C shell, csh. It is usable as both an interactive shell and a script processor.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

zsh-5.1.1

Introduction to zsh

The zsh package contains a command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Of the standard shells, zsh most closely resembles ksh but includes many enhancements.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.1.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0e8ea3313300277a04cee80836507bae
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 67 MB (includes documentation and tests)
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (includes documentation and tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional Documentation: http://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.1.1-doc.tar.xz
Documentation MD5 sum: ae55bc07b7054093fed09b52d575582a
Documentation download size: 3.0 MB

Note

When there is a new zsh release, the old files shown above are moved to a new server directory: http://www.zsh.org/pub/old/.

zsh Dependencies

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, PCRE-8.37, and Valgrind-3.10.1,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zsh

Installation of zsh

If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack it with the following command:

tar --strip-components=1 -xvf ../zsh-5.1.1-doc.tar.xz

Install zsh by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --bindir=/bin         \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/zsh \
            --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh                  &&
make                                                  &&

makeinfo  Doc/zsh.texi --plaintext -o Doc/zsh.txt     &&
makeinfo  Doc/zsh.texi --html      -o Doc/html        &&
makeinfo  Doc/zsh.texi --html --no-split --no-headers -o Doc/zsh.html

If you have texlive-20150521 installed, you can build PDF format of the documentation by issuing the following command:

texi2pdf  Doc/zsh.texi -o Doc/zsh.pdf

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install                              &&
make infodir=/usr/share/info install.info &&

install -v -m755 -d                 /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/html/*         /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1/html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.{html,txt} /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1

If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1/html install.html &&
install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.dvi /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1

If you built the PDF format of the documentation, install it by issuing the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 Doc/zsh.pdf /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/zsh and --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh: These parameters are used so that all the zsh configuration files are consolidated into the /etc/zsh directory. Omit these parameters if you wish to retain historical compatibility by having all the files located in the /etc directory.

--bindir=/bin: This parameter places the zsh binaries into the root filesystem.

--enable-cap: This option enables POSIX capabilities.

--disable-gdbm: This option disables the use of the GDBM library.

--enable-pcre: This option allows zsh to use the PCRE regular expression library in shell builtins.

Multiple partitions

Linking zsh dynamically against pcre and/or gdbm produces runtime dependencies on libpcre.so and/or libgdbm.so respectively, which both reside in /usr hierarchy. If /usr is a separate mount point and zsh needs to be available in boot time, then its supporting libraries should be in /lib too. You can move the libraries as follows:

mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so

mv -v /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.* /lib &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libgdbm.so.3 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so

Alternatively you can statically link zsh against pcre and gdbm if you modify the config.modules file (you need first to run configure to generate it).

Configuring zsh

Config Files

There are a whole host of configuration files for zsh including /etc/zsh/zshenv, /etc/zsh/zprofile, /etc/zsh/zshrc, /etc/zsh/zlogin and /etc/zsh/zlogout. You can find more information on these in the zsh(1) and related manual pages.

The first time zsh is executed, you will be prompted by messages asking several questions. The answers will be used to create a ~/.zshrc file. If you wish to run these questions again, run zsh /usr/share/zsh/5.1.1/functions/zsh-newuser-install -f.

There are several built-in advanced prompts. In the zsh shell, start advanced prompt support with autoload -U promptinit, then promptinit. Available prompt names are listed with prompt -l. Select a particular one with prompt <prompt-name>. Display all available prompts with prompt -p. Except for the list and display commands above, you can insert the other ones in ~/.zshrc to be automatically executed at shell start, with the prompt you chose.

Configuration Information

Update /etc/shells to include the zsh shell program names (as the root user):

cat >> /etc/shells << "EOF"
/bin/zsh
EOF

Installed Programs: zsh and zsh-5.1.1 (hardlinked to each other)

Installed Libraries: Numerous plugin helper modules under /usr/lib/zsh/5.1.1/

Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,share}/zsh and /usr/share/doc/zsh-5.1.1

Short Description

zsh

is a shell which has command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and a host of other features.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Chapter 8. Virtualization

Virtualization allows running a complete operating system, or virtual machine (VM), within another operating environment as a task. There are several commercial and open source environments that either emulate another processor or utilize the hardware virtualization features of the host processor.

qemu-2.4.0.1

Introduction to qemu

qemu is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.4.0.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c99445164e77184a9ba2e7dbf7ed5c29
Download size: 24 MB
Estimated disk space required: 322 MB (395 MB, with tests)
Estimated build time: 1.5 SBU (3.0 SBU, with tests)

Qemu Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, Python-2.7.10, and X Window System

Optional

ALSA-1.0.29, BlueZ-5.34, Check-0.10.0, cURL-7.44.0, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, GTK+-2.24.28, GTK+-3.16.6, libusb-1.0.19, LZO-2.09, NSS-3.20 (for libcacard.so), MesaLib-10.6.6, and VTE-0.40.2

Note

This optional dependencies list is not comprehensive. See the output of ./configure --help for a more complete list.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qemu

KVM Prerequisites

Before building qemu, check to see if your processor supports Virtualization Technology (VT):

egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

If you get any output, you have VT technology (vmx for Intel processors and svm for AMD processors). You then need to go into your system BIOS and ensure it is enabled. After enabing, reboot back to your LFS instance.

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

[*] Virtualization:  --->                            [CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION]
  <*/M>   Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support [CONFIG_KVM]
  <*/M>     KVM for Intel processors support         [CONFIG_KVM_INTEL]
  <*/M>     KVM for AMD processors support           [CONFIG_KVM_AMD]

The Intel or AMD settings are not both required, but the one matching your system processor is required.

For networking, check that bridge-utils-1.5 is installed and the following options in the kernel configuration are enabled:

[*] Networking support  --->                         [CONFIG_NET]
  Networking options  --->
    <*/M> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging                   [CONFIG_BRIDGE]
Device Drivers  --->
  [*] Network device support  --->                   [CONFIG_NETDEVICES]
    <*/M>    Universal TUN/TAP device driver support [CONFIG_TUN]

Installation of qemu

Install qemu by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                      \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                  \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/qemu         \
            $([ $(uname -m) = i686 ]           &&
            echo --target-list=i386-softmmu)   \
            $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ]         &&
            echo --target-list=x86_64-softmmu) \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/qemu-2.4.0.1 &&
make

To run the built in tests, run make V=1 check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
[ -e  /usr/lib/libcacard.so ] &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libcacard.so

You will need a dedicated group that will contain users (other than root) allowed to access the KVM device. Create this group by running the following command as the root user:

groupadd -g 61 kvm

Add any users that might use the KVM device to that group:

usermod -a -G kvm <username>

You will also need to add a Udev rule so that the KVM device gets correct permissions:

cat > /lib/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules << "EOF"
KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0660"
EOF

Note

For convenience you may want to create a symbolic link to run qemu-system-x86_64:

ln -sv qemu-system-x86_64 /usr/bin/qemu

Command Explanations

$([ $(uname -m) = i686 ] && echo --target-list=i386-softmmu): This switch tests and, if true, limits the build target to the i386 architecture. For other hardware emulation see the --target-list list in configure's help output. Omitting the target option will build all architectures.

$([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --target-list=x86_64-softmmu): This switch tests and, if true, limits the build target to the x86_64 architecture. For other hardware emulation see the --target-list list in configure's help output. Omitting the target option will build all architectures.

--audio-drv-list=alsa: This switch sets the audio driver to ALSA. For other drivers see the --audio-drv-list list in configure's help output. The default audio driver is OSS.

Configuring qemu

To generate an image, run:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 vdisk.img 10G

Adjust the virtual disk size and image filename as desired. The actual size of the file will be less than specified, but will expand as it is used.

Note

The following instructions assume you have created the optional symbolic link, qemu. Additionally, you must run qemu from an X Window System based terminal.

To install an operating system, download an iso of your choice or use a pre-installed cdrom device. For the purposes of this example, use Fedora 16 that is downloaded as Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso in the current directory. Run the following:

qemu -enable-kvm -hda vdisk.img            \
     -cdrom Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso \
     -boot d                               \
     -m 384

Follow the normal installation procedures for the chosen distribution. The -boot option specifies the boot order of drives as a string of drive letters. Valid drive letters are: a, b (floppy 1 and 2), c (first hard disk), d (first CD-ROM). The -m option is the amount of memory to use for the virtual machine. If you have sufficient memory (2G or more), 1G is a reasonable value. For computers with 512MB of RAM it's safe to use -m 192, or even -m 128 (the default). The -enable-kvm option allows for hardware acceleration. Without this switch, the emulation is relatively slow.

To run the newly installed operating system, run:

qemu -enable-kvm vdisk.img -m 384

To add networking to the instance add "-net nic -net user" to the command above. qemu provides a DHCP server for the VM and, depending on the client system, sets up networking though the host.

One problem with the above networking solution is that it does not provide the ability to connect with the local network. To do that, there are several additional steps that need to be done, all as the root user:

Set up bridging with bridge-utils-1.5.
Allow the host system to forward IP packets.
```
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
```
To make this permanent, add the command to /etc/sysctl.conf:
```
cat >> /etc/sysctl.conf << EOF
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
EOF
```
Allow the network connection when running as a part of the kvm group:
```
chgrp kvm  /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper &&
chmod 4750 /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
```

Set up a required configuration file:

echo 'allow br0' > /etc/qemu/bridge.conf

Start qemu with "-net nic -net bridge" options.
If a connection, such as ssh, from the local network to the client VM is desired, the client should be configured with a static IP address.

Installed Programs: qemu-ga, qemu-img, qemu-io, qemu-nbd, qemu-system-x86_64, virtfs-proxy-helper, and vscclient

Installed Library: libcacard.so

Installed Directories: /etc/qemu, /usr/include/cacard, /usr/lib/qemu, /usr/share/qemu, and /usr/share/doc/qemu-2.4.0.1

Short Description

qemu-ga	implements support for QMP (QEMU Monitor Protocol) commands and events that terminate and originate respectively within the guest using an agent built as part of QEMU.
qemu-img	provides commands to manage QEMU disk images.
qemu-io	is a diagnostic and manipulation program for (virtual) memory media. It is still at an early stage of development.
qemu-nbd	exports Qemu disk images using the QEMU Disk Network Block Device (NBD) protocol.
qemu-system-x86_64	is the QEMU PC System emulator.
virtfs-proxy-helper	creates a socket pair or a named socket. QEMU and proxy helper communicate using this socket. QEMU proxy fs driver sends filesystem request to proxy helper and receives the response from it.
vscclient	implements a sockets interface to the virtual CCID reader on the guest.
`libcacard.so`	is the Virtual Smart Card Emulator library.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 13:44:33 -0700

Part III. General Libraries and Utilities

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Libraries contain code which is often required by more than one program. This has the advantage that each program doesn't need to duplicate code (and risk introducing bugs), it just has to call functions from the libraries installed on the system. The most obvious example of a set of libraries is Glibc which is installed during the LFS book. This contains all of the C library functions which programs use.

There are two types of libraries: static and shared. Shared libraries (usually libXXX.so) are loaded into memory from the shared copy at runtime (hence the name). Static libraries (libXXX.a ) are actually linked into the program executable file itself, thus making the program file larger. Quite often, you will find both static and shared copies of the same library on your system.

Generally, you only need to install libraries when you are installing software that needs the functionality they supply. In the BLFS book, each package is presented with a list of (known) dependencies. Thus, you can figure out which libraries you need to have before installing that program. If you are installing something without using BLFS instructions, usually the README or INSTALL file will contain details of the program's requirements.

There are certain libraries which nearly everyone will need at some point. In this chapter these and some others are listed and it is explained why you may want to install them.

Apr-1.5.2

Introduction to Apr

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the Apache web server. It provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that map to the underlying Operating System (OS). Where the OS doesn't support a particular function, APR will provide an emulation. Thus programmers can use the APR to make a program portable across different platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4e9769f3349fe11fc0a5e1b224c236aa
Download size: 808 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (1.1 with tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/apr

Installation of Apr

Install Apr by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --with-installbuilddir=/usr/share/apr-1/build &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: apr-1-config

Installed Library: libapr-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/apr-1 and /usr/share/apr-1

Short Descriptions

apr-1-config	is a shell script used to retrieve information about the apr library in the system. It is typically used to compile and link against the library.
`libapr-1.so`	is the Apache Portable Runtime library.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Apr-Util-1.5.4

Introduction to Apr Util

The Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library provides a predictable and consistent interface to underlying client library interfaces. This application programming interface assures predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of which libraries are available on a given platform.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/apr/apr-util-1.5.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2202b18f269ad606d70e1864857ed93c
Download size: 680 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.7 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Apr Util Dependencies

Required

Apr-1.5.2

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, FreeTDS, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and unixODBC-2.3.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/apr-util

Installation of Apr Util

Install Apr Util by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --with-apr=/usr     \
            --with-gdbm=/usr    \
            --with-openssl=/usr \
            --with-crypto &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-gdbm=/usr: This switch enables the apr_dbm_gdbm-1.so plugin.

--with-openssl=/usr --with-crypto: These switches enable the apr_crypto_openssl-1.so plugin. Remove them if you have not installed OpenSSL-1.0.2d.

--with-berkeley-db=/usr: If you have installed Berkeley DB-6.1.26, use this switch to compile the apr_dbm_db-1.so plugin.

--with-ldap: If you have installed OpenLDAP-2.4.42, use this switch to compile the apr_ldap.so plugin.

Installed Program: apu-1-config

Installed Library: libaprutil-1.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/apr-util-1

Short Descriptions

apu-1-config	is an APR-util script designed to allow easy command line access to APR-util configuration parameters.
`libaprutil-1.so`	contains functions that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying client library interfaces.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Aspell-0.60.6.1

Introduction to Aspell

The Aspell package contains an interactive spell checking program and the Aspell libraries. Aspell can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e66a9c9af6a60dc46134fdacf6ce97d7
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 58 MB (Additional 8 MB for EN dictionary)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

You'll need to download at least one dictionary. The link below will take you to a page containing links to dictionaries in many languages.

Aspell dictionaries: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict

Aspell Dependencies

Required

Which-2.21 (for the dictionaries)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/aspell

Installation of Aspell

Install Aspell by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -svfn aspell-0.60 /usr/lib/aspell &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/aspell{,-dev}.html &&

install -v -m644 manual/aspell.html/* \
    /usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/aspell.html &&

install -v -m644 manual/aspell-dev.html/* \
    /usr/share/doc/aspell-0.60.6.1/aspell-dev.html

If you do not plan to install Ispell, then copy the wrapper script ispell:

install -v -m 755 scripts/ispell /usr/bin/

If you do not plan to install Spell, then copy the wrapper script spell:

install -v -m 755 scripts/spell /usr/bin/

Command Explanations

ln -svfn aspell-0.60 /usr/lib/aspell: This command is useful for configuration of other applications, such as enchant-1.6.0.

Configuring Aspell

Configuration Information

After Aspell is installed, you must set up at least one dictionary. Install one or more dictionaries by running the following commands:

./configure &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: aspell, aspell-import, precat, preunzip, prezip, prezip-bin, pspell-config, run-with-aspell, word-list-compress and optionally, ispell and spell.

Installed Libraries: libaspell.so and libpspell.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/pspell and /usr/lib/aspell-0.60

Short Descriptions

aspell	is a utility that can function as an ispell -a replacement, as an independent spell checker, as a test utility to test out Aspell features, and as a utility for managing dictionaries.
ispell	is a wrapper around aspell to invoke it in ispell compatible mode.
spell	is a wrapper around aspell to invoke it in spell compatible mode.
aspell-import	imports old personal dictionaries into Aspell.
precat	decompresses a prezipped file to stdout.
preunzip	decompresses a prezipped file.
prezip	is a prefix delta compressor, used to compress sorted word lists or other similar text files.
prezip-bin	is called by the various wrapper scripts to perform the actual compressing and decompressing.
pspell-config	displays information about the `libpspell` installation, mostly for use in build scripts.
run-with-aspell	is a script to help use Aspell as an ispell replacement.
word-list-compress	compresses or decompresses sorted word lists for use with the Aspell spell checker.
`libaspell.so`	contains spell checking API functions.
`libpspell.so`	is an interface to the `libaspell` library. All the spell checking functionality is now in `libaspell` but this library is included for backward compatibility.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Boost-1.59.0

Introduction to Boost

Boost provides a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. It includes libraries for linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions and unit testing.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_59_0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6aa9a5c6a4ca1016edd0ed1178e3cb87
Download size: 68 MB
Estimated disk space required: 884 MB (additional 1 MB for Boost.Build's regression test)
Estimated build time: 3.9 SBU (additional 1.5 SBU for Boost.Build's regression test)

Boost Dependencies

Optional

ICU-55.1, Python-2.7.10 and Open MPI

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/boost

Installation of Boost

Install Boost by running the following commands:

sed -e '1 i#ifndef Q_MOC_RUN' \
    -e '$ a#endif'            \
    -i boost/type_traits/detail/has_binary_operator.hpp &&

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr &&
./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared

To run the Boost.Build's regression test (Python-2.7.10 required), issue pushd tools/build/test; python test_all.py; popd. One test out of 130 fails.

To run every library's regression tests, issue pushd status; ../b2; popd. A few tests may fail. They take very long (over 120/50 SBU, one/four cores) and use a very large disk space (up to 40 GB). You can use the -jN switch to speed them up.

Now, as the root user:

./b2 install threading=multi link=shared

Command Explanations

sed ... has_binary_operator.hpp: This command fixes a header to overcome a problem with Qt's moc command. It is necessary for building some KDE packages.

threading=multi: This parameter ensures that Boost is built with multithreading support.

link=shared: This parameter ensures that only shared libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created as static. Most people will not need the static libraries. Indeed most programs using Boost only use the headers. 0mit this parameter if you do need static libraries.

-jN: This switch may be added to the b2 command lines, to run up to N processes in parallel.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libboost_atomic.so, libboost_chrono.a, libboost_chrono.so, libboost_container.so, libboost_context.so, libboost_coroutine.so, libboost_date_time.so, libboost_exception.a, libboost_filesystem.so, libboost_graph.so, libboost_iostreams.so, libboost_locale.so, libboost_log_setup.so, libboost_log.so, libboost_math_c99.so, libboost_math_c99f.so, libboost_math_c99l.so, libboost_math_tr1.so, libboost_math_tr1f.so, libboost_math_tr1l.so, libboost_prg_exec_monitor.so, libboost_program_options.so, libboost_python.so, libboost_random.so, libboost_regex.so, libboost_serialization.so, libboost_signals.so, libboost_system.a, libboost_system.so, libboost_test_exec_monitor.a, libboost_thread.so, libboost_timer.a, libboost_timer.so, libboost_unit_test_framework.so, libboost_wave.so, and libboost_wserialization.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/boost

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

CLucene-2.3.3.4

Introduction to CLucene

CLucene is a C++ version of Lucene, a high performance text search engine.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clucene/clucene-core-2.3.3.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 48d647fbd8ef8889e5a7f422c1bfda94
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 78 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/clucene-2.3.3.4-contribs_lib-1.patch

CLucene Dependencies

Required

Installation of CLucene

Install CLucene by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../clucene-2.3.3.4-contribs_lib-1.patch &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DBUILD_CONTRIBS_LIB=ON .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DBUILD_CONTRIBS_LIB=ON: This cmake variable enables building the CLucene contribs library necessary for running applications that use language specific text analyzers like LibreOffice for example.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libclucene-contribs-lib.so, libclucene-core.so, and libclucene-shared.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/CLucene and /usr/lib/CLuceneConfig.cmake

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

dbus-glib-0.104

Introduction to D-Bus GLib

The D-Bus GLib package contains GLib interfaces to the D-Bus API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.104.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5497d2070709cf796f1878c75a72a039
Download size: 776 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

D-Bus GLib Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0 and GLib-2.44.1

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dbus-glib

Installation of D-Bus GLib

Install D-Bus GLib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that more comprehensive tests can be run by following the same method used in D-Bus instructions, which requires building the package twice.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: dbus-binding-tool

Installed Library: libdbus-glib-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/dbus-glib and /usr/share/doc/dbus-glib-0.104

Short Descriptions

dbus-binding-tool	is a tool used to interface with the D-Bus API.
`libdbus-glib-1.so`	contains GLib interface functions to the D-Bus API.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

enchant-1.6.0

Introduction to enchant

The enchant package provide a generic interface into various existing spell checking libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.abisource.com/downloads/enchant/1.6.0/enchant-1.6.0.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/enchant-1.6.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: de11011aff801dc61042828041fb59c7
Download size: 596 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

enchant Dependencies

Required

Optional

dbus-glib-0.104, Hspell, Hunspell, and Voikko

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/enchant

Installation of enchant

Install enchant by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Configuring enchant

Config Files

~/.enchant and /usr/share/enchant/enchant.ordering

Configuration Information

If you whish to use the Aspell-0.60.6.1 backend, create a symlink, as the root user:

ln -svfn ../../lib/aspell /usr/share/enchant/aspell

You can test your installation and configuration by creating a test file and running the commands in the following (you can replace the en_GB dictionary by any other downloaded when installing Aspell-0.60.6.1):

cat > /tmp/test-enchant.txt << "EOF" 
Tel me more abot linux
Ther ar so many commads
EOF

enchant -d en_GB -l /tmp/test-enchant.txt &&
enchant -d en_GB -a /tmp/test-enchant.txt

You will see a list of the misspelled words followed by a list of alternatives for them.

See more details in the enchant manual page.

Installed Programs: enchant and enchant-lsmod

Installed Libraries: libenchant.so and various backend libraries

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,lib,share}/enchant

Short Descriptions

enchant	is a spellchecker
enchant-lsmod	lists available backends, languages, and dictionaries.
`libenchant.so`	contains spell checking interface API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Exempi-2.2.2

Introduction to Exempi

Exempi is an implementation of XMP (Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/download/exempi-2.2.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b55db1031a3b4609c2241f7fc870ce32
Download size: 3.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 123 MB (additional 13 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for the tests)

Exempi Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/exempi

Installation of Exempi

Install Exempi by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: exempi

Installed Library: libexempi.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/exempi-2.0

Short Descriptions

exempi	is a command line tool to manipulate XMP metadata.
`libexempi.so`	is a library used to parse XMP metadata.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

GLib-2.44.1

Introduction to GLib

The GLib package contains low-level libraries useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading and an object system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.44/glib-2.44.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.44/glib-2.44.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 83efba4722a9674b97437d1d99af79db
Download size: 6.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 187 MB (additional 72 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (additional 3.1 SBU to run the test suite)

GLib Dependencies

Required

libffi-3.2.1 and Python-2.7.10 or Python-3.4.3

Optional

D-Bus-1.10.0 (required for some tests), elfutils-0.163, GTK-Doc-1.24, and FAM library

Additional Runtime Dependencies

Quoted directly from the INSTALL file: “Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the update-mime-database and update-desktop-database utilities”, which are part of shared-mime-info-1.4 and desktop-file-utils-0.22, respectively.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/glib2

Installation of GLib

Install GLib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pcre=system &&
make

The GLib test suite requires desktop-file-utils for some tests. However, desktop-file-utils requires GLib in order to compile; therefore, you must first install GLib and then run the test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

You should now install desktop-file-utils-0.22 and proceed to run the test suite.

To test the results, after having installed the package, issue: make -k check.

Command Explanations

--with-pcre=system: This switch causes the build to use a system-provided version of the PCRE library instead of an internal version.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--with-python=python3: Add this switch if you want GLib to use Python3 instead of Python2.

Installed Programs: gapplication, gdbus, gdbus-codegen, gio-querymodules, glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas, glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums, gobject-query, gresource, gsettings, gtester, and gtester-report

Installed Libraries: libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so, and libgthread-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gio-unix-2.0, /usr/include/glib-2.0, /usr/lib/gio, /usr/lib/glib-2.0, /usr/share/glib-2.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gobject

Short Descriptions

gapplication	can be used to start applications and can be used to send messages to already-running instances of other applications.
gdbus	is a simple tool used for working with D-Bus objects.
gdbus-codegen	is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or more D-Bus interfaces.
gio-querymodules	is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories. This file lists the implemented extension points for each module that has been found.
glib-compile-resources	is used to read the resource description from file and the files that it references to create a binary resource bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API.
glib-compile-schemas	is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files in directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled that can be used by GSettings.
glib-genmarshal	is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures.
glib-gettextize	is a variant of the gettext internationalization utility.
glib-mkenums	is a C language enum description generation utility.
gobject-query	is a small utility that draws a tree of types.
gresource	offers a simple commandline interface to GResource.
gsettings	offers a simple commandline interface to GSettings.
gtester	is a test running utility.
gtester-report	is a test report formatting utility.
GLib libraries	contain low-level core libraries for the GIMP Toolkit.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

GLibmm-2.44.0

Introduction to GLibmm

The GLibmm package is a set of C++ bindings for GLib.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glibmm/2.44/glibmm-2.44.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glibmm/2.44/glibmm-2.44.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 32ee4150b436d097fe2506d0b0b13a75
Download size: 5.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 126 MB (additional 25 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the test suite)

GLibmm Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1 (for the tests), and libsigc++-2.4.1

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/glibmm

Installation of GLibmm

Install GLibmm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libgiomm-2.4.so, libglibmm-2.4.so and libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/giomm-2.4, /usr/include/glibmm-2.4, /usr/lib/giomm-2.4, /usr/lib/glibmm-2.4, /usr/share/devhelp/books/glibmm-2.4 and /usr/share/doc/glibmm-2.4

Short Descriptions

`libgiomm-2.4.so`	contains the Gio API classes.
`libglibmm-2.4.so`	contains the GLib API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GMime-2.6.20

Introduction to GMime

The GMime package contains a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by the applicable RFCs. See the GMime web site for the RFCs resourced. This is useful as it provides an API which adheres to the MIME specification as closely as possible while also providing programmers with an extremely easy to use interface to the API functions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gmime/2.6/gmime-2.6.20.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gmime/2.6/gmime-2.6.20.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 82612c42f39f6e75273a92e6de44554f
Download size: 724 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

GMime Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and libgpg-error-1.20

Optional

DocBook-utils-0.6.14, GPGME-1.6.0, GTK-Doc-1.24 and Gtk# (requires Mono)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gmime

Installation of GMime

Install GMime by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-smime: Use this switch if you have installed GPGME-1.6.0 and wish to enable S/MIME support in GMime.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgmime-2.6.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gmime-2.6 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gmime-2.6

Short Descriptions

libgmime-2.6.so

contains API functions used by programs that need to comply to the MIME standards.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

gobject-introspection-1.44.0

Introduction to GObject Introspection

The GObject Introspection is used to describe the program APIs and collect them in a uniform, machine readable format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gobject-introspection/1.44/gobject-introspection-1.44.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gobject-introspection/1.44/gobject-introspection-1.44.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7ef8a1db7f74f4193a2397b1587eb913
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 37 MB (additional 6 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for the tests)

Required

Optional

Cairo-1.14.2 (required for the tests), GTK-Doc-1.24 and Mako

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gobject-introspection

Installation of GObject Introspection

Install GObject Introspection by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: g-ir-annotation-tool, g-ir-compiler, g-ir-doc-tool, g-ir-generate, and g-ir-scanner

Installed Libraries: libgirepository-1.0.so and /usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/_giscanner.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gobject-introspection-1.0, /usr/lib/girepository-1.0, /usr/lib/gobject-introspection, /usr/share/gir-1.0, and /usr/share/gobject-introspection-1.0

Short Descriptions

g-ir-compiler	converts one or more GIR files into one or more typelib.
g-ir-doc-tool	generates Mallard files that can be viewed with yelp or rendered to HTML with yelp-build from yelp-tools.
g-ir-scanner	is a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers and introspecting GObject based libraries.
g-ir-generate	is a GIR generator using the repository API.
`libgirepository-1.0.so`	provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Grantlee-0.5.1

Introduction to grantlee

Grantlee is a set of free software libraries written using the Qt framework. Currently two libraries are shipped with Grantlee: Grantlee Templates and Grantlee TextDocument. The goal of Grantlee Templates is to make it easier for application developers to separate the structure of documents from the data they contain, opening the door for theming.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.grantlee.org/grantlee-0.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 775f22dac0953029b414ed3b7379098c
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Grantlee Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/grantlee

Installation of Grantlee

Install Grantlee by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: libgrantlee_core.so and libgrantlee_gui.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/cmake/grantlee, /usr/lib/grantlee/0.4, and /usr/include/grantlee

Last updated on 2015-09-23 09:01:57 -0700

Gsl-1.16

Introduction to Gsl

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. It provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e49a664db13d81c968415cd53f62bc8b
Download size: 3.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 208 MB
Estimated build time: 2.2 SBU

Installation of Gsl

Install Gsl by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make                                       &&
make html

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install                  &&
mkdir /usr/share/doc/gsl-1.16 &&
cp doc/gsl-ref.html/* /usr/share/doc/gsl-1.16

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: gsl-config, gsl-histogram, and gsl-randist.

Installed Libraries: libgslcblas.so and libgsl.so.

Installed Directory: /usr/include/gsl

Short Descriptions

gsl-config	is a shell script to get the version number and compiler flags of the installed Gsl library.
gsl-histogram	is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library that computes a histogram from data taken from stdin.
gsl-randist	is a demonstration program for the GNU Scientific Library that generates random samples from various distributions.
`libgslcblas.so`	contains functions that implement a C interface to Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms.
`libgsl.so.so`	contains functions that provide a collection of numerical routines for scientific computing.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

ICU-55.1

Introduction to ICU

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) package is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/55.1/icu4c-55_1-src.tgz
Download MD5 sum: e2d523df79d6cb7855c2fbe284f4db29
Download size: 24 MB
Estimated disk space required: 337 MB (additional 31 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (additional 1.6 SBU for the tests)

ICU Dependencies

Optional

LLVM-3.7.0 (with Clang)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icu

Installation of ICU

Install ICU by running the following commands:

cd source &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

CC=gcc CXX=g++: If you prefer to use gcc and/or g++ instead of clang and/or clang++, if they are installed, use one or both variables in the configure line.

Installed Programs: derb, genbrk, genccode, gencfu, gencmn, gencnval, gendict, gennorm2, genrb, gensprep, icu-config, icuinfo, icupkg, makeconv, pkgdata and uconv

Installed Libraries: libicudata.so, libicui18n.so, libicuio.so, libicule.so, libiculx.so, libicutest.so, libicutu.so and libicuuc.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/layout, /usr/include/unicode, /usr/lib/icu and /usr/share/icu

Short Descriptions

derb	disassembles a resource bundle.
genbrk	compiles ICU break iteration rules source files into binary data files.
genccode	generates C or platform specific assembly code from an ICU data file.
gencfu	reads in Unicode confusable character definitions and writes out the binary data.
gencmn	generates an ICU memory-mappable data file.
gencnval	compiles the converter's aliases file.
gendict	compiles word list into ICU string trie dictionary.
gennorm2	builds binary data file with Unicode normalization data.
genrb	compiles a resource bundle.
gensprep	compiles StringPrep data from filtered RFC 3454 files.
icu-config	outputs ICU build options.
icuinfo	outputs configuration information about the current ICU.
icupkg	extracts or modifies an ICU .dat archive.
makeconv	compiles a converter table.
pkgdata	packages data for use by ICU.
uconv	converts data from one encoding to another.
`libicudata.so`	is the data library.
`libicui18n.so`	is the internationalization (i18n) library.
`libicuio.so`	is the ICU I/O (unicode stdio) library.
`libicule.so`	is the layout engine.
`libiculx.so`	is the layout extensions engine.
`libicutest.so`	is the test library.
`libicutu.so`	is the tool utility library.
`libicuuc.so`	is the common library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

JS-17.0.0

Introduction to JS

JS is Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/mozjs17.0.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 20b6f8f1140ef6e47daa3b16965c9202
Download size: 6.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 GB
Estimated build time: 2.0 SBU

JS Dependencies

Required

libffi-3.2.1, NSPR-4.10.9, Python-2.7.10 and Zip-3.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/JS

Installation of JS

Install JS by running the following commands:

cd js/src &&

sed -i 's/(defined\((@TEMPLATE_FILE)\))/\1/' config/milestone.pl &&

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --enable-readline   \
            --enable-threadsafe \
            --with-system-ffi   \
            --with-system-nspr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

find /usr/include/js-17.0/            \
     /usr/lib/libmozjs-17.0.a         \
     /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mozjs-17.0.pc \
     -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;

Command Explanations

sed ... config/milestone.pl: Fix an issue caused by perl-5.22.0 and later.

--enable-threadsafe: This switch enables support for multiple threads.

--enable-readline: This switch enables Readline support in JS shell.

--with-system-ffi: This switch forces the package to link to the system version of libffi instead of using its included, and now old, version.

--with-system-nspr: This switch forces the package to link to the system version of NSPR instead of using its included, and now old, version.

Installed Programs: js17 and js17-config

Installed Libraries: libmozjs-17.0.a and libmozjs-17.0.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/js-17.0

Short Descriptions

js17	provides a command line interface to the JavaScript engine.
js17-config	is used to find out JS compiler and linker flags.
`libmozjs-17.0.so`	contains the Mozilla JavaScript API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-16 05:44:08 -0700

JS-24.2.0

Introduction to JS

JS is Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/mozjs-24.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5db79c10e049a2dc117a6e6a3bc78a8e
Download size: 15 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.8 GB
Estimated build time: 4.2 SBU (additional 1.6 SBU for the tests)

JS Dependencies

Required

libffi-3.2.1, NSPR-4.10.9, Python-2.7.10 and Zip-3.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/JS2

Installation of JS

Note

This package can be installed without problems, if you have installed JS-17.0.0. It is necessary to set SHELL=/bin/bash if you are working in chroot.

Install JS by running the following commands:

cd js/src &&

sed -i 's/(defined\((@TEMPLATE_FILE)\))/\1/' config/milestone.pl &&

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --enable-readline   \
            --enable-threadsafe \
            --with-system-ffi   \
            --with-system-nspr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
find /usr/include/mozjs-24/         \
     /usr/lib/libmozjs-24.a         \
     /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mozjs-24.pc \
     -type f -exec chmod -v 644 {} \;

Command Explanations

sed ... config/milestone.pl: Fix an issue caused by perl-5.22.0 and later.

--enable-threadsafe: This switch enables support for multiple threads.

--enable-readline: This switch enables Readline support in JS shell.

--with-system-ffi: This switch forces the package to link to the system version of libffi instead of using its included, and now old, version.

--with-system-nspr: This switch forces the package to link to the system version of NSPR instead of using its included, and now old, version.

Installed Programs: js24 and js24-config

Installed Libraries: libmozjs-24.a and libmozjs-24.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/mozjs-24

Short Descriptions

js24	provides a command line interface to the JavaScript engine.
js24-config	is used to find out JS compiler and linker flags.
`libmozjs-24.so`	contains the Mozilla JavaScript API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

JSON-C-0.12

Introduction to JSON-C

The JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/json-c-0.12.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3ca4bbb881dfc4017e8021b5e0a8c491
Download size: 496 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (add 1.0 SBU for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/json-c

Installation of JSON-C

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install JSON-C by running the following commands:

sed -i s/-Werror// Makefile.in             &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make -j1

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ...: This instruction removes a flag that prevents one file from compiling.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libjson-c.so and libjson.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/json and /usr/include/json-c

Short Descriptions

`libjson.so`	contains the JSON-C API functions.
`libjson-c.so`	contains the JSON-C API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

JSON-GLib-1.0.4

Introduction to JSON GLib

The JSON GLib package is a library providing serialization and deserialization support for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format described by RFC 4627.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/json-glib/1.0/json-glib-1.0.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/json-glib/1.0/json-glib-1.0.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3131b0417ecde3da1ae72acceaa375cf
Download size: 548 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.7 MB (additional 2 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

JSON-GLib Dependencies

Required

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/json-glib

Installation of JSON GLib

Install JSON GLib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: json-glib-format and json-glib-validate

Installed Library: libjson-glib-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/json-glib-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/json-glib

Short Descriptions

json-glib-format	is a simple command line interface to format JSON data.
json-glib-validate	is a simple command line interface to validate JSON data.
`libjson-glib-1.0.so`	contains the JSON GLib API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

keyutils-1.5.9

Introduction to keyutils

Keyutils is a set of utilities for managing the key retention facility in the kernel, which can be used by filesystems, block devices and more to gain and retain the authorization and encryption keys required to perform secure operations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/keyutils-1.5.9.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7f8ac985c45086b5fbcd12cecd23cf07
Download size: 76 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/keyutils

Installation of keyutils

Install keyutils by running the following commands:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make NO_ARLIB=1 install

Command Explanations

NO_ARLIB=1: This make flag disables installing the static library.

Configuring keyutils

Config Files

/etc/request-key.conf and /etc/request-key.d/*

Installed Programs: keyctl, key.dns_resolver, and request-key

Installed Library: libkeyutils.so

Installed Directory: /etc/request-key.d and /usr/share/keyutils

Short Descriptions

keyctl	is to control the key management facility in various ways using a variety of subcommands.
key.dns_resolver	is invoked by request-key on behalf of the kernel when kernel services (such as NFS, CIFS and AFS) need to perform a hostname lookup and the kernel does not have the key cached. It is not ordinarily intended to be called directly.
request-key	is invoked by the kernel when the kernel is asked for a key that it doesn't have immediately available. The kernel creates a temporary key and then calls out to this program to instantiate it. It is not intended to be called directly.
`libkeyutils.so`	contains the keyutils library API instantiation.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

libarchive-3.1.2

Introduction to libarchive

The libarchive library provides a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.1.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: efad5a503f66329bb9d2f4308b5de98a
Download size: 4.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 60 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

libarchive Dependencies

Optional

libxml2-2.9.2, LZO-2.09, and Nettle-3.1.1 or OpenSSL-1.0.2d

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libarchive

Installation of libarchive

Install libarchive by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--without-xml2: This switch sets expat for xar archive format support instead of preferred libxml2 if both packages are installed.

--without-nettle: This switch sets OpenSSL for crypto support instead of preferred Nettle if both packages are installed.

Installed Programs: bsdcpio and bsdtar

Installed Libraries: libarchive.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

bsdcpio	is a tool similar to cpio.
bsdtar	is a tool similar to GNU tar.
`libarchive.so`	is a library that can create and read several streaming archive formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libassuan-2.3.0

Introduction to libassuan

The libassuan package contains an inter process communication library used by some of the other GnuPG related packages. libassuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. libassuan is not, however, limited to use with GnuPG servers and clients. It was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of many transaction based environments with non-persistent servers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-2.3.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d3effa069a3ccf924c8ed8a6d46cbc8d
Download size: 532 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libassuan Dependencies

Required

libgpg-error-1.20

Optional

texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libassuan

Installation of libassuan

Install libassuan by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

If you wish to build documentation, you must have texlive-20150521 installed and issue the following commands:

make -C doc pdf ps

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.3.0 &&
install -v -m644  doc/assuan.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                  /usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.3.0

Installed Program: libassuan-config

Installed Library: libassuan.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libassuan-2.3.0

Short Descriptions

libassuan-config	is a `libassuan` build information script.
`libassuan.so`	is an inter process communication library which implements the Assuan protocol.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libatasmart-0.19

Introduction to libatasmart

The libatasmart package is a disk reporting library. It only supports a subset of the ATA S.M.A.R.T. functionality.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://0pointer.de/public/libatasmart-0.19.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 53afe2b155c36f658e121fe6def33e77
Download size: 248 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libatasmart

Installation of libatasmart

Install libatasmart by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19 install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: skdump and sktest

Installed Library: libatasmart.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libatasmart-0.19

Short Descriptions

skdump	is a utility that reports on the status of the disk.
sktest	is a utility to issue disks tests.
`libatasmart.so`	contains the ATA S.M.A.R.T API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libatomic_ops-7.4.2

Introduction to libatomic_ops

libatomic_ops provides implementations for atomic memory update operations on a number of architectures. This allows direct use of these in reasonably portable code. Unlike earlier similar packages, this one explicitly considers memory barrier semantics, and allows the construction of code that involves minimum overhead across a variety of architectures.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.ivmaisoft.com/_bin/atomic_ops//libatomic_ops-7.4.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1d6538604b314d2fccdf86915e5c0857
Download size: 456 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.3 MB (additional 1.9 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional less than 0.1 SBU for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libatomic_ops

Installation of libatomic_ops

Install libatomic_ops by running the following commands:

sed -i 's#pkgdata#doc#' doc/Makefile.am &&
autoreconf -fi &&
./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --enable-shared  \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.4.2 &&
make

To check the results, issue LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../src/.libs make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mv -v   /usr/share/libatomic_ops/* \
        /usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.4.2 &&
rm -vrf /usr/share/libatomic_ops

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: This sed makes the docs to be installed in an appropriate directory.

autoreconf -fi: This regenerates the configure script and the Makefile.in.

--enable-shared: This switch enables building of the libatomic_ops shared libraries.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libatomic_ops.so and libatomic_ops_gpl.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libatomic_ops and /usr/share/doc/libatomic_ops-7.4.2

Short Descriptions

libatomic_ops.so

contains functions for atomic memory operations.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libcroco-0.6.8

Introduction to libcroco

The libcroco package contains a standalone CSS2 parsing and manipulation library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libcroco/0.6/libcroco-0.6.8.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libcroco/0.6/libcroco-0.6.8.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 767e73c4174f75b99695d4530fd9bb80
Download size: 456 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libcroco Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libcroco

Installation of libcroco

Install libcroco by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To run the test suite, run LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/src/.libs make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: croco-0.6-config and csslint-0.6

Installed Library: libcroco-0.6.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libcroco-0.6 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libcroco

Short Descriptions

croco-0.6-config	is a helper script for building with `libcroco-0.6.so`.
csslint-0.6	is used to parse one or more CSS files specified on the command line.
`libcroco-0.6.so`	contains the API functions for CSS2 parsing and manipulation.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libdaemon-0.14

Introduction to libdaemon

The libdaemon package is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.14.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 509dc27107c21bcd9fbf2f95f5669563
Download size: 332 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libdaemon Dependencies

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and Lynx-2.8.8rel.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdaemon

Installation of libdaemon

Install libdaemon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If you have Doxygen installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue the following command:

make -C doc doxygen

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14 install

If you built the API documentation, install it using the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14/api &&
install -v -m644 doc/reference/html/* /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14/api &&
install -v -m644 doc/reference/man/man3/* /usr/share/man/man3

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdaemon.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libdaemon and /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14

Short Descriptions

libdaemon.so

contains the libdaemon API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libESMTP-1.0.6

Introduction to libESMTP

The libESMTP package contains the libESMTP libraries which are used by some programs to manage email submission to a mail transport layer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.6.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libesmtp/libesmtp-1.0.6.tar.bz2/bf3915e627fd8f35524a8fdfeed979c8/libesmtp-1.0.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bf3915e627fd8f35524a8fdfeed979c8
Download size: 364 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libESMTP Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libesmtp

Installation of libESMTP

Install libESMTP by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: libesmtp-config

Installed Libraries: libesmtp.{so,a} and libESMTP SASL plugins

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/esmtp-plugins

Short Descriptions

libesmtp-config	displays version information and the options used to compile libESMTP.
`libesmtp.{so,a}`	is used to manage submission of electronic mail to a Mail Transport Agent.
`libesmtp SASL plugins`	are used to integrate libesmtp with SASL authentication.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

libffi-3.2.1

Introduction to libffi

The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run time.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.2.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 83b89587607e3eb65c70d361f13bab43
Download size: 920 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.1 MB (additional 1.7 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 0.4 SBU for the tests)

libffi Dependencies

Optional

DejaGnu-1.5.3 (required to run the testsuite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libffi

Installation of libffi

Install libffi by running the following commands:

sed -e '/^includesdir/ s/$(libdir).*$/$(includedir)/' \
    -i include/Makefile.in &&

sed -e '/^includedir/ s/=.*$/=@includedir@/' \
    -e 's/^Cflags: -I${includedir}/Cflags:/' \
    -i libffi.pc.in        &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... include/Makefile.in and sed ... libffi.pc.in: Make package install headers into /usr/include instead of /usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libffi.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libffi.so

contains the libffi API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libgcrypt-1.6.3

Introduction to libgcrypt

The libgcrypt package contains a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GnuPG. The library provides a high level interface to cryptographic building blocks using an extendable and flexible API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.6.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4262c3aadf837500756c2051a5c4ae5e
Download size: 2.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 38 MB (additional 7 MB for docs)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for docs and 0.3 SBU for tests)

libgcrypt Dependencies

Required

libgpg-error-1.20

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM and Pth-2.0.7, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgcrypt

Installation of libgcrypt

Install libgcrypt by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Only info documentation is shipped in the package tarball. If you wish to build alternate formats of the documentation, (you must have texlive-20150521 installed to build the PDF and PostScript documentation), then issue the following commands:

make -j1 -C doc pdf ps html &&
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/gcrypt_nochunks.html doc/gcrypt.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext       -o doc/gcrypt.txt           doc/gcrypt.texi

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -dm755   /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3 &&
install -v -m644    README doc/{README.apichanges,fips*,libgcrypt*} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3

If you built the additional documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755   /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt.html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt_nochunks.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3 &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt.{pdf,ps,dvi,txt,texi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3

Command Explanations

--with-capabilities: This option enables libcap2 support.

Installed Programs: dumpsexp, hmac256, libgcrypt-config, and mpicalc

Installed Library: libgcrypt.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.6.3

Short Descriptions

dumpsexp	is a debug tool for S-expressions.
hmac256	is a standalone HMAC-SHA-256 implementation used to compute an HMAC-SHA-256 authentication code.
libgcrypt-config	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use `libgcrypt`.
mpicalc	is a RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator.
`libgcrypt.so`	contains the cryptographic API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libgpg-error-1.20

Introduction to libgpg-error

The libgpg-error package contains a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. .

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.20.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9997d9203b672402a04760176811589d
Download size: 756 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgpg-error

Installation of libgpg-error

Install libgpg-error by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D README /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.20/README

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: gpg-error and gpg-error-config

Installed Library: libgpg-error.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpg-error and /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.20

Short Descriptions

gpg-error	is used to determine libgpg-error error codes.
gpg-error-config	is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the libgpg-error library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the libgpg-error library.
`libgpg-error.so`	contains the libgpg-error API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libgsf-1.14.34

Introduction to libgsf

The libgsf package contains a library used for providing an extensible input/output abstraction layer for structured file formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgsf/1.14/libgsf-1.14.34.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgsf/1.14/libgsf-1.14.34.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 146c9063296b92803c1721b7bdc23488
Download size: 596 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)

libgsf Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgsf

Installation of libgsf

Install libgsf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. Some tests may fail for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: gsf, gsf-office-thumbnailer, and gsf-vba-dump

Installed Library: libgsf-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgsf-1, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gsf and /usr/share/thumbnailers

Short Descriptions

gsf	is a simple archive utility, somewhat similar to tar(1).
gsf-office-thumbnailer	is used internally by GNOME applications such as Nautilus to generate thumbnails of several types of office application files.
gsf-vba-dump	is used to extract Visual Basic for Applications macros from files.
`libgsf-1.so`	contains the libgsf API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

libgudev-230

Introduction to libgudev

The libgudev package contains GObject bindings for libudev.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgudev/230/libgudev-230.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgudev/230/libgudev-230.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e4dee8f3f349e9372213d33887819a4d
Download size: 252 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Required

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 (for gir-data, needed for Gnome), GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgudev

Installation of libgudev

Install libgudev by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: None

Installed Libraries: libgudev-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gudev-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gudev

Short Descriptions

libgudev-1.0.so

is a GObject-based wrapper library for libudev.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libgusb-0.2.6

Introduction to libgusb

The libgusb package contains the GObject wrappers for libusb-1.0 that makes it easy to do asynchronous control, bulk and interrupt transfers with proper cancellation and integration into a mainloop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/libgusb-0.2.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: eae30027dfad4dd30f77d8ed8d85b40e
Download size: 272 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5 MB (with test suite)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with test suite)

libgusb Dependencies

Required

libusb-1.0.19

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgusb

Installation of libgusb

Install libgusb by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgusb.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gusb-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gusb

Short Descriptions

libgusb.so

contains the libgusb API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libical-1.0.1

Introduction to libical

The libical package contains an implementation of the iCalendar protocols and data formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libical/libical/releases/download/v1.0.1/libical-1.0.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: af91db06b22559f863869c5a382ad08a
Download size: 704 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB (additional 13 MB for the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libical Dependencies

Required

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 (for the API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libical

Installation of libical

Install libical by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DSHARED_ONLY=yes           \
      .. &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue:

make docs

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have built the API documentation, install by issuing, as root user:

install -vdm755 /usr/share/doc/libical-1.0.1/html &&
cp -vr apidocs/html/* /usr/share/doc/libical-1.0.1/html

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-DSHARED_ONLY=yes: This switch is used in order to only build the shared libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libical.so, libicalss.so and libicalvcal.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libical and /usr/share/doc/libical-1.0.1/html

Short Descriptions

`libical.so`	contains the libical API functions.
`libicalss.so`	is a library that allows you to store iCal component data to disk in a variety of ways.
`libicalvcal.so`	is a vCard/vCalendar C interface.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libidn-1.32

Introduction to libidn

libidn is a package designed for internationalized string handling based on the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. This is useful for converting data from the system's native representation into UTF-8, transforming Unicode strings into ASCII strings, allowing applications to use certain ASCII name labels (beginning with a special prefix) to represent non-ASCII name labels, and converting entire domain names to and from the ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) form.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.32.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.32.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4dd8356ba577287ea7076bfa1554b534
Download size: 3.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)

libidn Dependencies

Optional

Pth-2.0.7, Emacs-24.5, GTK-Doc-1.24, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, Valgrind-3.10.1, and DotGNU Portable.NET or Mono

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libidn

Installation of libidn

Install libidn by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

find doc -name "Makefile*" -delete            &&
rm -rf -v doc/{gdoc,idn.1,stamp-vti,man,texi} &&
mkdir -v       /usr/share/doc/libidn-1.32     &&
cp -r -v doc/* /usr/share/doc/libidn-1.32

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: idn

Installed Library: libidn.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/libidn-1.32 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libidn

Short Descriptions

idn

is a command line interface to the internationalized domain name library.

libidn.so

contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for Nameprep, iSCSI, SASL and XMPP are included as well as support for Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA. A mechanism to define Top-Level Domain (TLD) specific validation tables, and to compare strings against those tables, as well as default tables for some TLDs are included.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

libiodbc-3.52.10

Introduction to libiodbc

libiodbc is an API to ODBC compatible databases.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/iodbc/iodbc/3.52.10/libiodbc-3.52.10.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ccbbb1e160a8b0e78a8f8e6a5afd5390
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libiodbc Dependencies

Installation of libiodbc

Install libiodbc by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                   \
            --with-iodbc-inidir=/etc/iodbc  \
            --includedir=/usr/include/iodbc \
            --disable-libodbc               \
            --disable-static                &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-iodbc-inidir=/etc/iodbc: libiodbc will install configuration files in this directory.

--includedir=/usr/include/iodbc: This installs the interface headers to a private directory to avoid a conflict with headers installed by unixODBC.

--disable-libodbc: This prevents the installation of the libodbc.so symbolic link to avoid a conflict with unixODBC.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: iodbc-config, iodbctest, iodbctestw, and iodbcadm-gtk

Installed Libraries: libdrvproxy.so, libiodbc.so, libiodbcinst.so, and libiodbcadm.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/iodbc, /usr/share/libiodbc, and /etc/iodbc

Short Descriptions

iodbc-config	is a utility for retrieving the installation options of libiodbc.
iodbctest{,w}	are interactive SQL processors.
iodbcadm-gtk	is a graphical administration utility.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Libksba-1.3.3

Introduction to Libksba

The Libksba package contains a library used to make X.509 certificates as well as making the CMS (Cryptographic Message Syntax) easily accessible by other applications. Both specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS. The library does not rely on another cryptographic library but provides hooks for easy integration with Libgcrypt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/libksba-1.3.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a5dd3c57fca254935f5cf8db26e39065
Download size: 608 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Libksba Dependencies

Required

libgpg-error-1.20

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libksba

Installation of Libksba

Install Libksba by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: ksba-config

Installed Library: libksba.so

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

ksba-config	is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the libksba(3) library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the libksba(3) library.
`libksba.{so,a}`	contains the cryptographic API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

liblinear-2.01

Introduction to liblinear

This package provides a library for learning linear classifiers for large scale applications. It supports Support Vector Machines (SVM) with L2 and L1 loss, logistic regression, multi class classification and also Linear Programming Machines (L1-regularized SVMs). Its computational complexity scales linearly with the number of training examples making it one of the fastest SVM solvers around.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

After updating this package from liblinear-1.96 or earlier, you need to reinstall Nmap-6.47, in order to link to the new library.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/oldfiles/liblinear-2.01.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ea615ef0ea3c05ded206ca0e994100c7
Download size: 372 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/liblinear

Installation of liblinear

Install liblinear by running the following commands:

make lib

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -vm644 linear.h /usr/include &&
install -vm755 liblinear.so.3 /usr/lib &&
ln -sfv liblinear.so.3 /usr/lib/liblinear.so

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: liblinear.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

liblinear.so

is a large linear classification library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

libpaper-1.1.24+nmu4

Introduction to libpaper

This package is intended to provide a simple way for applications to take actions based on a system or user-specified paper size.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpaper/libpaper_1.1.24+nmu4.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpaper/libpaper_1.1.24+nmu4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 155d2e589e2f4ef163de8fbbc5d3dd1e
Download size: 362 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libpaper

Installation of libpaper

Install libpaper by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mkdir -vp /etc/libpaper.d &&

cat > /usr/bin/run-parts << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# run-parts:  Runs all the scripts found in a directory.
# from Slackware, by Patrick J. Volkerding with ideas borrowed
# from the Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility.

# keep going when something fails
set +e

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: run-parts <directory>"
  exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
  echo "Not a directory: $1"
  echo "Usage: run-parts <directory>"
  exit 1
fi

# There are several types of files that we would like to
# ignore automatically, as they are likely to be backups
# of other scripts:
IGNORE_SUFFIXES="~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp"

# Main loop:
for SCRIPT in $1/* ; do
  # If this is not a regular file, skip it:
  if [ ! -f $SCRIPT ]; then
    continue
  fi
  # Determine if this file should be skipped by suffix:
  SKIP=false
  for SUFFIX in $IGNORE_SUFFIXES ; do
    if [ ! "$(basename $SCRIPT $SUFFIX)" = "$(basename $SCRIPT)" ]; then
      SKIP=true
      break
    fi
  done
  if [ "$SKIP" = "true" ]; then
    continue
  fi
  # If we've made it this far, then run the script if it's executable:
  if [ -x $SCRIPT ]; then
    $SCRIPT || echo "$SCRIPT failed."
  fi
done

exit 0
EOF

chmod -v 755 /usr/bin/run-parts

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

mkdir -pv /etc/libpaper.d: libpaper expects that packages will install files into this directory.

cat > /usr/bin/run-parts << "EOF" : paperconfig is a script which will invoke run-parts if /etc/libpaper.d exists. No other BLFS package installs this, so we create it here.

Configuring libpaper

Configuration Information

Create /etc/papersize to set the default system paper size. Issue the following command as the root user to set this to 'A4' (libpaper prefers the lowercase form). You may wish to use a different size, such as letter.

cat > /etc/papersize << "EOF"
a4
EOF

Installed Programs: paperconf, paperconfig, run-parts

Installed Library: libpaper.so

Installed Directories: /etc/libpaper.d

Short Descriptions

paperconf	print paper configuration information.
paperconfig	configure the system default paper size.
run-parts	run all the scripts found in a directory.
`libpaper.so`	contains functions for interrogating the paper library.

Last updated on 2015-09-16 05:44:08 -0700

libsigc++-2.4.1

Introduction to libsigc++

The libsigc++ package implements a typesafe callback system for standard C++.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsigc++/2.4/libsigc++-2.4.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsigc++/2.4/libsigc++-2.4.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 55945ba6e1652f89999e910f6b52047c
Download size: 3.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 35 MB (additional 17 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for the tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsigc++

Installation of libsigc++

Install libsigc++ by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libsigc-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/sigc++-2.0, /usr/lib/sigc++-2.0, /usr/share/devhelp/books/libsigc++-2.0 and /usr/share/doc/libsigc++-2.0

Short Descriptions

libsigc-2.0.so

contains the libsigc++ API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libsigsegv-2.10

Introduction to libsigsegv

This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not available. Catching and handling a page fault is a useful technique for implementing pageable virtual memory, memory-mapped access to persistent databases, generational garbage collectors, stack overflow handlers, and distributed shared memory.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libsigsegv/libsigsegv-2.10.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libsigsegv/libsigsegv-2.10.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 7f96fb1f65b3b8cbc1582fb7be774f0f
Download size: 393 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsigsegv

Installation of libsigsegv

Install libsigsegv by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-shared: This switch ensures that shared libraries are compiled.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libsigsegv.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libsigsegv.so

is a library for handling page faults in user mode.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libstatgrab-0.91

Introduction to libstatgrab

This is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network traffic, disk I/O, and more.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.91.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.91.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b906d312076ca9be3d5188edfe07f496
Download size: 760 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.0 MB (with the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (1.6 SBU with the test suite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libstatgrab

Installation of libstatgrab

Install libstatgrab by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libstatgrab-0.91 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: saidar, statgrab, statgrab-make-mrtg-config, and statgrab-make-mrtg-index

Installed Library: libstatgrab.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/libstatgrab-0.91

Short Descriptions

saidar	is a curses-based tool for viewing system statistics.
statgrab	is a sysctl-style interface to system statistics.
statgrab-make-mrtg-config	generates MRTG configuration.
statgrab-make-mrtg-index	generates an XHTML index page from MRTG configuration files or stdin.
`libstatgrab.so`	contains the libstatgrab API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

libtasn1-4.6

Introduction to libtasn1

libtasn1 is a highly portable C library that encodes and decodes DER/BER data following an ASN.1 schema.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.6.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-4.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 454a7f80362f38bd2335b6e9d95f57a6
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

libtasn1 Dependencies

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libtasn1

Installation of libtasn1

Install libtasn1 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you did not pass the --enable-gtk-doc parameter to the configure script, you can install the API documentation using the following command as the root user:

make -C doc/reference install-data-local

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: asn1Coding, asn1Decoding and asn1Parser

Installed Library: libtasn1.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libtasn1

Short Descriptions

asn1Coding	is an ASN.1 DER encoder.
asn1Decoding	is an ASN.1 DER decoder.
asn1Parser	is an ASN.1 syntax tree generator for libtasn1.
`libtasn1.so`	is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libunistring-0.9.6

Introduction to libunistring

libunistring is a library that provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: cb09c398020c27edac10ca590e9e9ef3
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 45 MB (add 36 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (add 2.0 SBU for tests)

libunistring Dependencies

Optional

texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) (to rebuild the documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libunistring

Installation of libunistring

Install libunistring by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.6 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libunistring.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/unistring and /usr/share/doc/libunistring-0.9.6

Short Descriptions

libunistring.so

provides the unicode string library API.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

libusb-1.0.19

Introduction to libusb

The libusb package contains a library used by some applications for USB device access.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libusb/libusb-1.0.19.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f9e2bb5879968467e5ca756cb4e1fa7e
Download size: 512 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.3 MB (additional 2.8 MB for API documentation)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libusb Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libusb

Installation of libusb

Install libusb by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If Doxygen is installed and you wish to build the API documentation, issue the following command:

make -C doc docs

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the API documentation, install it using the following commands as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.19/apidocs &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.19/apidocs

Configuring Libusb

To access raw USB devices (those not treated as a disk by the mass-storage driver), appropriate support must be available in the kernel. Check your kernel configuration:

Device Drivers --->
  [*] USB support --->                   [CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT]
    <*/M> Support for Host-side USB      [CONFIG_USB]
    (Select any USB hardware device drivers you may need on the same page)

For more details on setting up USB devices, see the section called “USB Device Issues”.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libusb-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libusb-1.0 and /usr/share/doc/libusb-1.0.19

Short Descriptions

libusb-1.0.so

contains API functions used for accessing USB hardware.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libusb-compat-0.1.5

Introduction to libusb-compat

The libusb-compat package aims to look, feel and behave exactly like libusb-0.1. It is a compatibility layer needed by packages that have not been upgraded to the libusb-1.0 API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libusb/libusb-compat-0.1.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2780b6a758a1e2c2943bdbf7faf740e4
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libusb-compat Dependencies

Required

libusb-1.0.19

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libusb-compat

Installation of libusb-compat

Install libusb-compat by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: libusb-config

Installed Library: libusb.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libusb-config	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use `libusb`.
`libusb.so`	is a library that is compatible with libusb-0.1, but uses libusb-1.0 to provide functionality.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libxml2-2.9.2

Introduction to libxml2

The libxml2 package contains libraries and utilities used for parsing XML files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9e6a9aca9d155737868b3dc5fd82f788
Download size: 5.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 77 MB (additional 18 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional Testsuite: http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20130923.tar.gz - This enables make check to do complete testing.

libxml2 Dependencies

Note

Some packages which utilize libxml2 (such as GNOME Doc Utils) need the Python module installed to function properly and some packages will not build properly if the Python module is not available.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxml2

Installation of libxml2

Apply three upstream fixes, which correct bugs in xmlcatalog, in the entity substitution mechanism, and in entity checking:

sed -e /xmlInitializeCatalog/d \
    -e 's/((ent->checked =.*&&/(((ent->checked == 0) ||\
            ((ent->children == NULL) \&\& (ctxt->options \& XML_PARSE_NOENT))) \&\&/' \
    -i parser.c &&

sed -e  "/The id is/{N;
                     a if (ctxt != NULL)
                    }" \
    -i valid.c

Install libxml2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static --with-history &&
make

If you downloaded the testsuite, issue the following command:

tar xf ../xmlts20130923.tar.gz

To test the results, issue: make check > ../check.log. A summary of the results can be obtained with grep -E '^Total|expected' ../check.log.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-history: This switch enables Readline support when running xmlcatalog or xmllint in shell mode.

--with-python=/usr/bin/python3: Add this switch if you want libxml2 to use Python3 instead of Python2.

Installed Programs: xml2-config, xmlcatalog and xmllint

Installed Libraries: libxml2.so and optionally, the libxml2mod.so Python module

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libxml2, /usr/share/doc/libxml2-2.9.2, /usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.2 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxml2

Short Descriptions

xml2-config	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use `libxml2`.
xmlcatalog	is used to monitor and manipulate XML and SGML catalogs.
xmllint	parses XML files and outputs reports (based upon options) to detect errors in XML coding.
`libxml2.so`	provides functions for programs to parse files that use the XML format.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 13:18:47 -0700

libxslt-1.1.28

Introduction to libxslt

The libxslt package contains XSLT libraries used for extending libxml2 libraries to support XSLT files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9667bf6f9310b957254fdcf6596600b7
Download size: 3.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libxslt Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

libgcrypt-1.6.3 and Python-2.7.10

Note

Although it is not a direct dependency, many applications using libxslt will expect docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 to be present.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxslt

Installation of libxslt

Install libxslt by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: xslt-config and xsltproc

Installed Libraries: libexslt.so, libxslt.so and optionally, libxsltmod.so Python modules

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libexslt, /usr/include/libxslt, /usr/lib/libxslt-plugins, /usr/share/doc/libxslt-1.1.28, and /usr/share/doc/libxslt-python-1.1.28

Short Descriptions

xslt-config	is used to find out the pre-processor, linking and compiling flags necessary to use the libxslt libraries in 3rd-party programs.
xsltproc	is used to apply XSLT stylesheets to XML documents.
`libexslt.so`	is used to provide extensions to XSLT functions.
`libxslt.so`	provides extensions to the `libxml2` libraries to parse files that use the XSLT format.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

LZO-2.09

Introduction to LZO

LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data decompression and compression in real-time. This means it favors speed over compression ratio.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/lzo-2.09.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c7ffc9a103afe2d1bba0b015e7aa887f
Download size: 584 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU to run the tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lzo

Installation of LZO

Install LZO by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                    \
            --enable-shared                  \
            --disable-static                 \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/lzo-2.09 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. All the checks should pass. Now issue make test to run the full suite of tests.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: liblzo2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lzo and /usr/share/doc/lzo

Short Descriptions

liblzo2.so

is a data compression and decompression library.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

mtdev-1.1.5

Introduction to mtdev

The mtdev package contains Multitouch Protocol Translation Library which is used to transform all variants of kernel MT (Multitouch) events to the slotted type B protocol.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://bitmath.org/code/mtdev/mtdev-1.1.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 52c9610b6002f71d1642dc1a1cca5ec1
Download size: 268 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mtdev

Installation of mtdev

Install mtdev by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: mtdev-test

Installed Library: libmtdev.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

mtdev-test	is a tool to test `libmtdev`.
`libmtdev.so`	contains Multitouch Protocol Translation API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

NPth-1.2

Introduction to NPth

The NPth package contains a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading) inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/npth/npth-1.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 226bac7374b9466c6ec26b1c34dab844
Download size: 292 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/npth

Installation of NPth

Install NPth by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: npth-config

Installed Library: libnpth.so

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

npth-config	is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the npth library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the npth library.
`libnpth.so`	contains the API functions used by the New Portable Threads Library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

NSPR-4.10.9

Introduction to NSPR

Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc like functions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.10.9/src/nspr-4.10.9.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 86769a7fc3b4c30f7fdcb45ab284c452
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nspr

Installation of NSPR

Install NSPR by running the following commands:

cd nspr                                                     &&
sed -ri 's#^(RELEASE_BINS =).*#\1#' pr/src/misc/Makefile.in &&
sed -i 's#$(LIBRARY) ##' config/rules.mk                    &&

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-mozilla \
            --with-pthreads \
            $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit) &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -ri 's#^(RELEASE_BINS =).*#\1#' pr/src/misc/Makefile.in: This sed disables installing two unneeded scripts.

sed -i 's#$(LIBRARY) ##' config/rules.mk: This sed disables installing the static libraries.

--with-mozilla: This parameter adds Mozilla support to the libraries (required if you want to build any other Mozilla products and link them to these libraries).

--with-pthreads: This parameter forces use of the system pthread library.

$([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit): The --enable-64bit parameter is required on an x86_64 system to prevent configure failing with a claim that this is a system without pthread support. The [ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] test ensures it has no effect on a 32 bit system.

Installed Programs: nspr-config

Installed Libraries: libnspr4.so, libplc4.so and libplds4.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/nspr

Short Descriptions

nspr-config	provides compiler and linker options to other packages that use NSPR.
`libnspr4.so`	contains functions that provide platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities such as threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management and shared library linking.
`libplc4.so`	contains functions that implement many of the features offered by libnspr4
`libplds4.so`	contains functions that provide data structures.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

OpenOBEX-1.7.1

Introduction to OpenOBEX

The OpenOBEX package contains a library that implements Object Exchange Protocol used for binary file transfers between devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openobex/openobex-1.7.1-Source.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3181bfed9cb7db591605391068cb0085
Download size: 136 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

OpenOBEX Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and libusb-1.0.19

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, libxslt-1.1.28, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, and xmlto-0.0.26

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openobex

Installation of OpenOBEX

OpenOBEX installs a udev rule that requires a group named plugdev. Create that group as the root user:

groupadd -g 90 plugdev

Install OpenOBEX by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr      \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release       \
      -Wno-dev                         \
      .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mv -fv /usr/share/doc/openobex{,-1.7.1}

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-Wno-dev: This switch is used to suppress warnings that are meant for the author of the CMakeLists.txt files.

mv -fv ...: Move the documention to a versioned directory.

Installed Program: obex-check-device

Installed Library: libopenobex.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/openobex, /usr/lib/cmake/OpenObex-1.7.1, and /usr/share/doc/openobex-1.7.1

Short Descriptions

obex-check-device	is a tool that help udev to find connectable OBEX USB devices.
`libopenobex.so`	contains the OpenOBEX API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

PCRE-8.37

Introduction to PCRE

The PCRE package contains Perl Compatible Regular Expression libraries. These are useful for implementing regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.37.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: ed91be292cb01d21bc7e526816c26981
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/pcre-8.37-upstream_fixes-1.patch

PCRE Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pcre

Installation of PCRE

Install PCRE by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../pcre-8.37-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.37 \
            --enable-unicode-properties       \
            --enable-pcre16                   \
            --enable-pcre32                   \
            --enable-pcregrep-libz            \
            --enable-pcregrep-libbz2          \
            --enable-pcretest-libreadline     \
            --disable-static                 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install                     &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libpcre.so) /usr/lib/libpcre.so

Command Explanations

--enable-unicode-properties: This switch enables Unicode properties support and includes the code for handling UTF-8/16/32 character strings in the library. You need this switch if you are going to build GLib-2.44.1 with the --with-pcre=system switch.

--enable-pcre16: This switch enables 16 bit character support.

--enable-pcre32: This switch enables 32 bit character support.

--enable-pcregrep-libz: This switch adds support to pcregrep to read .gz compressed files.

--enable-pcregrep-libbz2: This switch adds support to pcregrep to read .bz2 compressed files.

--enable-pcretest-libreadline: This switch adds line editing and history features to pcretest program.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib: Moves the PCRE library on the root filesystem so that it is available in case grep gets reinstalled with PCRE support.

Installed Programs: pcregrep, pcretest and pcre-config

Installed Libraries: libpcre.so, libpcre16.so, libpcre32.so, libpcrecpp.so and libpcreposix.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/pcre-8.37

Short Descriptions

pcregrep	is a grep that understands Perl compatible regular expressions.
pcretest	can test a Perl compatible regular expression.
pcre-config	is used during the compile process of programs linking to the PCRE libraries.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Popt-1.16

Introduction to Popt

The popt package contains the popt libraries which are used by some programs to parse command-line options.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.16.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/svn/p/popt-1.16.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3743beefa3dd6247a73f8f7a32c14c33
Download size: 702 kB
Estimated disk space required: 8 MB (includes installing documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/popt

Installation of Popt

Install popt by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue doxygen.

To test the results, issue:make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the API documentation, install it using the following commands issued by the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16 &&
install -v -m644 doxygen/html/* /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libpopt.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16

Short Descriptions

libpopt.so

is used to parse command-line options.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

Pth-2.0.7

Introduction to Pth

The Pth package contains a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading) inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/pth-2.0.7.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pth/pth-2.0.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9cb4a25331a4c4db866a31cbe507c793
Download size: 652 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pth

Installation of Pth

Caution

Don't add the --enable-pthread parameter to the configure command below else you will overwrite the pthread library and interface header installed by the Glibc package in LFS.

Install Pth by running the following commands:

sed -i 's#$(LOBJS): Makefile#$(LOBJS): pth_p.h Makefile#' Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --disable-static        \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7 &&
install -v -m644    README PORTING SUPPORT TESTS \
                    /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7

Command Explanations

sed -i 's#$(LOBJS) ...: This sed fixes a race condition in the Makefile. It allows you to run make with multiple jobs (e.g., make -j4) .

--disable-static: This option stops it compiling a static version of the library.

--mandir=/usr/share/man: This option puts the man pages in /usr/share/man and not /usr/man.

Installed Program: pth-config

Installed Library: libpth.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/pth-2.0.7

Short Descriptions

pth-config	is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the pth(3) library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the pth(3) library.
`libpth.so`	contains the API functions used by the GNU Portable Threads Library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Ptlib-2.10.10

Introduction to Ptlib

The Ptlib (Portable Tools Library) package contains a class library that has its genesis many years ago as PWLib (portable Windows Library), a method to produce applications to run on various platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.10/ptlib-2.10.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ptlib/2.10/ptlib-2.10.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1fd609e25f101393bb7e42fbf874c174
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 105 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/ptlib-2.10.10-bison_fixes-1.patch

Ptlib Dependencies

Optional

Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, Lua-5.3.1, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PulseAudio-6.0, SDL-1.2.15, unixODBC-2.3.2, v4l-utils-1.6.3, libdc1394, and libraw1394,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ptlib

Installation of Ptlib

Install Ptlib by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../ptlib-2.10.10-bison_fixes-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpt.so.2.10.10

Installed Program: ptlib-config

Installed Libraries: libpt.so and libpt_s.a

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ptclib, /usr/include/ptlib, /usr/lib/ptlib-2.10.10, and /usr/share/ptlib

Short Descriptions

ptlib-config	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use `libpt`.
`libpt.so`	contains the Ptlib API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Qca-2.1.0

Introduction to Qca

Qca aims to provide a straightforward and cross-platform crypto API, using Qt datatypes and conventions. Qca separates the API from the implementation, using plugins known as Providers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://delta.affinix.com/download/qca/2.0/qca-2.1.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c2b00c732036244701bae4853a2101cf
Download size: 956 KB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for the tests)

Qca Dependencies

Required

Certificate Authority Certificates, CMake-3.3.1, Qt-4.8.7 and Which-2.21

Optional

Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, GnuPG-2.1.7, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libgpg-error-1.20, NSS-3.20, NSPR-4.10.9, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, p11-kit-0.23.1, Qt-5.5.0, Doxygen-1.8.10, and Which-2.21

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qca

Installation of Qca

Install Qca by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$QT4DIR            \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                \
      -DQT4_BUILD=ON                            \
      -DQCA_MAN_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/usr/share/man \
      ..                                        &&

make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DQT4_BUILD=ON: This switch is used to force building with Qt4 even if Qt5 is found.

-DQCA_MAN_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/usr/share/man: Install the qca man page in the normal location.

Installed Programs: mozcerts and qcatool

Installed Libraries: libqca.so and plugins at $QT4DIR/lib/qca/crypto

Installed Directories: $QT4DIR/include/QtCrypto, $QT4DIR/lib/cmake/Qca and $QT4DIR/lib/qca

Short Descriptions

mozcerts	is a command line tool for converting certdata.txt into outfile.pem files.
qcatool	is a command line tool for performing various cryptographic operations with Qca.
`libqca.so`	is the Qt Cryptography Architecture (Qca) library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

QJson-0.8.1

Introduction to QJson

QJson is a Qt-based library that maps JSON data to QVariant objects and vice versa.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjson/qjson-0.8.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 323fbac54a5a20c0b8fe45c1ced03e2d
Download size: 64 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

QJson Dependencies

Required

Qt-4.8.7 and CMake-3.3.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qjson

Installation of QJson

Install QJson by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      .. &&
make

This package does not contain a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to build without debugging symbols and apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.

Installed Programs: none

Installed Library: libqjson.so

Installed Directory: $QT4DIR/include/json and $QT4DIR/lib/cmake/qjson

Short Descriptions

libqjson.so

contains QJson API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Talloc-2.1.3

Introduction to Talloc

Talloc provides a hierarchical, reference counted memory pool system with destructors. It is the core memory allocator used in Samba.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.samba.org/ftp/talloc/talloc-2.1.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3e285de2228ae67ff0a0f5cec658f627
Download size: 424 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.2 MB (with tests and both python modules)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests and both python modules)

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1 and libxslt-1.1.28 (To generate man pages), Python-2.7.10 (To build Python-2 module) and Python-3.4.3 (To build Python-3 module)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/talloc

Installation of Talloc

Install Talloc by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To check the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--extra-python=PYTHON: This switch enables building selected libraries for the specified additional version of Python (example: --extra-python=/usr/bin/python3).

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libpytalloc-util.cpython-34m.so, libpytalloc-util.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-34m.so (Python-3 Module)

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacemnt for the Glibc malloc function.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

wv-1.2.9

Introduction to wv

This package contains tools for reading information from an MS Word document.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.abisource.com/downloads/wv/1.2.9/wv-1.2.9.tar.gz
Download (FTP):
Download MD5 sum: dbccf2e9f747e50c913b7e3d126b73f7
Download size: 608 KB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

wv Dependencies

Required

libgsf-1.14.34 and libpng-1.6.18

Optional

libwmf

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wv

Installation of wv

Install wv by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: wvSummary and several other wv* programs which are deprecated in favour of abiword: see http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

Installed Library: libwv-1.2.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/wv

Short Descriptions

wvSummary	displays the summary information from an MS Word document.
`libwv-1.2.so`	provides functions to access MS Word documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xapian-1.2.21

Introduction to xapian

Xapian is an open source search engine library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.2.21/xapian-core-1.2.21.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 276497a458a8ae63e7dceb372cc1bc37
Download size: 3.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 158 MB (additional 151 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (additional 19 SBU for tests)

Xapian Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xapian

Installation of Xapian

Install Xapian by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static             \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xapian-core-1.2.21 &&
make

To run the test suite, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: copydatabase, delve, quest, simpleexpand, simpleindex, simplesearch, xapian-check, xapian-chert-update, xapian-compact, xapian-config, xapian-inspect, xapian-metadata, xapian-progsrv, xapian-replicate, xapian-replicate-server and xapian-tcpsrv

Installed Libraries: libxapian.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xapian, /usr/lib/cmake/xapian, and /usr/share/doc/xapian-core-1.2.21

Short Descriptions

copydatabase	perform a document-by-document copy of one or more Xapian databases.
delve	inspect the contents of a Xapian database.
quest	is a search command line tool.
simpleexpand	is a simple example program demonstrating query expansion.
simpleindex	index each paragraph of a text file as a Xapian document.
simplesearch	is a simple command line search utility.
xapian-check	check the consistency of a database or table.
xapian-chert-update	update a chert database to the new format keys.
xapian-compact	compact a database, or merge and compact several.
xapian-config	report information about the installed xapian.
xapian-inspect	inspect the contents of a flint table for development or debugging.
xapian-metadata	read and write user metadata.
xapian-progsrv	remote server for use with ProgClient.
xapian-replicate	replicate a database from a master server to a local copy.
xapian-replicate-server	service database replication requests from clients.
xapian-tcpsrv	is the TCP daemon for use with Xapian's remote backend.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

Depending on what your system will be used for, you may or may not require the graphics and font libraries. Most desktop machines will want them for use with graphical applications. Most servers on the other hand, will not require them.

AAlib-1.4rc5

Introduction to AAlib

AAlib is a library to render any graphic into ASCII Art.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/aa-project/aalib-1.4rc5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9801095c42bba12edebd1902bcf0a990
Download size: 388 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

AAlib Dependencies

Optional

X Window System, S-Lang-2.2.4, and GPM-1.20.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/aalib

Installation of AAlib

Fix a minor problem with the included m4 file:

sed -i -e '/AM_PATH_AALIB,/s/AM_PATH_AALIB/[&]/' aalib.m4

Install AAlib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr             \
            --infodir=/usr/share/info \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man   \
            --disable-static          &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: aafire, aainfo, aalib-config, aasavefont, and aatest

Installed Library: libaa.{so,a}

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

aafire	is little toy of AAlib, rendering an animated fire in ASCII Art.
aainfo	provides information for your current settings related to AAlib.
aalib-config	provides configuration info for AAlib.
aasavefont	saves a font to a file.
aatest	shows the abilities of AAlib in a little test.
`libaa.{so,a}`	is a collection of routines to render any graphical input in portable format to ASCII Art. It can be used through many programs and has a very well documented API, so you can easily put it into your own programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

babl-0.1.12

Introduction to Babl

The Babl package is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format translation library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.gimp.org/pub/babl/0.1/babl-0.1.12.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 50c8d12cdf5b3991590fa6cba16218a0
Download size: 628 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Babl Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/babl

Installation of Babl

Install Babl by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-docs &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/babl/graphics &&
install -v -m644 docs/*.{css,html} /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/babl &&
install -v -m644 docs/graphics/*.{html,png,svg} /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/babl/graphics

Command Explanations

--disable-docs: This switch disables BablFishPath.html and index.html generation. Remove it, if you want them.

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/babl/graphics: This and the subsequent commands install the library html documentation under /usr/share/gtk-doc/html where other gtk packages put the programmer-oriented documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libbabl.so and libraries in /usr/lib/babl-0.1

Installed Directories: /usr/include/babl-0.1, /usr/lib/babl-0.1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/babl

Short Descriptions

libbabl.so

contains functions to access BablFishes to convert between formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Exiv2-0.25

Introduction to Exiv2

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command line utility for managing image and video metadata.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.exiv2.org/exiv2-0.25.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 258d4831b30f75a01e0234065c6c2806
Download size: 5.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 46 MB
Estimated build time: 1 SBU

Exiv2 dependencies

Optional

libssh

Optional for documentation

Doxygen-1.8.10, Graphviz-2.38.0, Python-3.4.3, and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/exiv2

Installation of Exiv2

Install Exiv2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --enable-video    \
            --enable-webready \
            --without-ssh     \
            --disable-static  &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libexiv2.so

Command Explanations

--enable-video: This switch enables managing video metadata.

--enable-webready: This switch enables managing web image metadata.

--without-ssh: This switch is necessary when webready is enabled and libssh is not installed. Libssh is required for ssh.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--without-curl: This switch is necessary when webready is enabled and cURL-7.44.0 is not installed. Libcurl is required for http.

Installed Program: exiv2

Installed Library: libexiv2.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/exiv2

Short Descriptions

exiv2

is a utility used to dump Exif data.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

FreeType-2.6

Introduction to FreeType2

The FreeType2 package contains a library which allows applications to properly render TrueType fonts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5682890cb0267f6671dd3de6eabd3e69
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB (includes installing additional documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (includes installing additional documentation)

Additional Downloads

Additional Documentation

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-doc-2.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f456b7ead3c351c7c218bb3afd45803c
Download size: 468 KB

FreeType2 Dependencies

Installation of FreeType2

If you downloaded the additional documentation, unpack it into the source tree using the following command:

tar -xf ../freetype-doc-2.6.tar.bz2 --strip-components=2 -C docs

Install FreeType2 by running the following commands:

sed -i  -e "/AUX.*.gxvalid/s@^# @@" \
        -e "/AUX.*.otvalid/s@^# @@" \
        modules.cfg                        &&

sed -ri -e 's:.*(#.*SUBPIXEL.*) .*:\1:' \
        include/config/ftoption.h          &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/freetype-2.6 &&
cp -v -R docs/*     /usr/share/doc/freetype-2.6

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: First command enables GX/AAT and OpenType table validation and second command enables Subpixel Rendering and Subpixel Hinting in order to improve font rendering. Note that Subpixel Rendering may have patent issues. Be sure to read the 'Other patent issues' part of http://www.freetype.org/patents.html before enabling this option.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: freetype-config

Installed Library: libfreetype.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/freetype2 and /usr/share/doc/freetype-2.6

Short Descriptions

freetype-config	is used to get FreeType compilation and linking information.
`libfreetype.so`	contains functions for rendering various font types, such as TrueType and Type1.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Fontconfig-2.11.1

Introduction to Fontconfig

The Fontconfig package contains a library and support programs used for configuring and customizing font access.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.11.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 824d000eb737af6e16c826dd3b2d6c90
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Fontconfig Dependencies

Required

FreeType-2.6

Optional

DocBook-utils-0.6.14 and libxml2-2.9.2, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

Note

If you have DocBook Utils installed and you remove the --disable-docs parameter from the configure command below, you must have SGMLSpm-1.1 and texlive-20150521 installed also, or the Fontconfig build will fail.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Fontconfig

Installation of Fontconfig

Install Fontconfig by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-docs       \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.11.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you did not remove the --disable-docs parameter from the configure command, you can install the pre-generated documentation by using the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755 \
        /usr/share/{man/man{3,5},doc/fontconfig-2.11.1/fontconfig-devel} &&
install -v -m644 fc-*/*.1          /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.3           /usr/share/man/man3 &&
install -v -m644 doc/fonts-conf.5  /usr/share/man/man5 &&
install -v -m644 doc/fontconfig-devel/* \
        /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.11.1/fontconfig-devel &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.{pdf,sgml,txt,html} \
       /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.11.1

Command Explanations

--disable-docs: This switch avoids building the documentation (the release tarball includes pre-generated documentation).

Configuring Fontconfig

Config Files

/etc/fonts/*, /etc/fonts/conf.d/* and /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/*

Configuration Information

The main configuration file for Fontconfig is /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Generally you do not want to edit this file. It will also read /etc/fonts/local.conf and any files in /etc/fonts/conf.d. To put a new font directory in the configuration, create (or update) the /etc/fonts/local.conf file with your local information or add a new file in /etc/fonts/conf.d. The default location of fonts in Fontconfig is:

/usr/share/fonts
~/.fonts

Fontconfig also ships many example configuration files in the /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail directory. Symlinking specific files to /etc/fonts/conf.d will enable them. The default setup is generally good enough for most users. See /etc/fonts/conf.d/README for a description of the configuration files.

More information about configuring Fontconfig can be found in the user's manual in file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.11.1/fontconfig-user.html

Installed Programs: fc-cache, fc-cat, fc-list, fc-match, fc-pattern, fc-query, fc-scan and fc-validate

Installed Library: libfontconfig.so

Installed Directories: /etc/fonts, /usr/include/fontconfig, /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-2.11.1, /usr/share/fontconfig, /usr/share/xml/fontconfig and /var/cache/fontconfig

Short Descriptions

fc-cache	is used to create font information caches.
fc-cat	is used to read font information caches.
fc-list	is used to create font lists.
fc-match	is used to match available fonts, or find fonts that match a given pattern.
fc-pattern	is used to parse pattern (empty pattern by default) and show the parsed result.
fc-query	is used to query fonts files and print resulting patterns.
fc-scan	is used to scan font files and directories, and print resulting patterns.
fc-validate	is used to validate font files.
`libfontconfig.so`	contains functions used by the Fontconfig programs and also by other programs to configure or customize font access.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

FriBidi-0.19.7

Introduction to FriBidi

The FriBidi package is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (BIDI). This is useful for supporting Arabic and Hebrew alphabets in other packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fribidi.org/download/fribidi-0.19.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6c7e7cfdd39c908f7ac619351c1c5c23
Download size: 636 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)

FriBidi Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fribidi

Installation of FriBidi

Install FriBidi by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: fribidi

Installed Library: libfribidi.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/fribidi

Short Descriptions

fribidi	is a command-line interface to the `libfribidi` library and can be used to convert a logical string to visual output.
`libfribidi.so`	contains functions used to implement the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

gegl-0.2.0

Introduction to gegl

This package provides the GEneric Graphics Library, which is a graph based image processing format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.gimp.org/pub/gegl/0.2/gegl-0.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 32b00002f1f1e316115c4ed922e1dec8
Download size: 7.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 50 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/gegl-0.2.0-ffmpeg2-1.patch

gegl Dependencies

Required

babl-0.1.12

Optional

Cairo-1.14.2, Enscript-1.6.6, Exiv2-0.25, FFmpeg-2.7.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, Graphviz-2.38.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, librsvg-2.40.10, Lua-5.3.1, Pango-1.36.8, Python-2.7.10, Ruby-2.2.3, SDL-1.2.15, gobject-introspection-1.44.0, Vala-0.28.1, w3m-0.5.3, AsciiDoc, lensfun, libopenraw, libspiro, libumfpack, and OpenEXR

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gegl

Installation of gegl

Install gegl by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../gegl-0.2.0-ffmpeg2-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
LC_ALL=en_US make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 docs/*.{css,html} /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl &&
install -d -v -m755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl/images &&
install -v -m644 docs/images/* /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl/images

Command Explanations

install -v -m644/docs/*/{css,html} ...: This and the subsequent commands install all the provided documentation instead of only operations.html and the stylesheet gegl.css.

--without-vala: Do not create a vala API - use this if vapigen breaks the build.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

LC_ALL=en_US: In some locales with Ruby-2.2.3 installed, one build component fails and prevents completion of the procedure. Using this variable avoids the problem.

Installed Programs: gegl

Installed Libraries: libgegl-0.2.so and libraries in /usr/lib/gegl-0.2

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gegl-0.2

Short Descriptions

gegl	is a commandline tool for working with the XML data model.
`libgegl-0.2.so`	provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image editing on larger than RAM buffers.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

giflib-5.1.1

Introduction to giflib

The giflib package contains libraries for reading and writing GIFs as well as programs for converting and working with GIF files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/giflib/giflib-5.1.1.tar.bz2
Download (HTTP) MD5 sum: 1c39333192712788c6568c78a949f13e
Download (HTTP) size: 640 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB (with documentation; additional 0.4 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with documentation)

giflib Dependencies

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26 (for html documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/giflib

Installation of giflib

Install giflib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Test suite results are kept in test.sh.log.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If xmlto-0.0.26 is installed, then the API documentation has been built. If you wish to install the distributed and the just built documentations, issue, as the root user:

find doc \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 \
         -o -name \*.xml \) -exec rm -v {} \; &&

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/giflib-5.1.1 &&
cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/giflib-5.1.1

Command Explanations

find doc ... -exec rm -v {} \;: This command removes Makefiles, man and xml files from the documentation directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: gif2rgb, gifbuild, gifclrmp, gifecho, giffix, gifinto, giftext and giftool

Installed Library: libgif.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/giflib-5.1.1

Short Descriptions

gif2rgb	converts images saved as GIF to 24-bit RGB images.
gifbuild	dumps GIF data in a textual format, or undumps it to a GIF.
gifclrmp	modifies GIF image colormaps.
gifecho	generates a GIF from ASCII text.
giffix	clumsily attempts to fix truncated GIF images.
gifinto	is an end-of-pipe fitting for GIF-processing pipelines.
giftext	prints (text only) general information about a GIF file.
giftool	is a GIF transformation tool.
`libgif.so`	contains API functions required by the giflib programs and any other programs needing library functionality to read, write and manipulate GIF images.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

Graphite2-1.3.1

Introduction to Graphite2

Graphite2 is a rendering engine for graphite fonts. These are TrueType fonts with additional tables containing smart rendering information and were originally developed to support complex non-Roman writing systems. They may contain rules for e.g. ligatures, glyph substitution, kerning, justification - this can make them useful even on text written in Roman writing systems such as English. Note that firefox provides an internal copy of the graphite engine and cannot use a system version, but it too should benefit from the availability of graphite fonts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/silgraphite/graphite2-1.3.1.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 0c4b5b0ebd59ff36837029bb60efc5b1
Download size: 8.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 69 MB (with docs and tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with docs and tests)

Graphite2 Dependencies

Required

LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 and LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL3

Optional

FreeType-2.6, Python-2.7.10, and silgraphite to build the comparerender test and benchmarking tool, and if that is present, Harfbuzz-1.0.3 to add more functionality to it (this is a circular dependency, you would need to first build graphite2 without harfbuzz).

To build the documentation: AsciiDoc, Doxygen-1.8.10 and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

To execute the test suite you will need FontTools (Python 2 module), otherwise, some tests fail.

Optional (at runtime)

You will need at least one suitable graphite font for the package to be useful.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/graphite2

Installation of Graphite2

Install Graphite2 by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"         \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&

make

If you wish to build the documentation, issue:

make docs

To test the results, issue: make test. Some tests fail if FontTools (Python 2 module) is not installed.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the documentation, install, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/graphite2-1.3.1/api &&
cp      -v -r -f    doc/doxygen/{html,latex/refman.pdf} \
                    /usr/share/doc/graphite2-1.3.1/api &&
cp      -v -r -f    doc/{GTF,manual}.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/graphite2-1.3.1

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON: This switch turns on build verbose mode.

Installed Programs: gr2fonttest, and optionally comparerender

Installed Libraries: libgraphite2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share}/graphite2 and /usr/share/doc/graphite2-1.3.1

Short Descriptions

comparerender	is a test and benchmarking tool.
gr2fonttest	is a diagnostic console tool for graphite fonts.
`libgraphite2.so`	is a rendering engine for graphite fonts.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Harfbuzz-1.0.3

Introduction to Harfbuzz

The Harfbuzz package contains an OpenType text shaping engine.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-1.0.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bf459ed21c68d97fbb3313cbdee53268
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 34 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)

Harfbuzz Dependencies

Optional

Cairo-1.14.2, gobject-introspection-1.44.0, GTK-Doc-1.24, and Graphite2-1.3.1

Warning

Recommended dependencies are not strictly required to build the package. However, you might not get expected results at runtime if you don't install them. Please do not report bugs with this package if you have not installed the recommended dependencies.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/harfbuzz

Installation of Harfbuzz

Install Harfbuzz by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gobject &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-gobject: This switch enables building of the Harfbuzz GObject wrapper. Remove it if you did not install GLib.

--with-graphite2: This switch enables Graphite2 support.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: hb-ot-shape-closure, hb-shape, and hb-view (only if cairo is installed)

Installed Libraries: libharfbuzz.so, libharfbuzz-gobject.so and libharfbuzz-icu.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/gtk-doc/html}/harfbuzz

Short Descriptions

hb-ot-shape-closure	gives the set of characters contained in a string, represented as single characters and/or single character names. Example: hb-ot-shape-closure /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf "Hello World.".
hb-shape	is used for the conversion of text strings into positioned glyphs.
hb-view	may be used for a graphical view of a string shape, using a particular font, as a set of glyphs. Output format is automatically defined by the file extension, the supported ones being ansi/png/svg/pdf/ps/eps. Example: hb-view --output-file=hello.png /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf "Hello World.".
`libharfbuzz.so`	contains functions for complex text shaping.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

IJS-0.35

Introduction to IJS

The IJS package contains a library which implements a protocol for transmission of raster page images.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.openprinting.org/download/ijs/download/ijs-0.35.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 896fdcb7a01c586ba6eb81398ea3f6e9
Download size: 252 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ijs

Installation of IJS

Install IJS by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: ijs_client_example, ijs-config and ijs_server_example

Installed Library: libijs.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/ijs

Short Descriptions

ijs-config	is a program that is used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use IJS.
`libijs.so`	contains the IJS API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

JasPer-1.900.1

Introduction to JasPer

The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the JPEG-2000 codec.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/software/jasper-1.900.1.zip
Download MD5 sum: a342b2b4495b3e1394e161eb5d85d754
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 11.1 MB (without the static library)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/jasper-1.900.1-security_fixes-2.patch

JasPer Dependencies

Required

UnZip-6.0

Optional

Freeglut-3.0.0 (required for jiv)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/jasper

Installation of JasPer

Note

The package source is distributed in .zip format and requires unzip, but it has been correctly packaged and will create the jasper-1.900.1 directory when you unzip it.

patch -Np1 -i ../jasper-1.900.1-security_fixes-2.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --enable-shared  \
            --disable-static \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you wish to install the PDF files for the Reference Manual and a tutorial on the JPEG-2000 standard, run the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/jasper-1.900.1 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.pdf /usr/share/doc/jasper-1.900.1

Command Explanations

--enable-shared: This command causes the shared library to be built.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--x-includes=DIR --x-libraries=DIR: These tell the configure script where to find Xorg if it is not in /usr/X11, /usr/X11R6, or /usr.

Installed Programs: imgcmp, imginfo, jasper, jiv, and tmrdemo

Installed Library: libjasper.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/jasper and /usr/share/doc/jasper-1.900.1

Short Descriptions

imgcmp	compares two images of the same geometry.
imginfo	displays information about an image.
jasper	converts images between formats (BMP, JPS, JPC, JPG, PGX, PNM, MIF, and RAS).
jiv	displays images.
tmrdemo	is a timer demonstration program.
`libjasper.so`	a library used by programs for reading and writing JPEG2000 format files.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Little CMS-1.19

Introduction to Little CMS

The Little CMS library is used by other programs to provide color management facilities.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lcms/lcms-1.19.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8af94611baf20d9646c7c2c285859818
Download size: 927 KB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/lcms-1.19-cve_2013_4276-1.patch

Little CMS Dependencies

Optional

LibTIFF-4.0.5, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, and Python-2.7.10 (with SWIG-3.0.7 also)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lcms

Installation of Little CMS

Install Little CMS by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../lcms-1.19-cve_2013_4276-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static       &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/lcms-1.19 &&
install -v -m644    README.1ST doc/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/lcms-1.19

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-python: Use this parameter if Python and SWIG are installed.

Installed Programs: icc2ps, icclink, icctrans, wtpt and optionally, jpegicc, tiffdiff and tifficc

Installed Libraries: liblcms.so and the optional _lcms.so Python module

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/lcms-1.19

Short Descriptions

icc2ps	generates PostScript CRD or CSA from ICC profiles.
icclink	links two or more profiles into a single device link profile.
icctrans	is a color space conversion calculator.
jpegicc	is an ICC profile applier for JPEG files.
tifficc	is an ICC profile applier for TIFF files.
tiffdiff	A TIFF compare utility
wtpt	shows media white of profiles, identifying black body locus.
`liblcms.so`	is used by the lcms programs as well as other programs to provide color management facilities.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

Little CMS-2.7

Introduction to Little CMS2

The Little Color Management System is a small-footprint color management engine, with special focus on accuracy and performance. It uses the International Color Consortium standard (ICC), which is the modern standard for color management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lcms/lcms2-2.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 06c1626f625424a811fb4b5eb070839d
Download size: 6.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB (with the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with the tests)

Little CMS2 Dependencies

Optional

libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 and LibTIFF-4.0.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lcms2

Installation of Little CMS2

Install Little CMS2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: jpgicc, linkicc, psicc, tificc, and transicc

Installed Library: liblcms2.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

jpgicc	is the Little CMS ICC profile applier for JPEG.
linkicc	is the Little CMS ICC device link generator
psicc	is the Little CMS ICC PostScript generator.
tificc	is the Little CMS ICC tiff generator.
transicc	is the Little CMS ColorSpace conversion calculator.
`liblcms2.so`	contains functions implement the lcms2 API.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libexif-0.6.21

Introduction to libexif

The libexif package contains a library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data. Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. All EXIF tags described in EXIF standard 2.1 are supported.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libexif/libexif-0.6.21.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 27339b89850f28c8f1c237f233e05b27
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libexif Dependencies

Optional (to Build Documentation)

Doxygen-1.8.10 and Graphviz-2.38.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libexif

Installation of libexif

Install libexif by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-doc-dir=/usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.21 \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Documentation was built and installed if you have the dependencies shown above installed. If you don't have the dependencies installed, there is a compressed tarball in the source tree doc directory that can be unpacked into /usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.21.

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libexif.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libexif and /usr/share/doc/libexif-0.6.21

Short Descriptions

libexif.so

contains functions used for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1

Introduction to libjpeg-turbo

libjpeg-turbo is a fork of the original IJG libjpeg which uses SIMD to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression. libjpeg is a library that implements JPEG image encoding, decoding and transcoding.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b1f6b84859a16b8ebdcda951fa07c3f2
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with tests)

libjpeg-turbo Dependencies

Required

NASM-2.11.08 or yasm-1.3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libjpeg-turbo

Installation of libjpeg-turbo

Install libjpeg-turbo by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/^docdir/ s:$:/libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1:' Makefile.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --with-jpeg8            \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Note

If installing libjpeg-turbo over an older jpeg installation, not all library symbolic links are updated properly. To fix this before installation, run the following as the root user:

rm -f /usr/lib/libjpeg.so*

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i -e ... This command fixes Makefile.in to install documentation and examples in a version specific directory.

--with-jpeg8: This switch enables compatibility with libjpeg version 8.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: cjpeg, djpeg, jpegtran, rdjpgcom, tjbench, and wrjpgcom

Installed Libraries: libjpeg.so and libturbojpeg.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1

Short Descriptions

cjpeg	compresses image files to produce a JPEG/JFIF file on the standard output. Currently supported input file formats are: PPM (PBMPLUS color format), PGM (PBMPLUS gray-scale format), BMP, and Targa.
djpeg	decompresses image files from JPEG/JFIF format to either PPM (PBMPLUS color format), PGM (PBMPLUS gray-scale format), BMP, or Targa format.
jpegtran	is used for lossless transformation of JPEG files.
rdjpgcom	displays text comments from within a JPEG file.
tjbench	is used to benchmark the performance of libjpeg-turbo.
wrjpgcom	inserts text comments into a JPEG file.
`libjpeg.so`	contains functions used for reading and writing JPEG images.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libmng-2.0.3

Introduction to libmng

The libmng libraries are used by programs wanting to read and write Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) files which are the animation equivalents to PNG files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libmng/libmng-2.0.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e9e899adb1b681b17f14d91e261878c5
Download size: 932 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libmng Dependencies

Required

libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 and Little CMS-2.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libmng

Installation of libmng

Install libmng by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d        /usr/share/doc/libmng-2.0.3 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/libmng-2.0.3

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libmng.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libmng-2.0.3

Short Descriptions

libmng.so

provides functions for programs wishing to read and write MNG files which are animation files without the patent problems associated with certain other formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libpng-1.6.18

Introduction to libpng

The libpng package contains libraries used by other programs for reading and writing PNG files. The PNG format was designed as a replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many improvements and extensions and lack of patent problems.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.6.18.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6a57c8e0f5469b9c9949a4b43d57b3a1
Download size: 912 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (including tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional patch to include animated png functionality in libpng (required to use the system libpng in Firefox): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng-apng/libpng-1.6.18-apng.patch.gz

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libpng

Installation of libpng

If you want to patch libpng to support apng files, apply the patch:

gzip -cd ../libpng-1.6.18-apng.patch.gz | patch -p1

Install libpng by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mkdir -v /usr/share/doc/libpng-1.6.18 &&
cp -v README libpng-manual.txt /usr/share/doc/libpng-1.6.18

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: libpng-config (symlink), libpng16-config, pngfix and png-fix-itxt

Installed Libraries: libpng.so and libpng16.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libpng16 and /usr/share/doc/libpng-1.6.18

Short Descriptions

pngfix	tests, optimizes and optionally fixes the zlib header in PNG files. Optionally, when fixing, strips ancillary chunks from the file.
png-fix-itxt	fixes PNG files that have an incorrect length field in the iTXt chunks.
libpng-config	is a shell script that provides configuration information for applications wanting to use libpng.
`libpng.so`	contain routines used to create and manipulate PNG format graphics files.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libraw-0.17.0

Introduction to libraw

Libraw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.libraw.org/data/LibRaw-0.17.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f6d2b9dd22e63ac0f0bd3944489a81c6
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libraw Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libraw

Installation of libraw

Install libraw by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --enable-jpeg    \
            --enable-jasper  \
            --enable-lcms    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libraw-0.17.0 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-jpeg: This switch enables support for jpeg. Remove if you don't have libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 installed.

--enable-jasper: This switch enables support for jasper. Remove if you don't have JasPer-1.900.1 installed.

--enable-lcms: This switch enables support for Little CMS2. Remove if you don't have Little CMS-2.7 installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Note

All the installed programs are examples of libraw use.

Installed Programs: 4channels, dcraw_emu, dcraw_half, half_mt, mem_image, multirender_test, postprocessing_benchmark, raw-identify, simple_dcraw, and unprocessed_raw

Installed Library: libraw.so and libraw_r.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libraw and /usr/share/doc/libraw-0.17.0

Short Descriptions

4channels	generates four TIFF files from RAW data, one file per channel.
dcraw_half	emulates "dcraw -h" (see DCRAW manpage).
mem_image	emulates "dcraw [-4] [-6] [-e]" (see DCRAW manpage).
postprocessing_benchmark	creates eight different renderings from one source file. The first and fourth one should be identical.
simple_dcraw	emulates call to "dcraw [-D] [-T] [-v] [-e] [-4]" (see DCRAW manpage).
dcraw_emu	is an almost complete dcraw emulator (see DCRAW manpage).
half_mt	emulates call to "dcraw -h [-w] [-a] [-v]" (see DCRAW manpage).
multirender_test	creates eight different renderings from one source file. The first and fourth one should be identical.
raw-identify	emulates call to "dcraw -i [-v]" (see DCRAW manpage).
unprocessed_raw	generates unprocessed raw image: with masked pixels and without black subtraction.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

librsvg-2.40.10

Introduction to librsvg

The librsvg package contains a library and tools used to manipulate, convert and view Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-2.40.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-2.40.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fadebe2e799ab159169ee3198415ff85
Download size: 512 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

librsvg Dependencies

Required

gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, libcroco-0.6.8 and Pango-1.36.8

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/librsvg

Installation of librsvg

Install librsvg by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --enable-vala    \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-vala: This switch enables building of the Vala bindings. Remove this switch if you don't have Vala-0.28.1 installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-introspection: Use this switch if you have not installed Gobject Introspection.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: rsvg-convert and rsvg-view-3

Installed Library: librsvg-2.so and libpixbufloader-svg.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/librsvg-2.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rsvg-2.0

Short Descriptions

rsvg-convert	is used to convert images into PNG, PDF, PS, SVG and other formats.
rsvg-view-3	is a simple GTK+ 3 application that can be used to view an SVG file.
`librsvg-2.so`	provides the functions to render Scalable Vector Graphics.
`libpixbufloader-svg.so`	is the Gdk Pixbuf plugin that allows GTK+ applications to render Scalable Vector Graphics images.

Last updated on 2015-09-14 13:30:06 -0700

LibTIFF-4.0.5

Introduction to LibTIFF

The LibTIFF package contains the TIFF libraries and associated utilities. The libraries are used by many programs for reading and writing TIFF files and the utilities are used for general work with TIFF files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.5.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 523a76b4a3b24a0287dcfae82580ed2c
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 32 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)

LibTIFF Dependencies

Optional

Freeglut-3.0.0 (required for tiffgt), libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 and JBIG-KIT

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libtiff

Installation of LibTIFF

Install LibTIFF by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: bmp2tiff, fax2ps, fax2tiff, gif2tiff, pal2rgb, ppm2tiff, ras2tiff, raw2tiff, rgb2ycbcr, thumbnail, tiff2bw, tiff2pdf, tiff2ps, tiff2rgba, tiffcmp, tiffcp, tiffcrop, tiffdither, tiffdump, tiffgt, tiffinfo, tiffmedian, tiffset and tiffsplit

Installed Libraries: libtiff.so and libtiffxx.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/tiff-4.0.5

Short Descriptions

bmp2tiff	converts a Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap image file to a TIFF image.
fax2ps	converts a TIFF facsimile to compressed PostScript file.
fax2tiff	creates a TIFF Class F fax file from raw fax data.
gif2tiff	creates a TIFF file from a GIF87 format image file.
pal2rgb	converts a palette color TIFF image to a full color image.
ppm2tiff	creates a TIFF file from a PPM image file.
ras2tiff	creates a TIFF file from a Sun rasterfile.
raw2tiff	converts a raw byte sequence into TIFF.
rgb2ycbcr	converts non-YCbCr TIFF images to YCbCr TIFF images.
thumbnail	creates a TIFF file with thumbnail images.
tiff2bw	converts a color TIFF image to grayscale.
tiff2pdf	converts a TIFF image to a PDF document.
tiff2ps	converts a TIFF image to a PostScript file.
tiff2rgba	converts a wide variety of TIFF images into an RGBA TIFF image.
tiffcmp	compares two TIFF files.
tiffcp	copies (and possibly converts) a TIFF file.
tiffcrop	selects, copies, crops, converts, extracts and/or processes one or more TIFF files.
tiffdither	converts a grayscale image to bilevel using dithering.
tiffdump	prints verbatim information about TIFF files.
tiffgt	displays an image stored in a TIFF file.
tiffinfo	prints information about TIFF files.
tiffmedian	applies the median cut algorithm to data in a TIFF file.
tiffset	sets the value of a TIFF header to a specified value.
tiffsplit	splits a multi-image TIFF into single-image TIFF files.
`libtiff.so`	contains the API functions used by the libtiff programs as well as other programs to read and write TIFF files.
`libtiffxx.so`	contains the C++ API functions used by programs to read and write TIFF files.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libwebp-0.4.3

Introduction to libwebp

The libwebp package contains a library and support programs to encode and decode images in WebP format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-0.4.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 08813525eeeffe7e305b4cbfade8ae9b
Download size: 968 KB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libwebp Dependencies

Optional

Freeglut-3.0.0 and giflib-5.1.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libwebp

Installation of libwebp

Install libwebp by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: cwebp and dwebp

Installed Library: libwebp.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/webp

Short Descriptions

cwebp	compresses an image using the WebP format.
dwebp	decompresses WebP files into PNG, PAM, PPM or PGM images.
`libwebp.so`	contains the API functions for WebP encoding and decoding.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

newt-0.52.18

Introduction to newt

Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. It can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the S-Lang library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/e/newt/newt-0.52.18.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 685721bee1a318570704b19dcf31d268
Download size: 180 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Newt Dependencies

Required

popt-1.16 and S-Lang-2.2.4

Optional

Python-2.7.10 and Python-3.4.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/newt

Installation of newt

Install newt by running the following command:

sed -e 's/^LIBNEWT =/#&/' \
    -e '/install -m 644 $(LIBNEWT)/ s/^/#/' \
    -e 's/$(LIBNEWT)/$(LIBNEWTSONAME)/g' \
    -i Makefile.in                           &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gpm-support &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ... -i Makefile.in: Disables installation of an static library.

Installed Programs: whiptail

Installed Library: libnewt.so, whiptcl.so, and /usr/lib/python{2.7,3.4}/site-packages/_snack.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

whiptail	displays dialog boxes from shell scripts.
`libnewt.so`	is the library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

opencv-3.0.0

Introduction to opencv

The opencv package contains graphics libraries mainly aimed at real-time computer vision.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/3.0.0/opencv-3.0.0.zip
Download MD5 sum: 09004c275d8092cbdf5b61675cecd399
Download size: 96 MB
Estimated disk space required: 528 MB
Estimated build time: 5.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional file: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/3rdparty/ippicv/ippicv_linux_20141027.tgz

opencv Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and UnZip-6.0

Optional

apache-ant-1.9.6, Doxygen-1.8.10, Java-1.8.0.60, Python-3.4.3, Cuda, Eigen, OpenEXR, GCD, GDAL, GigEVisionSDK, JACK, libdc1394, libgphoto2, NumPy, OpenNI, PlanetUML, PvAPI, Threading Building Blocks (TBB), UniCap, VTK - The Visualization Toolkit, and XIMEA

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/opencv

Installation of opencv

If the optional Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) package has been downloaded, put it in place so the cmake script does not try to download it again:

ipp_file=../ippicv_linux_20141027.tgz             &&
ipp_hash=$(md5sum $ipp_file | cut -d" " -f1)      &&
ipp_dir=3rdparty/ippicv/downloads/linux-$ipp_hash &&

mkdir -p $ipp_dir &&
cp $ipp_file $ipp_dir

Install opencv by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DWITH_XINE=ON              \
      -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF           \
      -Wno-dev  ..
make

The package does not come with an operable test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DWITH_XINE=ON: This option instucts the make procedure to use xine-lib-1.2.6.

-DWITH_IPP=ON: This option instucts the make procedure to use the downloaded IPP package.

Installed Programs: opencv_annotation, opencv_createsamples, and opencv_traincascade

Installed Libraries: libopencv_calib3d.so, libopencv_core.so, libopencv_features2d.so, libopencv_flann.so, libopencv_highgui.so, libopencv_imgcodecs.so, libopencv_imgproc.so, libopencv_ml.so, libopencv_objdetect.so, libopencv_photo.so, libopencv_shape.so, libopencv_stitching.so, libopencv_superres.so, libopencv_video.so, libopencv_videoio.so, and libopencv_videostab.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/opencv and /usr/share/OpenCV

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

OpenJPEG-1.5.2

Introduction to OpenJPEG

OpenJPEG is an open-source implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard. OpenJPEG fully respects the JPEG-2000 specifications and can compress/decompress lossless 16-bit images.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openjpeg.mirror/openjpeg-1.5.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c41772c30fb1c272358b3707233134a1
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

OpenJPEG Dependencies

Optional

Little CMS-2.7, libpng-1.6.18, LibTIFF-4.0.5 and Doxygen-1.8.10 (to build the API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openjpeg

Installation of OpenJPEG

Install OpenJPEG by running the following commands:

autoreconf -f -i &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This prevents the static library from being built.

Installed Programs: image_to_j2k, j2k_dump and j2k_to_image

Installed Libraries: libopenjpeg.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/openjpeg-1.5 and /usr/share/doc/openjpeg-1.5

Short Descriptions

image_to_j2k	converts various image formats to the jpeg2000 format.
j2k_dump	reads in a jpeg2000 image and dumps the contents to stdout.
j2k_to_image	converts jpeg2000 images to other image types.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

OpenJPEG-2.1.0

Introduction to OpenJPEG

OpenJPEG is an open-source implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard. OpenJPEG fully respects the JPEG-2000 specifications and can compress/decompress lossless 16-bit images.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openjpeg.mirror/openjpeg-2.1.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f6419fcc233df84f9a81eb36633c6db6
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

OpenJPEG Dependencies

Required

Optional

Little CMS-2.7, libpng-1.6.18, LibTIFF-4.0.5, and Doxygen-1.8.10 (to build the API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openjpeg2

Installation of OpenJPEG

Install OpenJPEG by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

pushd ../doc &&
for man in man/man?/* ; do
    install -v -D -m 644 $man /usr/share/$man
done         &&
popd

Installed Programs: opj_compress, opj_decompress, and opj_dump

Installed Libraries: libopenjp2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/openjpeg-2.1 and /usr/lib/openjpeg-2.1

Short Descriptions

opj_compress	converts various image formats to the jpeg2000 format.
opj_decompress	converts jpeg2000 images to other image types.
opj_dump	reads in a jpeg2000 image and dumps the contents to stdout.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Pixman-0.32.6

Introduction to Pixman

The Pixman package contains a library that provides low-level pixel manipulation features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.32.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3a30859719a41bd0f5cccffbfefdd4c2
Download size: 800 KB
Estimated disk space required: 32 MB (additional 3 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (additional 0.8 SBU for tests)

Pixman Dependencies

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28 and libpng-1.6.18 (for tests and demos)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pixman

Installation of Pixman

Install Pixman by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libpixman-1.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/pixman-1

Short Descriptions

libpixman-1.so

contains functions that provide low-level pixel manipulation features.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Poppler-0.35.0

Introduction to Poppler

The Poppler package contains a PDF rendering library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files. This is useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.35.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 561ef4454bfabe59ef1b8b9cd4aa4c4b
Download size: 1.6 MB (additional 9 MB for the test suite)
Estimated disk space required: 64 MB (with Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, and tests)
Estimated build time: 1.5 SBU (with Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, and tests)

Additional Downloads

Poppler Encoding Data

Download (HTTP): http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 636a8f2b9f6df9e7ced8ec0946961eaf
Download size: 4.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

The additional package consists of encoding files for use with Poppler. The encoding files are optional and Poppler will automatically read them if they are present. When installed, they enable Poppler to render CJK and Cyrillic properly.

Poppler Dependencies

Required

Fontconfig-2.11.1

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, gobject-introspection-1.44.0, GTK-Doc-1.24, GTK+-2.24.28, Little CMS-1.19 or Little CMS-2.7, LibTIFF-4.0.5, OpenJPEG-2.1.0 (preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2), Qt-4.8.7 (the libpoppler-qt4.so library is needed for PDF support in Okular), and Qt-5.5.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/poppler

Installation of Poppler

In order to optionally run the test suite, an additional download using git-2.5.0 is necessary.

rm -rf testfiles &&
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test testfiles

Note

This package can be optionally built with support for only one version of Qt4 or Qt5. If you have only one, no modification is necessary. If both are installed, and you wish support for only one, before executing the configure command given below, use this command to select Qt4:

source /usr/bin/setqt4

or this to select Qt5:

source /usr/bin/setqt5

Install Poppler by running the following commands:

MOCQT4=$QT4DIR/bin/moc                  \
MOCQT5=$QT5DIR/bin/moc                  \
./configure --prefix=/usr               \
            --sysconfdir=/etc           \
            --disable-static            \
            --enable-build-type=release \
            --enable-cmyk               \
            --enable-xpdf-headers       \
            --with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &&
make

To test the results, issue: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

To install the documentation, run the following commands as root:

install -v -m755 -d        /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.35.0 &&
install -v -m644 README*   /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.35.0 &&
cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.35.0

Poppler Data

If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

tar -xf ../poppler-data-0.4.7.tar.gz &&
cd poppler-data-0.4.7

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr install

Command Explanations

MOCQT4=$QT4DIR/bin/moc and MOCQT5=$QT5DIR/bin/moc: These environment variables are necessary, for linking with the two Qt versions, if both are installed. If only one Qt version is installed or you wish to link to only one version, you can remove them, although this is not necessary.

--enable-build-type=release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations. Other options are: [relwithdebinfo/debug/debugfull/profile]

--enable-cmyk: Include support for CMYK rasterization.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-xpdf-headers: Install some old Xpdf headers required by certain programs (e.g. Okular, LibreOffice and Inkscape).

--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles: Tell the test programs where the auxillary files are located.

--enable-libcurl: Use libcurl for HTTP support.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check: Run the test suite. The environment variable LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is only needed if the default locale does not include UTF-8.

Installed Programs: pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo

Installed Libraries: libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so, libpoppler-glib.so, libpoppler-qt4.so, and libpoppler-qt5.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/{gtk-doc/html,}}/poppler and /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.35.0

Short Descriptions

pdfdetach	lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.
pdffonts	lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information for each font.
pdfimages	saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.
pdfinfo	prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a PDF file.
pdfseparate	extracts single pages from a PDF file.
pdftocairo	converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS, EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.
pdftohtml	converts a PDF file to HTML.
pdftoppm	converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.
pdftops	converts PDF files to Postscript format.
pdftotext	converts PDF files to plain text.
pdfunite	merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the command line, to one PDF output file.
poppler-glib-demo	is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and testing Poppler.
`libpoppler.so`	contains the API functions to render PDF files.
`libpoppler-cpp.so`	is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.
`libpoppler-glib.so`	is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with GTK+.
`libpoppler-qt4.so`	is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with Qt4.
`libpoppler-qt5.so`	is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with Qt5.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Qpdf-5.1.3

Introduction to Qpdf

The Qpdf package contains command-line programs and library that do structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qpdf/qpdf-5.1.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: aafbf3950230f84d7998b700b12428f4
Download size: 7.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 106 MB (running the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (running the tests)

Qpdf Dependencies

Required

PCRE-8.37

Optional

fop-2.0 and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qpdf

Installation of Qpdf

Install Qpdf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/qpdf-5.1.3 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: fix-qdf, qpdf, and zlib-flate

Installed Library: libqpdf.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/qpdf and /usr/share/doc/qpdf-5.1.3

Short Descriptions

fix-qdf	is used to repair PDF files in QDF form after editing.
qpdf	is used to convert one PDF file to another equivalent PDF file.
zlib-flate	is a raw zlib compression program.
`libqpdf.so`	contains the Qpdf API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

Chapter 11. General Utilities

This chapter contains various utilities that do not fit conveniently into other chapters. Programs include a command line calculator, several utilities for manipulating text and graphics, a program to interface with a palm-pilot, a program for entering PIN numbers and pass-phrases, and a hash generator.

chrpath-0.16

Introduction to chrpath

The chrpath modify the dynamic library load path (rpath and runpath) of compiled programs and libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/latestfile/813/chrpath-0.16.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2bf8d1d1ee345fc8a7915576f5649982
Download size: 132 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/chrpath

Installation of chrpath

Install chrpath by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16 install

Installed Program: chrpath

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/chrpath-0.16

Short Descriptions

chrpath

changes the rpath or runpath in ELF files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Compface-1.5.2

Introduction to Compface

Compface provides utilities and a library to convert from/to X-Face format, a 48x48 bitmap format used to carry thumbnails of email authors in a mail header.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux/compface-1.5.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 62f4f79c0861ad292ba3cf77b4c48319
Download size: 47 KB
Estimated disk space required: 520 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/compface

Installation of Compface

Install Compface by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -m755 -v xbm2xface.pl /usr/bin

Installed Programs: compface, uncompface and xbm2xface.pl

Installed Library: libcompface.{so,a}

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

compface	is a filter for generating highly compressed representations of 48x48x1 face image files.
uncompface	is an inverse filter which performs an inverse transformation with no loss of data.
xbm2xface.pl	is a script to generate xfaces.
`libcompface.{so,a}`	allows the compression and decompression algorithms to be used in other programs such as MTAs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

desktop-file-utils-0.22

Introduction to Desktop File Utils

The Desktop File Utils package contains command line utilities for working with Desktop entries. These utilities are used by Desktop Environments and other applications to manipulate the MIME-types application databases and help adhere to the Desktop Entry Specification.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/desktop-file-utils-0.22.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c6b9f9aac1ea143091178c23437e6cd0
Download size: 128 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Desktop File Utils Dependencies

Required

Optional

Emacs-24.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/desktop-file-utils

Installation of Desktop File Utils

Install Desktop File Utils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring Desktop File Utils

Configuration Information

The XDG Base Directory specification defines the standard locations for applications to place data and configuration files. These files can be used, for instance, to define the menu structure and menu items in a desktop environment.

The default location for configuration files to be installed is /etc/xdg, and the default locations for data files are /usr/local/share and /usr/share. These locations can be extended with the environment variables XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS, respectively. The GNOME, KDE and XFCE environments respect these settings.

When a package installs a .desktop file to a location in one of the base data directories, the database that maps MIME-types to available applications can be updated. For instance, the cache file at /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache can be rebuilt by executing the following command as the root user:

update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications

Installed Programs: desktop-file-edit, desktop-file-install, desktop-file-validate and update-desktop-database

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

desktop-file-edit	is used to modify an existing desktop file entry.
desktop-file-install	is used to install a new desktop file entry. It is also used to rebuild or modify the MIME-types application database.
desktop-file-validate	is used to verify the integrity of a desktop file.
update-desktop-database	is used to update the MIME-types application database.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Graphviz-2.38.0

Introduction to Graphviz

The Graphviz package contains graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Graphviz has several main graph layout programs. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/graphviz/graphviz-2.38.0.tar.gz/5b6a829b2ac94efcd5fa3c223ed6d3ae/graphviz-2.38.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5b6a829b2ac94efcd5fa3c223ed6d3ae
Download size: 25 MB
Estimated disk space required: 350 MB
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU

Graphviz Dependencies

Optional

DevIL, Electric Fence, libglade-2.6.4, libLASi, GD Library, glitz, ghostscript-9.16, GTK+-2.24.28 and Qt-4.8.7

Optional (To Build Language Bindings)

SWIG-3.0.7 (SWIG must be installed or no bindings will be built), Guile-2.0.11, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, Io, Lua-5.3.1, Mono, OCaml, PHP-5.6.13, Python-2.7.10, R, Ruby-2.2.3, Tcl-8.6.4 and Tk-8.6.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/graphviz

Installation of Graphviz

Install Graphviz by running the following commands:

sed "s:ruby-1.9:ruby-2.2:g" -i configure &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite that provides meaningful results.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If desired, create a symbolic link in the system documents directory to the documentation installed in /usr/share/graphviz/doc using the following command as the root user:

ln -v -s /usr/share/graphviz/doc \
         /usr/share/doc/graphviz-2.38.0

Command Explanations

sed "s:ruby-1.9:ruby-2.2:g" -i configure: Use this command, if ruby-2.2.0 is installed and you wish Graphviz built with support for it.

Configuring Graphviz

Config Files

/usr/lib/graphviz/config

Configuration Information

There are no specific configuration requirements for Graphviz. You may consider installing the additional plugins and tools available from the download page at http://www.graphviz.org/Download_source.php for additional capabilities. If additional plugins are installed, you can run dot -c (as the root user) to update the config file in /usr/lib/graphviz.

Installed Programs: acyclic, bcomps, ccomps, circo, cluster, diffimg, dijkstra, dot, dot2gxl, dot_builtins, dotty, edgepaint, fdp, gc, gml2gv, graphml2gv, gv2gml, gv2gxl, gvcolor, gvedit, gvgen, gvmap, gvmap.sh, gvpack, gvpr, gxl2dot, gxl2gv, lefty, lneato, mm2gv, neato, nop, osage, patchwork, prune, sccmap, sfdp, tred, twopi, unflatten, and vimdot

Installed Libraries: libcdt.so, libcgraph.so, libgvc.so, libgvpr.so, libpathplan.so, libxdot.so, and several plugins in /usr/lib/graphviz. There are also several in subdirectories of /usr/lib/{lua,perl5,php,python2.7,tcl8.6}. Unfortunately, some libraries are duplicated.

Installed Directories: /usr/include/graphviz, /usr/lib/graphviz, /usr/lib/tcl8.6/graphviz, /usr/share/doc/graphviz-2.38.0, and /usr/share/graphviz

Short Descriptions

acyclic	is a filter that takes a directed graph as input and outputs a copy of the graph with sufficient edges reversed to make the graph acyclic.
bcomps	decomposes graphs into their biconnected components, printing the components to standard output.
ccomps	decomposes graphs into their connected components, printing the components to standard output.
circo	draws graphs using a circular layout.
cluster	takes as input a graph in DOT format, finds node clusters and augments the graph with this information.
diffimg	(needs GD Library) generates an image where each pixel is the difference between the corresponding pixel in each of the two source images.
dijkstra	reads a stream of graphs and for each computes the distance of every node from sourcenode.
dot	draws directed graphs. It works well on DAGs and other graphs that can be drawn as hierarchies. It reads attributed graph files and writes drawings. By default, the output format dot is the input file with layout coordinates appended.
dot2gxl	converts between graphs represented in GXL and in the DOT language. Unless a conversion type is specified using a flag, gxl2dot will deduce the type of conversion from the suffix of the input file, a `.dot` suffix causing a conversion from DOT to GXL, and a `.gxl` suffix causing a conversion from GXL to DOT.
dotty	is a graph editor for the X Window System. It may be run as a standalone editor, or as a front end for applications that use graphs. It can control multiple windows viewing different graphs.
edgepaint	edge coloring to disambiguate crossing edges.
fdp	draws undirected graphs using a “spring” model. It relies on a force-directed approach in the spirit of Fruchterman and Reingold.
gc	is a graph analogue to wc in that it prints to standard output the number of nodes, edges, connected components or clusters contained in the input files. It also prints a total count for all graphs if more than one graph is given.
gml2gv	converts a graph specified in the GML format to a graph in the GV (formerly DOT) format.
graphml2gv	converts a graph specified in the GRAPHML format to a graph in the GV (formerly DOT) format.
gv2gml	converts a graph specified in the GV format to a graph in the GML format.
gv2gxl	converts a graph specified in the GV format to a graph in the GXL format.
gvcolor	is a filter that sets node colors from initial seed values. Colors flow along edges from tail to head, and are averaged (as HSB vectors) at nodes.
gvedit	provides a simple graph editor and viewer. It allows many graphs to be viewed at the same time. The text of each graph is displayed in its own text window.
gvgen	generates a variety of simple, regularly-structured abstract graphs.
gvmap	takes as input a graph in DOT format, finds node clusters and produces a rendering of the graph as a geographic-style map, with clusters highlighted, in xdot format.
gvmap.sh	is a pipeline for running gvmap.
gvpack	reads in a stream of graphs, combines the graphs into a single layout, and produces a single graph serving as the union of the input graphs.
gvpr	is a graph stream editor inspired by awk. It copies input graphs to its output, possibly transforming their structure and attributes, creating new graphs, or printing arbitrary information.
gxl2dot	converts between graphs represented in GXL and in the DOT language. Unless a conversion type is specified using a flag, gxl2dot will deduce the type of conversion from the suffix of the input file, a `.dot` suffix causing a conversion from DOT to GXL, and a `.gxl` suffix causing a conversion from GXL to DOT.
gxl2gv	converts between graphs represented in GXL and in the GV language.
lefty	is a two-view graphics editor for technical pictures.
lneato	is a graph editor for the X Window System. It may be run as a standalone editor, or as a front end for applications that use graphs. It can control multiple windows viewing different graphs.
mm2gv	converts a sparse matrix of the Matrix Market format to a graph in the GV (formerly DOT) format.
neato	draws undirected graphs using “spring” models. Input files must be formatted in the dot attributed graph language. By default, the output of neato is the input graph with layout coordinates appended.
nop	reads a stream of graphs and prints each in pretty-printed (canonical) format on stdout. If no files are given, it reads from stdin.
osage	draws clustered graphs. As input, it takes any graph in the DOT format.
patchwork	draws clustered graphs using a squarified treemap layout. As input, it takes any graph in the DOT format.
prune	reads directed graphs in the same format used by dot and removes subgraphs rooted at nodes specified on the command line via options.
sccmap	decomposes digraphs into strongly connected components and an auxiliary map of the relationship between components. In this map, each component is collapsed into a node. The resulting graphs are printed to stdout.
sfdp	draws undirected graphs using the “spring” model, but it uses a multi-scale approach to produce layouts of large graphs in a reasonably short time.
tred	computes the transitive reduction of directed graphs, and prints the resulting graphs to standard output. This removes edges implied by transitivity. Nodes and subgraphs are not otherwise affected.
twopi	draws graphs using a radial layout. Basically, one node is chosen as the center and put at the origin. The remaining nodes are placed on a sequence of concentric circles centered about the origin, each a fixed radial distance from the previous circle.
unflatten	is a preprocessor to dot that is used to improve the aspect ratio of graphs having many leaves or disconnected nodes. The usual layout for such a graph is generally very wide or tall.
vimdot	is a simple script which launches the gvim or vim editor along with a GUI window showing the dot output of the edited file.
`libcdt.so`	manages run-time dictionaries using standard container data types: unordered set/multiset, ordered set/multiset, list, stack, and queue.
`libcgraph.so`	supports graph programming by maintaining graphs in memory and reading and writing graph files. Graphs are composed of nodes, edges, and nested subgraphs.
`libgvc.so`	provides a context for applications wishing to manipulate and render graphs. It provides a command line parsing, common rendering code, and a plugin mechanism for renderers.
`libpathplan.so`	contains functions to find the shortest path between two points in a simple polygon.
`libxdot.so`	provides support for parsing and deparsing graphical operations specificed by the xdot language.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

GTK-Doc-1.24

Introduction to GTK-Doc

The GTK-Doc package contains a code documenter. This is useful for extracting specially formatted comments from the code to create API documentation. This package is optional; if it is not installed, packages will not build the documentation. This does not mean that you will not have any documentation. If GTK-Doc is not available, the install process will copy any pre-built documentation to your system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk-doc/1.24/gtk-doc-1.24.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk-doc/1.24/gtk-doc-1.24.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a8b96bacaba04e83531abf8e36d4e476
Download size: 656 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

GTK-Doc Dependencies

Required

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, Itstool-2.0.2 and libxslt-1.1.28

Optional

dblatex or fop-2.0 (XML PDF support), GLib-2.44.1 (for the test suite), GNOME Doc Utils and Which-2.21 (required for the test suite and gtk-doc documentation), OpenJade-1.3.2 with docbook-4.5 and docbook-dsssl-1.79 (SGML support, not actively maintained any more), Python-2.7.10 (builds gtkdoc-depscan), and Rarian-0.8.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtk-doc

Installation of GTK-Doc

Install GTK-Doc by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gtkdoc-check, gtkdoc-depscan, gtkdoc-fixxref, gtkdocize, gtkdoc-mkdb, gtkdoc-mkhtml, gtkdoc-mkman, gtkdoc-mkpdf, gtkdoc-mktmpl, gtkdoc-rebase, gtkdoc-scan, and gtkdoc-scangobj

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/{gtk-doc,help/*/gtk-doc-manual,sgml/gtk-doc}

Short Descriptions

gtkdoc*

these are all shell, Perl, or Python scripts used by package Makefile scripts to generate documentation for the package being built.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Hd2u-1.0.3

Introduction to Hd2u

The hd2u package contains an any to any text format converter.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://terminus.sk/~hany/_data/hd2u/hd2u-1.0.3.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 8f6668fafb279aa19f956ec0515717b6
Download size: 64 KB
Estimated disk space required: 380 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Hd2u Dependencies

Required

popt-1.16

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/hd2u

Installation of Hd2u

Install hd2u by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: dos2unix

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

dos2unix

converts text between various OS formats (such as converting from DOS format to Unix).

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

hicolor-icon-theme-0.15

Introduction to hicolor-icon-theme

The hicolor-icon-theme package contains a default fallback theme for implementations of the icon theme specification.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases/hicolor-icon-theme-0.15.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6aa2b3993a883d85017c7cc0cfc0fb73
Download size: 52 KB
Estimated disk space required: 320 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/hicolor-icon-theme

Installation of hicolor-icon-theme

Install hicolor-icon-theme by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Short Descriptions

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*

contains icon definitions used as defaults.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

icon-naming-utils-0.8.90

Introduction to icon-naming-utils

The icon-naming-utils package contains a Perl script used for maintaining backwards compatibility with current desktop icon themes, while migrating to the names specified in the Icon Naming Specification.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://tango.freedesktop.org/releases/icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: dd8108b56130b9eedc4042df634efa66
Download size: 57 KB
Estimated disk space required: 440 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

icon-naming-utils Dependencies

Required

XML::Simple-2.20

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icon-naming-utils

Installation of icon-naming-utils

Install icon-naming-utils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: icon-name-mapping

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/dtds and /usr/share/icon-naming-utils

Short Descriptions

icon-name-mapping

is a Perl script used for maintaining backwards compatibility with current desktop icon themes, while migrating to the names specified in the Icon Naming Specification.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

ImageMagick-6.9.2-0

Introduction to ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in various image formats. Image processing operations are available from the command line. Bindings for Perl and C++ are also available.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/releases/ImageMagick-6.9.2-0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 99471c8c3f38c9264faf5c4ca7a31287
Download size: 7.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 192 MB, with typical dependencies (227 MB with the test suite, reputedly 450 MB with all dependencies)
Estimated build time: 2.2 SBU - typical build (additional 3.4 SBU to run the test suite and 3.3 SBU to run the validation suite)

Note

The ImageMagick source releases are updated frequently and the version shown above may no longer be available from the download locations. You can download a more recent version and use the existing BLFS instructions to install it. Chances are that it will work just fine, but this has not been tested by the BLFS team. If the package version shown above is not available from the locations shown above, or from the legacy/ directory at ftp.ImageMagick.org/pub/ImageMagick you can download it from the BLFS package server at http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/i/ImageMagick-6.9.2-0.tar.xz.

ImageMagick Dependencies

The optional dependencies listed below should be installed if you need support for the specific format or the conversion tool the dependency provides. Many of the dependencies' capabilities and uses are described in the “MAGICK DELEGATES” section of the README.txt file located in the source tree. Additional information about the dependencies can be found in the Install-unix.txt file located in the source tree as well as issuing the ./configure --help command. A summary of this information, as well as some additional notes can be viewed on-line at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php.

Optional System Utilities

Cups-2.1.0, cURL-7.44.0, FFmpeg-2.7.2, p7zip-9.38.1 (LZMA), SANE-1.0.24, Wget-1.16.3, xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3, xterm-320, Dmalloc, Electric Fence, FFTW, PGP or GnuPG-2.1.7 (you'll have to do some hacking to use GnuPG), Profiles, and ufraw (for raw formats listed in www/formats.html)

Optional Graphics Libraries

JasPer-1.900.1, Little CMS-1.19 or Little CMS-2.7, libexif-0.6.21, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, librsvg-2.40.10, LibTIFF-4.0.5, libwebp-0.4.3, OpenJPEG-2.1.0, Pango-1.36.8, DjVuLibre, FlashPIX (libfpx), JBIG-KIT, libgxps, Liquid Rescale, OpenEXR, and RALCGM (or ralcgm)

Optional Graphics Utilities

ghostscript-9.16, Gimp-2.8.14, Graphviz-2.38.0, Inkscape-0.91, Blender, corefonts, DejaVu fonts, GhostPCL, Gnuplot, POV-Ray, and Radiance

Optional Conversion Tools

Enscript-1.6.6, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) AutoTrace, GeoExpress Command Line Utilities, AKA MrSID Utilities (binary package), hp2xx, html2ps, libwmf, UniConvertor, and Utah Raster Toolkit (or URT-3.1b)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/imagemagick

Installation of ImageMagick

Install ImageMagick by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --enable-hdri     \
            --with-modules    \
            --with-perl       \
            --disable-static  &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make DOCUMENTATION_PATH=/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.9.2 install

To test the installation, issue: make check. A more comprehensive test is the ImageMagick validation suite. If make check has not been executed, run make tests/validate to compile it. Issue tests/validate 2>&1 | tee validate.log to run the validation suite. The result summary may be obtained with grep "validation suite" validate.log. Note that the EPS, PS, and PDF tests require a working Ghostscript. One test needs “Helvetica” from “Ghostscript Standard Fonts”, which are optionally installed in ghostscript-9.16.

Command Explanations

--enable-hdri: Enables building of a high dynamic range version of ImageMagick.

--with-modules: Enables support for dynamically loadable modules.

--with-perl: Enables building and installing of PerlMagick.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-gslib: Enables support to use the Ghostscript shared library.

--with-rsvg: Enables support to use the librsvg library.

--with-autotrace: Enables support to use the Autotrace library.

--with-wmf: Enables support to use the libwmf library.

--with-gvc: Enables support to use GraphViz.

--with-windows-font-dir= <Some/Directory>: This option specifies the directory where the Windows CoreFonts are installed.

--with-dejavu-font-dir= <Some/Directory>: This option specifies the directory where the DejaVu fonts are installed.

The options and parameters listed above are the only ones you should have to pass to the configure script to activate all the delegate dependencies. All other dependencies will be automatically detected and utilized in the build if they are installed.

Installed Programs: animate, compare, composite, conjure, convert, display, identify, import, Magick-config, Magick++-config, MagickCore-config, MagickWand-config, mogrify, montage, stream, and Wand-config

Installed Libraries: libMagickCore-6.Q16HDRI.so, libMagickWand-6.Q16HDRI.so and libMagick++-6.Q16HDRI.so

Installed Directories: /etc/ImageMagick-6, /usr/include/ImageMagick-6, /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.2, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/<5.x.y>/<arch-linux>/{,auto}/Image/Magick, /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.9.2, and /usr/share/ImageMagick-6

Short Descriptions

animate	animates a sequence of images.
compare	compares an image to a reconstructed image.
composite	composites various images into the given base image.
conjure	processes a MSL script to create an image.
convert	converts image(s) from one format to another.
display	displays an image.
identify	describes the format and characteristics of an image file.
import	captures an X window.
Magick{,++,Core,Wand}-config	show information about the installed versions of the ImageMagick libraries.
mogrify	transforms an image.
montage	composites various images into a new image.
stream	streams one or more pixel components of an image or portion of the image to your choice of storage formats.
Wand-config	shows the options required to use the Wand library.
`Image::Magick`	allows the reading, manipulation and writing of a large number of image file formats using the ImageMagick library. Run make in the `PerlMagick/demo` directory of the package source tree after the package is installed to see a nice demo of the module's capabilities.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

ISO Codes-3.59

Introduction to ISO Codes

The ISO Codes package contains a list of country, language and currency names and it is used as a central database for accessing this data.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/downloads/iso-codes-3.59.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f16ea4bf101c226d6c8a253d39a9d23b
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 110 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/iso-codes

Installation of ISO Codes

Install ISO Codes by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/xml/iso-codes

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

lsof-4.89

Introduction to lsof

The lsof package is useful to LiSt Open Files for a given running application or process.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/lsof/lsof_4.89.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1b9cd34f3fb86856a125abbf2be3a386
Download size: 768 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lsof Dependencies

Required

libtirpc-0.3.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lsof

Installation of lsof

The contents of the lsof tarball include another tarball with the source code, which needs, in turn, to be unpacked. Install lsof by running the following commands:

tar -xf lsof_4.89_src.tar  &&
cd lsof_4.89_src           &&
./Configure -n linux       &&
make CFGL="-L./lib -ltirpc"

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m0755 -o root -g root lsof /usr/bin &&
install -v lsof.8 /usr/share/man/man8

Command Explanations

./Configure -n linux: Avoid AFS, customization, and inventory checks, and use the linux dialect.

make CFGL="-L./lib -ltirpc": Add the libtirpc libraries location to the make command.

Installed Program: lsof

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

lsof

lists open files for running processes.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

PIN-Entry-0.9.5

Introduction to PIN-Entry

The PIN-Entry package contains a collection of simple PIN or pass-phrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the Ägypten project. PIN-Entry programs are usually invoked by the gpg-agent daemon, but can be run from the command line as well. There are programs for various text-based and GUI environments, including interfaces designed for Ncurses (text-based), and for the common GTK and Qt toolkits.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/pinentry/pinentry-0.9.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 55439c4436b59573a29e144916ee5b61
Download size: 504 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.9 MB (with pinentry-qt4)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

PIN-Entry Dependencies

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28, libcap-2.24 with PAM, libsecret-0.18.3, and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pinentry

Installation of PIN-Entry

Install PIN-Entry by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-pinentry-qt4: Use this switch if you wish to install pinentry-qt4.

CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11: If using --enable-pinentry-qt4 switch, add to the ./configure ... command line, to fix a build problem with gcc-5.

MOC=$QT4DIR/bin/moc: If using --enable-pinentry-qt4 switch, add to the ./configure ... command line, to help Qt4 moc (Qt4 meta object compiler) detection.

Installed Programs: pinentry (symlink), pinentry-curses, pinentry-gnome3, pinentry-gtk-2, pinentry-qt4, and pinentry-tty

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

pinentry	is a symbolic link to the default PIN-Entry program.
pinentry-curses	is an Ncurses text-based PIN-Entry helper program.
pinentry-gnome3	is a GNOME-3 PIN-Entry helper program.
pinentry-gtk-2	is a GTK+2 PIN-Entry program program.
pinentry-qt4	is a Qt4 PIN-Entry helper program.
pinentry-tty	is a tty PIN-Entry helper program.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Rarian-0.8.1

Introduction to Rarian

The Rarian package is a documentation metadata library based on the proposed Freedesktop.org spec. Rarian is designed to be a replacement for ScrollKeeper.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 75091185e13da67a0ff4279de1757b94
Download size: 317 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Rarian Dependencies

Installation of Rarian

Install Rarian by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --localstatedir=/var &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: rarian-example, rarian-sk-config, rarian-sk-extract, rarian-sk-gen-uuid, rarian-sk-get-cl, rarian-sk-get-content-list, rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list, rarian-sk-get-scripts, rarian-sk-install, rarian-sk-migrate, rarian-sk-preinstall, rarian-sk-rebuild, and rarian-sk-update

Installed Library: librarian.{so,a}

Installed Directories: /usr/include/rarian, /usr/share/help, /usr/share/librarian/manual, /usr/share/librarian/Templates/C, and /var/lib/rarian

Short Descriptions

rarian-example	prints a nice list of all available documents found by the library.
rarian-sk-config	emulates scrollkeeper-config.
rarian-sk-extract	is a wrapper around xsltproc to mimic scrollkeeper-extract.
rarian-sk-gen-uuid	generates a unique (random) uuid.
rarian-sk-get-cl	gets a content list (category tree).
rarian-sk-get-content-list	is a simple wrapper to make calling scrollkeeper-get-cl easier.
rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list	is a simple wrapper to make calling scrollkeeper-get-cl (extended) easier.
rarian-sk-get-scripts	emulates scrollkeeper-get-index-from-index-from-docpath, scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-docpath, and scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-id.
rarian-sk-install	emulates scrollkeeper-install and scrollkeeper-uninstall.
rarian-sk-migrate	takes in a directory full of omf's, reads and parses them and spews out an equivalent scroll file.
rarian-sk-preinstall	creates the omf file by reading an existing omf file and replacing the url for a resource with the url.
rarian-sk-rebuild	is a simple wrapper script to emulate scrollkeeper-rebuilddb.
rarian-sk-update	is compatible with the scrollkeeper-update script that's required to be run when installing new omf files. It converts the omf files into new-style scrolls.
`librarian.{so,a}`	is the API to build a list of available meta data files and allows access to these.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Rep-gtk-0.90.8.2

Introduction to Rep-gtk

The rep-gtk package contains a Lisp and GTK binding. This is useful for extending GTK-2 and GDK libraries with Lisp. Starting at rep-gtk-0.15, the package contains the bindings to GTK and uses the same instructions. Both can be installed, if needed.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.tuxfamily.org/librep/rep-gtk/rep-gtk_0.90.8.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 11ac61d0ade068bcf34d355c5dc2d0b0
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Rep-gtk Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 and librep-0.92.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rep-gtk

Installation of Rep-gtk

Install rep-gtk by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: Lisp bindings

Installed Directory: /usr/include/rep-gtk and /usr/lib/rep/gui

Short Descriptions

Lisp bindings

are libraries stored in /usr/lib/rep/gui/ that assist communication between Lisp and the GTK libraries.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

Screen-4.3.1

Introduction to Screen

Screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate processes, typically interactive shells, on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions and also provides configurable input and output translation, serial port support, configurable logging, multi-user support, and many character encodings, including UTF-8. Screen sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different terminal.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-4.3.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-4.3.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5bb3b0ff2674e29378c31ad3411170ad
Download size: 828 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Screen Dependencies

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/screen

Installation of Screen

Install Screen by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
            --infodir=/usr/share/info         \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man           \
            --with-socket-dir=/run/screen     \
            --with-pty-group=5                \
            --with-sys-screenrc=/etc/screenrc &&

sed -i -e "s%/usr/local/etc/screenrc%/etc/screenrc%" {etc,doc}/* &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -m 644 etc/etcscreenrc /etc/screenrc

Command Explanations

--with-socket-dir=/run/screen: This option places the per-user sockets in a standard location.

--with-sys-screenrc=/etc/screenrc: This option places the global screenrc file in /etc.

--with-pty-group=5: This option sets the gid to the value used by LFS.

Note

Older versions of LFS use the value 4 for the tty group. If you are using LFS version 7.1 or older, change the pty-group option to 4.

sed -i -e "s%/usr/local/etc/screenrc%/etc/screenrc%" {etc,doc}/*: This command corrects the configuration and documentation files to the location that is used here for the global screenrc file.

Configuring Screen

Config Files

/etc/screenrc and ~/.screenrc

Configuration Information

You may want to look at the example configuration file that was installed and customize it for your needs.

Installed Program: screen (symlink) and screen-4.3.1

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/screen and /run/screen

Short Descriptions

screen

is a terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

shared-mime-info-1.4

Introduction to Shared Mime Info

The Shared Mime Info package contains a MIME database. This allows central updates of MIME information for all supporting applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-1.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 16c02f7b658fff2a9c207406d388ea31
Download size: 528 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Shared Mime Info Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and libxml2-2.9.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/shared-mime-info

Installation of Shared Mime Info

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install Shared Mime Info by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make -j1

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: update-mime-database

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/mime

Short Descriptions

update-mime-database

assists in adding MIME data to the database.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Sharutils-4.15.2

Introduction to Sharutils

The Sharutils package contains utilities that can create 'shell' archives.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.15.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.15.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5975ce21da36491d7aa6dc2b0d9788e0
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (with the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with the test suite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sharutils

Installation of Sharutils

Install Sharutils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: shar, unshar, uudecode and uuencode

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

shar	creates "shell archives" (or shar files) which are in text format and can be mailed.
unshar	unpacks a shar file.
uudecode	reads a file (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output. The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters.
uuencode	reads a file (or by default the standard input) and decodes the uuencoded version to the standard output.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

HTML Tidy-cvs_20101110

Introduction to HTML Tidy

The HTML Tidy package contains a command line tool and libraries used to read HTML, XHTML and XML files and write cleaned up markup. It detects and corrects many common coding errors and strives to produce visually equivalent markup that is both W3C compliant and compatible with most browsers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/t/tidy-cvs_20101110.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: dd1fe109b4259ad3f364b175787ad5e9
Download size: 807 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

HTML Tidy tarballs are no longer generated by the maintainers. To build from source, the HTML Tidy developers recommend using current CVS. The source tarball shown above was created by the BLFS team by pulling a CVS version, then generating the autotool components and documentation. BLFS made no changes to the existing source files.

HTML Tidy Dependencies

Optional

Dmalloc

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tidy

Installation of HTML Tidy

Install HTML Tidy by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m644 -D htmldoc/tidy.1 \
                    /usr/share/man/man1/tidy.1 &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/tidy-cvs_20101110 &&
install -v -m644    htmldoc/*.{html,gif,css} \
                    /usr/share/doc/tidy-cvs_20101110

If you wish to install the API documentation you must have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed, then change directories into the htmldoc of the source tree and issue the command doxygen. Then as the root user copy the api directory to /usr/share/doc/tidy-cvs_20101110.

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Configuring HTML Tidy

Config Files

The absolute path of the file specified in $HTML_TIDY.

Configuration Information

The default configuration options can be set in the file defined in $HTML_TIDY. Additional configuration options can be passed to tidy via command line parameters or the -config <file> parameter.

Installed Programs: tab2space and tidy

Installed Library: libtidy.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/tidy-cvs_20101110

Short Descriptions

tab2space	is a utility to expand tabs and ensure consistent line endings.
tidy	validates, corrects, and pretty-prints HTML files.
`libtidy.so`	library provides the HTML Tidy API functions to tidy and can also be called by other programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Time-1.7

Introduction to Time

The time utility is a program that measures many of the CPU resources, such as time and memory, that other programs use. The GNU version can format the output in arbitrary ways by using a printf-style format string to include various resource measurements.

Although the shell has a builtin command providing similar functionalities, this utility is reuired by the LSB.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/time/time-1.7.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/time/time-1.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e38d2b8b34b1ca259cf7b053caac32b3
Download size: 101 KB
Estimated disk space required: 640 KB
Estimated build time: Less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/time

Installation of Time

Install Time by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/$(ACLOCAL)//' Makefile.in                                            &&
sed -i 's/lu", ptok ((UL) resp->ru.ru_maxrss)/ld", resp->ru.ru_maxrss/' time.c &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info                            &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: time

Short Descriptions

time

reports various statistics about an executed command.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

tree-1.7.0

Introduction to tree

The tree application, as the name suggests, is useful to display, in a terminal, directory contents, including directories, files, links.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/src/tree-1.7.0.tgz
Download (FTP): ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/tree-1.7.0.tgz
Download MD5 sum: abe3e03e469c542d8e157cdd93f4d8a6
Download size: 48 KB
Estimated disk space required: 656 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tree

Installation of tree

Install tree by running the following commands:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make MANDIR=/usr/share/man/man1 install &&
chmod -v 644 /usr/share/man/man1/tree.1

Installed Program: tree

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

tree

displays a directory tree in a terminal.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

unixODBC-2.3.2

Introduction to unixODBC

The unixODBC package is an Open Source ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) sub-system and an ODBC SDK for Linux, Mac OSX, and UNIX. ODBC is an open specification for providing application developers with a predictable API with which to access data sources. Data sources include optional SQL Servers and any data source with an ODBC Driver. unixODBC contains the following components used to assist with the manipulation of ODBC data sources: a driver manager, an installer library and command line tool, command line tools to help install a driver and work with SQL, drivers and driver setup libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.unixodbc.org/unixODBC-2.3.2.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/unixODBC-2.3.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5e4528851eda5d3d4aed249b669bd05b
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

unixODBC Dependencies

Optional

Mini SQL and Pth-2.0.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/unixodbc

Installation of unixODBC

Install unixODBC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/unixODBC &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

find doc -name "Makefile*" -delete              &&
chmod 644 doc/{lst,ProgrammerManual/Tutorial}/* &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.2 &&
cp      -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.2

Command Explanations

--enable-drivers: This parameter enables building the drivers that were installed by default in previous versions.

--enable-drivers-conf: This parameter enables building the driver configuration libraries that were installed by default in previous versions.

Configuring unixODBC

Config Files

/etc/unixODBC/*

Configuration Information

The files in /etc/unixODBC are meant to be configured by the system administrator (or the ODBC site administrator if appropriate privileges are granted to /etc/unixODBC). These files are not meant to be directly edited. The ODBC installer library is responsible for reading and writing the unixODBC config files.

Unfortunately, there are no many man or any info pages for the various programs available in the unixODBC package. Along with the information in the “Short Descriptions” below and the documentation installed in /usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.2, there are many README files throughout the source tree where the use and functionality of the programs can be found. Additionally, you can use the parameter -? for syntax and usage information. Lastly, the unixODBC web site at http://www.unixodbc.org/ has very good information.

Installed Programs: dltest, isql, iusql, odbc_config, odbcinst, and slencheck

Installed Libraries: libodbc.so, libodbccr.so, and libodbcinst.so

Installed Directories: /etc/unixODBC and /usr/share/doc/unixODBC-2.3.2

Short Descriptions

dltest	is a utility used to check a share library to see if it can be loaded and if a given symbol exists in it.
isql	is a utility which can be used to submit SQL to a data source and to format/output results. It can be used in batch or interactive mode.
iusql	provides the same functionality as the isql program.
odbc_config	is used to find out details about the installation of the unixODBC package.
odbcinst	is a utility created for install script/RPM writers. It is a command line interface to key functionality in the `libodbcinst` library. It does not copy any files (i.e., libraries) but it will modify the ODBC System Information for the user.
slencheck	is a utility which attempts to check whether an ODBC driver was built with 32-bit or 64-bit SQLLEN types.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Chapter 12. System Utilities

This chapter contains mainly hardware utilities. It also contains some applications used by other applications in the book for installation or configuration purposes.

acpid-2.0.25

Introduction to acpid

The acpid (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon) is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the user.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/acpid2/acpid-2.0.25.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 69bb0cc4a0a89eb2dfecc4851087f568
Download size: 152 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/acpid

Installation of acpid

Install acpid by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/acpid-2.0.25 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /etc/acpi/events &&

cp -r samples /usr/share/doc/acpid-2.0.25

Configuring acpid

acpid is configured by user defined events. Place event files under /etc/acpi/events directory. If an event occurs, acpid recurses through the event files in order to see if the regex defined after "event" matches. If they do, action is executed.

The following brief example will suspend the system when the laptop lid is closed (it requires pm-utils-1.4.1):

cat > /etc/acpi/events/lid << "EOF"
event=button/lid
action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh
EOF

cat > /etc/acpi/lid.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
/bin/grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state && exit 0
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
EOF
chmod +x /etc/acpi/lid.sh

Unfortunately, not every computer labels ACPI events in the same way. To determine how your buttons are recognized, use the acpi_listen tool. Also, look in package documentation's samples directory for more examples.

Boot Script

To automatically start acpid when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/acpid boot script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-acpid

Installed Programs: acpid, acpi_listen, and kacpimon

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/acpi and /usr/share/doc/acpid-2.0.25

Short Descriptions

acpid	is a program that listens for ACPI events and executes the rules that match the received event.
acpi_listen	is a simple tool which connects to acpid and listens for events.
kacpimon	is a monitor program that connects to three sources of ACPI events (events file, netlink and input layer) and then reports on what it sees while it is connected.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

at-3.1.16

Introduction to at

The at package provide delayed job execution and batch processing. It is required for Linux Standards Base (LSB) conformance.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/at/at_3.1.16.orig.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/at/at_3.1.16.orig.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d05da75d9b75d93917ffb16ab48b1e19
Download size: 124 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

at Dependencies

Required

An MTA

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/at

Installation of at

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Before building at, as the root user you should create the group and user atd which will run the atd daemon. Also ensure the working directory for the daemon exists:

groupadd -g 17 atd                                                  &&
useradd -d /dev/null -c "atd daemon" -g atd -s /bin/false -u 17 atd &&
mkdir -p /var/spool/cron

Fix Makefile.in so that the documentation directory is installed in the specified docdir:

sed -i '/docdir/s/=.*/= @docdir@/' Makefile.in

Install at with the following commands:

./configure --with-daemon_username=atd        \
            --with-daemon_groupname=atd       \
            SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail       &&
make -j1

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install \
        docdir=/usr/share/doc/at-3.1.16 \
      atdocdir=/usr/share/doc/at-3.1.16

Configuring at

Config Files

/etc/at.allow and /etc/at.deny determines who can submit jobs via at or batch.

Boot Script

Install the /etc/init.d/atd init script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-atd

Installed Programs: at, atd, atq (symlink), atrm (symlink), atrun, and batch

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /var/spool/{atjobs,atspool} and /usr/share/doc/at-3.1.16

Short Descriptions

at	queues, examines or deletes jobs for later execution.
atd	is the daemon that runs jobs queued for later execution.
atq	lists the user's pending jobs, or all jobs, if superuser.
atrm	deletes jobs, identified by their job number.
atrun	runs jobs queued for later execution.
batch	is a script that executes commands when system load levels permit.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

autofs-5.1.1

Introduction to Autofs

Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are accessed and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/autofs-5.1.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/autofs-5.1.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 889c9d2f0e76f08ae0ff0d206f119098
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Autofs Dependencies

Optional

libtirpc-0.3.2, nfs-utils-1.3.2, libxml2-2.9.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenLDAP-2.4.42 (client only), and Cyrus SASL-2.1.26

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/autofs

Kernel Configuration

Verify that automounter kernel support has been enabled:

File systems --->
  <*/M> Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3) [CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS]

Optionally, enable the following options in the kernel configuration:

File systems  --->
  [*] Network File Systems  --->                                      [CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS]
    <*/M> NFS client support                                          [CONFIG_NFS_FS]
    <*/M> CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor) [CONFIG_CIFS]

Recompile and install the new kernel, if necessary.

Installation of Autofs

Install Autofs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/         \
            --without-openldap \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-libtirpc: This switch enables libtirpc support if available.

--without-openldap: This switch disables openldap if found. If openldap is desired, omit this switch. Note that openldap support in autofs requires MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2.

Configuring Autofs

Config Files

/etc/sysconfig/autofs.conf, /etc/auto.master, /etc/auto.misc, and /etc/auto.net

Configuration Information

The installation process creates auto.master, auto.misc, auto.smb, and auto.net. Replace the auto.master file with the following commands as the root user:

mv /etc/auto.master /etc/auto.master.bak &&
cat > /etc/auto.master << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/auto.master

/media/auto  /etc/auto.misc  --ghost
#/home        /etc/auto.home

# End /etc/auto.master
EOF

This file creates a new media directory, /media/auto that will overlay any existing directory of the same name. In this example, the file, /etc/auto.misc, has a line:

cd   -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom

that will mount a cdrom as /media/auto/cd if that directory is accessed. The --ghost option tells the automounter to create “ghost” versions (i.e. empty directories) of all the mount points listed in the configuration file regardless whether any of the file systems are actually mounted or not. This is very convenient and highly recommended, because it will show you the available auto-mountable file systems as existing directories, even when their file systems aren't currently mounted. Without the --ghost option, you'll have to remember the names of the directories. As soon as you try to access one of them, the directory will be created and the file system will be mounted. When the file system gets unmounted again, the directory is destroyed too, unless the --ghost option was given.

Note

An alternative method would be to specify another automount location such as /var/lib/auto/cdrom and create a symbolic link from /media/cdrom to the automount location.

The auto.misc file must be configured to your working hardware. The loaded configuration file should load your cdrom if /dev/cdrom is active or it can be edited to match your device setup. Examples for floppies are available in the file and easily activated. Documentation for this file is available using the man 5 autofs command.

In the second line, if enabled, a user's home directory would be mounted via NFS upon login. The /etc/home.auto would need to exist and have an entry similar to:

joe  example.org:/export/home/joe

where the directory /export/home/joe is exported via NFS from the system example.org. NFS shares are covered on the next page.

This package could also be used to mount SMB shares, however that feature is not configured in these instructions. For additional configuration information, see the man pages for auto.master(5). There are also web resources such as this AUTOFS HOWTO available.

Boot Script

autofs installs its own boot script, but it has no capability for logging or visual conformance with other BLFS scripts.

Install the /etc/init.d/autofs mount script included with the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-autofs

The time-out variable is set in /etc/sysconfig/autofs.conf. The installed file sets a default of 60 seconds of inactivity before unmounting the device. A much shorter time may be necessary to protect buffer writing to a floppy if users tend to remove the media prior to the timeout setting.

Installed Program: automount

Installed Libraries: lookup_dir.so, lookup_file.so, lookup_files.so, lookup_hosts.so, lookup_ldap.so, lookup_multi.so, lookup_nis.so, lookup_nisplus.so, lookup_program.so, lookup_userhome.so, lookup_yp.so, mount_afs.so, mount_autofs.so, mount_bind.so, mount_changer.so, mount_ext2.so, mount_ext3.so, mount_ext4.so, mount_generic.so, mount_nfs.so, mount_nfs4.so, parse_amd.so, and parse_sun.so

Installed Directories: /lib/autofs

Short Descriptions

automount

is the daemon that performs the mounting when a request is made for the device.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

BlueZ-5.34

Introduction to BlueZ

The BlueZ package contains the Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.34.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.34.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 68581ef1c5e3e5bcec9c57a2d3c57495
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 86 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (with tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional patch (required to work properly with gnome-bluetooth and/or kde bluedevil): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/bluez-5.34-obexd_without_systemd-1.patch

BlueZ Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0, GLib-2.44.1, and libical-1.0.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bluez

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

[*] Networking support --->                [CONFIG_NET]
  </M> Bluetooth subsystem support --->    [CONFIG_BT]
    <*/M> RFCOMM protocol support          [CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM]
    [*]   RFCOMM TTY support               [CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY]
    <*/M> BNEP protocol support            [CONFIG_BT_BNEP]
    [*]   Multicast filter support         [CONFIG_BT_BNEP_MC_FILTER]
    [*]   Protocol filter support          [CONFIG_BT_BNEP_PROTO_FILTER]
    <*/M> HIDP protocol support            [CONFIG_BT_HIDP]
        Bluetooth device drivers --->
          (Select the appropriate drivers for your Bluetooth hardware)

  <*/M> RF switch subsystem support --->   [CONFIG_RFKILL]

Installation of BlueZ

If you are going to use BlueZ with gnome-bluetooth and/or kde bluedevil, apply the following patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../bluez-5.34-obexd_without_systemd-1.patch

Install BlueZ by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --sysconfdir=/etc     \
            --localstatedir=/var  \
            --enable-library      \
            --disable-systemd     &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -svf ../libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd /usr/sbin

Install the main configuration file as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /etc/bluetooth &&
install -v -m644 src/main.conf /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

If desired, install the API documentation as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/bluez-5.34 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.txt /usr/share/doc/bluez-5.34

Command Explanations

--enable-library: This switch enables building of the BlueZ 4 compatibility library which is required by some applications.

--disable-systemd: This switch is needed because systemd is not part of LFS/BLFS. If you are using systemd, remove this switch.

ln -svf ../libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd /usr/sbin: This command makes access to the bluetooth daemon more convenient.

Configuring BlueZ

Configuration Files

/etc/bluetooth/main.conf is installed automatically during the install. Additionally, there are three supplementary configuration files. /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth is installed as a part of the boot script below. In addition, you optionally can install the following, as the root user:

cat > /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf << "EOF"
# rfcomm.conf
# Set up the RFCOMM configuration of the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel.
# Use one line per command
# See the rfcomm man page for options


# End of rfcomm.conf
EOF

cat > /etc/bluetooth/uart.conf << "EOF"
#uart.conf
# Attach serial devices via UART HCI to BlueZ stack
# Use one line per device
# See the hciattach man page for options

# End of uart.conf
EOF

Boot Script

To automatically start the bluetoothd daemon when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-bluetooth

Installed Programs: bccmd, bluemoon, bluetoothctl, bluetoothd (symlink), btmon, ciptool, hciattach, hciconfig, hcidump, hcitool, hex2hcd, l2ping, l2test, mpris-proxy, rctest, rfcomm, and sdptool

Installed Library: libbluetooth.so

Installed Directories: /{etc,usr/{include,libexec}}/bluetooth and /usr/share/doc/bluez-5.34

Short Descriptions

bccmd	is used to issue BlueCore commands to Cambridge Silicon Radio devices.
bluemoon	is a Bluemoon configuration utility.
bluetoothctl	is the interactive Bluetooth control program.
bluetoothd	is the Bluetooth daemon.
btmon	provides access to the Bluetooth subsystem monitor infrastructure for reading HCI traces.
ciptool	is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the CIP configuration of the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel.
hciattach	is used to attach a serial UART to the Bluetooth stack as HCI transport interface.
hciconfig	is used to configure Bluetooth devices.
hcidump	reads raw HCI data coming from and going to a Bluetooth device and prints to screen commands, events and data in a human-readable form.
hcitool	is used to configure Bluetooth connections and send some special command to Bluetooth devices.
hex2hcd	is used to convert a file needed by Broadcom devices to hcd (Broadcom bluetooth firmware) format.
l2ping	is used to send a L2CAP echo request to the Bluetooth MAC address given in dotted hex notation.
l2test	is L2CAP testing program.
rctest	is used to test RFCOMM communications on the Bluetooth stack.
rfcomm	is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the RFCOMM configuration of the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel.
sdptool	is used to perform SDP queries on Bluetooth devices.
`libbluetooth.so`	contains the BlueZ 4 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

Colord-1.2.12

Introduction to Colord

Colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles. It is used by GNOME Color Manager for system integration and use when there are no users logged in.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/colord-1.2.12.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 80b106ba18a43c7eeaf2d9a2b8c5725b
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 37 MB (without tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (without tests)

Colord Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0, GLib-2.44.1, Little CMS-2.7, and SQLite-3.8.11.1

Required (for the tests)

RRDtool (required to build the sensord program)

Optional

DocBook-utils-0.6.14, gnome-desktop-3.16.2 and colord-gtk (to build the example tools), GTK-Doc-1.24, libxslt-1.1.28, SANE-1.0.24, ArgllCMS, and Bash Completion,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/colord

Installation of Colord

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the colord daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 71 colord &&
useradd -c "Color Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/colord -u 71 \
        -g colord -s /bin/false colord

Install Colord by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                \
            --sysconfdir=/etc            \
            --localstatedir=/var         \
            --with-daemon-user=colord    \
            --enable-vala                \
            --enable-systemd-login=no    \
            --disable-argyllcms-sensor   \
            --disable-bash-completion    \
            --disable-static             \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

To test the results, issue: make -k check. For unknown reasons, some tests may fail. Note that the system-wide D-Bus daemon must be running or the tests will fail.

Command Explanations

--with-daemon-user=colord: This switch is used so the colord daemon will run as an unprivileged user instead of root user.

--enable-vala: This switch enables building of the Vala bindings. Remove if you don't have Vala-0.28.1 installed.

--enable-systemd-login=no: This parameter fixes building without systemd, which is not part of LFS/BLFS. If you use systemd, replace "no" by "yes".

--disable-argyllcms-sensor: Disables ArgllCMS sensor driver.

--disable-bash-completion: This switch disables Bash Completion support for Colord apps.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no: Disables attempting to build with systemd libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this switch if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to build and install the API documentation.

--disable-gusb: Use this switch if you don't have libgusb installed.

--disable-udev: Use this switch if you don't have GUdev installed.

--disable-polkit: Use this switch if you don't have Polkit installed.

Installed Programs: cd-create-profile, cd-fix-profile, cd-iccdump, cd-it8, and colormgr

Installed Libraries: libcolord.so, libcolordprivate.so, and libcolorhug.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/colord-1, /usr/lib/colord-{plugins,sensors}, /usr/share/color{,d}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/colord, and /var/lib/colord

Short Descriptions

cd-create-profile	is a Color Manager Profile Creation Tool.
cd-fix-profile	is a tool used to fix metadata in ICC profiles.
cd-iccdump	dumps the contents of an ICC profile as human readable text.
cd-it8	is a Color Manager Testing Tool.
colormgr	is a text-mode program that allows you to interact with colord on the command line.
`libcolord.so`	contains the Colord API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

cpio-2.11

Introduction to cpio

The cpio package contains tools for archiving.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.11.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 20fc912915c629e809f80b96b2e75d7d
Download size: 1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

CPIO Dependencies

Optional

texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cpio

Installation of cpio

Install cpio by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' gnu/stdio.in.h &&

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --bindir=/bin \
            --enable-mt   \
            --with-rmt=/usr/libexec/rmt &&
make &&
makeinfo --html            -o doc/html      doc/cpio.texi &&
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/cpio.html doc/cpio.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext       -o doc/cpio.txt  doc/cpio.texi

If you have texlive-20150521 installed and wish to create PDF or Postscript documentation, issue one or both of the following commands:

make -C doc pdf &&
make -C doc ps

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/cpio-2.11/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/cpio-2.11/html &&
install -v -m644    doc/cpio.{html,txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/cpio-2.11

If you built PDF or Postscript documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m644 doc/cpio.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                 /usr/share/doc/cpio-2.11

Command Explanations

sed -i -e '/gets is a/d' gnu/stdio.in.h &&: This fixes an incompatibility with glibc-2.16.0.

--bindir=/bin: This parameter installs cpio to /bin instead of /usr/bin as recommended by the FHS guidelines.

--enable-mt: This parameter forces the building and installation of the mt program.

--with-rmt=/usr/libexec/rmt: This parameter inhibits building the rmt program as it is already installed by the Tar package in LFS.

Installed Programs: cpio and mt

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/cpio-2.11

Short Descriptions

cpio	copies files to and from archives.
mt	controls magnetic tape drive operations.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

D-Bus-1.10.0

Introduction to D-Bus

D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as “new hardware device added” or “printer queue changed”) and a per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two applications to communicate directly (without going through the message bus daemon).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.10.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5af6297348107a906c8449817a728b3b
Download size: 2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB (additional 81 MB with doxygen and xml documents, without tests))
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (without tests)

D-Bus Dependencies

Optional

For the tests: dbus-glib-0.104, D-Bus Python-1.2.0, PyGObject-2.28.6, and Valgrind-3.10.1; for documentation: Doxygen-1.8.10, xmlto-0.0.26, Ducktype, and Yelp Tools

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dbus

Installation of D-Bus

If they do not already exist, as the root user, create a system user and group to handle the system message bus activity:

groupadd -g 18 messagebus &&
useradd -c "D-Bus Message Daemon User" -d /var/run/dbus \
        -u 18 -g messagebus -s /bin/false messagebus

Install D-Bus by running the following commands (you may wish to review the output from ./configure --help first and add any desired parameters to the configure command shown below):

./configure --prefix=/usr                  \
            --sysconfdir=/etc              \
            --localstatedir=/var           \
            --disable-doxygen-docs         \
            --disable-xml-docs             \
            --disable-static               \
            --disable-systemd              \
            --without-systemdsystemunitdir \
            --with-console-auth-dir=/run/console/ \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-1.10.0   &&
make

See below for test instructions.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you are using a DESTDIR install, dbus-daemon-launch-helper needs to be fixed afterwards. Issue, as root user:

chown -v root:messagebus /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper &&
chmod -v      4750       /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

If you are still building your system in chroot or you did not start the daemon yet, but you want to compile some packages that require D-Bus, generate D-Bus UUID to avoid warnings when compiling some packages with the following command as the root user:

dbus-uuidgen --ensure

The dbus tests cannot be run until after dbus-glib-0.104 has been installed. They must be run as an unprivileged user from a local session with bus address. Tests fail through ssh. If you want to run only the unit tests, replace, below, --enable-tests by --enable-embedded-tests, otherwise, D-Bus Python-1.2.0 has to be installed, before. The tests require passing additional parameters to configure and exposing additional functionality in the binaries. These interfaces are not intended to be used in a production build of D-Bus. If you would like to run the tests, issue the following commands (for the tests, you don't need to build the docs):

make distclean                     &&
./configure --enable-tests         \
            --enable-asserts       \
            --disable-doxygen-docs \
            --disable-xml-docs     &&
make                               &&
make check

If run-test.sh fails, it can be disabled with the following sed, before running the commands for the tests:

sed -i -e 's:run-test.sh:$(NULL):g' test/name-test/Makefile.in

There has been a report that the tests may fail if running inside a Midnight Commander shell. You may get out-of-memory error messages when running the tests. These are normal and can be safely ignored.

Command Explanations

--disable-doxygen-docs: This switch disables doxygen documentation build and install, if you have doxygen installed. Delete, if doxygen is installed and you wish to build and install them.

--disable-xml-docs: This switch disables html documentation build and install, if you have xmlto installed. Delete, if xmlto is installed and you wish to build and install them.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-systemd: This switch disables systemd support in D-Bus.

--without-systemdsystemunitdir: This switch prevents installation of systemd unit files.

--with-console-auth-dir=/run/console/: This parameter specifies location of the ConsoleKit auth dir.

--enable-tests: Build extra parts of the code to support all tests. Configure will end with a NOTE warning about increased size of libraries and decreased security.

--enable-embedded-tests: Build extra parts of the code to support only unit tests. Configure will end with a NOTE warning about increased size of libraries and decreased security.

--enable-asserts: Enable debugging code to run assertions for statements normally assumed to be true. This prevents a warning that '--enable-tests' on its own is only useful for profiling and might not give true results for all tests, but adds its own NOTE that this should not be used in a production build.

Configuring dbus

Config Files

/etc/dbus-1/session.conf, /etc/dbus-1/system.conf and /etc/dbus-1/system.d/*

Configuration Information

The configuration files listed above should probably not be modified. If changes are required, you should create /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf and/or /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf and make any desired changes to these files.

If any packages install a D-Bus .service file outside of the standard /usr/share/dbus-1/services directory, that directory should be added to the local session configuration. For instance, /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services can be added by performing the following commands as the root user:

cat > /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf << "EOF"
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>

  <!-- Search for .service files in /usr/local -->
  <servicedir>/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>

</busconfig>
EOF

Boot Script

To automatically start dbus-daemon when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbus bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-dbus

Note that this boot script only starts the system-wide D-Bus daemon. Each user requiring access to D-Bus services will also need to run a session daemon as well. There are many methods you can use to start a session daemon using the dbus-launch command. Review the dbus-launch man page for details about the available parameters and options. Here are some suggestions and examples:

Add dbus-launch to the line in the ~/.xinitrc file that starts your graphical desktop environment.
If you use xdm or some other display manager that calls the ~/.xsession file, you can add dbus-launch to the line in your ~/.xsession file that starts your graphical desktop environment. The syntax would be similar to the example in the ~/.xinitrc file.
The examples shown previously use dbus-launch to specify a program to be run. This has the benefit (when also using the --exit-with-session parameter) of stopping the session daemon when the specified program is stopped. You can also start the session daemon in your system or personal startup scripts by adding the following lines:
```
# Start the D-Bus session daemon
eval `dbus-launch`
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
```
This method will not stop the session daemon when you exit your shell, therefore you should add the following line to your ~/.bash_logout file:
```
# Kill the D-Bus session daemon
kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
```
A hint has been written that provides ways to start scripts using the KDM session manager of KDE. The concepts in this hint could possibly be used with other session managers as well. The hint is located at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/execute-session-scripts-using-kdm.txt.

Installed Programs: dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor, dbus-run-session, dbus-send, dbus-test-tool, dbus-update-activation-environment, and dbus-uuidgenn

Installed Library: libdbus-1.so

Installed Directories: /{etc,/usr/share}/dbus-1, /usr/{include,lib}/dbus-1.0, /usr/share/doc/dbus-1.10.0 and /var/{lib,run}/dbus

Short Descriptions

dbus-cleanup-sockets	is used to clean up leftover sockets in a directory.
dbus-daemon	is the D-Bus message bus daemon.
dbus-launch	is used to start dbus-daemon from a shell script. It would normally be called from a user's login scripts.
dbus-monitor	is used to monitor messages going through a D-Bus message bus.
dbus-run-session	start a process as a new D-Bus session.
dbus-send	is used to send a message to a D-Bus message bus.
dbus-test-tool	D-Bus traffic generator and test tool; it is a multi-purpose tool for debugging and profiling D-Bus.
dbus-update-activation-environment	update environment used for D-Bus session services; it updates the list of environment variables used by dbus-daemon --session when it activates session services without using systemd.
dbus-uuidgen	is used to generate a universally unique ID.
`libdbus-1.so`	contains the API functions used by the D-Bus message daemon. D-Bus is first a library that provides one-to-one communication between any two applications; dbus-daemon is an application that uses this library to implement a message bus daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Fcron-3.2.0

Introduction to Fcron

The Fcron package contains a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing Vixie Cron.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fcron.free.fr/archives/fcron-3.2.0.src.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4b031c2fba32a98fa814d1557158b0e9
Download size: 584 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Fcron Dependencies

Optional

An MTA, text editor (default is vi from the Vim-7.4 package), Linux-PAM-1.2.1, and DocBook-utils-0.6.14

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fcron

Installation of Fcron

Fcron uses the cron facility of syslog to log all messages. Since LFS does not set up this facility in /etc/syslog.conf, it needs to be done prior to installing Fcron. This command will append the necessary line to the current /etc/syslog.conf (perform as the root user):

cat >> /etc/syslog.conf << "EOF"
# Begin fcron addition to /etc/syslog.conf

cron.* -/var/log/cron.log

# End fcron addition
EOF

The configuration file has been modified, so reloading the sysklogd daemon will activate the changes (again as the root user).

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd reload

For security reasons, an unprivileged user and group for Fcron should be created (perform as the root user):

groupadd -g 22 fcron &&
useradd -d /dev/null -c "Fcron User" -g fcron -s /bin/false -u 22 fcron

Install Fcron by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --localstatedir=/var   \
            --without-sendmail     \
            --with-boot-install=no \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

DESTDIR install must be done as root user.

Command Explanations

--without-sendmail: By default, Fcron will attempt to use the sendmail command from an MTA package to email you the results of the fcron script. This switch is used to disable default email notification. Omit the switch to enable the default. Alternatively, you can use the --with-sendmail=</path/to/MTA command> to use a different mailer command.

--with-boot-install=no: This prevents installation of the bootscript included with the package.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no|yes|DIR: Use no, if you use sysvint; yes, if you use systemd, or specify the directory DIR for the systemd units.

--with-editor=</path/to/editor>: This switch allows you to set the default text editor.

--with-dsssl-dir=</path/to/dsssl-stylesheets>: May be used if you have DocBook-utils-0.6.14 installed. Currently, the dsssl stylesheets are located at /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79.

Configuring Fcron

Config Files

/etc/fcron.conf, /etc/fcron.allow, and /etc/fcron.deny

Configuration Information

There are no required changes in any of the config files. Configuration information can be found in the man page for fcron.conf.

fcron scripts are written using fcrontab. Refer to the fcrontab man page for proper parameters to address your situation.

If Linux-PAM is installed, two PAM configuration files are installed in /etc/pam.d. Alternatively if /etc/pam.d is not used, the installation will append two configuration sections to the existing /etc/pam.conf file. You should ensure the files match your preferences. Modify them as required to suit your needs.

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/fcron init script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-fcron

Installed Programs: fcron, fcrondyn, fcronsighup, and fcrontab

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/fcron-3.2.0 and /var/spool/fcron

Short Descriptions

fcron	is the scheduling daemon.
fcrondyn	is a user tool intended to interact with a running fcron daemon.
fcronsighup	instructs fcron to reread the Fcron tables.
fcrontab	is a program used to install, edit, list and remove the tables used by fcron.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

GPM-1.20.7

Introduction to GPM

The GPM (General Purpose Mouse daemon) package contains a mouse server for the console and xterm. It not only provides cut and paste support generally, but its library component is used by various software such as Links to provide mouse support to the application. It is useful on desktops, especially if following (Beyond) Linux From Scratch instructions; it's often much easier (and less error prone) to cut and paste between two console windows than to type everything by hand!

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/archives/gpm-1.20.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bf84143905a6a903dbd4d4b911a2a2b8
Download size: 820 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/GPM

Installation of GPM

Install GPM by running the following commands:

./autogen.sh                                &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install                                          &&

install-info --dir-file=/usr/share/info/dir           \
             /usr/share/info/gpm.info                 &&

ln -sfv libgpm.so.2.1.0 /usr/lib/libgpm.so            &&
install -v -m644 conf/gpm-root.conf /etc              &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gpm-1.20.7/support &&
install -v -m644    doc/support/*                     \
                    /usr/share/doc/gpm-1.20.7/support &&
install -v -m644    doc/{FAQ,HACK_GPM,README*}        \
                    /usr/share/doc/gpm-1.20.7

Command Explanations

./autogen.sh: This command creates the missing configure script.

install-info ...: This package installs an .info file, but does not update the system dir file. This command makes the update.

ln -v -sfn libgpm.so.2.1.0 /usr/lib/libgpm.so: This command is used to create (or update) the .so symlink to the library.

Configuring GPM

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-gpm

Config Files

/etc/gpm-root.conf and ~/.gpm-root: The default and individual user gpm-root configuration files.

/etc/sysconfig/mouse: This file contains the name of your mouse device and the protocol it uses. To create this file, run the following as the root user:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/mouse << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/mouse

MDEVICE="<yourdevice>"
PROTOCOL="<yourprotocol>"
GPMOPTS="<additional options>"

# End /etc/sysconfig/mouse
EOF

Configuration Information

Examples of values to set MDEVICE, PROTOCOL, and GPMOPTS to are:

MDEVICE="/dev/input/mice"
PROTOCOL="imps2"
GPMOPTS=""

A list of which protocol values are known can be found by running gpm -m [device] -t -help. The MDEVICE setting depends on which type of mouse you have. For example, /dev/ttyS0 for a serial mouse (on Windows this is COM1), /dev/input/mice is often used for USB mice and /dev/psaux for PS2 mice. GPMOPTS is the 'catch all' for any additional options that are needed for your hardware.

Installed Programs: disable-paste, display-buttons, display-coords, get-versions, gpm, gpm-root, hltest, mev, and mouse-test

Installed Library: libgpm.{so.a}

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/gpm-1.20.7

Short Descriptions

disable-paste	is a security mechanism used to disable the paste buffer.
display-buttons	is a simple program that reports the mouse buttons being pressed and released.
display-coords	is a simple program that reports the mouse coordinates.
get-versions	is used to report the GPM library and server versions.
gpm	is a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles.
gpm-root	is a default handler for gpm. It is used to draw menus on the root window.
hltest	is a simple sample application using the high-level library, meant to be read by programmers trying to use the high-level library.
mev	is a program to report mouse events.
mouse-test	is a tool for determining the mouse type and device it's attached to.
`libgpm.{so.a}`	contains the API functions to access the GPM daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Hdparm-9.48

Introduction to Hdparm

The Hdparm package contains a utility that is useful for controlling ATA/IDE controllers and hard drives both to increase performance and sometimes to increase stability.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Warning

As well as being useful, incorrect usage of Hdparm can destroy your information and in rare cases, drives. Use with caution and make sure you know what you are doing. If in doubt, it is recommended that you leave the default kernel parameters alone.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hdparm/hdparm-9.48.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 213efdbe7471fad3408198918e164354
Download size: 128 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/hdparm

Installation of Hdparm

Build Hdparm by running the following command:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

Note that by default, hdparm is installed in /sbin as some systems may require it during the boot process before /usr is mounted. If you wish to install hdparm under the /usr hierarchy, then replace the above command with the following:

make binprefix=/usr install

Installed Program: hdparm

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

hdparm

provides a command-line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Initd-tools-0.1.3

Introduction to initd-tools

The initd-tools package contains programs to install and remove LSB based bootscripts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/initd-tools/releases/initd-tools-0.1.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ab6377700ace81ec5a556ebdbae1d8d9
Download size: 291 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/initd_tools

Installation of initd-tools

Install initd-tools by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/ --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: install_initd and remove_initd

Installed Libraries:

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/lsb

Short Descriptions

install_initd	installs a boot script and the necessary symbolic links using LSB methodology.
remove_initd	removes a boot script and the necessary symbolic links using LSB methodology.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

lm_sensors-3.4.0

Introduction to lm_sensors

The lm_sensors package provides user-space support for the hardware monitoring drivers in the Linux kernel. This is useful for monitoring the temperature of the CPU and adjusting the performance of some hardware (such as cooling fans).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/lm_sensors/lm_sensors-3.4.0.tar.bz2/c03675ae9d43d60322110c679416901a/lm_sensors-3.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c03675ae9d43d60322110c679416901a
Download size: 172 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lm_sensors Dependencies

Required

Which-2.21

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lm_sensors

Kernel Configuration

Getting your kernel config right is an iterative process that may require that you recompile your kernel a couple of times. The simplest way to go about it is to start by enabling modules and then compile everything that may be needed by Lm Sensors as a module:

[*] Enable loadable module support  --->  [CONFIG_MODULES]

Bus options (PCI etc.)  --->
  [*] PCI support                         [CONFIG_PCI]

Device Drivers  --->
  I2C support --->
    <*/M> I2C device interface            [CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV]
    I2C Hardware Bus support  --->
      <M> (configure all of them as modules)
  <*/M> Hardware Monitoring support  ---> [CONFIG_HWMON]
    <M> (configure all of them as modules)

Recompile your kernel and reboot into the new kernel. Don't forget to make modules_install We will come back to the kernel in the Configuring section below.

Installation of lm_sensors

Install lm_sensors by running the following commands:

make PREFIX=/usr        \
     BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0 \
     MANDIR=/usr/share/man

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr        \
     BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0 \
     MANDIR=/usr/share/man install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-3.4.0 &&
cp -rv              README INSTALL doc/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-3.4.0

Command Explanations

BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0: This parameter disables compiling and installing the static version of libsensors.

PROG_EXTRA=sensord: This parameter enables compiling sensord, a daemon that can monitor your system at regular intervals. Compiling sensord requires RRDtool. Compiling RRDtool 1.4.6 requires a sed: sed -i '/ sv_undef/d' bindings/perl-shared/RRDs.xs.

Configuring Lm Sensors

Config File

/etc/sensors3.conf

Configuration Information

To find out what hardware sensors your system has, issue the following command as the root user:

sensors-detect

The appropriate modules should have been loaded and a summary is displayed at the end. Now you know what is needed and you can recompile your kernel to enable just the options you need (i.e., don't enable the modules you cannot use).

Installed Programs: fancontrol, isadump, isaset, pwmconfig, sensors, sensors-conf-convert, sensors-detect, and optionally, sensord

Installed Library: libsensors.so

Installed Directories: /etc/sensors.d, /usr/include/sensors and /usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-3.4.0

Short Descriptions

fancontrol	is a shell script for use with lm_sensors. It reads its configuration from a file, then calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs to the computed values.
isadump	is a small helper program to examine registers visible through the ISA bus. It is intended to probe any chip that lives on the ISA bus working with an address register and a data register (I2C-like access) or a flat range (of up to 256 bytes).
isaset	is a small helper program to set registers visible through the ISA bus.
pwmconfig	tests the pulse width modulation (PWM) outputs of sensors and configures fancontrol.
sensors	prints the current readings of all sensor chips.
sensors-conf-convert	is a Perl script to convert lm-sensors version 2 configuration files to work with version 3.
sensors-detect	is a Perl script that will walk you through the process of scanning your system for various hardware monitoring chips (sensors) supported by `libsensors`, or more generally by the lm_sensors tool suite.
sensord	(optional) is a daemon that can be used to periodically log sensor readings.
`libsensors.so`	contains the lm_sensors API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 08:27:00 -0700

Logrotate-3.9.1

Introduction to Logrotate

The logrotate package allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/logrotate/logrotate-3.9.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4492b145b6d542e4a2f41e77fa199ab0
Download size: 80 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Logrotate Dependencies

Required

popt-1.16

Optional

An MTA (runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/logrotate

Installation of Logrotate

Install logrotate by running the following command:

./autogen.sh &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring Logrotate

Logrotate needs a configuration file, which must be passed as an argument to the command when executed. Create the file as the root user:

cat > /etc/logrotate.conf << EOF
# Begin of /etc/logrotate.conf

# Rotate log files weekly
weekly

# Don't mail logs to anybody
nomail

# If the log file is empty, it will not be rotated
notifempty

# Number of backups that will be kept
# This will keep the 2 newest backups only
rotate 2

# Create new empty files after rotating old ones
# This will create empty log files, with owner
# set to root, group set to sys, and permissions 644
create 0664 root sys

# Compress the backups with gzip
compress

# No packages own lastlog or wtmp -- rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

/var/log/lastlog {
    monthly
    rotate 1
}

# Some packages drop log rotation info in this directory
# so we include any file in it.
include /etc/logrotate.d

# End of /etc/logrotate.conf
EOF

chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.conf

Now create the /etc/logrotate.d directory as the root user:

 mkdir -p /etc/logrotate.d

At this point additional log rotation commands can be entered, typically in the /etc/logrotate.d directory. For example:

cat > /etc/logrotate.d/sys.log << EOF
/var/log/sys.log {
   # If the log file is larger than 100kb, rotate it
   size   100k
   rotate 5
   weekly
   postrotate
      /bin/killall -HUP syslogd
   endscript
}
EOF

chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/sys.log

You can designate multiple files in one entry:

cat > /etc/logrotate.d/example.log << EOF
file1
file2
file3 {
   ...
   postrotate
    ...
   endscript
}
EOF

chmod -v 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/example.log

You can use in the same line the list of files: file1 file2 file3. See the logrotate man page or http://www.techrepublic.com/article/manage-linux-log-files-with-logrotate/ for more examples.

The command logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf can be run manually, however, the command should be run daily. Other useful commands are logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf for debugging purposes and logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf forcing the logrotate commands to be run immediately. Combining the previous options -df, you can debug the effect of the force command. When debugging, the command is only simulated, not really run, thus, eventual non-existing errors appear, when some intermediate files are expected, because they are not actually created.

To set up Fcron-3.2.0 to run logrotate ... at 3AM daily, root's crontab should be edited to add:

0 3 * * *   /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Installed Programs: logrotate

Installed Library: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

logrotate

performs the log maintenance functions defined in the configuration files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

MC-4.8.14

Introduction to MC

MC (Midnight Commander) is a text-mode full-screen file manager and visual shell. It provides a clear, user-friendly, and somewhat protected interface to a Unix system while making many frequent file operations more efficient and preserving the full power of the command prompt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.14.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/midnightcommander/mc-4.8.14.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fbdaddb9edcf8925dcf3231331a8720b
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 85 MB (additional 72 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for tests)

MC Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and PCRE-8.37

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, GPM-1.20.7, Samba-4.2.3, UnZip-6.0, X Window System, and Zip-3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/MC

Installation of MC

Install MC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --enable-charset &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
cp -v doc/keybind-migration.txt /usr/share/mc

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This switch places the global configureation directory in /etc.

--enable-charset: This switch adds support to mcedit for editing files in encodings different from the one implied by the current locale.

Configuring MC

Config Files

~/.config/mc/*

Configuration Information

The ~/.config/mc directory and its contents are created when you start mc for the first time. Then you can edit the main ~/.config/mc/ini configuration file manually or through the MC shell. Consult the mc(1) man page for details.

Note

On 8.x versions of mc, keybind names used in mc.keymap.* files are changed. This is described in keybind-migration.txt.

Installed Programs: mc and the symlinks mcdiff, mcedit and mcview

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/mc, /usr/libexec/mc, and /usr/share/mc

Short Descriptions

cons.saver	is used internally by mc for saving and restoring the text behind the panels on Linux text console.
mc	is a visual shell.
mcdiff	is an internal visual diff tool.
mcedit	is an internal file editor.
mcview	is an internal file viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

obex-data-server-0.4.6

Introduction to OBEX Data Server

OBEX Data Server package contains D-Bus service providing high-level OBEX client and server side functionality.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://tadas.dailyda.com/software/obex-data-server-0.4.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 961ca5db6fe9c97024e133cc6203cc4d
Download size: 196 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/obex-data-server-0.4.6-build-fixes-1.patch

OBEX Data Server Dependencies

Required

BlueZ-5.34, dbus-glib-0.104, ImageMagick-6.9.2-0 or gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, libusb-compat-0.1.5, and OpenOBEX-1.7.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/obex-data-server

Installation of OBEX Data Server

Install OBEX Data Server by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../obex-data-server-0.4.6-build-fixes-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: obex-data-server

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /etc/obex-data-server

Short Descriptions

obex-data-server

is a D-Bus service providing OBEX functionality.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

p7zip-9.38.1

Introduction to p7zip

p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with high compression ratios. It handles 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, TAR, APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/p7zip/p7zip/9.38.1/p7zip_9.38.1_src_all.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6cba8402ccab2370d3b70c5e28b3d651
Download size: 3.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 39 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

p7zip Dependencies

Optional

wxWidgets

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/p7zip

Installation of p7zip

Install p7zip by running the following commands:

sed -i -e 's/chmod 555/chmod 755/' -e 's/chmod 444/chmod 644/' install.sh &&
make all3

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make DEST_HOME=/usr \
     DEST_MAN=/usr/share/man \
     DEST_SHARE_DOC=/usr/share/doc/p7zip-9.38.1 install

Installed Programs: 7z, 7za, and 7zr

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/p7zip and /usr/share/doc/p7zip-9.38.1

Short Descriptions

7z	is a file archiver utility.
7za	is a stand-alone executable handling less archive formats than 7z.
7zr	is a minimal version of 7za that handles only 7z archives.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Pax-070715

Introduction to Pax

pax is an archiving utility created by POSIX and defined by the POSIX.1-2001 standard. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of UNIX, the IEEE designed a new archive utility. The name “pax” is an acronym for portable archive exchange. Furthermore, “pax” means “peace” in Latin, so its name implies that it shall create peace between the tar and cpio format supporters. The command invocation and command structure is somewhat a unification of both tar and cpio.

pax has been required to be present in LSB conformant systems since LSB version 3.0.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/heirloom/heirloom-070715.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d846be4b268b1d55b6ffcef847f09979
Download size: 977 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pax

Installation of Pax

This package has somewhat unusual installation instructions, because pax is part of a larger set of utilities included in the same tarball. Issue the following commands:

sed -i build/mk.config                   \
    -e '/LIBZ/s@ -Wl[^ ]*@@g'            \
    -e '/LIBBZ2/{s@^#@@;s@ -Wl[^ ]*@@g}' \
    -e '/BZLIB/s@0@1@'                   &&

make makefiles                           &&
make -C libcommon                        &&
make -C libuxre                          &&
make -C cpio

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m755 cpio/pax_su3 /usr/bin/pax &&
install -v -m644 cpio/pax.1 /usr/share/man/man1

Command Explanations

sed ...: This changes the configuration file build/mk.config so that the system zlib and libbz2 are used and linked as shared libraries.

make makefiles: This command builds all the makefiles.

make -C lib...: First builds the necessary libraries.

make -C cpio: Then builds the archive utilities.

Installed Program: pax.

Short Descriptions

pax

copies files to and from archives in several formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

pciutils-3.4.0

Introduction to PCI Utils

The PCI Utils package contains a set of programs for listing PCI devices, inspecting their status and setting their configuration registers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils-3.4.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/pciutils/pciutils-3.4.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 69c9edeb6761f2a822e4eb36187b75d6
Download size: 296 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pciutils

Installation of PCI Utils

Install PCI Utils by running the following commands:

make PREFIX=/usr              \
     SHAREDIR=/usr/share/misc \
     SHARED=yes

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr              \
     SHAREDIR=/usr/share/misc \
     SHARED=yes               \
     install install-lib      &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpci.so

Command Explanations

SHARED=yes: This parameter enables building of shared library instead of static one.

ZLIB=no: This option prevents compression of the pci.ids file.

Configuring PCI Utils

The pci.ids data file is constantly being updated. To get a current version of this file, run update-pciids as the root user. This program requires the Which-2.21 script or program to find cURL-7.44.0, Lynx-2.8.8rel.2 or Wget-1.16.3 which are used to download the most current file, and then replace the existing file in /usr/share/misc.

You may wish to add an entry to root's (or any other user who has write privilege to /usr/share/misc) crontab to automatically update the pci.ids file periodically.

Installed Programs: lspci, setpci and update-pciids

Installed Library: libpci.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/pci

Short Descriptions

lspci	is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them.
setpci	is a utility for querying and configuring PCI devices.
update-pciids	fetches the current version of the PCI ID list. Requires cURL-7.44.0, Lynx-2.8.8rel.2 or Wget-1.16.3.
`libpci.so`	is library that allows applications to access the PCI subsystem.

Last updated on 2015-09-17 20:16:09 -0700

pm-utils-1.4.1

Introduction to Power Management Utilities

The Power Management Utilities is a small collection of scripts to suspend and hibernate computer that can be used to run user supplied scripts on suspend and resume.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/releases/pm-utils-1.4.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1742a556089c36c3a89eb1b957da5a60
Download size: 204 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Power Management Utilities Dependencies

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26 (to generate man pages)

Optional (runtime)

Hdparm-9.48, Wireless Tools-29, ethtool, and vbetool

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pm-utils

Kernel Configuration

If needed, enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Power management and ACPI options --->
    <*> Suspend to RAM and standby            [CONFIG_SUSPEND]
    <*> Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk')   [CONFIG_HIBERNATION]

Suspend to RAM allows the system to enter sleep states in which main memory is powered and thus its contents are preserved. The method cuts power to most parts of the machine aside from the RAM. Because of the large power savings, it is advisable for laptops to automatically enter this mode when the computer is running on batteries and the lid is closed (or the user is inactive for some time).

Suspend to disk (Hibernation) saves the machine's state into swap space and completely powers off the machine. When the machine is powered on, the state is restored. Until then, there is zero power consumption. Suspend to RAM and hibernation are normally appropriate for portable devices such as laptops, but can be used on workstations. The capability is not really appropriate for servers.

To use hibernation, the kernel parameter resume=/dev/<swap_partition> has to be used on the kernel command line (in grub.cfg). The swap partition should be at least the size of the physical RAM on the system.

Installation of Power Management Utilities

Install Power Management Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pm-utils-1.4.1 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you don't have xmlto-0.0.26 installed, copy pregenerated man pages:

install -v -m644 man/*.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 man/*.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend.8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-hibernate.8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend-hybrid.8

Configuring Power Management Utilities

Suspend or resume functionality can be easily modified by installing files into the /etc/pm/sleep.d directory. These files, known as hooks, are run when the system is put into a sleep state or resumed. Default hooks are located in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d, and user hooks should be put in /etc/pm/sleep.d. See the pm-action(8) man page for more information.

In order to use hibernation with GRUB and a swap partition, you need to add kernel parameter resume=swap_partition (i.e. resume=/dev/sda1) to the kernel line in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file.

Installed Programs: on_ac_power, pm-hibernate, pm-is-supported, pm-powersave, pm-suspend and pm-suspend-hybrid

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/pm, /usr/lib/pm-utils and /usr/share/doc/pm-utils-1.4.1

Short Descriptions

on_ac_power	is a script that determines whether the system is running on AC power (rather than a battery).
pm-hibernate	is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into hibernate mode (the system is fully powered off and system state is saved to disk).
pm-is-supported	is a script that checks whether power management features such as suspend and hibernate are supported.
pm-powersave	is a script that puts the computer into powersaving (low power) mode.
pm-suspend	is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into suspend mode (most devices are shut down and system state is saved in RAM).
pm-suspend-hybrid	is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into hybrid-suspend mode (the system does everything it needs to hibernate, but suspends instead of shutting down).

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Raptor-2.0.15

Introduction to Raptor

Raptor is a C library that provides a set of parsers and serializers that generate Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.librdf.org/source/raptor2-2.0.15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a39f6c07ddb20d7dd2ff1f95fa21e2cd
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.5 SBU for the tests)

Raptor Dependencies

Required

cURL-7.44.0 and libxslt-1.1.28

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, ICU-55.1 and libyajl

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/raptor

Installation of Raptor

Install Raptor by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-icu-config=/usr/bin/icu-config: Use this switch if you have installed ICU-55.1 and wish to build Raptor with its support.

Installed Programs: rapper

Installed Libraries: libraptor2.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/raptor2 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/raptor2

Short Descriptions

rapper	is a RDF parsing and serializing utility.
`libraptor2.so`	contains the Raptor API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Rasqal-0.9.33

Introduction to Rasqal

Rasqal is a C library that handles Resource Description Framework (RDF) query language syntaxes, query construction and execution of queries returning results as bindings, boolean, RDF graphs/triples or syntaxes. It is required by Soprano to build Nepomuk.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.librdf.org/source/rasqal-0.9.33.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1f5def51ca0026cd192958ef07228b52
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (additional 4 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.7 SBU for the tests)

Rasqal Dependencies

Required

Raptor-2.0.15

Optional

PCRE-8.37 and libgcrypt-1.6.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rasqal

Installation of Rasqal

Install Rasqal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: rasqal-config and roqet

Installed Library: librasqal.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/rasqal and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rasqal

Short Descriptions

rasqal-config	is a utility for retrieving the installation options of Rasqal.
roqet	is an RDF query utility.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Redland-1.0.17

Introduction to Redland

Redland is a set of free software C libraries that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.librdf.org/source/redland-1.0.17.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e5be03eda13ef68aabab6e42aa67715e
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Redland Dependencies

Required

Rasqal-0.9.33

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, libiodbc-3.52.10, SQLite-3.8.11.1, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, virtuoso, and 3store

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/redland

Installation of Redland

Install Redland by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: rdfproc, redland-config and redland-db-upgrade

Installed Libraries: librdf.so and /usr/lib/redland/librdf_storage_*.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/redland, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/redland and /usr/share/redland

Short Descriptions

rdfproc	is the Redland RDF processor utility.
redland-config	is a script to get information about the installed version of Redland.
redland-db-upgrade	upgrades older Redland databases to 0.9.12 format.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

sg3_utils-1.41

Introduction to sg3_utils

The sg3_utils package contains low level utilities for devices that use a SCSI command set. Apart from SCSI parallel interface (SPI) devices, the SCSI command set is used by ATAPI devices (CD/DVDs and tapes), USB mass storage devices, Fibre Channel disks, IEEE 1394 storage devices (that use the "SBP" protocol), SAS, iSCSI and FCoE devices (amongst others).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-1.41.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 79c8e3c0b2e4bad7dcba3e1ab090f3b4
Download size: 736 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sg3_utils

Installation of sg3_utils

Install sg3_utils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: scsi_logging_level, scsi_mandat, scsi_readcap, scsi_ready, scsi_satl, scsi_start, scsi_stop, scsi_temperature, sg_compare_and_write, sg_copy_results, sg_dd, sg_decode_sense, sg_emc_trespass, sg_format, sg_get_config, sg_get_lba_status, sg_ident, sg_inq, sg_logs, sg_luns, sg_map, sg_map26, sg_modes, sg_opcodes, sg_persist, sg_prevent, sg_raw, sg_rbuf, sg_rdac, sg_read, sg_read_block_limits, sg_read_buffer, sg_read_long, sg_readcap, sg_reassign, sg_referrals, sg_rep_zones, sg_requests, sg_reset, sg_reset_wp, sg_rmsn, sg_rtpg, sg_safte, sg_sanitize, sg_sat_identify, sg_sat_phy_event, sg_sat_read_gplog, sg_sat_set_features, sg_scan, sg_senddiag, sg_ses, sg_ses_microcode, sg_start, sg_stpg, sg_sync, sg_test_rwbuf, sg_turs, sg_unmap, sg_verify, sg_vpd, sg_wr_mode, sg_write_buffer, sg_write_long, sg_write_same, sg_write_verify, sg_xcopy, sginfo, sgm_dd, and sgp_dd

Installed Library: libsgutils2.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

scsi_logging_level	access Linux SCSI logging level information.
scsi_mandat	check SCSI device support for mandatory commands.
scsi_readcap	do SCSI READ CAPACITY command on disks.
scsi_ready	do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices.
scsi_satl	check SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) device support.
scsi_start	start one or more SCSI disks.
scsi_stop	stop one or more SCSI disks.
scsi_temperature	fetch the temperature of a SCSI device.
sg_compare_and_write	sends the SCSI COMPARE AND WRITE command to device.
sg_copy_results	sends the SCSI RECEIVE COPY RESULTS command (XCOPY related).
sg_dd	copies data to and from files and devices. Specialised for devices that understand the SCSI command set.
sg_decode_sense	takes SCSI sense data in binary or as a sequence of ASCII hexadecimal bytes and decodes it.
sg_emc_trespass	changes ownership of a LUN from another Service-Processor to this one.
sg_format	format or resize a SCSI disk (perhaps change its block size).
sg_get_config	sends a SCSI GET CONFIGURATION command (MMC-4 +).
sg_get_lba_status	sends the SCSI GET LBA STATUS command.
sg_ident	sends a SCSI REPORT or SET IDENTIFYING INFORMATION command.
sginfo	access mode page information for a SCSI (or ATAPI) device.
sg_inq	sends a SCSI INQUIRY or ATA IDENTIFY (PACKET) DEVICE command and outputs the response.
sg_logs	access log pages with SCSI LOG SENSE command.
sg_luns	sends the SCSI REPORT LUNS command.
sg_map	displays mapping between linux sg and other SCSI devices.
sg_map26	maps a special file to a SCSI generic (sg) device (or vice versa).
sgm_dd	copies data to and from files and devices. Specialized for devices that understand the SCSI command set and does memory mapped transfers from sg devices.
sg_modes	reads mode pages with SCSI MODE SENSE command.
sg_opcodes	reports information on supported SCSI commands or task management functions.
sgp_dd	copies data to and from files and devices. Specialized for devices that understand the SCSI command set.
sg_persist	sends a SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVE (IN or OUT) command to manipulate registrations and reservations.
sg_prevent	sends a SCSI PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL command.
sg_raw	sends an arbitrary SCSI command to a device.
sg_rbuf	reads data using SCSI READ BUFFER command.
sg_rdac	Display or Modify RDAC Redundant Controller Page.
sg_read	read blocks of data continually from same offset.
sg_read_block_limits	sends a SCSI READ BLOCK LIMITS command.
sg_read_buffer	sends a SCSI READ BUFFER command.
sg_readcap	sends a SCSI READ CAPACITY command.
sg_read_long	sends a SCSI READ LONG command.
sg_reassign	sends a SCSI REASSIGN BLOCKS command.
sg_referrals	sends the SCSI REPORT REFERRALS command.
sg_rep_zones	sends SCSI REPORT ZONES command.
sg_requests	sends one or more SCSI REQUEST SENSE commands.
sg_reset	sends SCSI device, target, bus or host reset; or checks reset state.
sg_reset_wp	sends SCSI RESET WRITE POINTER command.
sg_rmsn	sends a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command.
sg_rtpg	sends a SCSI REPORT TARGET PORT GROUPS command.
sg_safte	fetch status from a SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure (SAF-TE) device.
sg_sanitize	sends a SCSI SANITIZE command.
sg_sat_identify	sends a ATA IDENTIFY (PACKET) DEVICE command via a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer.
sg_sat_phy_event	sends an ATA READ LOG EXT command via a SAT pass through to fetch log page 11h which contains SATA phy event counters.
sg_sat_read_gplog	uses ATA READ LOG EXT command via a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer.
sg_sat_set_features	sends a ATA SET FEATURES command via a SCSI to ATA Translation (SAT) layer.
sg_scan	does a scan of sg devices (or given SCSI/ATAPI/ATA devices) and prints the results.
sg_senddiag	performs a SCSI SEND DIAGNOSTIC command.
sg_ses	sends controls and fetch status from a SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) device.
sg_ses_microcode	sends microcode to a SCSI enclosure.
sg_start	sends SCSI START STOP UNIT command to start, stop, load or eject medium.
sg_stpg	sends a SCSI SET TARGET PORT GROUPS command.
sg_sync	sends the scsi command synchronize cache.
sg_test_rwbuf	tests the SCSI host adapter by issuing write and read operations on a device's buffer and calculating checksums.
sg_turs	sends one or more SCSI TEST UNIT READY commands.
sg_unmap	sends a SCSI UNMAP command.
sg_verify	invoke SCSI VERIFY command(s) on a block device.
sg_vpd	fetches Vital Product Data (VPD) pages using a SCSI INQUIRY command.
sg_write_buffer	sends a SCSI WRITE BUFFER command.
sg_write_long	sends the SCSI WRITE LONG command.
sg_write_same	sends the SCSI WRITE SAME command.
sg_write_verify	sends the SCSI WRITE AND VERIFY command.
sg_wr_mode	writes mode page.
sg_xcopy	copies data to and from files and devices using SCSI EXTENDED COPY (XCOPY).
`libsgutils2.so`	contains the sg3_utils API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Strigi-0.7.8

Introduction to Strigi

Strigi is a program for fast indexing and searching of personal data. It can gather and index information from files in the filesystem even if they are hidden in emails or archives.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/strigi-0.7.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d69443234f4286d71997db9de543331a
Download size: 811 KB
Estimated disk space required: 52 MB
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU

Strigi Dependencies

Required

Optional

FFmpeg-2.7.2, Exiv2-0.25, libxml2-2.9.2, CLucene version 0.9x , and log4cxx

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/strigi

Installation of Strigi

Install strigi by running the following commands:

sed -i "s/BufferedStream :/STREAMS_EXPORT &/" libstreams/include/strigi/bufferedstream.h &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DENABLE_CLUCENE=OFF        \
      -DENABLE_CLUCENE_NG=OFF     \
      .. &&
make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i "...": This command fixes the build with recent GCC versions.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib: This switch is used so the package doesn't write over the lib64 symlink on 64 bit systems.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-DENABLE_DBUS=OFF: Use this cmake variable if you don't have D-Bus installed.

-DENABLE_QT4=OFF: Use this cmake variable if you don't have Qt4 installed or if you compiled Qt4 without D-Bus support.

-DENABLE_CLUCENE*=OFF: These statements disable the package from trying to use CLucene-2.3.3.4 (current stable version).

Installed Programs: deepfind, deepgrep, rdfindexer, strigiclient, strigicmd, strigidaemon, and xmlindexer

Installed Libraries: libsearchclient.so, libstreamanalyzer.so, libstreams.so, libstrigihtmlgui.so, libstrigiqtdbusclient.so, and several in /usr/lib/strigi

Installed Directories: /usr/include/strigi, /usr/lib/strigi, and /usr/share/strigi

Short Descriptions

deepfind	is a utility for searching for filenames in compressed archives like tar, cpio, and zip
deepgrep	is a utility for searching compressed archives like tar, cpio, and zip
rdfindexer	manages and performs indexing of the RDF data for entities present on your site
strigiclient	is a Qt4 client (GUI) for the Strigi Desktop Search software
strigicmd	is a program for creating and querying indices
strigidaemon	is a daemon program for maintaining indices
xmlindexer	indexes XML documents

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Sysstat-11.1.6

Introduction to Sysstat

The Sysstat package contains utilities to monitor system performance and usage activity. Sysstat contains the sar utility, common to many commercial Unixes, and tools you can schedule via cron to collect and historize performance and activity data.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/sysstat-11.1.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 98412f140f7f00072562d288c5814562
Download size: 312 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Sysstat Dependencies

There are no build-time requirements for this package; however, it is designed to be controlled by a cron daemon such as Fcron-3.2.0.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sysstat

Installation of Sysstat

Install Sysstat by running the following commands:

sa_lib_dir=/usr/lib/sa    \
sa_dir=/var/log/sa        \
conf_dir=/etc/sysconfig   \
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-file-attr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sa_lib_dir: This environment variable specifies the location of the package-specific library directory.

sa_dir: This environment variable specifies the location of the directory containing the data files.

conf_dir: This environment variable specifies the location of the system configuration directory.

--disable-file-attr: Do not set attributes on files being installed. This parameter causes the installation to ignore the man group variable resulting in the man files having root: root ownership.

Note

Run ./configure --help to see other influential environment variables you can pass to configure. You may want to use the history and compressafter variables to customize the amount of data files kept on the system.

Configuring Sysstat

Config Files

/etc/sysconfig/sysstat and /etc/sysconfig/sysstat.ioconf

Cron Information

To begin gathering Sysstat history information, you must add to, or create a privileged user's crontab. The history data location is /var/log/sa. The user running Sysstat utilities via cron must have write access to this location.

Below is an example of what to install in the crontab. Adjust the parameters to suit your needs. Use man sa1 and man sa2 for information about the commands.

# 8am-7pm activity reports every 10 minutes during weekdays
0 8-18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6 &

# 7pm-8am activity reports every hour during weekdays
0 19-7 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 &

# Activity reports every hour on Saturday and Sunday
0 * * * 0,6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 &

# Daily summary prepared at 19:05
5 19 * * * /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A &

Ensure you submit the revised crontab to the cron daemon.

System Startup Information

At system startup, a LINUX RESTART message must be inserted in the daily data file to reinitialize the kernel counters. This can be automated by installing the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sysstat init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package using the following command as the root user:

make install-sysstat

Installed Programs: cifsiostat, iostat, mpstat, nfsiostat-sysstat, pidstat, sadf, sar, and tapestat

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/sa, /usr/share/doc/sysstat-11.1.6 and /var/log/sa

Short Descriptions

cifsiostat	displays statistics about read and write operations on CIFS filesystems.
iostat	reports CPU statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions.
mpstat	writes activities for each available processor.
nfsiostat-sysstat	displays statistics about read and write operations on NFS filesystems.
pidstat	is used for monitoring individual tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel.
sadf	is used for displaying the contents of data files created by the sar command. But unlike sar, sadf can write its data in many different formats.
sar	is used for displaying the contents of elected cumulative activity counters in the operating system.
tapestat	is used for monitoring the activity of tape drives connected to a system.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

UDisks-1.0.5

Introduction to UDisks

The UDisks package provides a storage daemon that implements well-defined D-Bus interfaces that can be used to query and manipulate storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/udisks-1.0.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 70d48dcfe523a74cd7c7fbbc2847fcdd
Download size: 720 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

udisks Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, libatasmart-0.19, libgudev-230, LVM2-2.02.130, parted-3.2, Polkit-0.113, and sg3_utils-1.41

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, libxslt-1.1.28 and Sudo-1.8.14p3 (to run the test)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make profiledir=/etc/bash_completion.d install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: udisks, udisks-daemon, udisks-tcp-bridge, and umount.udisks

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/udisks and /var/lib/udisks

Short Descriptions

udisks	is a simple command line interface for the UDisks Daemon.
udisks-tcp-bridge	is the UDisks TCP/IP bridge.
udisks-daemon	is the UDisks Daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

UDisks-2.1.6

Introduction to UDisks

The UDisks package provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks and storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://udisks.freedesktop.org/releases/udisks-2.1.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: ea181c13c43af039fded88f0ef546e24
Download size: 888 KB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB (additional 4 MB for docs creation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for docs creation)

UDisks Dependencies

Required

libatasmart-0.19, libgudev-230, libxslt-1.1.28, and Polkit-0.113

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

gptfdisk-1.0.0, GTK-Doc-1.24, ntfs-3g-2015.3.14, parted-3.2, and dosfstools

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks2

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: udisksctl, udisksd and umount.udisks2

Installed Library: libudisks2.so

Installed Directories: /etc/udisks2, /usr/include/udisks2, /usr/lib/udisks2, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/udisks2 and /var/lib/udisks2

Short Descriptions

udisksctl	is a command-line program used to interact with the udisksd daemon.
udisksd	is the UDisks daemon itself.
`libudisks2.so`	contains the UDisks API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

UnRar-5.3.3

Introduction to UnRar

The UnRar package contains a RAR extraction utility used for extracting files from RAR archives. RAR archives are usually created with WinRAR, primarily in a Windows environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.3.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e19f3f4fd58e85c1ecdcd0ef006998a9
Download size: 220 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/unrar

Installation of UnRar

Install UnRar by running the following commands:

make -f makefile

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m755 unrar /usr/bin

Installed Program: unrar

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

unrar

uncompresses a RAR archive.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

UnZip-6.0

Introduction to UnZip

The UnZip package contains ZIP extraction utilities. These are useful for extracting files from ZIP archives. ZIP archives are created with PKZIP or Info-ZIP utilities, primarily in a DOS environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

The previous version of the UnZip package had some locale related issues. Currently there are no BLFS editors capable of testing these local issues. Therefore, the locale related information is left on this page, but has not been tested. A more general discussion of these problems can be found in the Program Assumes Encoding section of the Locale Related Issues page.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/infozip/unzip60.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 62b490407489521db863b523a7f86375
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 9 MB
Estimated build time: Less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/unzip

UnZip Locale Issues

Note

Use of UnZip in the JDK, Mozilla, DocBook or any other BLFS package installation is not a problem, as BLFS instructions never use UnZip to extract a file with non-ASCII characters in the file's name.

The UnZip package assumes that filenames stored in the ZIP archives created on non-Unix systems are encoded in CP850, and that they should be converted to ISO-8859-1 when writing files onto the filesystem. Such assumptions are not always valid. In fact, inside the ZIP archive, filenames are encoded in the DOS codepage that is in use in the relevant country, and the filenames on disk should be in the locale encoding. In MS Windows, the OemToChar() C function (from User32.DLL) does the correct conversion (which is indeed the conversion from CP850 to a superset of ISO-8859-1 if MS Windows is set up to use the US English language), but there is no equivalent in Linux.

When using unzip to unpack a ZIP archive containing non-ASCII filenames, the filenames are damaged because unzip uses improper conversion when any of its encoding assumptions are incorrect. For example, in the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale, conversion of filenames from CP866 to KOI8-R is required, but conversion from CP850 to ISO-8859-1 is done, which produces filenames consisting of undecipherable characters instead of words (the closest equivalent understandable example for English-only users is rot13). There are several ways around this limitation:

1) For unpacking ZIP archives with filenames containing non-ASCII characters, use WinZip while running the Wine Windows emulator.

2) After running unzip, fix the damage made to the filenames using the convmv tool (http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/). The following is an example for the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale:

Step 1. Undo the conversion done by unzip:
convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t cp850 -r --nosmart --notest \
    </path/to/unzipped/files>
Step 2. Do the correct conversion instead:
convmv -f cp866 -t koi8-r -r --nosmart --notest \
    </path/to/unzipped/files>

Installation of UnZip

make -f unix/Makefile generic

The test suite does not work for present target “generic”.

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr MANDIR=/usr/share/man/man1 \
 -f unix/Makefile install

Command Explanations

make -f unix/Makefile generic: This target begins by running a configure script (unlike the older targets such as linux and linux_noasm) which creates a flags file that is then used in the build. This ensures that the 32-bit x86 build receives the right flags to unzip files which which are larger than 2GB when extracted.

Installed Programs: funzip, unzip, unzipfsx, zipgrep, and zipinfo

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

funzip	allows the output of unzip commands to be redirected.
unzip	lists, tests or extracts files from a `ZIP` archive.
unzipfsx	is a self-extracting stub that can be prepended to a `ZIP` archive. Files in this format allow the recipient to decompress the archive without installing UnZip.
zipgrep	searches files in a `ZIP` archive for lines matching a pattern.
zipinfo	produces technical information about the files in a `ZIP` archive, including file access permissions, encryption status, type of compression, etc.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

UPower-0.9.23

Introduction to UPower

The UPower package provides an interface to enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://upower.freedesktop.org/releases/upower-0.9.23.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 39cfd97bfaf7d30908f20cf937a57634
Download size: 416 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

UPower Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, libgudev-230, libusb-1.0.19, and Polkit-0.113

Recommended (runtime)

pm-utils-1.4.1

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Python-3.4.3 (used only in the testsuite).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/upower

Installation of UPower

Install UPower by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --enable-deprecated  \
            --disable-static     &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Some checks may not pass due to missing files. Test suite should be run from a local GUI session started with dbus-launch.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-deprecated: This switch enables deprecated functionality which is still needed by some applications.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring your kernel for UPower

To use the command upower -w for information about processor wakeups (this command is used by gnome-power-manager) you need to enable CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. This is achieved in make menuconfig by going to the 'kernel-hacking' menu and selecting 'Collect kernel timers statistics'.

Installed Program: upower

Installed Libraries: libupower-glib.so

Installed Directories: /etc/UPower, /usr/include/libupower-glib, and /var/lib/upower

Short Descriptions

upower	is the UPower command line tool.
`libupower-glib.so`	contains the UPower API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

usbutils-008

Introduction to USB Utils

The USB Utils package contains utilities used to display information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/usb/usbutils/usbutils-008.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/usb/usbutils/usbutils-008.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2780b6ae21264c888f8f30fb2aab1259
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

USB Utils Dependencies

Required

libusb-1.0.19

Required Runtime

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/usbutils

Installation of USB Utils

Install USB Utils by running the following commands:

sed -i '/^usbids/ s:usb.ids:hwdata/&:' lsusb.py &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/hwdata &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

The script lsusb.py displays information in a more easily readable form than lsusb. To find the options, use lsusb.py -h. One form of use recommended by the developer is lsusb.py -ciu.

Command Explanations

sed ... lsusb.py: Instructs lsusb.py where to search usb.ids.

Configuring USB Utils

The usb.ids data file is constantly being updated. To get a current version of this file, using Wget-1.16.3, run, as the root user:

install -dm755 /usr/share/hwdata/ &&
wget http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids -O /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids

You may wish to add an entry to root's (or any other user who has write privilege to /usr/share/hwdata) crontab to automatically update the usb.ids file periodically.

Installed Programs: lsusb, lsusb.py, usb-devices, and usbhid-dump

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

lsusb	is a utility for displaying information about all USB buses in the system and all devices connected to them, but not in human friendly form.
lsusb.py	displays information about all USB buses in the system and all devices connected to them in reasonable human friendly form.
usb-devices	is a shell script that displays details of USB buses and devices connected to them. It is designed to be used if /proc/bus/usb/devices is not available on your system.
usbhid-dump	is used to dump report descriptors and streams from HID (human interface device) interfaces of USB devices.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Which-2.21 and Alternatives

The presence or absence of the which program in the main LFS book is probably one of the most contentious issues on the mailing lists. It has resulted in at least one flame war in the past. To hopefully put an end to this once and for all, presented here are two options for equipping your system with which. The question of which “which” is for you to decide.

The first option is to install the actual GNU which package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Introduction to Which

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/which/which-2.21.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/which/which-2.21.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 097ff1a324ae02e0a3b0369f07a7544a
Download size: 148 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/which

Installation of Which

Install which by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: which

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

which

shows the full path of (shell) commands installed in your PATH.

The 'which' Script

The second option (for those who don't want to install the package) is to create a simple script (execute as the root user):

cat > /usr/bin/which << "EOF"
#!/bin/bash
type -pa "$@" | head -n 1 ; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
EOF
chmod -v 755 /usr/bin/which
chown -v root:root /usr/bin/which

This should work OK and is probably the easiest solution for most cases, but is not the most comprehensive implementation.

Last updated on 2015-09-08 09:43:51 -0700

Zip-3.0

Introduction to Zip

The Zip package contains Zip utilities. These are useful for compressing files into ZIP archives.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/infozip/zip30.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/zip30.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 7b74551e63f8ee6aab6fbc86676c0d37
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 6.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zip

Installation of Zip

Install Zip by running the following commands:

make -f unix/Makefile generic_gcc

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr MANDIR=/usr/share/man/man1 -f unix/Makefile install

Command Explanations

make prefix=/usr -f unix/Makefile install: This command overrides the prefix variable that is set to /usr/local in the unix/Makefile. Alternatives to generic_gcc can be seen with a make -f unix/Makefile list command.

Installed Programs: zip, zipcloak, zipnote, and zipsplit

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

zip	compresses files into a `ZIP` archive.
zipcloak	is a utility to encrypt and decrypt a `ZIP` archive.
zipnote	reads or writes comments stored in a `ZIP` file.
zipsplit	is a utility to split `ZIP` files into smaller files.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

Chapter 13. Programming

A base LFS system can be used as a development platform, however the base system only includes language support for C, C++ and Perl. This chapter provides instructions to build many popular programming environments to greatly expand your system's development capabilities.

Check-0.10.0

Introduction to Check

Check is a unit testing framework for C. It was installed by LFS in the temporary /tools directory. These instructions install it permanently.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/check/check-0.10.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 53c5e5c77d090e103a17f3ed7fd7d8b8
Download size: 752 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.1 MB (additional 0.5 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (additional 3.7 SBU for the tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/check

Installation of Check

Install Check by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the installation, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/check-0.10.0 install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: checkmk

Installed Library: libcheck.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/check-0.10.0

Short Descriptions

checkmk	is an Awk script used for generating C unit tests for use with the Check unit testing framework.
`libcheck.so`	contains the Check API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Clisp-2.49

Introduction to Clisp

GNU Clisp is a Common Lisp implementation which includes an interpreter, compiler, debugger, and many extensions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/latest/clisp-2.49.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/latest/clisp-2.49.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1962b99d5e530390ec3829236d168649
Download size: 7.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 163 MB (add 8 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (17.5 SBU with tests)

Optional

libffcall

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/clisp

Installation of Clisp

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Remove one test, which fails for unknown reasons:

sed -i '/socket/d' tests/tests.lisp

Install Clisp by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

../configure --srcdir=../                       \
             --prefix=/usr                      \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/clisp-2.49 \
             --with-libsigsegv-prefix=/usr &&

ulimit -s 16384 &&
make -j1

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

uimit -s 16384: this increases the maximum stack size, as recommended by the configure.

Installed Programs: clisp, clisp-link

Installed Libraries: various static libraries in /usr/lib/clisp-$clisp-version;/base/

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/clisp-2.49 /usr/share/doc/clisp-2.49 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp;

Short Descriptions

clisp	is an ANSI Common Lisp compiler, interpreter, and debugger
clisp-link	is used to link an external module to clisp

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

CMake-3.3.1

Introduction to CMake

The CMake package contains a modern toolset used for generating Makefiles. It is a successor of the auto-generated configure script and aims to be platform- and compiler-independent. A significant user of CMake is KDE since version 4.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.3/cmake-3.3.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 52638576f4e1e621fed6c3410d3a1b12
Download size: 6.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 669 MB (with test suite and Qt5 cmake-gui)
Estimated build time: 3.8 SBU, using parallelism=4 (with test suite and Qt5 cmake-gui)

CMake Dependencies

Optional

Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0 (for the Qt-based GUI), Subversion-1.9.1 (for testing), and Sphinx (for building documents)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cmake

Installation of CMake

If Qt4 and Qt5 are installed in /opt, use source setqt4 or source setqt5 to choose which one will be used to build the Qt-based GUI.

Install CMake by running the following commands:

./bootstrap --prefix=/usr       \
            --system-libs       \
            --mandir=/share/man \
            --no-system-jsoncpp \
            --docdir=/share/doc/cmake-3.3.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: bin/ctest -j<N> -O ../cmake-3.3.1-test.log, where <N> is an integer between 1 and the number of threads of your processor, inclusive. Current results: 99% tests passed, 1 test failed out of 433.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--system-libs: This switch forces the build system to link against Zlib, Bzip2, cURL, Expat and libarchive installed on the system.

--no-system-jsoncpp: This switch removes the JSON-C++ library from the list of system libraries. A bundled version of that library is used instead.

--qt-gui: This switch enables building of the Qt-based GUI for CMake.

Installed Programs: ccmake, cmake, cmake-gui (optional), cpack and ctest

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/cmake-3.3 and /usr/share/doc/cmake-3.3.1

Short Descriptions

ccmake	is a curses based interactive frontend to cmake.
cmake	is the makefile generator.
cmake-gui	(optional) is the Qt-based frontent to cmake.
cpack	is the CMake packaging program.
ctest	is a testing utility for cmake-generated build trees.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

DejaGnu-1.5.3

Introduction to DejaGnu

DejaGnu is a framework for running test suites on GNU tools. It is written in expect, which uses Tcl (Tool command language). It was installed by LFS in the temporary /tools directory. These instructions install it permanently.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/dejagnu/dejagnu-1.5.3.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/dejagnu/dejagnu-1.5.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 5bda2cdb1af51a80aecce58d6e42bd2f
Download size: 584 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

DejaGnu Dependencies

Required

Expect-5.45

Optional

DocBook-utils-0.6.14 and docbook2X (both looked for by the configure script but not used in the build)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dejagnu

Installation of DejaGnu

Install DejaGnu by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/dejagnu.html doc/dejagnu.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext       -o doc/dejagnu.txt  doc/dejagnu.texi

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -dm755   /usr/share/doc/dejagnu-1.5.3 &&
install -v -m644    doc/dejagnu.{html,txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/dejagnu-1.5.3

Installed Program: runtest

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/dejagnu

Short Descriptions

runtest

is the DejaGnu test driver program. It is used to control what tests to run, and variations on how to run them.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Doxygen-1.8.10

Introduction to Doxygen

The Doxygen package contains a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Corba IDL and to some extent PHP, C# and D. It is useful for generating HTML documentation and/or an off-line reference manual from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating output in RTF, PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.

You can also configure Doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. Used along with Graphviz, you can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.stack.nl/pub/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.10.src.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/doxygen/doxygen-1.8.10.src.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 79767ccd986f12a0f949015efb5f058f
Download size: 4.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 174 MB (with all programs, docs and tests)
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU (with all programs, docs and tests)

Doxygen Dependencies

Required

Optional

Graphviz-2.38.0, ghostscript-9.16, libxml2-2.9.2, LLVM-3.7.0 (with clang), Python-2.7.10 or Python-3.4.3, Qt-4.8.7 (for doxywizard), texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) and xapian-1.2.21 (for doxyindexer)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/doxygen

Installation of Doxygen

Install Doxygen by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"         \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      .. &&

make

To test the results, issue: make tests.

If you wish to generate the package documentation, you must have Python, TeX Live (for HTML docs) and Ghostscript (for PDF docs) installed, then issue the following command:

sed -i 's:man/man1:share/&:' ../doc/CMakeLists.txt &&

cmake -DDOC_INSTALL_DIR=share/doc/doxygen-1.8.10 -Dbuild_doc=ON .. &&

make docs

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -vm644 ../doc/*.1 /usr/share/man/man1

Command Explanations

sed -i ... CMakeLists.txt: Fixes the directory where the man pages are installed.

-Dbuild_wizard=ON: Use this switch if Qt4 is installed and you wish to build the GUI front-end.

-Dbuild_search=ON: Use this switch if xapian is installed and you wish to build external search tools (doxysearch.cgi and doxyindexer).

-Duse_libclang=ON: Use this switch if llvm with clang are installed, to add support for libclang parsing.

Configuring Doxygen

There is no real configuration necessary for the Doxygen package although three additional packages are required if you wish to use extended capabilities. If you need to use the language translation features, you must have Python-2.7.10 installed. If you require formulas to create PDF documentation, then you must have texlive-20150521 installed. If you require formulas to convert PostScript files to bitmaps, then you must have ghostscript-9.16 installed.

Installed Programs: doxygen and optionally, doxywizard, doxyindexer and doxysearch.cgi

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/doxygen-1.8.10

Short Descriptions

doxygen	is a command-line based utility used to generate template configuration files and then generate documentation from these templates. Use doxygen --help for an explanation of the command-line parameters.
doxywizard	is a GUI front-end for configuring and running doxygen.
doxyindexer	generates a search index called `doxysearch.db` from one or more search data files produced by doxygen. See, e.g. http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/extsearch.html.
doxysearch.cgi	is a CGI program to search the data indexed by doxyindexer.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

elfutils-0.163

Introduction to elfutils

The elfutils package contains a set of utilities and libraries for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://fedorahosted.org/releases/e/l/elfutils/0.163/elfutils-0.163.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 77ce87f259987d2e54e4d87b86cbee41
Download size: 5.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 103 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (with tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/elfutils

Installation of elfutils

Install elfutils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --program-prefix="eu-" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--program-prefix="eu-": This switch renames installed programs to avoid conflict with Binutils programs installed in LFS.

Installed Programs: eu-addr2line, eu-ar, eu-elfcmp, eu-elflint, eu-findtextrel, eu-ld, eu-make-debug-archive, eu-nm, eu-objdump, eu-ranlib, eu-readelf, eu-size, eu-stack, eu-strings, eu-strip, and eu-unstrip

Installed Libraries: libasm.{a,so}, libdw.{a,so}, libebl.a, libelf.{a,so}, and some for different architectures under /usr/lib/elfutils

Installed Directories: /usr/include/elfutils and /usr/lib/elfutils

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Expect-5.45

Introduction to Expect

The Expect package was installed in the LFS temporary tools directory for testing other packages. These procedures install it in a prmanent location. It contains tools for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications as well as easing all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expect/expect5.45.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 44e1a4f4c877e9ddc5a542dfa7ecc92b
Download size: 620 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Expect Dependencies

Required

Tcl-8.6.4

Optional

Tk-8.6.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/expect

Installation of Expect

Install Expect by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --with-tcl=/usr/lib     \
            --enable-shared         \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --with-tclinclude=/usr/include &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -svf expect5.45/libexpect5.45.so /usr/lib

Command Explanations

-with-tcl=/usr/lib: This parameter is used to tell the configure script where the tclConfig.sh is located.

--enable-shared: This option enables building the shared library.

ln -sf ...: This command creates a required link to the shared library.

Configuring Expect

Config Files

$exp_library/expect.rc and ~/.expect.rc

Configuration Information

Reference the expect man page for information about utilizing the expect.rc configuration files. Additionally, many of the tools contained in the Expect package will use their own configuration files. Reference the respective man page, or examine the script directly for configuration file information.

Installed Programs: autoexpect, autopasswd, cryptdir, decryptdir, dislocate, expect, ftp-rfc, kibitz, lpunlock, mkpasswd, passmass, rftp, rlogin-cwd, timed-read, timed-run, unbuffer, weather, and optionally (if Expect was linked against Tk), multixterm, tknewsbiff, tkpasswd, xkibitz, and xpstat

Installed Library: libexpect5.45.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/expect5.45

Short Descriptions

autoexpect	generates an Expect script from watching a session.
autopasswd	is a wrapper to make passwd(1) be non-interactive.
cryptdir	encrypts all files in a directory.
decryptdir	decrypts all files in a directory.
dislocate	allows processes to be disconnected and reconnected to a terminal.
expect	is a program that “talks” to other interactive programs according to a script.
ftp-rfc	retrieves an RFC (or the index) from UUNET.
kibitz	allows two (or more) people to interact with one shell (or any arbitrary program).
lpunlock	unhangs a printer which claims it is “waiting for lock”.
mkpasswd	generates passwords and can apply them automatically to users.
passmass	changes a password on multiple machines.
rftp	is much like ftp except it uses `~g` and `~p` instead of `mget` and `mput`.
rlogin-cwd	is rlogin except it uses the local current directory as the current working directory on the remote machine.
timed-read	reads a complete line from stdin and aborts after a given number of seconds.
timed-run	runs a program for a given amount of time.
unbuffer	disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected.
weather	retrieves a weather report (courtesy University of Michigan) for a given city or geographical area.
multixterm	creates multiple xterms that can be driven together or separately.
tknewsbiff	pops up a window when there is unread news in your favorite newsgroups and removes the window after you've read the news.
tkpasswd	is a script to change passwords using expect and Tk.
xkibitz	allows users in separate xterms to share one shell (or any program that runs in an xterm).
xpstat	is a script that acts as a front-end for xpilot.
`libexpect5.45.so`	contains functions that allow Expect to be used as a Tcl extension or to be used directly from C or C++ (without Tcl).

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

GCC-5.2.0

Introduction to GCC

The GCC package contains the GNU Compiler Collection. This page describes the installation of compilers for the following languages: C, C++, Fortran, Objective C, Objective C++, and Go. Two additional languages , Ada and Java are available in the collection. They have specific requirements, so they are described in separate pages (GCC-Ada-5.2.0 and GCC-Java-5.2.0). Since C and C++ are installed in LFS, this page is either for upgrading C and C++, or for installing additional compilers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

If you are upgrading GCC from any other version prior to 5.2.0, then you must be careful compiling 3rd party kernel modules. You should ensure that the kernel and all its native modules are also compiled using the same version of GCC that you use to build the 3rd party module. This issue does not affect native kernel (and kernel modules) updates, as the instructions below are a complete reinstallation of GCC. If you have existing 3rd party modules installed, ensure they are recompiled using the updated version of GCC. As always, never update the kernel headers from the ones used when Glibc was compiled during LFS.

The 5.1.0 version of GCC introduces an incompatible ABI change in the C++ library libstdc++.so. This does not prevent using programs compiled with the previous version of GCC , since both old and new symbols are available in the library. But compiling, with the new version, programs which use libraries compiled with the old version is likely to give errors. So, if you are upgrading from any previous version prior to 5.1.0, you have two solutions: recompile all the libraries with the new version, or use the --with-default-libstdcxx-abi switch to configure.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a51bcfeb3da7dd4c623e27207ed43467
Download size: 91 MB
Estimated disk space required: 5.9 GB
Estimated build time: 132 SBU (including 82 SBU for tests)

GCC Dependencies

Installation of GCC

Important

Even if you specify only languages other than C and C++ to the ./configure command below, the installation process will overwrite your existing GCC C and C++ compilers and libraries. Having the Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu packages installed before beginning the build is highly recommended so you can run the full suite of tests.

Do not continue with the make install command until you are confident the build was successful. You can compare your test results with those found at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/. You may also want to refer to the information found in the GCC section of Chapter 6 in the LFS book (../../../../lfs/view/7.8/chapter06/gcc.html).

The instructions below are intentionally performing a “bootstrap” process. Bootstrapping is needed for robustness and is highly recommended when upgrading the compilers version. To disable bootstrap anyways, add --disable-bootstrap to the ./configure options below.

Install GCC by running the following commands:

mkdir ../gcc-build                                   &&
cd    ../gcc-build                                   &&

../gcc-5.2.0/configure                               \
    --prefix=/usr                                    \
    --disable-multilib                               \
    --with-system-zlib                               \
    --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,go,objc,obj-c++ &&
make

If you have installed additional packages such as Valgrind and GDB, the GCC part of the testsuite will run more tests than in LFS. Some of those will report FAIL and others XPASS (pass when expected to FAIL). To run the tests, issue:

ulimit -s 32768 &&
make -k check

The tests are very long, and the results may be hard to find in the logs, specially if you use parallel jobs with make. You can get a summary of the tests with:

../gcc-5.2.0/contrib/test_summary

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mkdir -pv /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib              &&
mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib &&

chown -v -R root:root \
    /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/5.2.0/include{,-fixed}

Some packages expect to find the C preprocessor in /lib or may refer to the C compiler under the name cc. The following symbolic links are not needed if you have followed the LFS instructions, since they have been already created. If you do not have them on your system, issue as the root user:

ln -v -sf ../usr/bin/cpp /lib          &&
ln -v -sf gcc /usr/bin/cc              &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/lib/bfd-plugins &&
ln -sfv ../../libexec/gcc/$(gcc -dumpmachine)/5.2.0/liblto_plugin.so /usr/lib/bfd-plugins/

Command Explanations

mkdir ../gcc-build; cd ../gcc-build: The GCC documentation recommends building the package in a dedicated build directory.

--disable-multilib: This parameter ensures that files are created for the specific architecture of your computer.

--with-system-zlib: Uses the system zlib instead of the bundled one. zlib is used for compressing and uncompressing GCC's intermediate language in LTO (Link Time Optimization) object files.

--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,go,objc,obj-c++: This command identifies which languages to build. You may modify this command to remove undesired languages.

--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=c++98: Use this switch if you are upgrading from a GCC version prior to 5.1.0, and you do not want to recompile all the libraries written in C++.

ulimit -s 32768: This command prevents several tests from running out of stack space.

make -k check: This command runs the test suite without stopping if any errors are encountered.

../gcc-5.2.0/contrib/test_summary: This command will produce a summary of the test suite results. You can append | grep -A7 Summ to the command to produce an even more condensed version of the summary. You may also wish to redirect the output to a file for review and comparison later on.

mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py ...: The installation stage puts some files used by gdb under the /usr/lib directory. This generates spurious error messages when performing ldconfig. This command moves the files to another location.

chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/...: If the package is built by a user other than root, the ownership of the installed include directory (and its content) will be incorrect. This command changes the ownership to the root user and group.

Some program and library names and descriptions are not listed here, but can be found at ../../../../lfs/view/7.8/chapter06/gcc.html#contents-gcc as they were initially installed during the building of LFS.

Installed Programs: gccgo, go, gofmt and gfortran, hard-linked to architecture specific names

Installed Libraries: libgfortran.{so,a}, libgo.{so,a}, libgobegin.a, libgolibbegin.a, libnetgo.a, libobjc.{so,a}, and numerous other run-time libraries and executables in /usr/lib/gcc, /usr/libexec/gcc, and /usr/lib/go

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gcc/<arch-triplet>/5.2.0/include/objc and /usr/lib/go

Short Descriptions

gccgo	is a GCC-based compiler for the Go language.
go	is a tool for managing Go source code.
gofmt	is a tool for formatting Go source code.
gfortran	is a GCC-based compiler for the Fortran language.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

GCC-Java-5.2.0

Introduction to GCC-Java

See the introduction to the Java language and system at Java-1.8.0.60. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) contains a Java compiler to native code. Together with the ecj Java compiler from Eclipse (to bytecode), it provides a way to build an acceptable JVM from source. However, since the release of OpenJDK, the development of GCC-Java has almost stopped, and the built JVM is an old version, which cannot be used for building OpenJDK-1.8.0.60.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

Using the instructions on this page will have the effect that the C and C++ compiler and libraries will be reinstalled, overwriting the ones on your system. This may lead to some issues. Please read the note and caution on the GCC-5.2.0 page.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a51bcfeb3da7dd4c623e27207ed43467
Download size: 91 MB
Estimated disk space required: 3.3 GB
Estimated build time: 80 SBU (including 67 SBU for tests)

Additional Downloads

Eclipse Java compiler: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/ecj-latest.jar
ANTLR binary, for building gjdoc (optional): http://www.antlr.org/download/antlr-4.5-complete.jar

GCC Java Dependencies

Required

UnZip-6.0, Which-2.21, and Zip-3.0

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28 and Libart for building the AWT peer

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gcc-java

Installation of GCC Java

The instructions below assume that the C and C++ compilers have the same version as the one you are installing, so that a “bootstrap” is not necessary. If you are upgrading the GCC version, then remove the --disable-bootstrap from the ./configure options below.

Install GCC Java by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/\(install.*:\) install-.*recursive/\1/' libffi/Makefile.in         &&
sed -i 's/\(install-data-am:\).*/\1/'             libffi/include/Makefile.in &&

cp ../ecj-latest.jar ./ecj.jar &&

mkdir ../gcc-build &&
cd    ../gcc-build &&

../gcc-5.2.0/configure           \
    --prefix=/usr                \
    --disable-multilib           \
    --with-system-zlib           \
    --disable-bootstrap          \
    --enable-java-home           \
    --with-jvm-root-dir=/opt/gcj \
    --with-antlr-jar=$(pwd)/../antlr-4.5-complete.jar \
    --enable-languages=java &&
make

ulimit -s 32768 &&
make -k check

The tests are very long, and the results may be hard to find in the logs, specially if you use job control with make. You can get a summary of the tests with:

../gcc-5.2.0/contrib/test_summary

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mkdir -pv /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib              &&
mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib &&

chown -v -R root:root \
    /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/5.2.0/include{,-fixed} &&

gcj -o ecj ../ecj-latest.jar \
    --main=org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main &&
mv ecj /usr/bin &&
ln -sfv ../../../usr/bin/ecj /opt/gcj/bin/javac

Command Explanations

The two sed commands prevent the installation of the libffi library bundled with GCC, since it is outdated compared to libffi-3.2.1.

mkdir ../gcc-build; cd ../gcc-build: The GCC documentation recommends building the package in a dedicated build directory.

--disable-multilib: This parameter ensures that files are created for the specific architecture of your computer.

--with-system-zlib: Uses the system zlib instead of the bundled one.

--disable-bootstrap: Prevents the C and C++ compilers to recompile themselves. You should use this switch only if the installed C and C++ compilers are the same version as the ones you install.

--enable-java-home: Creates a directory layout similar to that of a JVM.

--with-jvm-root-dir=/opt/gcj: Installs the JVM in the specified location.

--with-antlr-jar=...: Specifies the location of ANTLR, which is needed to build gjdoc. Remove if you have not downloaded antlr.

--enable-languages=java: This command identifies which language to build. Note it is unavoidable that the C and C++ compilers be built too.

--enable-java-awt=gtk: Allows to build the Java AWT GTK+2 peer. Needed to have a fully functional JVM.

ulimit -s 32768: This command prevents several tests from running out of stack space.

make -k check: This command runs the test suite without stopping if any errors are encountered.

chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/...: If the package is built by a user other than root, the ownership of the installed include directory (and its content) will be incorrect. This commands changes the ownership to the root user and group.

gcj -o ecj ...: compiles the eclipse compiler to native code, which is much faster than bytecode. This compiler is then used as a javac replacement in the JVM.

Configuring GCC-Java

Configuration Information

The configuration is the same as Configuring the JAVA environment, replacing /opt/jdk with /opt/gcj.

Installed Programs: aot-compile, ecj, gappletviewer, gc-analyze, gcj, gcj-dbtool, gcjh, gij, gjar, gjarsigner, gjavah, gjdoc, gkeytool, gnative2ascii, gorbd, grmic, grmid, grmiregistry, gserialver, gtnameserv, jcf-dump, jv-convert, rebuild-gcj-db. Symbolic links to these files are located in /opt/gcj/bin

Installed Libraries: libgcj_bc.so, libgcj.so, libgcj-tools.so libgij.so, and numerous other run-time libraries and executables in /usr/lib/gcc and /usr/libexec/gcc

Installed Directories: /usr/include/c++/5.2.0/{gcj,gnu,java,javax,org,sun}, /usr/lib/gcj-5.2.0-16, /usr/lib/jvm-exports, /usr/lib/security, /opt/gcj and /usr/share/java

Short Descriptions

aot-compile	searches a directory for Java bytecode and uses gcj to compile it to native code.
ecj	is the eclipse compiler.
gappletviewer	loads and run a Java applet.
gc-analyze	analyzes garbage collector (GC) memory dumps from Java code.
gcj	is an ahead-of-time compiler for the Java language.
gcj-dbtool	is a tool for creating and manipulating class file mapping databases.
gcjh	generates header files from Java class files.
gij	is the GNU interpreter for Java bytecode.
gjar	is an (partial) implementation of the jar utility that comes with Sun's JDK.
gjarsigner	is a Java ARchive (JAR) file signing and verification tool.
gjavah	generates header files from Java class files.
gjdoc	is a documentation tool similar to javadoc.
gkeytool	manages private keys and public certificates in a Java environment.
gnative2ascii	is an encoding converter for Java.
gorbd	is an object request broker daemon.
grmic	generates stubs for Remote Method Invocation.
grmid	RMI activation system daemon.
grmiregistry	starts a remote object registry on the current host.
gserialver	prints the serialVersionUID of the specified class.
gtnameserv	starts a naming service.
jcf-dump	prints information about Java class files.
jv-convert	converts files from one encoding to another.
rebuild-gcj-db	Merge the per-solib databases made by aot-compile into one system-wide database.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GCC-Ada-5.2.0

Introduction to the GCC Ada compiler

Ada is a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications — and embedded systems in particular — where reliability and efficiency are essential. It has a set of unique technical features that make it highly effective for use in large, complex and safety-critical projects.

The compiler and associated tools on this page are known as the GNAT technology, developed by the Adacore company, using the GCC backend. Since parts of the Ada compiler are written in Ada, there is a circular dependency on an Ada compiler. The instructions below first install a binary compiler. You do not need to do that if you already have built GNAT tools.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

Note

If you want to install other compilers in the GCC collection, do that first, or specify ada in the --enable-languages switch to configure. If you rebuild GCC without enabling ada after running the instructions on this page, the new compiler will not be able to compile ADA anymore.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-5.2.0/gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a51bcfeb3da7dd4c623e27207ed43467
Download size: 91 MB
Estimated disk space required: 6.0 GB (0.2 GB added if GNAT install dir is not removed)
Estimated build time: 119 SBU (including 68 SBU for tests)

Additional Downloads

Note

You will need to install GNAT temporarily to satisfy the circular dependency. You may point your browser to the AdaCore download page, choose your platform and 2015 (64 bit machines) or 2014 (32 bit machines), then select the file to download. Alternatively, direct links to the 64 bit and 32 bit linux versions are given below.

GNAT 64 bit binary: http://mirrors.cdn.adacore.com/art/9ed9164f59a40cc295307a85bebd6c38d5da84ba
GNAT 64 bit MD5 sum: 1ab69af79f981b1321f6e989403f5e7d
GNAT 64 bit size: 308 MB
GNAT 32 bit binary: http://mirrors.cdn.adacore.com/art/3fc05fc61cbc7ab4f291ed19ea4cb269fffd17bd
GNAT 32 bit MD5 sum: 69423c7ad8d9759377d4fff71a78992d
GNAT 32 bit size: 222 MB

GCC Ada Dependencies

Installation of the GNAT binary

Before unpacking and changing into the GCC source directory, first unpack the GNAT tarball, and change to the GNAT directory. Then, install the GNAT binary by running the following command as the root user:

make ins-all prefix=/opt/gnat

The GNAT compiler can be invoked by executing the gcc binary installed in /opt/gnat/bin.

You may now remove the GNAT source directory if desired.

Prepare to compile GCC by placing the GNAT version of gcc at the beginning of the PATH variable by using the following commands:

PATH_HOLD=$PATH &&
export PATH=/opt/gnat/bin:$PATH_HOLD

Doing so has the drawback that the GCC and Binutils executables are taken from the just installed GNAT package, but the versions of those executables are outdated compared to those installed in LFS. This is not important for the GCC compilers, since they recompile themselves during the bootstrap process. On the other hand, the outdated ld and as tools are used all along. In order to use the LFS tools, issue as the root user:

find /opt/gnat -name ld -exec mv -v {} {}.old \;
find /opt/gnat -name as -exec mv -v {} {}.old \;

Installation of GCC Ada

Install GCC Ada by running the following commands:

mkdir ../gcc-build &&
cd    ../gcc-build &&

../gcc-5.2.0/configure          \
    --prefix=/usr               \
    --disable-multilib          \
    --with-system-zlib          \
    --enable-languages=ada &&
make

ulimit -s 32768 &&
make -k check

The tests are very long, and the results may be hard to find in the logs, specially if you use parallel jobs with make. You can get a summary of the tests with:

../gcc-5.2.0/contrib/test_summary

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mkdir -pv /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib              &&
mv -v /usr/lib/*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib &&

chown -v -R root:root \
    /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/5.2.0/include{,-fixed} \
    /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/5.2.0/ada{lib,include}

You should now remove the GNAT installation and perform other cleanups. First, as the root user:

rm -rf /opt/gnat

Then, as a normal user:

export PATH=$PATH_HOLD &&
unset PATH_HOLD

Command Explanations

mkdir ../gcc-build; cd ../gcc-build: The GCC documentation recommends building the package in a dedicated build directory.

--disable-multilib: This parameter ensures that files are created for the specific architecture of your computer.

--with-system-zlib: Uses the system zlib instead of the bundled one. zlib is used for compressing and uncompressing GCC's intermediate language in LTO (Link Time Optimization) object files.

--enable-languages=ada: Instructs the build system to build the Ada tools and compiler. It is unavoidable that the C and C++ compilers be built too.

--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=c++98: Use this switch if you are building GNAT tools using a GCC version prior to 5.1.0, and you do not want to recompile all the libraries written in C++.

ulimit -s 32768: This command prevents several tests from running out of stack space.

make -k check: This command runs the test suite without stopping if any errors are encountered.

chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/gcc/*linux-gnu/...: If the package is built by a user other than root, the ownership of the installed include and adalib directories (and their contents) will be incorrect. These commands change the ownership to the root user and group.

Installed Programs: gnat, gnatbind, gnatchop, gnatclean, gnatfind, gnatkr, gnatlink, gnatls, gnatmake, gnatname, gnatprep, gnatxref

Installed Libraries: libgnat.{so,a}, libgnarl.{so,a} in /usr/lib/gcc/<arch-triplet>/5.2.0/adalib

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gcc/<arch-triplet>/5.2.0/ada{include,lib}

Only the Ada specific files are listed here. Others can be found at ../../../../lfs/view/7.8/chapter06/gcc.html#contents-gcc as they were initially installed during the building of LFS.

Short Descriptions

gnat	is a wrapper that accepts a number of commands and calls the corresponding tool from the list below.
gnatbind	is used to bind compiled objects.
gnatchop	is useful for renaming files to meet the standard Ada default file naming conventions.
gnatclean	is used to remove files associated with a GNAT project.
gnatfind	is intended for locating definition and/or references to specified entities in a GNAT project.
gnatkr	is used to determine the crunched name for a given file, when crunched to a specified maximum length.
gnatlink	is used to link programs and build an executable file.
gnatls	is the compiled unit browser.
gnatmake	is the Ada compiler, which performs compilation, binding and linking.
gnatname	will list the files associated with a GNAT project.
gnatprep	is the GNAT external preprocessor.
gnatxref	is similar to gnatfind, but generates a full report of all cross-references.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GC-7.4.2

Introduction to GC

The GC package contains the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector, which can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for the C malloc function or C++ new operator. It allows you to allocate memory basically as you normally would, without explicitly deallocating memory that is no longer useful. The collector automatically recycles memory when it determines that it can no longer be otherwise accessed. The collector is also used by a number of programming language implementations that either use C as intermediate code, want to facilitate easier interoperation with C libraries, or just prefer the simple collector interface. Alternatively, the garbage collector may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs, though that is not its primary goal.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-7.4.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 12c05fd2811d989341d8c6d81f66af87
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 9.7 MB (additional 2.3 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for the tests)

Required

libatomic_ops-7.4.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gc

Installation of GC

Install GC by running the following commands:

sed -i 's#pkgdata#doc#' doc/doc.am &&
autoreconf -fi  &&
./configure --prefix=/usr      \
            --enable-cplusplus \
            --disable-static   \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gc-7.4.2 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/gc.man /usr/share/man/man3/gc_malloc.3 &&
ln -sfv gc_malloc.3 /usr/share/man/man3/gc.3

Command Explanations

sed -i 's#pkgdata#doc#' doc/doc.am and --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gc-7.4.2: These commands are used so the package will install the documentation in a versioned directory.

autoreconf -fi: This regenerates the configure script and the Makefile.in files.

--enable-cplusplus: This parameter enables the building and installing the C++ library along with the standard C library.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libcord.so, libgc.so and libgccpp.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gc and /usr/share/doc/gc-7.4.2

Short Descriptions

`libgc.so`	contains a C interface to the conservative garbage collector, primarily designed to replace the C malloc function.
`libgccpp.so`	contains a C++ interface to the conservative garbage collector.

Last updated on 2015-09-14 14:12:10 -0700

GDB-7.10

Introduction to GDB

GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on “inside” another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. Note that GDB is most effective when tracing programs and libraries that were built with debugging symbols and not stripped.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2a35bac41fa8e10bf04f3a0dd7f7f363
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 421 MB (additional 170 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU (add up to 7.0 SBU for tests)

GDB Dependencies

Optional

DejaGnu-1.5.3 (for tests), Doxygen-1.8.10, Guile-2.0.11, Python-2.7.10, Valgrind-3.10.1, and SystemTap (run-time dependency, also used in a few tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gdb

Installation of GDB

Install GDB by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-system-readline &&
make

Optionally, to build the API documentation using Doxygen-1.8.10, run:

make -C gdb/doc doxy

To test the results, issue:

pushd gdb/testsuite &&
make  site.exp      &&
echo  "set gdb_test_timeout 120" >> site.exp &&
runtest TRANSCRIPT=y
popd

See gdb/testsuite/README and TestingGDB. There are many problems with the test suite. First one is that you need to clean some directories, if re-running the tests. For that reason, it is recommended to make a copy of the compiled source code directory, before the tests, in case you need to run the tests again. Results depend on installed compilers, there are differences if run locally or remotely, a large number of timeouts (there is a variable that can be set to increase time for timeout, but changing it, apparently the total number of tests is not conserved), there are failures associated with system readline 6.x, between others. A few tests assume that the header file <sys/sdt.h>, part of SystemTap, is present. Unexpected failures are less than 0.3%.

Now, as the root user:

make -C gdb install

If you have built the API documentation, it is now in gdb/doc/doxy. You can install it (as the root user):

install -d /usr/share/doc/gdb-7.10 &&
rm -rf gdb/doc/doxy/xml &&
cp -Rv gdb/doc/doxy /usr/share/doc/gdb-7.10

Installed Programs: gcore, gdb and gdbserver

Installed Library: libinproctrace.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share}/gdb and /usr/share/doc/gdb-7.10

Short Descriptions

gcore	generates a core dump of a running program.
gdb	is the GNU Debugger.
gdbserver	is a remote server for the GNU debugger (it allows programs to be debugged from a different machine).
`libinproctrace.so`	contains functions for the in-process tracing agent. The agent allows for installing fast tracepoints, listing static tracepoint markers, probing static tracepoints markers, and starting trace monitoring.

Last updated on 2015-09-17 11:19:27 -0700

Git-2.5.0

Introduction to Git

Git is a free and open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial-3.5.1, Bazaar, Subversion-1.9.1, CVS, Perforce, and Team Foundation Server.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.5.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.5.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f108b475a0aa30e9587be4295ab0bb09
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 343 MB (357 MB, with tests and downloaded documents)
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (4.8 SBU, using -j8, with tests and downloaded documents)

Additional Downloads

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-2.5.0.tar.xz (if you prefer the original, not needed if you've installed asciidoc and xmlto and prefer to build them).
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-htmldocs-2.5.0.tar.xz and other docs (if you prefer the original, not needed if you've installed asciidoc and prefer to build them).

Git Dependencies

Optional

PCRE-8.37, Subversion-1.9.1 with Perl bindings (for git svn), Tk-8.6.4 (gitk, a simple Git repository viewer, uses Tk at runtime), and Valgrind-3.10.1

Optional (to create the man pages and html docs)

xmlto-0.0.26 and AsciiDoc or AsciiDoctor

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/git

Installation of Git

Install Git by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gitconfig=/etc/gitconfig &&
make

You can build the man pages and/or html docs, or use downloaded ones. If you choose to build them, use next two following instructions.

If you have installed AsciiDoc you can create the html version of the man pages and other docs:

make html

If you have installed AsciiDoc and xmlto-0.0.26 you can create the man pages:

make man

The test suite can be run in parallel mode. To run the test suite, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you created the man pages and/or html docs

Install the man pages as root user:

make install-man

Install the html docs as root user:

make htmldir=/usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 install-html

If you downloaded the man pages and/or html docs

If you downloaded the man pages untar them as the root user:

tar -xf ../git-manpages-2.5.0.tar.xz \
    -C /usr/share/man --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir

If you downloaded the html docs untar them as the root user:

mkdir -vp   /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 &&
tar   -xf   ../git-htmldocs-2.5.0.tar.xz \
      -C    /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 --no-same-owner --no-overwrite-dir &&

find        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; &&
find        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Reorganize man pages and/or html docs (both methods)

For both methods, reorganize the files, as root user:

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/man-pages/{html,text}         &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/{git*.txt,man-pages/text}     &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/{git*.,index.,man-pages/}html &&

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/technical/{html,text}         &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/technical/{*.txt,text}        &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/technical/{*.,}html           &&

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/howto/{html,text}             &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/howto/{*.txt,text}            &&
mv        /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0/howto/{*.,}html

Command Explanations

--with-gitconfig=/etc/gitconfig: This sets /etc/gitconfig as the file that stores the default, system wide, Git settings.

--without-python: Use this switch if Python is not installed.

--with-libpcre: Use this switch if PCRE is installed.

tar -xf ../git-manpages-2.5.0.tar.gz -C /usr/share/man --no-same-owner: This untars git-manpages-2.5.0.tar.gz. The -C option makes tar change directory to /usr/share/man before it starts to decompress the docs. The --no-same-owner option stops tar from preserving the user and group details of the files. This is useful as that user or group may not exist on your system; this could (potentially) be a security risk.

mv /usr/share/doc/git-2.5.0 ...: These commands move some of the files into subfolders to make it easier to sort through the docs and find what you're looking for.

find ... chmod ...: These commands correct the permissions in the shipped documentation tar file.

Configuring Git

Config Files

~/.gitconfig and /etc/gitconfig

Installed Programs: git, git-receive-pack and git-upload-archive (hardlinked to each other), git-cvsserver, git-shell, git-upload-pack, and gitk

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/<5.x.y>{,<arch-linux>/auto}/Git, /usr/libexec/git-core and /usr/share/{doc/git-2.5.0,git-core,git-gui,gitk,gitweb}

Short Descriptions

git	is the stupid content tracker.
git-cvsserver	is a CVS server emulator for Git.
gitk	is a graphical Git repository browser (needs Tk-8.6.4).
git-receive-pack	is invoked by git send-pack and updates the repository with the information fed from the remote end.
git-shell	is a login shell for SSH accounts to provide restricted Git access.
git-upload-archive	is invoked by git archive --remote and sends a generated archive to the other end over the git protocol.
git-upload-pack	is invoked by git fetch-pack, it discovers what objects the other side is missing, and sends them after packing.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Guile-2.0.11

Introduction to Guile

The Guile package contains the Project GNU's extension language library. Guile also contains a stand alone Scheme interpreter.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-2.0.11.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 03f1bce1a4983076d955003472306a13
Download size: 4.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 109 MB (additional 4 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 8.0 SBU (additional 0.7 SBU for the tests)

Guile Dependencies

Required

GC-7.4.2, libffi-3.2.1 and libunistring-0.9.6

Optional

Emacs-24.5 and GDB-7.10 (run-time only dependencies).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/guile

Installation of Guile

Install Guile by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11 &&
make      &&
make html &&

makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/r5rs/r5rs.txt doc/r5rs/r5rs.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/ref/guile.txt doc/ref/guile.texi

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install      &&
make install-html &&

mv /usr/lib/libguile-*-gdb.scm /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib &&
mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11/{guile.html,ref} &&
mv /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11/r5rs{.html,}     &&

find examples -name "Makefile*" -delete         &&
cp -vR examples   /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11   &&

for DIRNAME in r5rs ref; do
  install -v -m644  doc/${DIRNAME}/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11/${DIRNAME}
done &&
unset DIRNAME

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: guild, guile, guile-config, guile-snarf and guile-tools

Installed Libraries: libguile-2.0.so and libguilereadline-v-18.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/guile, /usr/lib/guile, /usr/share/doc/guile-2.0.11 and /usr/share/guile

Short Descriptions

guile	is a stand-alone Scheme interpreter for Guile.
guile-config	is a Guile script which provides the information necessary to link your programs against the Guile library, in much the same way PkgConfig does.
guile-snarf	is a script to parse declarations in your C code for Scheme visible C functions.
guild	is a wrapper program installed along with guile, which knows where a particular module is installed and calls it, passing its arguments to the program.
guile-tools	is a symlink to guild.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

Librep-0.92.5

Introduction to Librep

The librep package contains a Lisp system. This is useful for scripting or for applications that may use the Lisp interpreter as an extension language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.tuxfamily.org/librep/librep_0.92.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9623c20eac6d1556eea224070051119a
Download size: 624 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Librep Dependencies

Optional

libffi-3.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/librep

Installation of Librep

Install librep by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/__OPTIMIZE__/__OPTIMIZE__ \&\& 0/g' src/repint.h &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i...: This command fixes a build error with GCC 5.

Installed Programs: rep, rep-remote, rep-xgettext, and repdoc

Installed Libraries: librep.so and numerous modules installed in the /usr/lib/rep hierarchy

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/rep, /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, and /usr/share/rep

Short Descriptions

rep	is the Lisp interpreter.
`librep.so`	contains the functions necessary for the Lisp interpreter.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

LLVM-3.7.0

Introduction to LLVM

The LLVM package contains a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. The Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) Core libraries provide a modern source and target-independent optimizer, along with code generation support for many popular CPUs (as well as some less common ones!). These libraries are built around a well specified code representation known as the LLVM intermediate representation ("LLVM IR").

The optional Clang and Compiler RT packages provide a new C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-ends and runtime libraries for the LLVM.

Note

This package hits a bug in GCC-4.9.0 or an unpatched GCC-4.9.1. To build this package, GCC needs to be updated if you have one of these versions. See GCC-5.2.0 for gcc installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/llvm-3.7.0.src.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b98b9495e5655a672d6cb83e1a180f8e
Download size: 14 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 GB (with Clang), and 300 MB for tests
Estimated build time: 47 SBU (with Clang)

Optional Downloads

Clang

Download: http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/cfe-3.7.0.src.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8f9d27335e7331cf0a4711e952f21f01
Download size: 8.7 MB

Compiler RT

Download: http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/compiler-rt-3.7.0.src.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 383c10affd513026f08936b5525523f5
Download size: 1.1 MB

LLVM Dependencies

Optional

CMake-3.3.1, Doxygen-1.8.10, Graphviz-2.38.0, libxml2-2.9.2, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx), Valgrind-3.10.1, Zip-3.0, OCaml, and Sphinx

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/llvm

Installation of LLVM

If you have downloaded the optional packages, install them into the source tree by running the following commands:

tar -xf ../cfe-3.7.0.src.tar.xz -C tools &&
tar -xf ../compiler-rt-3.7.0.src.tar.xz -C projects &&

mv tools/cfe-3.7.0.src tools/clang &&
mv projects/compiler-rt-3.7.0.src projects/compiler-rt

The run-time library needs to be fixed for 32 bit installations:

sed -r "/ifeq.*CompilerTargetArch/s#i386#i686#g" \
    -i projects/compiler-rt/make/platform/clang_linux.mk

Install LLVM by running the following commands:

sed -e "s:/docs/llvm:/share/doc/llvm-3.7.0:" \
    -i Makefile.config.in &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

CC=gcc CXX=g++                          \
../configure --prefix=/usr              \
             --datarootdir=/usr/share   \
             --sysconfdir=/etc          \
             --enable-libffi            \
             --enable-optimized         \
             --enable-shared            \
             --enable-targets=host,r600 \
             --disable-assertions       \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/llvm-3.7.0 &&
make

If you have installed Sphinx and wish to generate manual pages, issue the following command:

make -C ../docs -f Makefile.sphinx man

To test the results, issue: make -k check-all. Some tests may fail for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

for file in /usr/lib/lib{clang,LLVM,LTO}*.a
do
  test -f $file && chmod -v 644 $file
done &&
unset file

If you had Python-2.7.10 installed and you have built Clang, install the Clang Analyzer by running the following command as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/lib/clang-analyzer &&

for prog in scan-build scan-view
do
  cp -rfv ../tools/clang/tools/$prog /usr/lib/clang-analyzer/
  ln -sfv ../lib/clang-analyzer/$prog/$prog /usr/bin/
done &&

ln -sfv /usr/bin/clang /usr/lib/clang-analyzer/scan-build/ &&
mv -v /usr/lib/clang-analyzer/scan-build/scan-build.1 /usr/share/man/man1/ &&
unset prog

If you have built manual pages, install them by running the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 ../docs/_build/man/* /usr/share/man/man1/

Command Explanations

sed -e ... Makefile.config.in: This sed fixes location of the installed documentation.

--enable-libffi: This switch enables LLVM to use libffi. Remove if you did not install libffi.

--enable-optimized: This switch enables compiler optimizations in order to speed up the code and reduce its size.

--enable-shared: This switch enables building of the LLVM shared library which contains all of the static libraries linked into a single library.

--enable-targets=host,r600: This switch enables building for the same target as the host, and also for the r600 AMD GPU used by the Mesa r600 and radeonsi drivers. Default is all. You can use a comma separated list. Valid targets are: host, x86, x86_64, sparc, powerpc, arm64, arm, aarch64, mips, hexagon, xcore, msp430, nvptx, systemz, r600, amdgpu (equivalent to r600), bpf, wasm, and cpp.

--disable-assertions: Disable some compile checks, not necessary on a production system.

Installed Programs: bugpoint, c-index-test, clang, clang++ (symlink), count, FileCheck, clang-check, clang-format, clang-tblgen, llc, lli, lli-child-target, llvm-ar, llvm-as, llvm-bcanalyzer, llvm-config, llvm-cov, llvm-cxxdump, llvm-diff, llvm-dis, llvm-dsymutil, llvm-dwarfdump, llvm-extract, llvm-link, llvm-mc, llvm-mcmarkup, llvm-nm, llvm-objdump, llvm-pdbdump, llvm-profdata, llvm-ranlib (symlink), llvm-readobj, llvm-rtdyld, llvm-size, llvm-stress, llvm-symbolizer, llvm-tblgen, macho-dump, not, obj2yaml, opt, scan-build (symlink), scan-view (symlink), verify-uselistorder, and yaml2obj

Installed Libraries: BugpointPasses.so, libclang.so, libLLVM-3.7.0.so, libLTO.so, LLVMHello.so and numerous static libraries in /usr/lib

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{clang,clang-c,llvm,llvm-c}, /usr/lib/{clang,clang-analyzer}, and /usr/share/{doc/llvm-3.7.0,llvm}

Short Descriptions

bugpoint	is the automatic test case reduction tool.
clang	is the Clang C, C++, and Objective-C compiler.
llc	is the LLVM static compiler.
lli	is used to directly execute programs from LLVM bitcode.
llvm-ar	is the LLVM archiver.
llvm-as	is the LLVM assembler.
llvm-bcanalyzer	is the LLVM bitcode analyzer.
llvm-config	Prints LLVM compilation options.
llvm-cov	is used to emit coverage information.
llvm-cxxdump	is used for C++ ABI Data Dumper.
llvm-diff	is the LLVM structural 'diff'.
llvm-dis	is the LLVM disassembler.
llvm-dsymutil	tool used to manipulate archived DWARF debug symbol files, compatible with the Darwin command dsymutil.
llvm-extract	is used to extract a function from an LLVM module.
llvm-link	is the LLVM linker.
llvm-nm	is used to list LLVM bitcode and object file's symbol table.
llvm-pdbdump	is used as PDB Dumper.
llvm-ranlib	is used to generate index for LLVM archive.
llvm-stress	is used to generate random `.ll` files.
llvm-tblgen	is the LLVM Target Description To C++ Code Generator.
obj2yaml	takes an object file,and produces a YAML representation of the file.
opt	is the LLVM optimizer.
scan-build	is a Perl script that invokes the Clang static analyzer.
yaml2obj	takes a YAML representation of an object file and converts it to an binary file.
`libLLVM-3.7.0.so`	contains the LLVM API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Lua-5.3.1

Introduction to Lua

Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. It is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost. The result is a fast language engine with small footprint, making it ideal in embedded systems too.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 797adacada8d85761c079390ff1d9961
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.9 MB (with test)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with test)

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/lua-5.3.1-shared_library-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lua

Installation of Lua

Install Lua by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../lua-5.3.1-shared_library-1.patch &&
sed -i '/#define LUA_ROOT/s:/usr/local/:/usr/:' src/luaconf.h &&
make linux

To test the results, issue: make test. “This will run the interpreter and print its version.”

Now, as the root user:

make INSTALL_TOP=/usr TO_LIB="liblua.so liblua.so.5.3 liblua.so.5.3.1" \
     INSTALL_DATA="cp -d" INSTALL_MAN=/usr/share/man/man1 install &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/lua-5.3.1 &&
cp -v doc/*.{html,css,gif,png} /usr/share/doc/lua-5.3.1

Some packages check for the pkg-config file for Lua. As the root user:

cat > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc << "EOF"
V=5.3
R=5.3.1

prefix=/usr
INSTALL_BIN=${prefix}/bin
INSTALL_INC=${prefix}/include
INSTALL_LIB=${prefix}/lib
INSTALL_MAN=${prefix}/man/man1
INSTALL_LMOD=${prefix}/share/lua/${V}
INSTALL_CMOD=${prefix}/lib/lua/${V}
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: Lua
Description: An Extensible Extension Language
Version: ${R}
Requires: 
Libs: -L${libdir} -llua -lm
Cflags: -I${includedir}
EOF

Command Explanations

sed -i ... src/luaconf.h: This command changes Lua search path to match the install paths.

Installed Programs: lua and luac

Installed Library: liblua.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/lua, /usr/share/lua and /usr/share/doc/lua-5.3.1

Short Descriptions

lua	is the standalone Lua interpreter.
luac	is the Lua compiler.
`liblua.so`	contains the Lua API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Mercurial-3.5.1

Introduction to Mercurial

Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool similar to Git and Bazaar. Mercurial is written in Python and is used by projects such as Mozilla and Vim.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-3.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 796a778075ec6358235e9258f9a54224
Download size: 4.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 51 MB (with documentation, additional 290 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with documentation, additional 3 SBU for tests, with -j8)

Mercurial Dependencies

Required

Optional

git-2.5.0, GnuPG-2.1.7 (gpg2 with Python bindings), Subversion-1.9.1 (with Python bindings), Bazaar, CVS, Docutils (required to build the documentation), pyflakes, pygments, and pyOpenSSL

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mercurial

Installation of Mercurial

Build Mercurial by issuing the following command:

make build

To build the documentation (requires Docutils), issue:

make doc

Running the test suite is optional. If there are failures, e.g. test-parse-date.t, those tests can be disabled. To test the results in the subdiretory tests/tmp, skipping failing tests, issue:

cat > tests/blacklists/failed-tests << "EOF"
# Test Failures
   test-hgweb-commands.t
   test-convert-svn-source.t
   test-subrepo-svn.t
   test-convert-hg-svn.t
   test-mq-subrepo-svn.t
   test-gpg.t
EOF
rm -rf tests/tmp &&
TESTFLAGS="-j<N> --tmpdir tmp --blacklist blacklists/failed-tests" \
make check

where <N> is an integer between one and the number of processor threads, inclusive. In order to investigate a particular apparently failing test, e.g “test-parse-date.t”, issue the following commands (notice that omitting --debug sometimes modifies the result):

pushd tests &&
rm -rf tmp  &&
./run-tests.py --debug --tmpdir tmp test-parse-date.t &&
popd

Install Mercurial by running the following command (as root):

make PREFIX=/usr install-bin

If you built the documentation, install it by running the following command (as root):

make PREFIX=/usr install-doc

After installed, two very quick and simple tests should run correctly. First one needs some configuration:

cat >> ~/.hgrc << "EOF"
[ui]
username = <user_name> <your@mail>
EOF

where you must replace <user_name> and <your@mail> (mail is optional and can be omitted). With the user identity defined, run hg debuginstall and several lines will be displayed, the last one reading "no problems detected". Another quick and simple test is just hg, which should output basic commands that can be used with hg.

Configuring Mercurial

Config Files

/etc/mercurial/hgrc

If you have installed the Certificate Authority Certificates and you want Mercurial to use them, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /etc/mercurial &&
cat > /etc/mercurial/hgrc << "EOF"
[web]
cacerts = /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt
EOF

Installed Programs: hg

Installed Libraries: several internal modules under /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial

Installed Directories: /etc/mercurial and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{hgext,mercurial}

Short Descriptions

hg	is the program file for mercurial.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

NASM-2.11.08

Introduction to NASM

NASM (Netwide Assembler) is an 80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It includes a disassembler as well.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.11.08/nasm-2.11.08.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0d461a085b088a14dd6628c53be1ce28
Download size: 747 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional documentation: http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.11.08/nasm-2.11.08-xdoc.tar.xz

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nasm

Installation of NASM

If you downloaded the optional documentation, put it into the source tree:

tar -xf ../nasm-2.11.08-xdoc.tar.xz --strip-components=1

Install NASM by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it with the following instructions as the root user:

install -m755 -d         /usr/share/doc/nasm-2.11.08/html  &&
cp -v doc/html/*.html    /usr/share/doc/nasm-2.11.08/html  &&
cp -v doc/*.{txt,ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/nasm-2.11.08       &&
cp -v doc/info/*         /usr/share/info                   &&
install-info /usr/share/info/nasm.info /usr/share/info/dir

Installed Programs: nasm and ndisasm

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/nasm-2.11.08

Short Descriptions

nasm	is a portable 80x86 assembler.
ndisasm	is an 80x86 binary file disassembler.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

NPAPI-SDK-0.27.2

Introduction to NPAPI-SDK

NPAPI-SDK is a bundle of Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface headers by Mozilla. This package provides a clear way to install those headers and depend on them.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://bitbucket.org/mgorny/npapi-sdk/downloads/npapi-sdk-0.27.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e81db61e206cd615cf56c4a9f301e636
Download size: 65 KB
Estimated disk space required: 520 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/NPAPI-SDK

Installation of NPAPI-SDK

Install NPAPI-SDK by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/include/npapi-sdk

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Perl Modules

Introduction to Perl Modules

The Perl module packages add useful objects to the Perl language. Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here, along with their dependencies. Installation of the modules shown on this page should be accomplished by installing the dependencies in the order listed. The Perl Module standard build and installation instructions are shown at the bottom of this page.

Where a module is shown as '(for the testsuite)' it is required if you wish to run the test for the module which uses it. In these cases, only the required dependencies are listed - there might be other modules which allow more tests to be run, but omitting them will still allow the tests to PASS.

Archive::Zip-1.50

The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Archive::Zip-1.50
http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.50.tar.gz
MD5 sum: c68f1db2c340456845ac29e26ae2b45a

autovivification-0.16

The autovivification module allows you to lexically disable autovivification. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

autovivification-0.16
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/V/VP/VPIT/autovivification-0.16.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 7e20817f6034910c1bc23351d81a0658

Business::ISBN-2.09

The Business::ISBN module is for work with International Standard Book Numbers. This module and its dependency use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Business::ISBN-2.09
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISBN-2.09.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 5ebf339c409d99cdfa6f96974ef96780
- Business::ISBN::Data
  (http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Business-ISBN-Data/)

Business::ISMN-1.13

The Business::ISMN module is for work with International Standard Music Numbers. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Business::ISMN-1.13
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISMN-1.13.tar.gz
MD5 sum: e8696a78b4aa8a99869fbb0625c5cc13
- Tie::Cycle
  (http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Tie-Cycle/)

Business::ISSN-0.91

The Business::ISSN module is for work with International Standard Serial Numbers. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Business::ISSN-0.91
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/Business-ISSN-0.91.tar.gz
MD5 sum: d1f609422d3a0ad5e301ae694d142fe4

Data::Compare-1.25

The Data::Compare module compares two perl data structures. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Data::Compare-1.25
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DC/DCANTRELL/Data-Compare-1.25.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 6a397ab5833237f3ca05ed7277b19a7a
- File::Find::Rule
  (http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/File-Find-Rule/)
  - Number::Compare
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Number::Compare/)
  - Text::Glob
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text::Glob/)

Data::Dump-1.23

This module provides pretty printing of data structures. It uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Data::Dump-1.23
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Data-Dump-1.23.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 762c111e525c82ff23d62c90821b26e9

Date::Simple-3.03

Date::Simple provides a simple date object. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Date::Simple-3.03
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/I/IZ/IZUT/Date-Simple-3.03.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 436049dc2c7dfd8423d8bcc807248b31

Encode::EUCJPASCII-0.03

Encode::EUCJPASCII provides an eucJP-open mapping. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEZUMI/Encode-EUCJPASCII-0.03.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 5daa65f55b7c2050bb0713d9e95f239d

Encode::HanExtra-0.23

The Encode::HanExtra module provides extra sets of Chinese Encodings. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Encode::HanExtra-0.23
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AU/AUDREYT/Encode-HanExtra-0.23.tar.gz
MD5 sum: e1d3bc32c1c8ee304235a06fbcd5d5a4

Encode::JIS2K-0.03

The Encode::JIS2K module provides JIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Encode::JIS2K-0.03
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DANKOGAI/Encode-JIS2K-0.03.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 60539471aa408a2b793cd45a6ce651db

File::Slurp-9999.19

The File::Slurp module provides Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

File::Slurp-9999.19
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/U/UR/URI/File-Slurp-9999.19.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 7d584cd15c4f8b9547765eff8c4ef078

File::Which-1.19

File::Which provides a portable implementation of the 'which' utility. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

File::Which-1.19
http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PL/PLICEASE/File-Which-1.19.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 27f967930f011b646c1bf839b606e164

HTML::Parser-3.71

The HTML::Parser distribution is a collection of modules that parse and extract information from HTML documents. This module and the dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

HTML::Parser-3.71
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.71.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 9128a45893097dfa3bf03301b19c5efe
- HTML::Tagset
  (http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/HTML-Tagset/)
- libwww-perl-6.13 (circular; howevever, it can be installed after HTML::Parser as it is only a run-time requirement for the included HTML::HeadParser module)

IPC::Run3-0.048

The IPC::Run3 module is used to run a subprocess with input/ouput redirection. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

IPC-Run3-0.048
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/IPC-Run3-0.048.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 85b36bcd2fd2450718ee14f894f0d3d1

libwww-perl-6.13 (a.k.a. Bundle::LWP)

The libwww-perl (Bundle::LWP) collection is a set of Perl modules which provide a simple and consistent application programming interface to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also contains modules that are of more general use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers. The LWP collection and all its dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions. The dependencies should be installed in the order listed below. Ensure you install the dependency chain for each module before installing the modules.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

libwww-perl-6.13
https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/libwww-perl-6.13.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 85b36bcd2fd2450718ee14f894f0d3d1
- Encode::Locale
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Encode-Locale/)
- HTML::Form
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Form/)
  - URI-1.69
  - HTML::Parser-3.71
  - HTTP::Message
    (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTTP-Message/)
    
    HTTP::Date
    (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTTP-Date/)
    
    IO::HTML
    (http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/IO-HTML/)
    
    LWP::MediaTypes
    (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/LWP-MediaTypes/)
- HTTP::Cookies
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTTP-Cookies/)
- HTTP::Negotiate
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTTP-Negotiate/)
- Net::HTTP
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Net-HTTP/)
- WWW::RobotRules
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/WWW-RobotRules/)
- HTTP::Daemon
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTTP-Daemon/)
- File::Listing
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/File-Listing/)

After the LWP installation, if you want HTTPS protocol support, install the following (application and modules):

OpenSSL-1.0.2d
LWP::Protocol::https
(http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/LWP-Protocol-https/)
- IO::Socket::SSL
  (http://search.cpan.org/~behroozi/IO-Socket-SSL/)
  - Net::SSLeay
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSLeay/)
- Mozilla::CA
  (http://search.cpan.org/~abh/Mozilla-CA/)

List::AllUtils-0.09

The List::Allutils module combines List::Util and List::MoreUtils in one bite-sized package. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package will fail (tests, but not for any obvious reason, and at runtime) if the core module List::Util is older than 1.31, as happens with e.g. with perl-5.18.2 from LFS-7.5. To test the version, you can run the following command

strings /usr/lib/perl5/5.*/*/auto/List/Util/Util.so |
grep -E '^[[:digit:]]\.[[:digit:]]+'

and if necessary install Scalar::List::Utils (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scalar-List-Utils/) to get a newer version of that module without updating all of perl.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

List::AllUtils-0.09
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/List-AllUtils-0.09.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 3e2dfeeef80c4e1952443c6b7d48583c
- List::MoreUtils
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/List::MoreUtils/) (for the testsuite)
  - Exporter::Tiny
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Exporter::Tiny/) (for the testsuite)
- Number::Compare
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Number::Compare/)
- Test::Warnings
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test::Warnings/) (for the testsuite)
  - CPAN::Meta::Check
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN::Meta::Check/) (for the testsuite)
  - Module::Metadata
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module::Metadata/) (for the testsuite)
    This is a core perl module but Test::Warnings needs at least version 1.000023
    so a newer version is needed in LFS-7.7 and later. To check, run
    grep 'our $VERSION' /usr/lib/perl5/5.*/Module/Metadata.pm
    
    Test::Deep
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test::Deep/) (for the testsuite)
    
    Test::NoWarnings
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test::NoWarnings/) (for the testsuite)
    
    Test::Simple
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test::Simple/) (for the testsuite)
    In perl 5.22.0 this module became part of the core,
    so it is only needed for earlier versions of perl.
- Text::Glob
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text::Glob/)

Log-Log4perl-1.46 (a.k.a. Log::Log4perl)

Log-Log4perl provides a Log4j implementation for perl. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Log-Log4perl-1.46
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHILLI/Log-Log4perl-1.46.tar.gz
MD5 sum: d247d2327d7f32dca09cbeb51a953fc5

Module-Build-0.4214

Module::Build allows perl modules to be built without a make command being present. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions. If your version of perl is 5.20.2 or earlier, a version of this module was installed as part of the core perl distribution and you do not need to install a newer version.

Note

When creating the Makefile, this module will report

inc_bundling_support....disabled
requires:
! inc::latest is not installed

but inc::latest is experimental and not needed.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Module-Build-0.4214
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/Module-Build-0.4214.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 7b7ca5a47bef48c50c8b5906ca3ac7fb

Net::DNS-1.02

Net::DNS is a DNS resolver implemented in Perl. It can be used to perform nearly any type of DNS query from a Perl script. The Net::DNS module and all its dependencies are installed using the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Net::DNS-1.02
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NL/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-1.02.tar.gz
MD5 sum: adbb3fd9bc1677d8fd79605925a35106
- Digest::HMAC
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-HMAC/) (for the testsuite)
- IO::Socket::INET6
  (http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/IO-Socket-INET6-2.72/) (required for IPv6 support)
- IO::Socket::INET
  (http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm) (required for IPv6 support)
  - Socket6
    (http://search.cpan.org/~umemoto/Socket6/)

Regexp::Common-2013031301

Regexp::Common provides commonly requested regular expressions. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Regexp-Common-2013031301
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABIGAIL/Regexp-Common-2013031301.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 2b9c335312dcfd9980ff7acbad0e5905

SGMLSpm-1.1

The SGMLSpm module is a Perl library used for parsing the output from James Clark's SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers. This modules uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Before beginning the build, issue the following command to prevent an error:

chmod -v 644 MYMETA.yml

After the package has been installed, run the following command as the root user:

ln -sv sgmlspl.pl /usr/bin/sgmlspl

SGMLSpm-1.1
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/perl-modules/SGMLSpm-1.1.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 746c74ae969992cedb1a2879b4168090

Test-Command-0.11 (Test::Command)

This module tests the exit status, STDOUT, or STDERR, of an external command. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Test-Command-0.11
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DANBOO/Test-Command-0.11.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 9ab83c4695961dbe92cd86efe08f0634

Test::Differences-0.63

Test::Differences - Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok. This module and its dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Test::Differences-0.63
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DC/DCANTRELL/Test-Differences-0.63.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 473cce4879642e29d41bdfafd89c821d
- Text::Diff (for the testsuite)
  (http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/Text-Diff/)
  - Algorithm::Diff (for the testsuite)
    (http://search.cpan.org/~tyemq/Algorithm-Diff/)

Test::Pod-1.51

Test::Pod checks for POD errors in files. It uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Test-Pod-1.51
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/Test-Pod-1.51.tar.gz
MD5 sum: f806aa84de2f0c0fba48b3a5a8a4aecf

Test::Pod::Coverage-1.10

Test::Pod::Coverage check for pod coverage. This module and its dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Test::Pod::Coverage-1.10
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/Test-Pod-Coverage-1.10.tar.gz
MD5 sum: c9ea5f4182415b13d2db18484a38c01b
- Pod::Coverage (for the testsuite)
  (http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/Pod-Coverage/)
  - Devel::Symdump (for the testsuite)
    (http://search.cpan.org/~andk/Devel-Symdump/)

Text::BibTeX-0.71

Text::BibTeX provides an interface to read and parse BibTeX files. This module uses the instructions for packages using Build.PL, but except where noted, its dependencies are installed using the standard build and installation instructions.

This package asks for what it calls `Scalar::Util` version 1.42 or later if the core module List::Util is older than this, as happens with releases up to perl-5.20.2. To test the version, you can run the following command

strings /usr/lib/perl5/5.*/*/auto/List/Util/Util.so |
grep -E '^[[:digit:]]\.[[:digit:]]+'

and if necessary install Scalar::List::Utils (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scalar-List-Utils/) to get a newer version of that module without updating all of perl.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Text-BibTeX-0.71
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AM/AMBS/Text-BibTeX-0.71.tar.gz
MD5 sum: a616d5df23dc0552a85608bd15bf03d1
- Config::AutoConf
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-AutoConf/)
  - Capture=Tiny
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Capture-Tiny/)
  - ExtUtils-LibBuilder
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/LibBuilder/)
    this uses the instructions for packages using Build.PL
    
    Module-Build-0.4214

Text::Roman-3.5

Text::Roman allows conversion between Roman and Arabic algorisms (number systems, e.g. MCMXLV and 1945). This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Text-Roman-3.5
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SY/SYP/Text-Roman-3.5.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 1f6b09c0cc1f4425b565ff787a39fd83

Unicode::Collate-1.14

Unicode::Collate provides a Unicode collation algorithm. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Unicode-Collate-1.14
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Collate-1.14.tar.gz
MD5 sum: c486b31f87bfa3875883f3c9fad9fd99

Unicode::LineBreak-2015.07.16

Unicode::LineBreak provides a UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm. This module and its dependencies use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Unicode::LineBreak-2015.07.16
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEZUMI/Unicode-LineBreak-2015.07.16.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 8e811b9b9c47fdc7fa3a5c55e1a9c0ea
- MIME::Charset
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-Charset/)
  - Encode-JISX0213
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-JISX0213/)
    
    Encode-ISO2022
    (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode-ISO2022/)

URI-1.69

This module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent "Uniform Resource Identifier references" as specified in RFC 2396 (and updated by RFC 2732). A Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. A Uniform Resource Identifier can be further classified as either a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Name (URN). The distinction between URL and URN does not matter to the URI class interface. A "URI-reference" is a URI that may have additional information attached in the form of a fragment identifier. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

URI-1.69
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.69.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 3c56aee0300bce5a440ccbd558277ea0

XML::LibXML::Simple-0.95

The XML::LibXML::Simple module is a rewrite of XML::Simple to use the XML::LibXML parser for XML structures,instead of the plain Perl or SAX parsers. This module and all dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

XML::LibXML::Simple-0.95
http://cpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/XML-LibXML-Simple-0.95.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 862fd977c97c4ec777a235522e12229d
- XML::SAX
- XML::LibXML
- File::Slurp::Tiny
  (http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Slurp-Tiny/)

XML::LibXSLT-1.94

The XML::LibXSLT module provides an interface to libxslt. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

XML::LibXSLT-1.94
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXSLT-1.94.tar.gz
MD5 sum: a32045699c001d960d6f94891f9e853c
- libxslt-1.1.28

XML::Simple-2.20

The XML::Simple module is a Perl extension that provides an easy API to read and write XML (especially config files). This module and all dependency modules use the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

XML::Simple-2.20
http://cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-2.20.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 4d10964e123b76eca36678464daa63cd
- XML::SAX
  (http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-SAX/)
  (Note: this package does not support parallel build)
  - XML::NamespaceSupport
    (http://search.cpan.org/~perigrin/XML-NamespaceSupport/)
  - XML::SAX::Base
    (http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-SAX-Base/)
- XML::SAX::Expat
  (http://search.cpan.org/~bjoern/XML-SAX-Expat/)
  (Note: this package does not support parallel build)
- XML::LibXML
  (http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/XML-LibXML/)
  (recommended for faster parsing)
- Tie::IxHash
  (http://search.cpan.org/~chorny/Tie-IxHash/)
  (optionally used in the test suite)

XML::Writer-0.625

XML::Writer provides a Perl extension for writing XML documents. This module uses the standard build and installation instructions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

XML::Writer-0.625
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JO/JOSEPHW/XML-Writer-0.625.tar.gz
MD5 sum: b9c2420c243c6a36ce45a008740fcede

Standard Installation of Perl Modules

Install Perl modules by running the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL &&
make &&
make test

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

When reinstalling a Perl module, sometimes older versions of the module being reinstalled are in other directories specified in @INC. To delete all other versions of the module being reinstalled (not simply older ones) set the UNINST variable:

make install UNINST=1

Installation of Perl Modules which use Build.PL

Before perl-5.22, Module::Build was part of the core distribution. Now it must be installed separately (see above) before any of the modules which use it can be built.

Install Perl modules which use Build.PL by running the following commands:

perl Build.PL &&
./Build &&
./Build test

Now, as the root user:

./Build install

(Alternate) Auto Installation of Perl Modules.

There is an alternate way of installing the modules using the cpan shell install command. The command automatically downloads the source from the CPAN archive, extracts it, runs the compilation, testing and installation commands mentioned above, and removes the build source tree. You may still need to install dependent library packages before running the automated installation method.

The first time you run cpan, you'll be prompted to enter some information regarding download locations and methods. This information is retained in files located in ~/.cpan. Start the cpan shell by issuing 'cpan' as the root user. Any module may now be installed from the cpan> prompt with the command:

install <Module::Name>

For additional commands and help, issue 'help' from the cpan> prompt.

Alternatively, for scripted or non-interactive installations, use the following syntax as the root user to install one or more modules:

cpan -i <Module1::Name> <Module2::Name>

Review the cpan.1 man page for additional parameters you can pass to cpan on the command line.

Most of these modules only install into the perl directories, but a few will also install programs (mostly, perl scripts), or even a library, into /usr

Installed Programs: Archive::Zip: crc32 File::Find::Rule: findrule libwww-perl: lwp-download, lwp-dump, lwp-mirror, lwp-request Log::Log4perl: l4p-tmpl Module::Build config_data Pod::Coverage: pod_cover Text::BibTeX: biblex, bibparse, dumpnames

Installed Libraries: Text::BibTeX: libbtparse.so

Short Descriptions

crc32	computes and prints to stdout the CRC-32 values of the given files.
findrule	is a command line wrapper to File:Find:Rule.
lwp-download	is a script to fetch a large file from the web.
lwp-dump	is used to see what headers and content is returned for a URL.
lwp-mirror	is a simple mirror utility.
lwp-request	is a simple command line user agent.
l4p-templ	prints out the text of a template Log4perl configuration for starting a new Log4perl configuration file.
config_data	is used to query or change the configuration of perl modules.
pod_cover	is used to get a coverage analysis of the embedded documentation in a perl module.
biblex	performs lexical analysis on a BibTeX file.
bibparse	parses a series of BibTeX files with command line options to control the string post-processing behaviour.
dumpnames	parses a BibTeX file, splitting 'author' and 'editor' fields into lists of names, and then dumps everything to stdout.
`libbtparse.so`	is a library for parsing and processing BibTeX data files.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 17:31:47 -0700

PHP-5.6.13

Introduction to PHP

PHP is the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Primarily used in dynamic web sites, it allows for programming code to be directly embedded into the HTML markup. It is also useful as a general purpose scripting language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.php.net/distributions/php-5.6.13.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Unix/Web/PHP/distributions/php-5.6.13.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: de4a8ff544986d9e0da90522fa66f195
Download size: 12 MB
Estimated disk space required: 505 MB (with the tests)
Estimated build time: 6 SBU (with the tests)

Additional Downloads

Pre-built documentation (optional): http://www.php.net/download-docs.php

PHP Dependencies

Optional System Utilities and Libraries

Aspell-0.60.6.1, enchant-1.6.0, libxslt-1.1.28, an MTA (that provides a sendmail command), PCRE-8.37, Pth-2.0.7, Dmalloc, Net-SNMP, OSSP mm, re2c, and XMLRPC-EPI

Optional Graphics Utilities and Libraries

FreeType-2.6, libexif-0.6.21, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, LibTIFF-4.0.5, X Window System, ClibPDF, FDF Toolkit, GD, and t1lib

Optional Web Utilities

cURL-7.44.0, HTML Tidy-cvs_20101110, Caudium, Hyperwave, mnoGoSearch, Roxen WebServer, and WDDX

Optional Data Management Utilities and Libraries

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1, unixODBC-2.3.2, Adabas, Birdstep, cdb, DBMaker, Empress, FrontBase, Mini SQL, Monetra, and QDBM

PHP also provides support for many commercial database tools such as Oracle, SAP and ODBC Router.

Optional Security/Encryption Utilities and Libraries

OpenSSL-1.0.2d, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, libmcrypt, and mhash

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/php

Installation of PHP

You can use PHP for server-side scripting, command-line scripting or client-side GUI applications. This book provides instructions for setting up PHP for server-side scripting as it is the most common form.

Note

PHP has many more configure options that will enable support for various things. You can use ./configure --help to see a full list of the available options. Also, use of the PHP web site is highly recommended, as their online docs are very good. An example of a configure command that utilizes many of the most common dependencies can be found at http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/svn/php_configure.txt.

If, for whatever reason, you don't have libxml2-2.9.2 installed, you need to add --disable-libxml to the configure command in the instructions below. Note that this will prevent the pear command from being built.

Install PHP by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                \
            --sysconfdir=/etc            \
            --localstatedir=/var         \
            --datadir=/usr/share/php     \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man      \
            --enable-fpm                 \
            --with-fpm-user=apache       \
            --with-fpm-group=apache      \
            --with-config-file-path=/etc \
            --with-zlib                  \
            --enable-bcmath              \
            --with-bz2                   \
            --enable-calendar            \
            --enable-dba=shared          \
            --with-gdbm                  \
            --with-gmp                   \
            --enable-ftp                 \
            --with-gettext               \
            --enable-mbstring            \
            --with-readline              &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test. A few tests may fail, in which case you are asked whether you want to send the report to the PHP developpers. If you want to automate the test, you may prefix the command with yes "n" | .

Now, as the root user:

make install                                         &&
install -v -m644 php.ini-production /etc/php.ini     &&
mv -v /etc/php-fpm.conf{.default,}                   &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13 &&
install -v -m644    CODING_STANDARDS EXTENSIONS INSTALL NEWS README* UPGRADING* php.gif \
                    /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13 &&
ln -v -sfn          /usr/lib/php/doc/Archive_Tar/docs/Archive_Tar.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13 &&
ln -v -sfn          /usr/lib/php/doc/Structures_Graph/docs \
                    /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13

The pre-built HTML documentation is packaged in two forms: a tarball containing many individual files, useful for quick loading into your browser, and one large individual file, which is useful for using the search utility of your browser. If you downloaded either, or both, of the documentation files, issue the following commands as the root user to install them (note these instructions assume English docs, modify the tarball names below if necessary).

For the “Single HTML” file:

install -v -m644 ../php_manual_en.html.gz \
    /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13 &&
gunzip -v /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13/php_manual_en.html.gz

For the “Many HTML files” tarball:

tar -xvf ../php_manual_en.tar.gz \
    -C /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13 --no-same-owner

Command Explanations

--with-datadir=/usr/share/php: This works around a bug in the build machinery, which installs some data to a wrong location.

--enable-fpm: This parameter allows building the fastCGI Process Manager.

--with-config-file-path=/etc: This parameter makes PHP look for the php.ini configuration file in /etc.

--with-zlib: This parameter adds support for Zlib compression.

--enable-bcmath: Enables bc style precision math functions.

--with-bz2: Adds support for Bzip2 compression functions.

--enable-calendar: This parameter provides support for calendar conversion.

--enable-dba=shared: This parameter enables support for database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions.

--enable-ftp: This parameter enables FTP functions.

--with-gettext: Enables functions that use Gettext text translation.

--enable-mbstring: This parameter enables multibyte string support.

--with-readline: This parameter enables command line Readline support.

--with-mysql: This option includes MariaDB/MySQL support.

--disable-libxml: This option allows building PHP without libxml2 installed.

--with-apxs2: Instead of building the fastCGI process manager, it is possible to build an apache module. This has some performance penalty for heavy loaded servers, but may be easier to set up. This switch is incompatible with the --enable-fpm and --with-fpm-... switches.

Configuring PHP

Config Files

/etc/php.ini, /etc/pear.conf, and /etc/php-fpm.conf

Configuration Information

The file used as the default /etc/php.ini configuration file is recommended by the PHP development team. This file modifies the default behavior of PHP. If no /etc/php.ini is used, all configuration settings fall to the defaults. You should review the comments in this file and ensure the changes are acceptable in your particular environment.

You may have noticed the following from the output of the make install command:

You may want to add: /usr/lib/php to your php.ini include_path

If desired, add the entry using the following command as the root user:

sed -i 's@php/includes"@&\ninclude_path = ".:/usr/lib/php"@' \
    /etc/php.ini

To enable fastCGI support in the Apache web server, two LoadModule directives must be added to the httpd.conf file. They are commented out, so just issue the following command as root user:

sed -i -e '/proxy_module/s/^#//'      \
       -e '/proxy_fcgi_module/s/^#//' \
       /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Those modules accept various ProxyPass directives. One possibility is (as the root user):

echo \
'ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/srv/www/$1' >> \
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Additionally, it may be useful to add an entry for index.php to the DirectoryIndex directive of the httpd.conf file. Lastly, adding a line to setup the .phps extension to show highlighted PHP source may be desirable:

AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

You'll need to restart the Apache web server after making any modifications to the httpd.conf file.

Boot Script

To automatically start the php-fpm daemon when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/php bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package as the root user:

make install-php

Installed Programs: pear, peardev, pecl, phar (symlink), phar.phar, php, php-cgi, php-config, php-fpm, and phpize

Installed Libraries: dba.{so,a} and opcache.{so,a} at /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,lib,share}/php and /usr/share/doc/php-5.6.13

Short Descriptions

php	is a command line interface that enables you to parse and execute PHP code.
pear	is the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) package manager.
php-fpm	is the fastCGI process manager for PHP.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

Python-2.7.10

Introduction to Python 2

The Python 2 package contains the Python development environment. It is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications. This version is for backward compatibility with other dependent packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/Python-2.7.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c685ef0b8e9f27b5e3db5db12b268ac6
Download size: 12 MB
Estimated disk space required: 227 MB (additional 18 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (additional 5.5 SBU for tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional HTML Documentation

Download (HTTP): https://docs.python.org/2.7/archives/python-2.7.10-docs-html.tar.bz2

Python 2 Dependencies

Optional

BlueZ-5.34 and Valgrind-3.10.1

Optional (For Additional Modules)

OpenSSL-1.0.2d, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and Tk-8.6.4

Note

If you are building Thunderbird-38.3.0 or Firefox-41.0 you must install openssl before you build Python 2.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Python

Installation of Python 2

Install Python 2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --enable-shared     \
            --with-system-expat \
            --with-system-ffi   \
            --enable-unicode=ucs4 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k test. One test fails for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0

Since Python 2 is in maintenance mode, and Python 3 is recommended by upstream for development, you probably do not need to install the documentation. However, if you still want to install documentation for both Python versions, be sure to define the PYTHONDOCS variable for the version you want to use, each time you need to consult the documentation. If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation from http://docs.python.org/download.html, install it as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10 &&

tar --strip-components=1                     \
    --no-same-owner                          \
    --directory /usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10 \
    -xvf ../python-2.7.10-docs-html.tar.bz2 &&

find /usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10 -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; &&
find /usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10 -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

Command Explanations

--with-system-expat: This switch enables linking against system version of Expat.

--with-system-ffi: This switch enables linking against system version of libffi. Remove if you have not installed libffi-3.2.1.

--enable-unicode=ucs4: This switch enables 32bit Unicode support in Python.

--with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm:ndbm: Use this switch if you want to build Python DBM Module against Berkeley DB instead of GDBM.

chmod ...: Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other libraries.

Configuring Python 2

In order for python to find the installed documentation, you must add the following environment variable to individual user's or the system's profile:

export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10

Installed Programs: 2to3, pydoc, python (symlink), python-config (symlink), python2 (symlink), python2-config (symlink), python2.7, python2.7-config, smtpd.py, and idle

Installed Library: libpython2.7.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/python2.7, /usr/lib/python2.7, and /usr/share/doc/python-2.7.10

Short Descriptions

2to3	is a Python program that reads Python 2.x source code and applies a series of fixers to transform it into valid Python 3.x code.
idle	is a wrapper script that opens a Python aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed Tk before Python so that the Tkinter Python module is built.
pydoc	is the Python documentation tool.
python	is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
python2.7	is a version-specific name for the python program.
smtpd.py	is an SMTP proxy implemented in Python.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Python-3.4.3

Introduction to Python 3

The Python 3 package contains the Python development environment. This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.3/Python-3.4.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7d092d1bba6e17f0d9bd21b49e441dd5
Download size: 14 MB
Estimated disk space required: 274 MB (additional 38 MB for the docs and 29 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU (additional 1.8 SBU for the tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional HTML Documentation

Download (HTTP): https://docs.python.org/3.4/archives/python-3.4.3-docs-html.tar.bz2

Python 3 Dependencies

Optional

BlueZ-5.34, GDB-7.10 (required for some tests), and Valgrind-3.10.1

Optional (For Additional Modules)

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and Tk-8.6.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Python3

Installation of Python 3

Install Python 3 by running the following commands:

CXX="/usr/bin/g++"              \
./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --enable-shared     \
            --with-system-expat \
            --with-system-ffi   \
            --without-ensurepip &&
make

The test suite must be run separately, using an X terminal (see below).

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.4m.so &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so

If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation from http://docs.python.org/download.html, install it as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-3.4.3/html &&
tar --strip-components=1 \
    --no-same-owner \
    --no-same-permissions \
    -C /usr/share/doc/python-3.4.3/html \
    -xvf ../python-3.4.3-docs-html.tar.bz2

The test suite must be run separately from the build, either before or after the package is built and installed. Do not run make install, after running the test suite. To build and install the package, you need to start with a fresh or clean source tree. For the test, you also need a clean source code, so either start by removing the source code directory and starting over, by uncompressing the source tarball or by running make clean. Then configure again, adding “--with-pydebug” to the configure switches above, run make, then make test. Remember that some tests fail, if not run in an X terminal.

Command Explanations

CXX="/usr/bin/g++" ./configure ...: Avoid an annoying message during configuration.

--with-system-expat: This switch enables linking against system version of Expat.

--with-system-ffi: This switch enables linking against system version of libffi. Remove if you have not installed recommended dependency libffi-3.2.1.

--with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm:ndbm: Use this switch if you want to build Python DBM Module against Berkeley DB instead of GDBM.

--without-ensurepip: This switch disables building pip and setuptools packaging programs.

chmod ...: Fix permissions for shared libraries to be consistent with other libraries.

Configuring Python 3

In order for python3 to find the installed documentation, you must add the following environment variable to individual user's or the system's profile:

export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-3.4.3/html

Installed Programs: 2to3 (symlink), 2to3-3.4, pydoc3 (symlink), pydoc3.4, python3 (symlink); python3.4 and python3.4m (hardlinked); python3-config (symlink), python3.4-config (symlink), python3.4m-config, pyvenv (symlink), pyvenv3.4, idle3 (symlink), and idle3.4

Installed Libraries: libpython3.4m.so and libpython3.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/python3.4m, /usr/lib/python3.4, and /usr/share/doc/python-3.4.3

Short Descriptions

idle3	is a wrapper script that opens a Python aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed Tk before Python so that the Tkinter Python module is built.
pydoc3	is the Python documentation tool.
python3	is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
python3.4	is a version-specific name for the python program.
pyvenv	creates virtual Python environments in one or more target directories.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 15:46:09 -0700

Python Modules

Introduction to Python Modules

The Python module packages add useful objects to the Python language. Modules utilized by packages throughout BLFS are listed here, along with their dependencies. Installation of the modules shown on this page is meant to follow from top to bottom to handle optional dependencies in each module.

D-Bus Python-1.2.0
Py2cairo-1.10.0
PyCairo-1.10.0
PyGObject-2.28.6
PyGObject-3.16.2
PyGTK-2.24.0
PyXDG-0.25

D-Bus Python

Introduction to D-Bus Python Module

D-Bus Python provides Python bindings to the D-Bus.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/dbus-python-1.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b09cd2d1a057cc432ce944de3fc06bf7
Download size: 592 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

D-Bus Python Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104 and Python-2.7.10 and/or Python-3.4.3

Optional (Required to build the API and HTML Documentation)

Epydoc and Docutils

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dbus-python

Installation of D-Bus Python

Note

Both Python 2 and Python 3 modules can be built and installed without any conflicts.

To build D-Bus Python as the Python 2 module, run the following commands:

mkdir python2 &&
pushd python2 &&
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python     \
../configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-python-1.2.0 &&
make &&
popd

To test the results, issue: make -C python2 check.

To build D-Bus Python as the Python 3 module, run the following commands:

mkdir python3 &&
pushd python3 &&
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3    \
../configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-python-1.2.0 &&
make &&
popd

To test the results, issue: make -C python3 check.

To install the Python 2 module, run the following command as the root user:

make -C python2 install

To install the Python 3 module, run the following command as the root user:

make -C python3 install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/dbus-python-1.2.0 and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus and/or /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dbus

Py2cairo-1.10.0

Introduction to Py2cairo Module

Py2cairo provides Python 2 bindings to Cairo.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 20337132c4ab06c1146ad384d55372c5
Download size: 400 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Py2cairo Dependencies

Required

Python-2.7.10 and Cairo-1.14.2

Optional

pytest

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/py2cairo

Installation of Py2cairo

Install Py2cairo by running the following commands:

./waf configure --prefix=/usr &&
./waf build

The test suite must be run after the package is installed.

Now, as the root user:

./waf install

The test suite requires the optional pytest package. If installed, it is run by changing to the test directory and running py.test as an unprivileged user.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: _cairo.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/pycairo and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cairo

PyCairo-1.10.0

Introduction to PyCairo Module

PyCairo provides Python 3 bindings to Cairo.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e6fd3f2f1e6a72e0db0868c4985669c5
Download size: 244 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/pycairo-1.10.0-waf_unpack-1.patch
Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/pycairo-1.10.0-waf_python_3_4-1.patch

PyCairo Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.14.2 and Python-3.4.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pycairo

Installation of PyCairo

Install PyCairo by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../pycairo-1.10.0-waf_unpack-1.patch     &&
wafdir=$(./waf unpack) &&
pushd $wafdir          &&
patch -Np1 -i ../../pycairo-1.10.0-waf_python_3_4-1.patch &&
popd                   &&
unset wafdir           &&
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 ./waf configure --prefix=/usr  &&
./waf build

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

./waf install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/include/pycairo and /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/cairo

PyGObject-2.28.6

Introduction to PyGObject Module

PyGObject-2.28.6 provides Python 2 bindings to the GObject class from GLib.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygobject/2.28/pygobject-2.28.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygobject/2.28/pygobject-2.28.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9415cb7f2b3a847f2310ccea258b101e
Download size: 732 KB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/pygobject-2.28.6-fixes-1.patch

PyGObject Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and Py2cairo-1.10.0

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and libxslt-1.1.28 (to Build Documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pygobject2

Installation of PyGObject

Install PyGObject by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../pygobject-2.28.6-fixes-1.patch   &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-introspection &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-introspection: Omit this switch if you have installed gobject-introspection-1.44.0. Note that it conflicts with PyGObject-3.16.2.

--disable-docs: This option disables the rebuilding of the html documentation if libxslt-1.1.28 is installed.

Installed Programs: pygobject-codegen-2.0

Installed Libraries: libpyglib-2.0-python.so, _gio.so, unix.so, _glib.so and _gobject.so.

Installed Directories: /usr/include/pygtk-2.0, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/{gio,glib,gobject}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pygobject and /usr/share/pygobject/2.0

PyGObject-3.16.2

Introduction to PyGObject3 Module

PyGObject3 provides Python bindings to the GObject class from GLib.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygobject/3.16/pygobject-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygobject/3.16/pygobject-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8a3720efa69dd2d520e0b21b5d9e7c19
Download size: 712 KB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)

PyGObject3 Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and Py2cairo-1.10.0 (for Python 2 bindings) and/or PyCairo-1.10.0 (for Python 3 bindings)

Optional (for the tests)

pep8 and pyflakes

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pygobject3

Installation of PyGObject3

Note

Both Python 2 and Python 3 modules can be built and installed without any conflicts.

If you wish to run the test suite, optionally use the following command to fix one test:

sed -i '/d =.*MUSIC/d' tests/test_glib.py

To build PyGObject3 as the Python 2 module, run the following commands:

mkdir python2 &&
pushd python2 &&
../configure --prefix=/usr --with-python=/usr/bin/python &&
make &&
popd

To test the results, issue: make -C python2 check. An already active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

To build PyGObject3 as the Python 3 module, run the following commands:

mkdir python3 &&
pushd python3 &&
../configure --prefix=/usr --with-python=/usr/bin/python3 &&
make &&
popd

To test the results, issue: make -C python3 check. An already active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

To install the Python 2 module, run the following command as the root user:

make -C python2 install

To install the Python 3 module, run the following command as the root user:

make -C python3 install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/_gi{,_cairo}.so and/or /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/gi/_gi{,_cairo}.cpython-34m.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/pygobject-3.0, and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{gi,pygtkcompat} and/or /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/{gi,pygtkcompat}

PyGTK-2.24.0

Introduction to PyGTK Module

PyGTK lets you to easily create programs with a graphical user interface using the Python programming language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygtk/2.24/pygtk-2.24.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pygtk/2.24/pygtk-2.24.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a1051d5794fd7696d3c1af6422d17a49
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 83 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU

PyGTK Dependencies

Required

PyGObject-2.28.6

Required (atk module)

ATK-2.16.0

Required (pango module)

Pango-1.36.8

Required (pangocairo module)

Py2cairo-1.10.0 and Pango-1.36.8

Required (gtk and gtk.unixprint modules)

Py2cairo-1.10.0 and GTK+-2.24.28.

Required (gtk.glade module)

Py2cairo-1.10.0 and libglade-2.6.4.

Optional

NumPy

Optional (to Build Documentation)

libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pygtk

Installation of PyGTK

Install PyGTK by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

The tests must be run from an active X display. If this is so, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-docs: This option enables rebuilding the html documentation if libxslt-1.1.28 is installed.

Installed Programs: pygtk-codegen-2.0 and pygtk-demo.

Installed Libraries: atk.so, _gtk.so, glade.so, gtkunixprint.so, pango.so and pangocairo.so.

Installed Directories: /usr/include/pygtk-2.0, /usr/lib/pygtk, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pygtk and /usr/share/pygtk.

Short Descriptions

pygtk-codegen-2.0	is a wrapper script to run the PyGTK codegen module.
pygtk-demo	is a Python wrapper to run the PyGTK demo program.

PyXDG-0.25

Introduction to PyXDG Module

PyXDG is a Python library to access freedesktop.org standards.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.25.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: bedcdb3a0ed85986d40044c87f23477c
Download size: 48 KB
Estimated disk space required: 800 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

PyXDG Dependencies

Required

Python-2.7.10 and/or Python-3.4.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pyxdg

Installation of PyXDG

Note

Both Python 2 and Python 3 modules can be built and installed without any conflicts.

To install the Python 2 module, run the following command as the root user:

python setup.py install --optimize=1

To install the Python 3 module, run the following command as the root user:

python3 setup.py install --optimize=1

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xdg and/or /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xdg

Last updated on 2015-04-20 10:10:25 -0700

Ruby-2.2.3

Introduction to Ruby

The Ruby package contains the Ruby development environment. This is useful for object-oriented scripting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.2/ruby-2.2.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2a8bc1f46aba8938add70f742e8af1ff
Download size: 10 MB
Estimated disk space required: 585 MB, with checks (additional 466 MB for C API docs)
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU (additional 3 SBU for checks and 0.4 SBU for C API docs)

Ruby Dependencies

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, Doxygen-1.8.10, Graphviz-2.38.0, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, Tk-8.6.4, Valgrind-3.10.1, and libyaml

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ruby

Installation of Ruby

Install Ruby by running the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr   \
            --enable-shared \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-2.2.3 &&
make

Optionally, build the CAPI documents by running the following commands:

make capi

To test the results, issue: make -k check. One out of 16059 tests fails.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-shared: This switch enables building of the libruby shared library.

--disable-install-doc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes and C API documents.

--disable-install-rdoc: This switch disables building and installing rdoc indexes.

--disable-install-capi: This switch disables building and installing C API documents.

Installed Programs: erb, gem, irb, rake, rdoc, ri, and ruby

Installed Libraries: libruby.so and libruby-static.a

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ruby-2.2.0 /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/share/doc/ruby-2.2.3 and /usr/share/ri

Short Descriptions

ruby	is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
irb	is the interactive interface for Ruby.
erb	is Tiny eRuby. It interprets a Ruby code embedded text file.
ri	displays documentation from a database on Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
`libruby.so`	contains the API functions required by Ruby.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

SCons-2.3.6

Introduction to SCons

SCons is a tool for building software (and other files) implemented in Python.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/scons/scons-2.3.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9c6a1c3c716cbe5f16515f163c91d928
Download size: 616 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

SCons Dependencies

Required

Optional

docbook-xsl-1.78.1, libxml2-2.9.2, and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/scons

Installation of SCons

Install SCons by running the following commands as the root user:

python setup.py install --prefix=/usr  \
                        --standard-lib \
                        --optimize=1   \
                        --install-data=/usr/share

Installed Programs: scons, scons-2.3.6, sconsign, sconsign-2.3.6, scons-time, and scons-time-2.3.6

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCons

Short Descriptions

scons	is a software construction tool.
sconsign	prints SCons `.sconsign` file information.
scons-time	generates and displays SCons timing information.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

S-Lang-2.2.4

Introduction to S-Lang

S-Lang is an interpreted language that may be embedded into an application to make the application extensible. It provides facilities required by interactive applications such as display/screen management, keyboard input and keymaps.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/v2.2/slang-2.2.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7fcfd447e378f07dd0c0bae671fe6487
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 9.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

S-Lang Dependencies

Optional

libpng-1.6.18, PCRE-8.37, and Oniguruma

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/slang

Installation of S-Lang

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install S-Lang by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-readline=gnu &&
make -j1

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that this will also create a static version of the library which will then be installed in the next step.

Now, as the root user:

make install_doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4   \
     SLSH_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/slsh \
     install-all &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libslang.so.2.2.4 \
             /usr/lib/slang/v2/modules/*.so

Command Explanations

--with-readline=gnu: This parameter sets GNU Readline to be used by the parser interface instead of the S-Lang internal version.

make install_doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4 SLSH_DOC_DIR=/usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4/slsh install-all: This command installs the static library as well as the dynamic shared version and related modules. It also changes the documentation installation directories to a versioned directory.

Configuring S-Lang

Config Files

~/.slshrc and /etc/slsh.rc

Installed Program: slsh

Installed Libraries: libslang.{so,a} and numerous support modules

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/slang, /usr/share/doc/slang-2.2.4 and /usr/share/slsh

Short Descriptions

slsh

is a simple program for interpreting S-Lang scripts. It supports dynamic loading of S-Lang modules and includes a Readline interface for interactive use.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Subversion-1.9.1

Introduction to Subversion

Subversion is a version control system that is designed to be a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. It extends and enhances CVS' feature set, while maintaining a similar interface for those already familiar with CVS. These instructions install the client and server software used to manipulate a Subversion repository. Creation of a repository is covered at Running a Subversion Server.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.9.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8e879b61fffe3ac0cf16aeae1e8eda32
Download size: 7.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 192 MB (436 MB with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 779 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 1.4 SBU (2.9 SBU with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 67 SBU for tests)

Subversion Dependencies

Required

Apr-Util-1.5.4 and SQLite-3.8.11.1

Optional

Apache-2.4.16, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, D-Bus-1.10.0, kdelibs-4.14.10 (for KWallet support), Python-2.7.10 (with sqlite support for the tests), Ruby-2.2.3, and SWIG-3.0.7 (for building Perl, Python and Ruby bindings)

Optional (for the Java Bindings)

One of OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, Dante or Jikes, and JUnit-4.11 (to test the Java bindings)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/subversion

Installation of Subversion

Note

This package may fail during the make phase when using multiple processors. If this occurs try continuing with make -j1 or redo the entire build process with fresh sources using -j1.

Install Subversion by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --with-apache-libexecdir &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and you wish to build the API documentation, issue: doxygen doc/doxygen.conf.

If you passed the --enable-javahl parameter to configure and wish to build the Java bindings, issue the following command:

make javahl

If you want to compile Perl, Python2, or Ruby bindings, issue any of the following command:

make swig-pl # for Perl
make swig-py \
     swig_pydir=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsvn \
     swig_pydir_extra=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/svn # for Python
make swig-rb # for Ruby

To test the results, issue: make check.

The Java bindings test, make check-javahl, fails due to errors in the test suite.

To test the results of any of the SWIG bindings, you can use any of the following commands: make check-swig-pl, make check-swig-py, or make check-swig-rb.

The Ruby bindings test, make check-swig-rb, fails due to errors in the test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/subversion-1.9.1 &&
cp      -v -R       doc/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/subversion-1.9.1

If you built the Java bindings, issue the following command as the root user to install them:

 make install-javahl

If you built the Perl, Python2, or Ruby bindings, issue any of the following commands as the root user to install them:

make install-swig-pl
make install-swig-py \
      swig_pydir=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libsvn \
      swig_pydir_extra=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/svn
make install-swig-rb

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-apache-libexecdir: If Apache-2.4.16 is installed, the shared Apache modules are built. This switch allows to have those modules installed to Apache's configured module dir instead of /usr/libexec. It has no effect if Apache is not installed.

---disable-gmock: Do not use the Googlemock testing framework.

Configuring Subversion

Config Files

~/.subversion/config and /etc/subversion/config

Configuration Information

/etc/subversion/config is the Subversion system-wide configuration file. This file is used to specify defaults for different svn commands.

~/.subversion/config is the user's personal configuration file. It is used to override the system-wide defaults set in /etc/subversion/config.

Installed Programs: svn, svnadmin, svnbench, svndumpfilter, svnfsfs, svnlook, svnmucc, svnrdump, svnserve, svnsync, and svnversion

Installed Libraries: libsvn_*-1.so and optionally, a Java library, the mod_dav_svn.so and and mod_authz_svn.so Apache HTTP DSO modules and various Perl, Python and Ruby modules.

Installed Directories: /usr/include/subversion-1, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/<5.x.y>/<arch-linux>/{,auto/}SVN, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{libsvn,svn}, /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/<x.y.z>/{,<arch-linux>-linux/}svn, /usr/lib/svn-javahl, and /usr/share/doc/subversion-1.9.1

Short Descriptions

svn	is a command-line client program used to access Subversion repositories.
svnadmin	is a tool for creating, tweaking or repairing a Subversion repository.
svnbench	is a benchmarking tool.
svndumpfilter	is a program for filtering Subversion repository dumpfile format streams.
svnfsfs	is the FSFS (FileSystem atop of the FileSystem - Subversion filesystem implementation) repository manipulation tool.
svnlook	is a tool for inspecting a Subversion repository.
svnmucc	is a Multiple URL Command Client for Subversion.
svnrdump	is a tool for dumping or loading a remote Subversion repository.
svnserve	is a custom standalone server program, able to run as a daemon process or invoked by SSH.
svnsync	is a Subversion repository synchronisation tool.
svnversion	is used to report the version number and state of a working Subversion repository copy.
`libsvn_*-1.so`	are the support libraries used by the Subversion programs.
`mod_authz_svn.so`	is a plug-in module for the Apache HTTP server, used to authenticate users to a Subversion repository over the Internet or an intranet.
`mod_dav_svn.so`	is a plug-in module for the Apache HTTP server, used to make a Subversion repository available to others over the Internet or an intranet.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Running a Subversion Server

This section will describe how to set up, administer and secure a Subversion server.

Subversion Server Dependencies

Required

Subversion-1.9.1 and OpenSSH-7.1p1

Setting up a Subversion Server.

The following instructions will install a Subversion server, which will be set up to use OpenSSH as the secure remote access method, with svnserve available for anonymous access.

Configuration of the Subversion server consists of the following steps:

1. Setup Users, Groups, and Permissions

You'll need to be user root for the initial portion of configuration. Create the svn user and group with the following commands:

groupadd -g 56 svn &&
useradd -c "SVN Owner" -d /home/svn -m -g svn -s /bin/false -u 56 svn

If you plan to have multiple repositories, you should have a group dedicated to each repository for ease of administration. Create the svntest group for the test repository and add the svn user to that group with the following commands:

groupadd -g 57 svntest &&
usermod -G svntest -a svn

Additionally you should set umask 002 while working with a repository so that all new files will be writable by owner and group. This is made mandatory by creating a wrapper script for svn and svnserve:

mv /usr/bin/svn /usr/bin/svn.orig &&
mv /usr/bin/svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve.orig &&
cat >> /usr/bin/svn << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
umask 002
/usr/bin/svn.orig "$@"
EOF
cat >> /usr/bin/svnserve << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
umask 002
/usr/bin/svnserve.orig "$@"
EOF
chmod 0755 /usr/bin/svn{,serve}

Note

If you use Apache for working with the repository over HTTP, even for anonymous access, you should wrap /usr/sbin/httpd in a similar script.

2. Create a Subversion repository.

With subversion-1.1.0 and greater, a new type of repository data-store is available, FSFS. There is a tradeoff for speed with the new backend, however, the repository can now be placed on a network mount, and any corruption does not require an admin to recover the repository. For more information and comparison between FSFS and BDB, see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.2.A.

Create a new Subversion repository with the following commands:

install -v -m 0755 -d /srv/svn &&
install -v -m 0755 -o svn -g svn -d /srv/svn/repositories &&
svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /srv/svn/repositories/svntest

Now that the repository is created, it should be populated with with something useful. You'll need to have a predefined directory layout set up exactly as you want your repository to look. For example, here is a sample BLFS layout setup with a root of svntest/. You'll need to setup a directory tree similar to the following:

svntest/            # The name of the repository
   trunk/           # Contains the existing source tree
      BOOK/
      bootscripts/
      edguide/
      patches/
      scripts/
   branches/        # Needed for additional branches
   tags/            # Needed for tagging release points

Once you've created your directory layout as shown above, you are ready to do the initial import:

svn import -m "Initial import." \
    </path/to/source/tree>      \
    file:///srv/svn/repositories/svntest

Now change owner and group information on the repository, and add an unprivileged user to the svn and svntest groups:

chown -R svn:svntest /srv/svn/repositories/svntest    &&
chmod -R g+w         /srv/svn/repositories/svntest    &&
chmod g+s            /srv/svn/repositories/svntest/db &&
usermod -G svn,svntest -a <username>

svntest is the group assigned to the svntest repository. As mentioned earlier, this eases administration of multiple repositories when using OpenSSH for authentication. Going forward, you'll need to add your unprivileged user, and any additional users that you wish to have write access to the repository, to the svn and svntest groups.

In addition, you'll notice that the new repository's db directory is set-groupID. If the reasoning is not immediately obvious, when using any external authentication method (such as ssh), the sticky bit is set so that all new files will be owned by the user, but group of svntest. Anyone in the svntest group can create files, but still give the entire group write access to those files. This avoids locking out other users from the repository.

Now, return to an unprivileged user account, and take a look at the new repository using svnlook:

svnlook tree /srv/svn/repositories/svntest/

Note

You may need to log out and back in again to refresh your group memberships. 'su <username>' should work as well.

3. Configure the Server

As mentioned previously, these instructions will configure the server to use only ssh for write access to the repository and to provide anonymous access using svnserve. There are several other ways to provide access to the repository. These additional configurations are best explained at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.

Access configuration needs to be done for each repository. Create the svnserve.conf file for the svntest repository using the following commands:

cp /srv/svn/repositories/svntest/conf/svnserve.conf \
   /srv/svn/repositories/svntest/conf/svnserve.conf.default &&

cat > /srv/svn/repositories/svntest/conf/svnserve.conf << "EOF"
[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
EOF

There is not a lot to the configuration file at all. You'll notice that only the general section is required. Take a look at the svnserve.conf.default file for information on using svnserve's built-in authentication method.

4. Starting the Server

To start the server at boot time, install the svn bootscript included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-svn

Last updated on 2013-12-15 12:59:51 -0800

SWIG-3.0.7

Introduction to SWIG

SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator) is a compiler that integrates C and C++ with languages including Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, D, Go, Lua, Octave, R, Scheme, Ocaml, Modula-3, Common Lisp, and Pike. SWIG can also export its parse tree into Lisp s-expressions and XML.

SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C++ programs with a scripting language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-3.0.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 7fff46c84b8c630ede5b0f0827e3d90a
Download size: 5.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 88 MB (1.1 GB with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (6.4 SBU with tests, using -j4)

SWIG Dependencies

Required

PCRE-8.37

Optional

Boost-1.59.0 for tests, and any of the languages mentionned in the introduction, as run-time dependencies

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/swig

Installation of SWIG

Install SWIG by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                      \
            --without-clisp                    \
            --without-maximum-compile-warnings &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. Tests for many languages are executed, depending on which ones you have installed. Therefore, disk space and SBU values for the tests should be considered only indications of necessary space and time, but not even approximated values should they be considered. If you have both Python-2.7.10 and Python-3.4.3 installed, the Python-3 tests are not run. You can run tests for Python-3 by issuing PY3=1 make check-python-examples followed by PY3=1 make check-python-test-suite. According to SWIG's documentation, the failure of some tests should not be considered harmful.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/swig-3.0.7 &&
cp -v -R Doc/* /usr/share/doc/swig-3.0.7

Command Explanations

--without-maximum-compile-warnings: disables compiler ansi conformance enforcement, which triggers errors in the Lua headers (starting with Lua 5.3).

--without-<language>: allows disabling the building of tests and examples for <language>, but all the languages capabilities of SWIG are always built. We use it for Clisp, because the SWIG implementation is very incomplete and a lot of tests fail.

Installed Programs: swig and ccache-swig

Installed Library: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/swig/3.0.7 and /usr/share/doc/swig-3.0.7

Short Descriptions

swig	takes an interface file containing C/C++ declarations and SWIG special instructions, and generates the corresponding wrapper code needed to build extension modules.
ccache-swig	is a compiler cache, which speeds up re-compilation of C/C++/SWIG code.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Tcl-8.6.4

Introduction to Tcl

The Tcl package contains the Tool Command Language, a robust general-purpose scripting language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.6.4-src.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d7cbb91f1ded1919370a30edd1534304
Download size: 8.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 69 MB (includes documentation installation)(add 10MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (using parallelism=8, additional 0.5 SBU for the tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional Documentation

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.6.4-html.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 62647d87e9244a4d521c6547e097007c
Download size: 1.2 MB

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tcl

Installation of Tcl

This package is also installed in LFS during the bootstrap phase. As it is not installed during Chapter 6 of LFS, installation instructions are included here in BLFS.

If you downloaded the optional documentation, unpack the tarball by issuing the following command:

tar -xf ../tcl8.6.4-html.tar.gz --strip-components=1

Install Tcl by running the following commands:

export SRCDIR=`pwd` &&

cd unix &&

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit) &&
make &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix#/usr/lib#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR#/usr/include#"  \
    -i tclConfig.sh               &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/tdbc1.0.3#/usr/lib/tdbc1.0.3#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.3/generic#/usr/include#"    \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.3/library#/usr/lib/tcl8.6#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc1.0.3#/usr/include#"            \
    -i pkgs/tdbc1.0.3/tdbcConfig.sh                        &&

sed -e "s#$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/itcl4.0.3#/usr/lib/itcl4.0.3#" \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl4.0.3/generic#/usr/include#"    \
    -e "s#$SRCDIR/pkgs/itcl4.0.3#/usr/include#"            \
    -i pkgs/itcl4.0.3/itclConfig.sh                        &&

unset SRCDIR

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
make install-private-headers &&
ln -v -sf tclsh8.6 /usr/bin/tclsh &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libtcl8.6.so

If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

mkdir -v -p /usr/share/doc/tcl-8.6.4 &&
cp -v -r  ../html/* /usr/share/doc/tcl-8.6.4

Command Explanations

$([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit): This switch is used to enable 64 bit support in Tcl on 64 bit operating systems.

make install-private-headers: This command is used to install the Tcl library interface headers used by other packages if they link to the Tcl library.

ln -v -sf tclsh8.6 /usr/bin/tclsh: This command is used to create a compatibility symbolic link to the tclsh8.6 file as many packages expect a file named tclsh.

sed -e ...: The Tcl package expects that its source tree is preserved so that packages depending on it for their compilation can utilize it. These sed remove the references to the build directory and replace them with saner system-wide locations.

Installed Programs: tclsh and tclsh8.6

Installed Libraries: libtcl8.6.so and libtclstub8.6.a

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/itcl4.0.1, /usr/lib/sqlite3.8.6 /usr/lib/tcl8, /usr/lib/tcl8.6, /usr/lib/tdbc1.0.1, /usr/lib/tdbcmysql1.0.1, /usr/lib/tdbcodbc1.0.1, /usr/lib/tdbcpostgres1.0.1, /usr/lib/thread2.7.1, /usr/share/doc/tcl-8.6.4, and /usr/share/man/mann

Short Descriptions

tclsh	is a symlink to the tclsh8.6 program.
tclsh8.6	is a simple shell containing the Tcl interpreter.
`libtcl8.6.so`	contains the API functions required by Tcl.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Tk-8.6.4

Introduction to Tk

The Tk package contains a TCL GUI Toolkit.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8.6.4-src.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 261754d7dc2a582f00e35547777e1fea
Download size: 4.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Tk Dependencies

Required

Tcl-8.6.4 and Xorg Libraries

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tk

Installation of Tk

Install Tk by running the following commands:

cd unix &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit) &&

make &&

sed -e "s@^\(TK_SRC_DIR='\).*@\1/usr/include'@" \
    -e "/TK_B/s@='\(-L\)\?.*unix@='\1/usr/lib@" \
    -i tkConfig.sh

Running the tests is not recommended. Failures will occur in the tests, depending on the screen resolution/capabilities, fonts installed and other X related parameters. Some tests may crash your X Server. To test the results anyway, issue: make test. Ensure you run it from an X Window display device with the GLX extensions loaded, but even so, tests may hang.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
make install-private-headers &&
ln -v -sf wish8.6 /usr/bin/wish &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libtk8.6.so

Command Explanations

$([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo --enable-64bit): This switch is used to enable 64 bit support in Tk on 64 bit operating systems.

make install-private-headers: This command is used to install the Tk library interface headers used by other packages if they link to the Tk library.

ln -v -sf wish8.6 /usr/bin/wish: This command is used to create a compatibility symbolic link to the wish8.6 file as many packages expect a file named wish.

sed -e ... tkConfig.sh: The Tk package expects that its source tree is preserved so that packages depending on it for their compilation can utilize it. This sed removes the references to the build directory and replaces them with saner system-wide locations.

Installed Programs: wish and wish8.6

Installed Libraries: libtk8.6.so and libtkstub8.6.a

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/tk8.6

Short Descriptions

wish	is a symlink to the wish8.6 program.
wish8.6	is a simple shell containing the Tk toolkit that creates a main window and then processes Tcl commands.
`libtk8.6.so`	contains the API functions required by Tk.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Vala-0.28.1

Introduction to Vala

Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vala/0.28/vala-0.28.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vala/0.28/vala-0.28.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9e2e9e3dffccf8a158fa988688cd82c9
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 170 MB (including tests)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (including tests)

Vala Dependencies

Required

Optional

D-Bus-1.10.0 (Required for the tests) and libxslt-1.1.28 (Required for generating the documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vala

Installation of Vala

Install Vala by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: vala, valac, vala-gen-introspect, vapicheck, and vapigen (symlinks); vala-0.28, valac-0.28, vala-gen-introspect-0.28, vapicheck-0.28, and vapigen-0.28

Installed Library: libvala-0.28.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vala-0.28, /usr/lib/vala-0.28, /usr/share/devhelp/books/vala-0.28, /usr/share/vala and /usr/share/vala-0.28

Short Descriptions

valac	is a compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files.
vala-gen-introspect	generates a GI file for GObject and GLib based packages.
vapicheck	verifies the generated bindings.
vapigen	is a utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI files.
`libvala-0.28.so`	contains the Vala API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Valgrind-3.10.1

Introduction to Valgrind

Valgrind is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile programs in detail. Valgrind can also be used to build new tools.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.10.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 60ddae962bc79e7c95cfc4667245707f
Download size: 10.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 401 MB and an additional 20 MB for tests
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU and an additional 4.7 SBU for tests

Valgrind Dependencies

Optional

Boost-1.59.0, LLVM-3.7.0 (with Clang), GDB-7.10 (for tests), and OpenMP

Optional for regenerating the documentation

libxslt-1.1.28 and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/valgrind

Installation of Valgrind

Install Valgrind by running the following commands:

sed -e 's#|3.\*#&|4.\*#'     \
    -e 's/-mt//g'            \
    -e 's/2\.20)/2.2[0-9])/' \
    -i configure             &&
sed -i 's|/doc/valgrind||' docs/Makefile.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --datadir=/usr/share/doc/valgrind-3.10.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make regtest. The tests may hang forever if GDB-7.10 is not installed.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ... configure: The first expression fixes an issue that prevents Valgrind from compiling on systems with a linux-4.x based kernel, the second expression fixes the configure script to find newer versions of Boost, and the last one fixes an issue that prevents compilation with glibc versions greater than 2.20.

sed -i ... docs/Makefile.in : This sed provides for installing the documentation in a versioned directory.

Installed Programs: callgrind_annotate, callgrind_control, cg_annotate, cg_diff, cg_merge, ms_print, valgrind, valgrind-di-server, valgrind-listener, and vgdb

Installed Library: libcoregrind-<Arch>-linux.a, libreplacemalloc_toolpreload-<Arch>-linux.a, libvex-<Arch>-linux.a, vgpreload_core-<Arch>-linux.so, vgpreload_drd-<Arch>-linux.so, vgpreload_exp-dhat-<Arch>-linux.so, vgpreload_exp-sgcheck-<Arch>-linux.so, vgpreload_helgrind-<Arch>-linux.so, vgpreload_massif-<Arch>-linux.so, and vgpreload_memcheck-<Arch>-linux.so, where <Arch>=x86, amd64

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/valgrind, /usr/include/valgrind, and /usr/share/doc/valgrind-3.10.1

Short Descriptions

valgrind	is a program for debugging and profiling Linux executables.
callgrind_annotate	takes an output file produced by the Valgrind tool Callgrind and prints the information in an easy-to-read form.
callgrind_control	controls programs being run by the Valgrind tool Callgrind.
cg_annotate	is a post-processing tool for the Valgrind tool Cachegrind.
cg_diff	compares two Cachegrind output files.
cg_merge	merges multiple Cachegrind output files into one.
ms_print	takes an output file produced by the Valgrind tool Massif and prints the information in an easy-to-read form.
valgrind-di-server	is a server that reads debuginfo from objects stored on a different machine.
valgrind-listener	listens on a socket for Valgrind commentary.
vgdb	is an intermediary between Valgrind and GDB or a shell.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 13:50:27 -0700

yasm-1.3.0

Introduction to yasm

Yasm is a complete rewrite of the NASM-2.11.08 assembler. It supports the x86 and AMD64 instruction sets, accepts NASM and GAS assembler syntaxes and outputs binary, ELF32 and ELF64 object formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.3.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: fc9e586751ff789b34b1f21d572d96af
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB (additional 12 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for the tests)

yasm Dependencies

Optional

Python-2.7.10 or Python-3.4.3, and Cython

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/yasm

Installation of yasm

Install yasm by running the following commands:

sed -i 's#) ytasm.*#)#' Makefile.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i 's#) ytasm.*#)#' Makefile.in: This sed prevents it compiling 2 programs (vsyasm and ytasm) that are only of use on Microsoft Windows.

Installed Program: yasm

Installed Library: libyasm.a

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libyasm

Short Descriptions

yasm	is a portable, retargetable assembler that supports the x86 and AMD64 instruction sets, accepts NASM and GAS assembler syntaxes and outputs binaries in ELF32 and ELF64 object formats.
`libyasm.a`	provides all of the core functionality of yasm, for manipulating machine instructions and object file constructs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Other Programming Tools

Introduction

This section is provided to show you some additional programming tools for which instructions have not yet been created in the book or for those that are not appropriate for the book. Note that these packages may not have been tested by the BLFS team, but their mention here is meant to be a convenient source of additional information.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/OtherProgrammingTools

Programming Frameworks, Languages and Compilers

A+

A+ is a powerful and efficient programming language. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License. It embodies a rich set of functions and operators, a modern graphical user interface with many widgets and automatic synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather efficient interpreter. A+ was created at Morgan Stanley. Primarily used in a computationally-intensive business environment, many critical applications written in A+ have withstood the demands of real world developers over many years. Written in an interpreted language, A+ applications tend to be portable.

Project Home Page: http://www.aplusdev.org/
Download Location: http://www.aplusdev.org/Download/index.html

ABC

ABC is an interactive programming language and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task analysis of the programming task. ABC is easy to learn (an hour or so for someone who has already programmed), and yet easy to use. Originally intended as a language for beginners, it has evolved into a powerful tool for beginners and experts alike. Some features of the language include: a powerful collection of only five data types that easily combines strong typing, yet without declarations, no limitations (such as max int), apart from sheer exhaustion of memory refinements to support top-down programming, nesting by indentation and programs typically are one fourth or one fifth the size of the equivalent Pascal or C program.

Project Home Page: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/
Download Location: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/abc/implementations.html

ALF

ALF is a language which combines functional and logic programming techniques. The foundation of ALF is Horn clause logic with equality which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions and equations for functional programming. The ALF system is an efficient implementation of the combination of resolution, narrowing, rewriting and rejection. Similarly to Prolog, ALF uses a backtracking strategy corresponding to a depth-first search in the derivation tree.

Project Home Page: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF.html
Download Location: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/systems/ALF/

ASM

ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine. ASM offers similar functionalities as BCEL or SERP, but is much smaller (33KB instead of 350KB for BCEL and 150KB for SERP) and faster than these tools (the overhead of a load time class transformation is of the order of 60% with ASM, 700% or more with BCEL, and 1100% or more with SERP). Indeed ASM was designed to be used in a dynamic way (though it works statically as well) and was therefore designed and implemented to be as small and as fast as possible.

Project Home Page: http://asm.objectweb.org/
Download Location: http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/asm/

BCPL

BCPL is a simple typeless language that was designed in 1966 by Martin Richards and implemented for the first time at MIT in the Spring of 1967.

Project Home Page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL.html
Download Location: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/BCPL/

BETA

BETA is developed within the Scandinavian School of object-orientation, where the first object-oriented language, Simula, was developed. BETA is a modern language in the Simula tradition. The resulting language is smaller than Simula in spite of being considerably more expressive. BETA is a strongly typed language like Simula, Eiffel and C++, with most type checking being carried out at compile-time. It is well known that it is not possible to obtain all type checking at compile time without sacrificing the expressiveness of the language. BETA has optimum balance between compile-time type checking and run-time type checking.

Project Home Page: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/
Download Location: ftp://ftp.daimi.au.dk/pub/beta/

<bigwig>

<bigwig> is a high-level programming language for developing interactive Web services. Programs are compiled into a conglomerate of lower-level technologies such as C code, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and SSL, all running on top of a runtime system based on an Apache Web server module. It is a descendant of the Mawl project but is a completely new design and implementation with vastly expanded ambitions. The <bigwig> language is really a collection of tiny domain-specific languages focusing on different aspects of interactive Web services. These contributing languages are held together by a C-like skeleton language. Thus, <bigwig> has the look and feel of C-programs but with special data and control structures.

Project Home Page: http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/
Download Location: http://www.brics.dk/bigwig/download/

Bigloo

Bigloo is a Scheme implementation devoted to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++) is usually required. Bigloo attempts to make Scheme practical by offering features usually presented by traditional programming languages but not offered by Scheme and functional programming. Bigloo compiles Scheme modules and delivers small and fast stand-alone binary executables. It enables full connections between Scheme and C programs, between Scheme and Java programs, and between Scheme and C# programs.

Project Home Page: http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/
Download Location: ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/

C--

C-- is a portable assembly language that can be generated by a front end and implemented by any of several code generators. It serves as an interface between high-level compilers and retargetable, optimizing code generators. Authors of front ends and code generators can cooperate easily.

Project Home Page: http://www.cminusminus.org/
Download Location: http://www.cminusminus.org/code.html

Caml

Caml is a general-purpose programming language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind. It is very expressive, yet easy to learn and use. Caml supports functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles. It has been developed and distributed by INRIA, France's national research institute for computer science, since 1985. The Objective Caml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It features a powerful module system and a full-fledged object-oriented layer. It comes with a native-code compiler that supports numerous architectures, for high performance; a bytecode compiler, for increased portability; and an interactive loop, for experimentation and rapid development.

Project Home Page: http://caml.inria.fr/
Download Location: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/

Ch

Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, and embedded scripting.

Project Home Page: http://www.softintegration.com/
Download Location: http://www.softintegration.com/products/chstandard/download/

Clean

Clean is a general purpose, state-of-the-art, pure and lazy functional programming language designed for making real-world applications. Clean is the only functional language in the world which offers uniqueness typing. This type system makes it possible in a pure functional language to incorporate destructive updates of arbitrary data structures (including arrays) and to make direct interfaces to the outside imperative world. The type system makes it possible to develop efficient applications.

Project Home Page: http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean
Download Location: http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Download_Clean

Cyclone

Cyclone is a programming language based on C that is safe, meaning that it rules out programs that have buffer overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on. High-level, type-safe languages, such as Java, Scheme, or ML also provide safety, but they don't give the same control over data representations and memory management that C does (witness the fact that the run-time systems for these languages are usually written in C.) Furthermore, porting legacy C code to these languages or interfacing with legacy C libraries is a difficult and error-prone process. The goal of Cyclone is to give programmers the same low-level control and performance of C without sacrificing safety, and to make it easy to port or interface with legacy C code.

Project Home Page: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/
Download Location: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Download/

D

D is a general purpose systems and applications programming language. It is a higher level language than C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with the operating system APIs and with hardware. D is well suited to writing medium to large scale million line programs with teams of developers. It is easy to learn, provides many capabilities to aid the programmer, and is well suited to aggressive compiler optimization technology. D is not a scripting language, nor an interpreted language. It doesn't come with a VM, a religion, or an overriding philosophy. It's a practical language for practical programmers who need to get the job done quickly, reliably, and leave behind maintainable, easy to understand code. D is the culmination of decades of experience implementing compilers for many diverse languages, and attempting to construct large projects using those languages. It draws inspiration from those other languages (most especially C++) and tempers it with experience and real world practicality.

Project Home Page: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
Download Location: ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/

DMDScript

DMDScript is Digital Mars' implementation of the ECMA 262 scripting language. Netscape's implementation is called JavaScript, Microsoft's implementation is called JScript. DMDScript is much faster than other implementations, which you can verify with the included benchmark.

Project Home Page: http://www.digitalmars.com/dscript/index.html
Download Location: ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/

DotGNU Portable.NET

DotGNU Portable.NET goal is to build a suite of free software tools to build and execute .NET applications, including a C# compiler, assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine. While the initial target platform was GNU/Linux, it is also known to run under Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS X. The runtime engine has been tested on the x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s390, Alpha, and IA-64 processors. DotGNU Portable.NET is part of the DotGNU project, built in accordance with the requirements of the GNU Project. DotGNU Portable.NET is focused on compatibility with the ECMA specifications for CLI. There are other projects under the DotGNU meta-project to build other necessary pieces of infrastructure, and to explore non-CLI approaches to virtual machine implementation.

Project Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/
Download Location: http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/pnet-packages.html

Dylan

Dylan is an advanced, object-oriented, dynamic language which supports rapid program development. When needed, programs can be optimized for more efficient execution by supplying more type information to the compiler. Nearly all entities in Dylan (including functions, classes, and basic data types such as integers) are first class objects. Additionally, Dylan supports multiple inheritance, polymorphism, multiple dispatch, keyword arguments, object introspection, macros, and many other advanced features... --Peter Hinely.

Project Home Page: http://www.opendylan.org/
Download Location: http://opendylan.org/download/index.html

E

E is a secure distributed Java-based pure-object platform and p2p scripting language. It has two parts: ELib and the E Language. Elib provides the stuff that goes on between objects. As a pure-Java library, ELib provides for inter-process capability-secure distributed programming. Its cryptographic capability protocol enables mutually suspicious Java processes to cooperate safely, and its event-loop concurrency and promise pipelining enable high performance deadlock free distributed pure-object computing. The E Language can be used to express what happens within an object. It provides a convenient and familiar notation for the ELib computational model, so you can program in one model rather than two. Under the covers, this notation expands into Kernel-E, a minimalist lambda-language much like Scheme or Smalltalk. Objects written in the E language are only able to interact with other objects according to ELib's semantics, enabling object granularity intra-process security, including the ability to safely run untrusted mobile code (such as caplets).

Project Home Page: http://www.erights.org/
Download Location: http://www.erights.org/download/

elastiC

elastiC is a portable high-level object-oriented interpreted language with a C like syntax. Its main characteristics are: open source, interpreted, has portable bytecode compilation, dynamic typing, automatic real very fast garbage collection, object oriented with meta-programming support (a la Smalltalk), functional programming support (Scheme-like closures with lexical scoping, and eval-like functionality), hierarchical namespaces, a rich set of useful built-in types (dynamic arrays, dictionaries, symbols, ...), extensible with C (you can add functions, types, classes, methods, packages, ...), embeddable in C. elastiC has been strongly influenced by C, Smalltalk, Scheme and Python and tries to merge the best characteristics of all these languages, while still coherently maintaining its unique personality.

Project Home Page: http://www.elasticworld.org/
Download Location: http://www.elasticworld.org/download.html

Erlang/OTP

Erlang/OTP is a development environment based on Erlang. Erlang is a programming language which has many features more commonly associated with an operating system than with a programming language: concurrent processes, scheduling, memory management, distribution, networking, etc. The initial open-source Erlang release contains the implementation of Erlang, as well as a large part of Ericsson's middleware for building distributed high-availability systems. Erlang is characterized by the following features: robustness, soft real-time, hot code upgrades and incremental code loading.

Project Home Page: http://www.erlang.org/
Download Location: http://www.erlang.org/download.html

Euphoria

Euphoria is a simple, flexible, and easy-to-learn programming language. It lets you quickly and easily develop programs for Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD. Euphoria was first released in 1993. Since then Rapid Deployment Software has been steadily improving it with the help of a growing number of enthusiastic users. Although Euphoria provides subscript checking, uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it is extremely fast. People have used it to develop high-speed DOS games, Windows GUI programs, and X Window System programs. It is also very useful for CGI (Web-based) programming.

Project Home Page: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/
Download Location: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/v20.htm

Felix

Felix is an advanced Algol like procedural programming language with a strong functional subsystem. It features ML style static typing, first class functions, pattern matching, garbage collection, polymorphism, and has built in support for high performance microthreading, regular expressions and context free parsing. The system provides a scripting harness so the language can be used like other scripting languages such as Python and Perl, but underneath it generates native code to obtain high performance. A key feature of the system is that it uses the C/C++ object model, and provides an advanced binding sublanguage to support integration with C/C++ at both the source and object levels, both for embedding C/C++ data types and functions into Felix, and for embedding Felix into existing C++ architectures. The Felix compiler is written in Objective Caml, and generates ISO C++ which should compile on any platform.

Project Home Page: http://felix.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://felix-lang.org/$/usr/local/lib/felix/tarballs

ferite

ferite is a scripting language and engine all in one manageable chunk. It is designed to be easily extended in terms of API, and to be used within other applications making them more configurable and useful to the end user. It has a syntax similar to a number of other languages but remains clean and its own language.

Project Home Page: http://www.ferite.org/
Download Location: http://www.ferite.org/download.html

Forth

Forth is a stack-based, extensible language without type-checking. It is probably best known for its "reverse Polish" (postfix) arithmetic notation, familiar to users of Hewlett-Packard calculators. Forth is a real-time programming language originally developed to control telescopes. Forth has many unique features and applications: it can compile itself into a new compiler, reverse-polish coding, edit time error checking and compiling (similar to BASIC), extremely efficient thread based language, can be used to debug itself, extensible; thus can become what ever you need it to be. The links below lead to the website of the Forth Interest Group (FIG), a world-wide, non-profit organization for education in and the promotion of the Forth computer language. Another worthwhile website dedicated to the Forth community is http://wiki.forthfreak.net/.

Project Home Page: http://www.forth.org/
Download Location: http://www.forth.org/compilers.html

GNU Smalltalk

GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language which runs on most versions on Unix and, in general, everywhere you can find a POSIX-compliance library. An uncommon feature of it is that it is well-versed to scripting tasks and headless processing. See http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Overview.html for a more detailed explanation of GNU Smalltalk.

Project Home Page: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
Download Location: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/

Haskell

Haskell is a computer programming language. In particular, it is a polymorphicly typed, lazy, purely functional language, quite different from most other programming languages. The language is named for Haskell Brooks Curry, whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation for functional languages. Haskell is based on lambda calculus. There are many implementations of Haskell, among them:

GHC: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Helium: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/bin/view/Helium/WebHome
Hugs: http://www.haskell.org/hugs/
nhc98: http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/

HLA (High Level Assembly)

The HLA language was developed as a tool to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to University students at the University of California, Riverside. The basic idea was to teach students assembly language programming by leveraging their knowledge of high level languages like C/C++ and Pascal/Delphi. At the same time, HLA was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers write more readable and more powerful assembly language code.

Project Home Page: http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/index.html
Download Location: http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/dnld.html

Icon

Icon is a high-level, general-purpose programming language with a large repertoire of features for processing data structures and character strings. It is an imperative, procedural language with a syntax reminiscent of C and Pascal, but with semantics at a much higher level.

Project Home Page: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
Download Location: ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/icon/

Io

Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

Project Home Page: http://iolanguage.org
Download Location: http://iobin.suspended-chord.info/

J

J is a modern, high-level, general-purpose, high-performance programming language. It is portable and runs on Windows, Unix, Mac, and PocketPC handhelds, both as a GUI and in a console. True 64-bit J systems are available for XP64 or Linux64, on AMD64 or Intel EM64T platforms. J systems can be installed and distributed for free.

Project Home Page: http://www.jsoftware.com/
Download Location: http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm

Jamaica

Jamaica, the JVM Macro Assembler, is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use assembly language for JVM bytecode programming. It uses Java syntax to define a JVM class except for the method body that takes bytecode instructions, including Jamaica's built-in macros. In Jamaica, bytecode instructions use mnemonics and symbolic names for all variables, parameters, data fields, constants and labels.

Project Home Page: http://judoscript.org/jamaica.html
Download Location: http://judoscript.org/download.html

Joy

Joy is a purely functional programming language. Whereas all other functional programming languages are based on the application of functions to arguments, Joy is based on the composition of functions. All such functions take a stack as an argument and produce a stack as a value. Consequently much of Joy looks like ordinary postfix notation. However, in Joy a function can consume any number of parameters from the stack and leave any number of results on the stack. The concatenation of appropriate programs denotes the composition of the functions which the programs denote.

Project Home Page: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language

Judo

Judo is a practical, functional scripting language. It is designed to cover the use cases of not only algorithmic/object-oriented/multi-threaded programming and Java scripting but also a number of major application domain tasks, such as scripting for JDBC, WSDL, ActiveX, OS, multiple file/data formats, etc. Despite its rich functionality, the base language is extremely simple, and domain support syntax is totally intuitive to domain experts, so that even though you have never programmed in Judo, you would have little trouble figuring out what the code does.

Project Home Page: http://judoscript.org/judo.html
Download Location: http://judoscript.org/download.html

JWIG

JWIG is a Java-based high-level programming language for development of interactive Web services. It contains an advanced session model, a flexible mechanism for dynamic construction of XML documents, in particular XHTML, and a powerful API for simplifying use of the HTTP protocol and many other aspects of Web service programming. To support program development, JWIG provides a unique suite of highly specialized program analysers that at compile time verify for a given program that no runtime errors can occur while building documents or receiving form input, and that all documents being shown are valid according to the document type definition for XHTML 1.0. The main goal of the JWIG project is to simplify development of complex Web services, compared to alternatives, such as, Servlets, JSP, ASP, and PHP. JWIG is a descendant of the <bigwig> research language.

Project Home Page: http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/
Download Location: http://www.brics.dk/JWIG/download.html

Lava

Lava is a name unfortunately chosen for several unrelated software development languages/projects. So it doesn't appear as though BLFS has a preference for one over another, the project web sites are listed below, without descriptions of the capabilities or features for any of them.

Project Home Page: http://lavape.sourceforge.net/index.htm
Project Home Page: http://mathias.tripod.com/IavaHomepage.html

Mercury

Mercury is a new logic/functional programming language, which combines the clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error detection features. Its highly optimized execution algorithm delivers efficiency far in excess of existing logic programming systems, and close to conventional programming systems. Mercury addresses the problems of large-scale program development, allowing modularity, separate compilation, and numerous optimization/time trade-offs.

Project Home Page: http://mercurylang.org/
Download Location: http://mercurylang.org/download.html

Mono

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.

Project Home Page: http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
Download Location: http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/archive/

MPD

MPD is a variant of the SR programming language. SR has a Pascal-like syntax and uses guarded commands for control statements. MPD has a C-like syntax and C-like control statements. However, the main components of the two languages are the same: resources, globals, operations, procs, procedures, processes, and virtual machines. Moreover, MPD supports the same variety of concurrent programming mechanisms as SR: co statements, semaphores, call/send/forward invocations, and receive and input statements.

Project Home Page: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/
Download Location: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mpd/download/

Nemerle

Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional, object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful meta-programming system. Features that come from the functional land are variants, pattern matching, type inference and parameter polymorphism (aka generics). The meta-programming system allows great compiler extensibility, embedding domain specific languages, partial evaluation and aspect-oriented programming.

Project Home Page: http://nemerle.org/About
Download Location: http://nemerle.org/Downloads

Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

Project Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
Download Location: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

OO2C (Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler)

OO2C is an Oberon-2 development platform. It consists of an optimizing compiler, a number of related tools, a set of standard library modules and a reference manual. Oberon-2 is a general-purpose programming language in the tradition of Pascal and Modula-2. Its most important features are block structure, modularity, separate compilation, static typing with strong type checking (also across module boundaries) and type extension with type-bound procedures. Type extension makes Oberon-2 an object-oriented language.

Project Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooc/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ooc/

Ordered Graph Data Language (OGDL)

OGDL is a structured textual format that represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.

Project Home Page: http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ogdl/

Pike

Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation. Pike is released under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL.

Project Home Page: http://pike.ida.liu.se/
Download Location: http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike

Pyrex

Pyrex is a language specially designed for writing Python extension modules. It's designed to bridge the gap between the nice, high-level, easy-to-use world of Python and the messy, low-level world of C. Pyrex lets you write code that mixes Python and C data types any way you want, and compiles it into a C extension for Python.

Project Home Page: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/

Q

Q is a functional programming language based on term rewriting. Thus, a Q program or “script” is simply a collection of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in a symbolic fashion. The equations establish algebraic identities and are interpreted as rewriting rules in order to reduce expressions to “normal forms”.

Project Home Page: http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/q-lang/

R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.

Project Home Page: http://www.r-project.org/
Download Location: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html

Regina Rexx

Regina is a Rexx interpreter that has been ported to most Unix platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.) and also to OS/2, eCS, DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP, Amiga, AROS, QNX4.x, QNX6.x BeOS, MacOS X, EPOC32, AtheOS, OpenVMS, SkyOS and OpenEdition. Rexx is a programming language that was designed to be easy to use for inexperienced programmers yet powerful enough for experienced users. It is also a language ideally suited as a macro language for other applications.

Project Home Page: http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/regina-rexx

Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)

SDCC is a Freeware, retargetable, optimizing ANSI-C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.

Project Home Page: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/snap.php#Source

SmartEiffel (The GNU Eiffel Compiler)

SmartEiffel claims to be “the fastest and the slimmest multi-platform Eiffel compiler on Earth”. Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language which emphasizes the production of robust software. Its syntax is keyword-oriented in the ALGOL and Pascal tradition. Eiffel is strongly statically typed, with automatic memory management (typically implemented by garbage collection). Distinguishing characteristics of Eiffel include Design by contract (DbC), liberal use of inheritance including multiple inheritance, a type system handling both value and reference semantics, and generic classes. Eiffel has a unified type system—all types in Eiffel are classes, so it is possible to create subclasses of the basic classes such as INTEGER. Eiffel has operator overloading, including the ability to define new operators, but does not have method overloading.

Project Home Page: http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/
Download Location: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=184

Squeak

Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. To achieve practical performance, a translator produces an equivalent C program whose performance is comparable to commercial Smalltalks. Other noteworthy aspects of Squeak include: real-time sound and music synthesis written entirely in Smalltalk, extensions of BitBlt to handle color of any depth and anti-aliased image rotation and scaling, network access support that allows simple construction of servers and other useful facilities, it runs bit-identical on many platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix, and others), a compact object format that typically requires only a single word of overhead per object and a simple yet efficient incremental garbage collector for 32-bit direct pointers efficient bulk-mutation of objects.

Project Home Page: http://www.squeak.org/
Download Location: http://www.squeak.org/Download/

SR (Synchronizing Resources)

SR is a language for writing concurrent programs. The main language constructs are resources and operations. Resources encapsulate processes and variables they share; operations provide the primary mechanism for process interaction. SR provides a novel integration of the mechanisms for invoking and servicing operations. Consequently, all of local and remote procedure call, rendezvous, message passing, dynamic process creation, multicast, and semaphores are supported. SR also supports shared global variables and operations.

Project Home Page: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sr/index.html
Download Location: ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/sr/

Standard ML

Standard ML is a safe, modular, strict, functional, polymorphic programming language with compile-time type checking and type inference, garbage collection, exception handling, immutable data types and updatable references, abstract data types, and parametric modules. It has efficient implementations and a formal definition with a proof of soundness. There are many implementations of Standard ML, among them:

ML Kit: http://www.it-c.dk/research/mlkit/
MLton: http://mlton.org/
Poly/ML: http://www.polyml.org/
Standard ML of New Jersey: http://www.smlnj.org/

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)

SBCL is an open source (free software) compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp. It provides an interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, a debugger, and many extensions. SBCL runs on a number of platforms.

Project Home Page: http://www.sbcl.org/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sbcl/

Tiny C Compiler (TCC)

Tiny C Compiler is a small C compiler that can be used to compile and execute C code everywhere, for example on rescue disks (about 100KB for x86 TCC executable, including C preprocessor, C compiler, assembler and linker). TCC is fast. It generates optimized x86 code, has no byte code overhead and compiles, assembles and links several times faster than GCC. TCC is versatile, any C dynamic library can be used directly. It is heading toward full ISOC99 compliance and can compile itself. The compiler is safe as it includes an optional memory and bound checker. Bound checked code can be mixed freely with standard code. TCC compiles and executes C source directly. No linking or assembly necessary. A full C preprocessor and GNU-like assembler is included. It is C script supported; just add “#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run” on the first line of your C source, and execute it directly from the command line. With libtcc, you can use TCC as a backend for dynamic code generation.

Project Home Page: http://bellard.org/tcc/
Download Location: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/tinycc/

TinyCOBOL

TinyCOBOL is a COBOL compiler being developed by members of the free software community. The mission is to produce a COBOL compiler based on the COBOL 85 standards. TinyCOBOL is available for the Intel architecture (IA32) and compatible processors on the following platforms: BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux and MinGW on Windows.

Project Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tiny-cobol/

Yorick

Yorick is an interpreted programming language, designed for postprocessing or steering large scientific simulation codes. Smaller scientific simulations or calculations, such as the flow past an airfoil or the motion of a drumhead, can be written as standalone yorick programs. The language features a compact syntax for many common array operations, so it processes large arrays of numbers very efficiently. Unlike most interpreters, which are several hundred times slower than compiled code for number crunching, Yorick can approach to within a factor of four or five of compiled speed for many common tasks. Superficially, Yorick code resembles C code, but Yorick variables are never explicitly declared and have a dynamic scoping similar to many Lisp dialects. The “unofficial” home page for Yorick can be found at http://www.maumae.net/yorick.

Project Home Page: http://yorick.sourceforge.net/index.php
Download Location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yorick/files/

ZPL

ZPL is an array programming language designed from first principles for fast execution on both sequential and parallel computers. It provides a convenient high-level programming medium for supercomputers and large-scale clusters with efficiency comparable to hand-coded message passing. It is the perfect alternative to using a sequential language like C or Fortran and a message passing library like MPI.

Project Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/home/index.html
Download Location: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/zpl/download/download.html

Programming Libraries and Bindings

Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL)

BECL is intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes are represented by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular. Such objects can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a program (e.g., a class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file again. An even more interesting application is the creation of classes from scratch at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library may be also useful if you want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the format of Java .class files. BCEL is already being used successfully in several projects such as compilers, optimizers, obfuscators, code generators and analysis tools.

Project Home Page: http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/index.html
Download Location: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jakarta/bcel/

Choco

Choco is a Java library for constraint satisfaction problems (CSP), constraint programming (CP) and explanation-based constraint solving (e-CP). It is built on a event-based propagation mechanism with backtrackable structures.

Project Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/choco/
Download Location: http://choco.sourceforge.net/download.html

FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West)

FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e., the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST).

Project Home Page: http://www.fftw.org/
Download Location: http://www.fftw.org/download.html

GOB (GObject Builder)

GOB (GOB2 anyway) is a preprocessor for making GObjects with inline C code so that generated files are not edited. Syntax is inspired by Java and Yacc or Lex. The implementation is intentionally kept simple, and no C actual code parsing is done.

Project Home Page: http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html
Download Location: http://ftp.5z.com/pub/gob/

GTK+/GNOME Language Bindings (wrappers)

GTK+/GNOME language bindings allow GTK+ to be used from other programming languages, in the style of those languages.

Project Home Page: http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php

Java-GNOME

Java-GNOME is a set of Java bindings for the GNOME and GTK+ libraries that allow GNOME and GTK+ applications to be written in Java. The Java-GNOME API has been carefully designed to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paradigm, yet still wrapping the entire functionality of the underlying libraries. Java-GNOME can be used with the Eclipse development environment and Glade user interface designer to create applications with ease.

Project Home Page: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/
Download Location: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/get/

gtk2-perl

gtk2-perl is the collective name for a set of Perl bindings for GTK+ 2.x and various related libraries. These modules make it easy to write GTK and GNOME applications using a natural, Perlish, object-oriented syntax.

Project Home Page: http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl

KDE Language Bindings

KDE and most KDE applications are implemented using the C++ programming language, however there are number of bindings to other languages are available. These include scripting languages like Perl, Python and Ruby, and systems programming languages such as Java and C#.

Project Home Page: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages

Numerical Python (Numpy)

Numerical Python adds a fast array facility to the Python language.

Project Home Page: http://numeric.scipy.org/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/

Perl Scripts and Additional Modules

There are many Perl scripts and additional modules located on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) web site. Here you will find “All Things Perl”.

Project Home Page: http://cpan.org/

Integrated Development Environments

A-A-P

A-A-P makes it easy to locate, download, build and install software. It also supports browsing source code, developing programs, managing different versions and distribution of software and documentation. This means that A-A-P is useful both for users and for developers.

Project Home Page: http://www.a-a-p.org/index.html
Download Location: http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html

Anjuta

Anujuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME and features a number of advanced programming facilities. These include project management, application wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with source browsing and syntax highlighting.

Project Home Page: http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/index.shtml
Download Location: http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/downloads.html

Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse contains many projects, including an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java.

Project Home Page: http://www.eclipse.org/
Download Location: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Mozart

The Mozart Programming System is an advanced development platform for intelligent, distributed applications. Mozart is based on the Oz language, which supports declarative programming, object-oriented programming, constraint programming, and concurrency as part of a coherent whole. For distribution, Mozart provides a true network transparent implementation with support for network awareness, openness, and fault tolerance. Security is upcoming. It is an ideal platform for both general-purpose distributed applications as well as for hard problems requiring sophisticated optimization and inferencing abilities.

Project Home Page: http://mozart.github.io/
Download Location: https://github.com/mozart/mozart2#downloads

Other Development Tools

cachecc1

cachecc1 is a GCC cache. It can be compared with the well known ccache package. It has some unique features including the use of an LD_PRELOADed shared object to catch invocations to cc1, cc1plus and as, it transparently supports all build methods, it can cache GCC bootstraps and it can be combined with distcc to transparently distribute compilations.

Project Home Page: http://cachecc1.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cachecc1

ccache

ccache is a compiler cache. It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results in 5 to 10 times faster speeds in common compilations.

Project Home Page: http://ccache.samba.org/
Download Location: http://samba.org/ftp/ccache/

DDD (GNU Data Display Debugger)

GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB, DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, the Bash debugger, or the Python debugger. Besides “usual” front-end features such as viewing source texts, DDD has an interactive graphical data display, where data structures are displayed as graphs..

Project Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
Download Location: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddd/

distcc

distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile. distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. They can even have different processors or operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.

Project Home Page: http://distcc.samba.org/
Download Location: http://distcc.samba.org/download.html

Exuberant Ctags

Exuberant Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. A tag signifies a language object for which an index entry is available (or, alternatively, the index entry created for that object). Tag generation is supported for the following languages: Assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA, Bourne/Korn/Zsh Shell, C, C++, COBOL, Eiffel, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Lua, Make, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, REXX, Ruby, S-Lang, Scheme, Tcl, Vim, and YACC. A list of editors and tools utilizing tag files may be found at http://ctags.sourceforge.net/tools.html.

Project Home Page: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ctags/

gocache (GNU Object Cache)

ccache is a clone of ccache, with the goal of supporting compilers other than GCC and adding additional features. Embedded compilers will especially be in focus.

Project Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gocache/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gocache/

OProfile

OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead. OProfile is released under the GNU GPL. It consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting sample data, and several post-profiling tools for turning data into information. OProfile leverages the hardware performance counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent profiling. All code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and applications. OProfile is currently in alpha status; however it has proven stable over a large number of differing configurations. It is being used on machines ranging from laptops to 16-way NUMA-Q boxes.

Project Home Page: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/
Download Location: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/download/

strace

strace is a system call tracer, i.e., a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by another process or program.

Project Home Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/strace/
Download Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/strace/

Valgrind

Valgrind is a collection of five tools: two memory error detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap profiler used for debugging and profiling Linux programs. Features include automatic detection of many memory management and threading bugs as well as detailed profiling to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.

Project Home Page: http://valgrind.org/
Download Location: http://valgrind.org/downloads/source_code.html

Last updated on 2013-12-14 15:44:45 -0800

Java

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Java-1.8.0.60

About Java

Java is different from most of the packages in LFS and BLFS. It is a programming language that works with files of byte codes to obtain instructions and executes then in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). An introductory java program looks like:

public class HelloWorld 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }
}

This program is saved as HelloWorld.java. The file name, HelloWorld, must match the class name. It is then converted into byte code with javac HelloWorld.java. The output file is HelloWorld.class. The program is executed with java HelloWorld. This creates a JVM and runs the code. The 'class' extension must not be specified.

Several class files can be combined into one file with the jar command. This is similar to the standard tar command. For instance, the command jar cf myjar.jar *.class will combine all class files in a directory into one jar file. These act as library files.

The JVM can search for and use classes in jar files automatically. It uses the CLASSPATH environment variable to search for jar files. This is a standard list of colon-separated directory names similar to the PATH environment variable.

Binary JDK Information

Creating a JVM from source requires a set of circular dependencies. The first thing that's needed is a set of programs called a Java Development Kit (JDK). This set of programs includes java, javac, jar, and several others. It also includes several base jar files.

To start, we set up a binary installation of the JDK created by the BLFS editors. It is installed in the /opt directory to allow for multiple installations, including a source based version.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Binary Package Information

Binary download (x86): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-i686-bin.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 38296c3c879afde561726fa8505016f1
Download size (binary): 57 MB
Estimated disk space required: 166 MB

Binary download (x86_64): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-x86_64-bin.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 82e13c0ff68e8f3ac8d1a5cd32f1f65c
Download size (binary): 58 MB
Estimated disk space required: 169 MB

Java Binary Runtime Dependencies

alsa-lib-1.0.29, Cups-2.1.0, giflib-5.1.1, and Xorg Libraries

Installation of the Java BinaryJDK

Begin by extracting the appropriate binary tarball for your architecture and changing to the extracted directory. Install the binary OpenJDK with the following commands as the root user:

install -vdm755 /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-bin &&
mv -v * /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-bin         &&
chown -R root:root /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-bin

The binary version is now installed. You may create a symlink to that version by issuing, as the root user:

ln -sfn OpenJDK-1.8.0.60-bin /opt/jdk

You may now proceed to Configuring the JAVA environment, where the instructions assume that the above link exists.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 11:06:51 -0700

OpenJDK-1.8.0.60

Introduction to OpenJDK

OpenJDK is an open-source implementation of Oracle's Java Standard Edition platform. OpenJDK is useful for developing Java programs, and provides a complete runtime environment to run Java programs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

A browser plugin and webstart implementation, as well as a pulseaudio sound backend are provided by the Icedtea project. To provide a complete implementation, you will need to later install IcedTea-Web-1.6.1 and IcedTea-Sound-1.0.1.

OpenJDK is GPL'd code, with a special exception made for non-free projects to use these classes in their proprietary products. In similar fashion to the LGPL, which allows non-free programs to link to libraries provided by free software, the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception allows third party programs to use classes provided by free software without the requirement that the third party software also be free. As with the LGPL, any modifications made to the free software portions of a third party application, must also be made freely available.

Note

The OpenJDK source includes a very thorough, open source test suite using the JTreg test harness. The testing instructions below allow to test the just built JDK for reasonable compatibility with the proprietary Oracle JDK. However, in order for an independent implementation to claim compatibility, it must pass a proprietary JCK/TCK test suite. No claims of compatibility, even partial compatibility, may be made without passing an approved test suite.

Oracle does provide free community access, on a case by case basis, to a closed toolkit to ensure 100% compatibility with its proprietary JDK. Neither the binary version provided on the Java-1.8.0.60 page nor the JVM built with the instructions below have been tested against the TCK. Any version that is built using the instructions given, cannot claim to be compatible with the proprietary JDK, without the user applying for, and completing the compatibility tests themselves.

With that in mind, the binaries produced using this build method are regularly tested against the TCK by the members listed on the site above. In addition to the community license above, an educational, non-commercial license for the TCK can be obtained from here.

Source Package Information

OpenJDK Root Package
Download: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u60/archive/jdk8u60-b27.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bcaf6f51627e8f052eff0fdcd8578b4f
Download Size: 395 KB
In addition to the root package, the instructions below first download seven subproject tarballs, whose total size is 52 MB.
Estimated disk space required: 3.7 GB (additional 371 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 12 SBU (additional 100 SBU for tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional package (to get an icon for the openjdk-8-policytool.desktop file): http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.6.1.tar.gz
Recommended test harness: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60/jtreg-4.1-b12-389.tar.gz

OpenJDK Dependencies

Required Dependencies

An existing binary (Java-1.8.0.60 or an earlier built version of this package), alsa-lib-1.0.29, cpio-2.11, Cups-2.1.0, UnZip-6.0, Which-2.21, Xorg Libraries, and Zip-3.0

Optional

Mercurial-3.5.1 and an X Window manager such as twm-1.0.9 (for the tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openjdk

Installation of OpenJDK

Unlike other packages in BLFS, the OpenJDK source packages are distributed in multiple tar balls. You need to first extract the source root from jdk8u60-b27.tar.bz2, change into the extracted directory, then proceed with the following instructions:

cat > subprojects.md5 << EOF &&
002432f496bab8c85f6baf61d65dca27  corba.tar.bz2
a4ebec7c61aa154804761127a1f75eae  hotspot.tar.bz2
9a7b2a534b4a01ebb559b60023882809  jaxp.tar.bz2
7ff3e1154d79d208ae89c24355254b49  jaxws.tar.bz2
57ccac8dc86d993e64ff920feb9e54ab  langtools.tar.bz2
2f5874a62c2bc74b99118f66d82886da  jdk.tar.bz2
a8fccf7be7451205e6048b9b2fcd5b24  nashorn.tar.bz2
EOF

for subproject in corba hotspot jaxp jaxws langtools jdk nashorn; do
  wget -c http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u60/${subproject}/archive/jdk8u60-b27.tar.bz2 \
       -O ${subproject}.tar.bz2
done &&

md5sum -c subprojects.md5 &&

for subproject in corba hotspot jaxp jaxws langtools jdk nashorn; do
  mkdir -pv ${subproject} &&
  tar -xf ${subproject}.tar.bz2 --strip-components=1 -C ${subproject}
done

If you have downloaded the recommended test harness, unpack it too:

tar -xf ../jtreg-4.1-b12-389.tar.gz

Note

Before proceeding, you should ensure that your environment PATH variable contains the location of the Java compilers used for bootstrapping OpenJDK. This is the only requirement for the environment. Modern Java installations do not need JAVA_HOME and CLASSPATH is not used here. Furthermore, OpenJDK developers recommend to unset JAVA_HOME.

The build system does not support the -j switch in MAKEFLAGS.

Configure and build the package with the following commands (--with-milestone value can be modified to fit user preferences):

unset JAVA_HOME               &&
sh ./configure                \
   --with-update-version=60   \
   --with-build-number=b27    \
   --with-milestone=BLFS      \
   --enable-unlimited-crypto  \
   --with-zlib=system         \
   --with-giflib=system       &&
make DEBUG_BINARIES=true all  &&
find build/*/images/j2sdk-image -iname \*.diz -delete

Note

Testing will involve the interplay of pairs of JVMs using the networking interface, so networking must be started. If it isn't, not only will these tests fail, but the test cleanup will leave orphaned JVMs running. There will be many of them. Rebooting may be the easiest recovery.

Testing the newly built JVM involves several steps. First, it is better to run the test suite in a frame buffer on a different display, using Xvfb:

if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
  OLD_DISP=$DISPLAY
fi
export DISPLAY=:20
nohup Xvfb $DISPLAY                              \
           -fbdir $(pwd)                         \
           -pixdepths 8 16 24 32 > Xvfb.out 2>&1 &
echo $! > Xvfb.pid
echo Waiting for Xvfb to initialize; sleep 1
nohup twm -display $DISPLAY \
          -f /dev/null > twm.out 2>&1            &
echo $! > twm.pid
echo Waiting for twm to initialize; sleep 1
xhost +

Then, it is necessary to modify some files:

echo -e "
jdk_all = :jdk_core           \\
          :jdk_svc            \\
          :jdk_beans          \\
          :jdk_imageio        \\
          :jdk_sound          \\
          :jdk_sctp           \\
          com/sun/awt         \\
          javax/accessibility \\
          javax/print         \\
          sun/pisces          \\
          com/sun/java/swing" >> jdk/test/TEST.groups &&
sed -e 's/all:.*jck.*/all: jtreg/'      \
    -e '/^JTREG /s@\$(JT_PLATFORM)/@@'  \
    -i langtools/test/Makefile

Some variables have to be set:

JT_JAVA=$(type -p javac | sed 's@/bin.*@@') &&
JT_HOME=$(pwd)/jtreg                        &&
PRODUCT_HOME=$(echo $(pwd)/build/*/images/j2sdk-image)

The tests are run as follows:

LANG=C make -k -C test                      \
            JT_HOME=${JT_HOME}              \
            JT_JAVA=${JT_JAVA}              \
            PRODUCT_HOME=${PRODUCT_HOME} all
LANG=C ${JT_HOME}/bin/jtreg -a -v:fail,error \
                -dir:$(pwd)/hotspot/test     \
                -k:\!ignore                  \
                -jdk:${PRODUCT_HOME}         \
                :jdk

The test results can be compared to these results, although they usually are run on a newer version. Some failures can be expected, the number of which depends on various conditions, like whether the computer is connected to network. Also, some tests may timeout if the machine is under load.

Next some cleanup has to be done. The instructions below only stop the frame buffer, but it has been reported that some java VM may be left running after the tests, so it is necessary to check orphaned processes:

kill -9 `cat twm.pid`  &&
kill -9 `cat Xvfb.pid` &&
rm -f Xvfb.out twm.out &&
rm -f Xvfb.pid twm.pid &&
if [ -n "$OLD_DISP" ]; then
  DISPLAY=$OLD_DISP
fi

Install the package with the following commands as the root user:

cp -RT build/*/images/j2sdk-image /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 &&
chown -R root:root /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60

There are now two OpenJDK SDKs installed in /opt. You should decide on which one you would like to use as the default. Normally, you would opt for the just installed OpenJDK. If so, do the following as the root user:

ln -v -nsf OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 /opt/jdk

If desired, you may install a .desktop file corresponding to an entry in a desktop menu for policytool. First, you need to obtain an icon from IcedTea-Web-1.6.1:

tar -xf ../icedtea-web-1.6.1.tar.gz  \
        icedtea-web-1.6.1/javaws.png \
        --strip-components=1

Now, as root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/openjdk-8-policytool.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Name=OpenJDK Java Policy Tool
Name[pt_BR]=OpenJDK Java - Ferramenta de Política
Comment=OpenJDK Java Policy Tool
Comment[pt_BR]=OpenJDK Java - Ferramenta de Política
Exec=/opt/jdk/bin/policytool
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=javaws
Categories=Settings;
EOF

install -v -Dm0644 javaws.png /usr/share/pixmaps/javaws.png

The choice of pt_BR is just an example. You can add any translation by adding lines corresponding to your locale, e.g. for fr_FR, “Name[fr_FR]=” and “Comment[fr_FR]=” with the appropriate text as values.

Command Explanations

sh configure...: the top level configure is a wrapper around the autotools one. It is not executable and must be run through sh.

--with-boot-jdk: This switch provides the location of the temporary JDK. It is normally not needed if java is found in the PATH.

--with-update-version: Currently, the build system does not include the update number in the version string. It has to be specified here.

--with-build-number: Again, the build system does not include the build number in the version string. It has to be specified here too.

--with-milestone: Used to customize the version string.

--enable-unlimited-crypto: Because of limitations on the usage of cryptography in some countries, there is the possibility to limit the size of encryption keys and the use of some algorithms in a policy file. This switch allows to ship a policy file with no restriction. It is the responsability of the user to ensure proper adherence to the law.

--with-zlib=system, --with-giflib=system: Allows to use the system libraries instead of the bundled ones.

--with-jobs=N: Allows setting the number of jobs for make equal to N. The default is the result of a calculation involving the available memory and the number of processors. Note that even if you specify N=1, some parallelization may be used during the build. The SBU given above are with parallel jobs disabled, on a single processor, single core, virtual machine.

--with-cacerts-file=...: Specifies where to find a cacerts file, typically /opt/jdk/jre/lib/security. Otherwise, an empty one is created. You can get it from an earlier version of the package, or use the script below to generate one.

make DEBUG_BINARIES=true all: The build fails on 32 bit machines if DEBUG_BINARIES is not set to true.

find ... -iname '*.diz' -delete: This command removes redundant files.

Configuring OpenJDK

Configuration Information

Normally, the JAVA environment has been configured after installing the binary version, and can be used with the just built package as well. Review Configuring the JAVA environment in case you want to modify something.

To test if the man pages are correctly installed, issue source /etc/profile and man java to display the respective man page.

Install or update the JRE Certificate Authority Certificates (cacerts) file

OpenJDK uses its own format for the CA certificates. Those certificates are located in a file named /opt/jdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts. That file may be generated from the one installed using the instructions on the Certificate Authority Certificates page, with the following procedure. First, generate the mkcacerts script as the root user:

cat > /opt/jdk/bin/mkcacerts << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Simple script to extract x509 certificates and create a JRE cacerts file.

function get_args()
    {
        if test -z "${1}" ; then
            showhelp
            exit 1
        fi

        while test -n "${1}" ; do
            case "${1}" in
                -f | --cafile)
                    check_arg $1 $2
                    CAFILE="${2}"
                    shift 2
                    ;;
                -d | --cadir)
                    check_arg $1 $2
                    CADIR="${2}"
                    shift 2
                    ;;
                -o | --outfile)
                    check_arg $1 $2
                    OUTFILE="${2}"
                    shift 2
                    ;;
                -k | --keytool)
                    check_arg $1 $2
                    KEYTOOL="${2}"
                    shift 2
                    ;;
                -s | --openssl)
                    check_arg $1 $2
                    OPENSSL="${2}"
                    shift 2
                    ;;
                -h | --help)
                    showhelp
                    exit 0
                    ;;
                *)
                    showhelp
                    exit 1
                    ;;
            esac
        done
    }

function check_arg()
    {
        echo "${2}" | grep -v "^-" > /dev/null
        if [ -z "$?" -o ! -n "$2" ]; then
            echo "Error:  $1 requires a valid argument."
            exit 1
        fi
    }

# The date binary is not reliable on 32bit systems for dates after 2038
function mydate()
    {
        local y=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f4 )
        local M=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f1 )
        local d=$( echo $1 | cut -d" " -f2 )
        local m

        if [ ${d} -lt 10 ]; then d="0${d}"; fi

        case $M in
            Jan) m="01";;
            Feb) m="02";;
            Mar) m="03";;
            Apr) m="04";;
            May) m="05";;
            Jun) m="06";;
            Jul) m="07";;
            Aug) m="08";;
            Sep) m="09";;
            Oct) m="10";;
            Nov) m="11";;
            Dec) m="12";;
        esac

        certdate="${y}${m}${d}"
    }

function showhelp()
    {
        echo "`basename ${0}` creates a valid cacerts file for use with IcedTea."
        echo ""
        echo "        -f  --cafile     The path to a file containing PEM"
        echo "                         formated CA certificates. May not be"
        echo "                         used with -d/--cadir."
        echo ""
        echo "        -d  --cadir      The path to a directory of PEM formatted"
        echo "                         CA certificates. May not be used with"
        echo "                         -f/--cafile."
        echo ""
        echo "        -o  --outfile    The path to the output file."
        echo ""
        echo "        -k  --keytool    The path to the java keytool utility."
        echo ""
        echo "        -s  --openssl    The path to the openssl utility."
        echo ""
        echo "        -h  --help       Show this help message and exit."
        echo ""
        echo ""
    }

# Initialize empty variables so that the shell does not pollute the script
CAFILE=""
CADIR=""
OUTFILE=""
OPENSSL=""
KEYTOOL=""
certdate=""
date=""
today=$( date +%Y%m%d )

# Process command line arguments
get_args ${@}

# Handle common errors
if test "${CAFILE}x" == "x" -a "${CADIR}x" == "x" ; then
    echo "ERROR!  You must provide an x509 certificate store!"
    echo "\'$(basename ${0}) --help\' for more info."
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

if test "${CAFILE}x" != "x" -a "${CADIR}x" != "x" ; then
    echo "ERROR!  You cannot provide two x509 certificate stores!"
    echo "\'$(basename ${0}) --help\' for more info."
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

if test "${KEYTOOL}x" == "x" ; then
    echo "ERROR!  You must provide a valid keytool program!"
    echo "\'$(basename ${0}) --help\' for more info."
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

if test "${OPENSSL}x" == "x" ; then
    echo "ERROR!  You must provide a valid path to openssl!"
    echo "\'$(basename ${0}) --help\' for more info."
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

if test "${OUTFILE}x" == "x" ; then
    echo "ERROR!  You must provide a valid output file!"
    echo "\'$(basename ${0}) --help\' for more info."
    echo ""
    exit 1
fi

# Get on with the work

# If using a CAFILE, split it into individual files in a temp directory
if test "${CAFILE}x" != "x" ; then
    TEMPDIR=`mktemp -d`
    CADIR="${TEMPDIR}"

    # Get a list of staring lines for each cert
    CERTLIST=`grep -n "^-----BEGIN" "${CAFILE}" | cut -d ":" -f 1`

    # Get a list of ending lines for each cert
    ENDCERTLIST=`grep -n "^-----END" "${CAFILE}" | cut -d ":" -f 1`

    # Start a loop
    for certbegin in `echo "${CERTLIST}"` ; do
        for certend in `echo "${ENDCERTLIST}"` ; do
            if test "${certend}" -gt "${certbegin}"; then
                break
            fi
        done
        sed -n "${certbegin},${certend}p" "${CAFILE}" > "${CADIR}/${certbegin}.pem"
        keyhash=`${OPENSSL} x509 -noout -in "${CADIR}/${certbegin}.pem" -hash`
        echo "Generated PEM file with hash:  ${keyhash}."
    done
fi

# Write the output file
for cert in `find "${CADIR}" -type f -name "*.pem" -o -name "*.crt"`
do

    # Make sure the certificate date is valid...
    date=$( ${OPENSSL} x509 -enddate -in "${cert}" -noout | sed 's/^notAfter=//' )
    mydate "${date}"
    if test "${certdate}" -lt "${today}" ; then
        echo "${cert} expired on ${certdate}! Skipping..."
        unset date certdate
        continue
    fi
    unset date certdate
    ls "${cert}"
    tempfile=`mktemp`
    certbegin=`grep -n "^-----BEGIN" "${cert}" | cut -d ":" -f 1`
    certend=`grep -n "^-----END" "${cert}" | cut -d ":" -f 1`
    sed -n "${certbegin},${certend}p" "${cert}" > "${tempfile}"
    echo yes | env LC_ALL=C "${KEYTOOL}" -import                     \
                                         -alias `basename "${cert}"` \
                                         -keystore "${OUTFILE}"      \
                                         -storepass 'changeit'       \
                                         -file "${tempfile}"
    rm "${tempfile}"
done

if test "${TEMPDIR}x" != "x" ; then
    rm -rf "${TEMPDIR}"
fi
exit 0
EOF

chmod -c 0755 /opt/jdk/bin/mkcacerts

Note

Doing a very large copy/paste directly to a terminal may result in a corrupted file. Copying to an editor may overcome this issue.

Generate the OpenJDK cacerts file as the root user:

if [ -f /opt/jdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts ]; then
  mv /opt/jdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts \
     /opt/jdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts.bak
fi &&
/opt/jdk/bin/mkcacerts                 \
        -d "/etc/ssl/certs/"           \
        -k "/opt/jdk/bin/keytool"      \
        -s "/usr/bin/openssl"          \
        -o "/opt/jdk/jre/lib/security/cacerts"

Use the following commands to check if the cacerts file has been successfully installed:

cd /opt/jdk
bin/keytool -list -keystore jre/lib/security/cacerts

At the prompt "Enter keystore password:", press the "Enter" key if there is no keystore password defined. If the cacerts file was installed correctly, you will see a list of the certificates with related information for each one. If not, you need to reinstall them.

Installed Programs: appletviewer, extcheck, idlj, jar, jarsigner, java, javac, javadoc, javah, javap, java-rmi.cgi, jcmd, jconsole, jdb, jdeps, jhat, jinfo, jjs, jmap, jps, jrunscript, jsadebugd, jstack, jstat, jstatd, keytool, mkcacerts, native2ascii, orbd, pack200, policytool, rmic, rmid, rmiregistry, schemagen, serialver, servertool, tnameserv, unpack200, wsgen, wsimport, and xjc

Installed Libraries: /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60/lib/*, and /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60/jre/lib/*

Installed Directory: /opt/OpenJDK-1.8.0.60

Short Descriptions

appletviewer	allows to run applets outside of a web browser.
extcheck	checks a specified jar file for title and version conflicts with any extensions installed in the OpenJDK software.
idlj	generates Java bindings from a given IDL file.
jar	combines multiple files into a single jar archive.
jarsigner	signs jar files and verifies the signatures and integrity of a signed jar file.
java	launches a Java application by starting a Java runtime environment, loading a specified class and invoking its main method.
javac	reads class and interface definitions, written in the Java programming language, and compiles them into bytecode class files.
javadoc	parses the declarations and documentation comments in a set of Java source files and produces a corresponding set of HTML pages describing the classes, interfaces, constructors, methods, and fields.
javah	generates C header and source files that are needed to implement native methods.
javap	disassembles a Java class file.
java-rmi.cgi	is the Java RMI client.
jcmd	is a utility to send diagnostic command requests to a running Java Virtual Machine.
jconsole	is a graphical console tool to monitor and manage both local and remote Java applications and virtual machines.
jdb	is a simple command-line debugger for Java classes.
jdeps	shows the package-level or class-level dependencies of Java class files.
jhat	parses a java heap dump file and allows viewing it in a web browser.
jinfo	prints Java configuration information for a given Java process, core file, or a remote debug server.
jjs	is a command-line tool used to invoke the Nashorn engine. It can be used to interpret one or several script files, or to run an interactive shell.
jmap	prints shared object memory maps or heap memory details of a given process, core file, or a remote debug server.
jps	lists the instrumented JVMs on the target system.
jrunscript	is a command line script shell.
jsadebugd	attaches to a Java process or core file and acts as a debug server.
jstack	prints Java stack traces of Java threads for a given Java process, core file, or a remote debug server.
jstat	displays performance statistics for an instrumented JVM.
jstatd	is an RMI server application that monitors for the creation and termination of instrumented JVMs.
keytool	is a key and certificate management utility.
mkcacerts	is a simple script to extract x509 certificates and create a JRE cacerts file using keytool.
native2ascii	converts files that contain non-supported character encoding into files containing Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded characters.
orbd	is used to enable clients to transparently locate and invoke persistent objects on servers in the CORBA environment.
pack200	is a Java application that transforms a jar file into a compressed pack200 file using the Java gzip compressor.
policytool	creates and manages a policy file graphically.
rmic	generates stub and skeleton class files for remote objects from the names of compiled Java classes that contain remote object implementations.
rmid	starts the activation system daemon.
rmiregistry	creates and starts a remote object registry on the specified port on the current host.
schemagen	is a Java XML binding schema generator.
serialver	returns the serialVersionUID for one or more classes in a form suitable for copying into an evolving class.
servertool	provides an ease-of-use interface for application programmers to register, unregister, startup and shutdown a server.
tnameserv	starts the Java IDL name server.
unpack200	is a native implementation that transforms a packed file produced by pack200 into a jar file.
wsgen	generates JAX-WS portable artifacts used in JAX-WS web services.
wsimport	generates JAX-WS portable artifacts.
xjc	is a Java XML binding compiler.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 11:00:43 -0700

Configuring the JAVA environment

After the package installation is complete, the next step is to make sure that the system can properly find the files. If you set up your login scripts as recommended in The Bash Shell Startup Files, update the environment by creating the openjdk.sh script, as the root user:

cat > /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh

# Set JAVA_HOME directory
JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk

# Adjust PATH
pathappend $JAVA_HOME/bin

# Add to MANPATH
pathappend $JAVA_HOME/man MANPATH

# Auto Java CLASSPATH: Copy jar files to, or create symlinks in, the
# /usr/share/java directory. Note that having gcj jars with OpenJDK 8
# may lead to errors.

AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR=/usr/share/java

pathprepend . CLASSPATH

for dir in `find ${AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR} -type d 2>/dev/null`; do
    pathappend $dir CLASSPATH
done

for jar in `find ${AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR} -name "*.jar" 2>/dev/null`; do
    pathappend $jar CLASSPATH
done

export JAVA_HOME
unset AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR dir jar

# End /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh
EOF

For allowing mandb to include the OpenJDK man pages in its database, issue, as the root user:

cat >> /etc/man_db.conf << "EOF" &&
# Begin Java addition
MANDATORY_MANPATH     /opt/jdk/man
MANPATH_MAP           /opt/jdk/bin     /opt/jdk/man
MANDB_MAP             /opt/jdk/man     /var/cache/man/jdk
# End Java addition
EOF

mkdir -p /var/cache/man
mandb -c /opt/jdk/man

The installation of the JRE Certificate Autority Certificates (cacerts) is described in the JRE Certificate Authorithy Certificates section. If you are using the binary version, those certificates may already be installed.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

apache-ant-1.9.6

Introduction to Apache Ant

The Apache Ant package is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is like the make command, but without make's wrinkles. Ant is different. Instead of a model that is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree that executes various tasks. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular task interface.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/source/apache-ant-1.9.6-src.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a2d6094af9d1b59b49378b61b2874a22
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 113 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required file: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/junit-4.11.jar
Required file: http://hamcrest.googlecode.com/files/hamcrest-1.3.tgz

Apache Ant Dependencies

Required

A JDK (Java Binary or OpenJDK-1.8.0.60) and GLib-2.44.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/apache-ant

Installation of Apache Ant

Note

You may need additional libraries to satisfy the build requirements of various packages installed using Apache Ant. Review the table at http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#librarydependencies for any prerequisite libraries you may need. Place any needed libraries in lib/optional.

Unpack and copy the junit and hamcrest jar files to the local directory tree.

tar -xvf ../hamcrest-1.3.tgz &&
cp -v ../junit-4.11.jar \
      hamcrest-1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar lib/optional

Install Apache Ant by running the following commands:

The unit regression tests are performed during the build step below unless JUnit is not installed. Now, as the root user:

./build.sh -Ddist.dir=/opt/ant-1.9.6 dist &&
ln -v -sfn ant-1.9.6 /opt/ant

Note

Make sure the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set for the root user.

Command Explanations

cp -v ... lib/optional: This command copies the JUnit and hamcrest jar files into the directory where Apache Ant will look for them.

./build.sh -Ddist.dir=/opt/ant-1.9.6 dist: This command does everything. It builds, tests, then installs the package into /opt/ant-1.9.6.

ln -v -sfn ant-1.9.6 /opt/ant: This command is optional, and creates a convenience symlink.

Configuring Apache Ant

Config Files

/etc/ant/ant.conf, ~/.ant/ant.conf, and ~/.antrc

Configuration Information

Some packages will require ant to be in the search path and the ANT_HOME environment variable defined. Satisfy these requirements by issuing, as the root user:

cat >> /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh << EOF

# Begin Apache-ant addition

pathappend /opt/ant/bin
export ANT_HOME=/opt/ant

# End Apache-ant addition

EOF

The above instrutions assume you have configured your system as described in The Bash Shell Startup Files.

Installed Programs: ant, antRun, antRun.pl, complete-ant-cmd.pl, runant.pl, and runant.py

Installed Libraries: ant*.jar

Installed Directories: /opt/ant-1.9.6

Short Descriptions

ant	is a Java based build tool used by many packages instead of the conventional make program.
antRun	is a support script used to start ant build scripts in a given directory.
antRun.pl	is a Perl script that provides similar functionality offered by the antRun script.
complete-ant-cmd.pl	is a Perl script that allows Bash to complete an ant command-line.
runant.pl	is a Perl wrapper script used to invoke ant.
runant.py	is a Python wrapper script used to invoke ant.
`ant*.jar`	files are the Apache Ant Java class libraries.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 13:06:01 -0700

JUnit-4.11

Introduction to JUnit

The JUnit package contains a simple, open source framework to write and run repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. JUnit features include assertions for testing expected results, test fixtures for sharing common test data, and test runners for running tests.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/junit4_4.11.orig.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b4d163832583dcec8bedb5427c795cc4
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 34 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required file: http://hamcrest.googlecode.com/files/hamcrest-1.3.tgz

JUnit Dependencies

Required

apache-ant-1.9.6 and UnZip-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/junit

Installation of JUnit

The javadoc command coming with OpenJDK 8 has become much stricter than before regarding the conformance of the Javadoc comments in source code to HTML. The Junit documentation does not meet that standard, so the conformance checks have to be disabled. This can be done with the following command:

sed -i '\@/docs/@a<arg value="-Xdoclint:none"/>' build.xml

Now place the required hamcrest jar files where needed and build the package:

tar -xf ../hamcrest-1.3.tgz                              &&
cp -v hamcrest-1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3{,-sources}.jar lib/ &&
ant populate-dist

Test the package by issuing ant dist. One test fails for unknown reason.

Install the files in the final location as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/{doc,java}/junit-4.11 &&
chown -R root:root .                                 &&

cp -v -R junit*/javadoc/*             /usr/share/doc/junit-4.11  &&
cp -v junit*/junit*.jar               /usr/share/java/junit-4.11 &&
cp -v hamcrest-1.3/hamcrest-core*.jar /usr/share/java/junit-4.11

If you have followed the instructions in Configuring the JAVA environment, there is nothing more to do: the CLASSPATH variable whould be automatically updated.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: hamcrest-core and junit jar files

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/junit-4.11 and /usr/share/java/junit-4.11

Short Descriptions

junit jar files

contains java classes to support the xUnit framework testing architecture.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Part IV. Networking

Chapter 14. Connecting to a Network

The LFS book covers setting up networking by connecting to a LAN with a static IP address. There are other methods used to obtain an IP address and connect to a LAN and other networks (such as the Internet). The most popular methods (DHCP and PPP) are covered in this chapter.

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is a protocol used by many sites to automatically provide information such as IP addresses, subnet masks and routing information to computers. If your network uses DHCP, you will need a DHCP client in order to connect to it.

PPP stands for Point-to-Point Protocol. It is a data link protocol commonly used for establishing authenticated IP connections over a phone line with a modem, or over radio waves with a cellular phone. There is also a variant (PPPoE) that works over Ethernet and is used by cable providers to authenticate the Internet connections.

dhcpcd-6.9.3

Introduction to dhcpcd

dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in RFC2131. A DHCP client is useful for connecting your computer to a network which uses DHCP to assign network addresses. dhcpcd strives to be a fully featured, yet very lightweight DHCP client.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://roy.marples.name/downloads/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-6.9.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://roy.marples.name/pub/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-6.9.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8357d023c4687d27bc6ea7964236b2a6
Download size: 176 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

dhcpcd Dependencies

Optional

LLVM-3.7.0 (with Clang)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dhcpcd

Installation of dhcpcd

Install dhcpcd by running the following commands:

./configure --libexecdir=/lib/dhcpcd \
            --dbdir=/var/lib/dhcpcd  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/lib/dhcpcd: The default /libexec is not FHS-compliant. Since this directory may need to be available early in the boot, /usr/libexec cannot be used either.

--dbdir=/var/lib/dhcpcd: The default /var/db is not FHS-compliant

--with-hook=...: You can optionally install more hooks, for example to install some configuration files such as ntp.conf. The set of hooks is in the dhcpcd-hooks directory in the build tree.

Configuring dhcpcd

Config Files

/etc/dhcpcd.conf

General Configuration Information

To configure dhcpcd, you need to first install the network service script, /lib/services/dhcpcd included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package (as user root):

make install-service-dhcpcd

Whenever dhcpcd configures or shuts down a network interface, it executes hook scripts. For more details about those scripts, see the dhcpcd-run-hooks and dhcpcd man pages.

Finally, as the root user create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 configuration file using the following commands. Adjust appropriately for additional interfaces:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="eth0"
SERVICE="dhcpcd"
DHCP_START="-b -q <insert appropriate start options here>"
DHCP_STOP="-k <insert additional stop options here>"
EOF

For more information on the appropriate DHCP_START and DHCP_STOP values, examine the man page for dhcpcd.

Note

The default behavior of dhcpcd sets the hostname and mtu settings. It also overwrites /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ntp.conf. These modifications to system files and settings on system configuration files are done by hooks which are stored in /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks. Setup dhcpcd by removing or adding hooks from/to that directory. The execution of hooks can be disabled by using the --nohook (-C) command line option or by the nohook option in the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file.

Review the dhcpcd man page for switches to add to the DHCP_START value.

Configuration Information: fixed ip

Although not usual, it is possible that you need to configure dhcpcd to use a fixed ip. Here, we give an example. As the root user create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 configuration file using the following commands. Adjust appropriately for additional interfaces and for the actual ip and router you need:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="eth0"
SERVICE="dhcpcd"
DHCP_START="-b -q -S ip_address=192.168.0.10/24 -S routers=192.168.0.1"
DHCP_STOP="-k"
EOF

You can either use DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf from another system, your preferred servers, or just the example /etc/resolv.conf.head file below as is:

cat > /etc/resolv.conf.head << "EOF"
# OpenDNS servers
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
EOF

Installed Program: dhcpcd

Installed Library: /lib/dhcpcd/dev/udev.so

Installed Directory: /lib/dhcpcd

Short Descriptions

dhcpcd	is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in RFC2131.
`udev.so`	add udev support for interface arrival and departure; this is because udev likes to rename the interface, which it can't do if dhcpcd grabs it first.

Last updated on 2015-09-23 13:31:10 -0700

DHCP-4.3.3

Introduction to ISC DHCP

The ISC DHCP package contains both the client and server programs for DHCP. dhclient (the client) is used for connecting to a network which uses DHCP to assign network addresses. dhcpd (the server) is used for assigning network addresses on private networks.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/4.3.3/dhcp-4.3.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c5577b09c9017cdd319a11ff6364268e
Download size: 8.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 212 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/dhcp-4.3.3-client_script-1.patch
Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/dhcp-4.3.3-missing_ipv6-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dhcp

Kernel Configuration

You must have Packet Socket support:

[*] Networking support --->          [CONFIG_NET]
      Networking options --->
        <*> Packet socket            [CONFIG_PACKET]

If you do not have IPv6 support:

[*] Networking support --->          [CONFIG_NET]
      Networking Options --->
        <*> The IPv6 Protocol --->   [CONFIG_IPV6]

compiled in, then you must use the “missing_ipv6” patch.

Installation of ISC DHCP

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

If you have not compiled IPv6 support into the kernel, apply the missing_ipv6 patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../dhcp-4.3.3-missing_ipv6-1.patch

Note

Be careful with the instructions below. The single and double quotes are important because the defined variables are used verbatim in the code.

Install ISC DHCP by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../dhcp-4.3.3-client_script-1.patch &&
CFLAGS="-D_PATH_DHCLIENT_SCRIPT='\"/sbin/dhclient-script\"'         \
        -D_PATH_DHCPD_CONF='\"/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf\"'               \
        -D_PATH_DHCLIENT_CONF='\"/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf\"'"        \
./configure --prefix=/usr                                           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/dhcp                                  \
            --localstatedir=/var                                    \
            --with-srv-lease-file=/var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases       \
            --with-srv6-lease-file=/var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd6.leases     \
            --with-cli-lease-file=/var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.leases \
            --with-cli6-lease-file=/var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6.leases &&
make -j1

To test the results, issue: make check

If you only want to install the ISC DHCP client, issue the following commands as the root user:

make -C client install         &&
mv -v /usr/sbin/dhclient /sbin &&
install -v -m755 client/scripts/linux /sbin/dhclient-script

Skip to the section called “Client Configuration” in order to configure the client

If you only want to install the ISC DHCP server, issue the following command as the root user:

make -C server install

Skip to the section called “Server Configuration” in order to configure the server.

Alternatively, you can install whole package which includes the client, server, relay, static libraries and development headers by running the following commands as the root user:

make install                   &&
mv -v /usr/sbin/dhclient /sbin &&
install -v -m755 client/scripts/linux /sbin/dhclient-script

Configuring ISC DHCP

Config Files

/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf and /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Client Configuration

Create basic /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf by running the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
#
# Basic dhclient.conf(5)

#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
        domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
        netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
        ntp-servers;
require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
#timeout 60;
#retry 60;
#reboot 10;
#select-timeout 5;
#initial-interval 2;

# End /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
EOF

See man 5 dhclient.conf for additional options.

Now create the /var/lib/dhclient directory which will contain DHCP Client leases by running the following command as the root user:

install -v -dm 755 /var/lib/dhclient

At this point you can test if dhclient is behaving as expected by running the following command as the root user:

dhclient <eth0>

Replace <eth0> with your desired interface. If you want more verbose output, add the -v parameter to the command above.

If you want to configure network interfaces at boot using dhclient, you need to install the /lib/services/dhclient script included in blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package:

make install-service-dhclient

Next, create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 configuration file with the following commands as the root user:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="eth0"
SERVICE="dhclient"
DHCP_START=""
DHCP_STOP=""

# Set PRINTIP="yes" to have the script print
# the DHCP assigned IP address
PRINTIP="no"

# Set PRINTALL="yes" to print the DHCP assigned values for
# IP, SM, DG, and 1st NS. This requires PRINTIP="yes".
PRINTALL="no"
EOF

Adjust the file to suit your needs.

For more information on the appropriate DHCP_START and DHCP_STOP values see man 8 dhclient.

Server Configuration

Note that you only need the DHCP server if you want to issue LAN addresses over your network. The DHCP client doesn't need the server in order to function properly.

Start with creating /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf by running the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
#
# Example dhcpd.conf(5)

# Use this to enble / disable dynamic dns updates globally.
ddns-update-style none;

# option definitions common to all supported networks...
option domain-name "example.org";
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.org, ns2.example.org;

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

# This is a very basic subnet declaration.
subnet 10.254.239.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 {
  range 10.254.239.10 10.254.239.20;
  option routers rtr-239-0-1.example.org, rtr-239-0-2.example.org;
}

# End /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
EOF

Adjust the file to suit your needs. See man 5 dhcpd.conf for additional options.

Now create the /var/lib/dhcpd directory which will contain DHCP Server leases by running the following command as the root user:

install -v -dm 755 /var/lib/dhcpd

If you want to start the DHCP Server at boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package:

make install-dhcpd

You will need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd in order to set the interface on which dhcpd will serve the DHCP requests.

Installed Programs: dhclient, dhclient-script, dhcpd, dhcrelay and omshell

Installed Libraries: libdhcpctl.a, libdst.a and libomapi.a

Installed Directories: /etc/dhcp, /usr/include/dhcpctl, /usr/include/isc-dhcp, /usr/include/omapip, /var/lib/dhclient and /var/lib/dhcpd

Short Descriptions

dhclient	is the implementation of the DHCP client.
dhclient-script	is used by dhclient to (re)configure interfaces. It can make extra changes by invoking custom dhclient-{entry,exit}-hooks.
dhcpd	implements Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Internet Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) requests for network addresses.
dhcrelay	provides a means to accept DHCP and BOOTP requests on a subnet without a DHCP server and relay them to a DHCP server on another subnet.
omshell	provides an interactive way to connect to, query and possibly change the ISC DHCP Server's state via OMAPI, the Object Management API.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:20:24 -0700

Chapter 15. Networking Programs

These applications are generally client applications used to access the appropriate server across the building or across the world. Tcpwrappers and portmap are support programs for daemons that you may have running on your machine.

bridge-utils-1.5

Introduction to bridge-utils

The bridge-utils package contains a utility needed to create and manage bridge devices. This is useful in setting up networks for a hosted virtual machine (VM).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/bridge/files/bridge/bridge-utils-1.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: ec7b381160b340648dede58c31bb2238
Download size: 36 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/bridge-utils-1.5-linux_3.8_fix-1.patch

bridge-utils Dependencies

Optional (to run tests)

Net-tools-CVS_20101030

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bridge

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

[*] Networking support --->            [CONFIG_NET]
      Networking options --->
        <*/M> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging [CONFIG_BRIDGE]

Installation of bridge-utils

Install bridge-utils by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../bridge-utils-1.5-linux_3.8_fix-1.patch &&
autoconf -o configure configure.in                      &&
./configure --prefix=/usr                               &&
make

Testing the results requires running the six shell scripts in the tools/ directory. Two of the tests require two ethernet ports. Some tests will not preserve the current network configuration. See tests/README for details.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring bridge-utils

Configuration Information

To automate bridge creation and configuration, install the /lib/services/etc/bridge service script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-service-bridge

Note

The bridge script depends on the commands /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown and the service script ipv4-static from the LFS bootscripts dated January 27, 2012 or later.

The following configuration file will create a bridge device at boot time and attach the eth0 device to it. If more than one device is desired, use a space separated list of INTERFACE_COMPONENTS. This configuration is useful when planning to run a virtual machine such as kvm/qemu.

Other SERVICE combinations are possible, for example, SERVICES="bridge dhcp". In that case, the address parameters are not needed, but do not interfere if present. The bridge service may also be used alone, but will require additional subsequent configuration.

Caution

Do not run a parallel configuration for a device in the INTERFACE_COMPONENTS list. For instance, in the example below, do not configure /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 to run at boot time. The command ifdown br0 followed by command ifup eth0 will work, but don't try to have both up at the same time.

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.br0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT=yes
IFACE=br0
SERVICE="bridge ipv4-static"  # Space separated
IP=192.168.1.32
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
PREFIX=24
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
CHECK_LINK=no                 # Don't check before bridge is created
STP=no                        # Spanning tree protocol, default no
INTERFACE_COMPONENTS="eth0"   # Add to IFACE, space separated devices
IP_FORWARD=true
EOF

All addresses should be changed to meet your circumstance.

Installed Program: brctl

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

brctl

is a program used to set up, maintain, and inspect the ethernet bridge configuration in the linux kernel.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

cifs-utils-6.4

Introduction to cifs-utils

The cifs-utils provides a means for mounting SMB/CIFS shares on a Linux system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/cifs-utils-6.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b7d75b67fd3987952896d27256c7293d
Download size: 384 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

cifs-utils Dependencies

Optional

keyutils-1.5.9, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, Talloc-2.1.3, Samba-4.2.3, and libcap-ng or libcap-2.24 with PAM

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cifsutils

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

File systems  --->
  [*] Network File Systems  --->                                      [CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS]
    <*/M> CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor) [CONFIG_CIFS]

Installation of cifs-utils

Install cifs-utils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-pam \
            --disable-systemd &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-pam: Do not build PAM support. Remove it and use --with-pamdir (see below), if Linux-PAM-1.2.1 is installed and you wish PAM support.

--disable-systemd: Disable systemd specific behavior for mount.cifs. Remove it for systems running with systemd.

--with-pamdir=/lib/security: Install the PAM module in /lib/security.

Installed Programs: getcifsacl, mount.cifs and setcifsacl; optional: cifs.idmap, cifs.upcall and cifscreds

Installed Library: /usr/lib/cifs-utils/idmapwb.so and optionally PAM module /lib/security/pam_cifscreds.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/cifs-utils

Short Descriptions

cifs.idmap	is a userspace helper program for the linux CIFS client filesystem. There are a number of activities that the kernel cannot easily do itself. This program is a callout program that does these things for the kernel and then returns the result. It is not intended to be run from the command-line.
cifs.upcall	is a userspace helper program for the linux CIFS client filesystem. It is intended to be run when the kernel calls request-key for a particular key type. It is not intended to be run from the command-line.
cifscreds	is a tool for managing credentials (username and password) for the purpose of establishing sessions in multiuser mounts.
getcifsacl	is a userspace helper to display an ACL in a security descriptor for Common Internet File System (CIFS).
mount.cifs	mounts a Linux CIFS filesystem. It is usually invoked indirectly by the mount(8) command when using the "-t cifs" option.
setcifsacl	is intended to alter an ACL of a security descriptor for a file system object.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

NcFTP-3.2.5

Introduction to NcFTP

The NcFTP package contains a powerful and flexible interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. It is intended to replace or supplement the stock ftp program.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.ncftp.com/ncftp/ncftp-3.2.5-src.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b05c7a6d5269c04891f02f43d4312b30
Download size: 452 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ncftp

Installation of NcFTP

There are two ways to build NcFTP. The first (and optimal) way builds most of the functionality as a shared library and then builds and installs the program linked against this library. The second method simply links all of the functionality into the binary statically. This doesn't make the dynamic library available for linking by other applications. You need to choose which method best suits you. Note that the second method does not create an entirely statically linked binary; only the libncftp parts are statically linked in, in this case. Be aware that building and using the shared library is covered by the Clarified Artistic License; however, developing applications that utilize the shared library is subject to a different license.

To install NcFTP using the first (and optimal) method, run the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make -C libncftp shared &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make -C libncftp soinstall &&
make install

To install NcFTP using the second method (with the libncftp functionality linked in statically) run the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

make -C ... && make -C ...: These commands make and install the dynamic library libncftp which is then used to link against when compiling the main program.

Configuring NcFTP

Config Files

/etc/ncftp.* and ~/.ncftp/*; especially /etc/ncftp.prefs_v3 and ~/.ncftp/prefs_v3

Configuration Information

Most NcFTP configuration is done while in the program, and the configuration files are dealt with automatically. One exception to this is ~/.ncftp/prefs_v3. There are various options to alter in there, including:

yes-i-know-about-NcFTPd=yes

This disables the splash screen advertising the NcFTPd server.

There are other options in the prefs_v3 file. Most of these are self-explanatory. Global defaults can be set in /etc/ncftp.prefs_v3.

Installed Programs: ncftp, ncftpbatch, ncftpbookmarks, ncftpget, ncftpls, ncftpput, and ncftpspooler

Installed Library: libncftp.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

ncftp	is a browser program for File Transfer Protocol.
ncftpbatch	is an individual batch FTP job processor.
ncftpbookmarks	is the NcFTP Bookmark Editor (NCurses-based).
ncftpget	is an internet file transfer program for scripts used to retrieve files.
ncftpls	is an internet file transfer program for scripts used to list files.
ncftpput	is an internet file transfer program for scripts used to transfer files.
ncftpspooler	is a global batch FTP job processor daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

Net-tools-CVS_20101030

Introduction to Net-tools

The Net-tools package is a collection of programs for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/n/net-tools-CVS_20101030.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/svn/n/net-tools-CVS_20101030.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 6be14ed473cacdd68edeaa9605adc469
Download size: 222 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/net-tools-CVS_20101030-remove_dups-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/net-tools

Installation of Net-tools

The instructions below automate the configuration process by piping yes to the make config command. If you wish to run the interactive configuration process (by changing the instruction to just make config), but you are not sure how to answer all the questions, then just accept the defaults. This will be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel—what you do here is merely tell the package to include support for those protocols in its programs, but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.

Note

This package has several unneeded protocols and hardware device specific functions that are obsolete. To only build the minimum needed for your system, skip the yes command and answer each question interactively. The minimum needed options are 'UNIX protocol family' and 'INET (TCP/IP) protocol family'.

The patch below cleans up the installation so that it does not overwrite the ifconfig and hostname programs that were installed in LFS.

Install Net-tools by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../net-tools-CVS_20101030-remove_dups-1.patch &&

yes "" | make config &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make update

Command Explanations

yes "" | make config: Piping yes to make config skips the interactive configuration and accepts the defaults.

Installed Programs: arp, ipmaddr, iptunnel, mii-tool, nameif, netstat, plipconfig, rarp, route, and slattach

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

arp	is used to manipulate the kernel's ARP cache, usually to add or delete an entry, or to dump the entire cache.
ipmaddr	adds, deletes and shows an interface's multicast addresses.
iptunnel	adds, changes, deletes and shows an interface's tunnels.
mii-tool	checks or sets the status of a network interface's Media Independent Interface (MII) unit.
nameif	names network interfaces based on MAC addresses.
netstat	is used to report network connections, routing tables, and interface statistics.
plipconfig	is used to fine tune the PLIP device parameters, to improve its performance.
rarp	is used to manipulate the kernel's RARP table.
route	is used to manipulate the IP routing table.
slattach	attaches a network interface to a serial line. This allows you to use normal terminal lines for point-to-point links to other computers.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

NFS-Utils-1.3.2

Introduction to NFS Utilities

The NFS Utilities package contains the userspace server and client tools necessary to use the kernel's NFS abilities. NFS is a protocol that allows sharing file systems over the network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nfs/nfs-utils-1.3.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1e2f3c1ed468dee02d00c534c002ea10
Download size: 772 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

NFS Utilities Dependencies

Required

libtirpc-0.3.2

Optional

libevent-2.0.22, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and libnfsidmap (for NFSv4 support), MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 or libgssapi, and librpcsecgss (for GSS and RPC security support) and libcap-2.24 with PAM

Required (runtime)

rpcbind-0.2.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nfs-utils

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

File systems  --->
  [*] Network File Systems  --->         [CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS]
    <*/M> NFS client support             [CONFIG_NFS_FS]
    <*/M> NFS server support             [CONFIG_NFSD]

Select the appropriate sub-options that appear when the above options are selected.

Installation of NFS Utilities

Before you compile the program, ensure that the nobody user and nogroup group have been created as done in the current LFS book. You can add them by running the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 99 nogroup &&
useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody

Note

The classic uid and gid values are 65534 which is also -2 when interpreted as a signed 16-bit number. These values impact other files on some filesystems that do not have support for sparse files. The nobody and nogroup values are relatively arbitrary. The impact on a server is nil if the exports file is configured correctly. If it is misconfigured, an ls -l or ps listing will show a uid or gid number of 65534 instead of a name. The client uses nobody only as the user running rpc.statd.

Fix an issue that would prevent rpd.statd from starting:

sed -i "/daemon_init/s:\!::" utils/statd/statd.c

Install NFS Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --without-tcp-wrappers \
            --disable-nfsv4        \
            --disable-gss &&
make

If your /usr directory is NFS mounted, you should install the executables in /sbin by passing an additional parameter --sbindir=/sbin to the above ./configure command.

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-tcp-wrappers: This option is needed because TCP Wrappers is not in BLFS.

--disable-nfsv4: Disables support for NFS version 4.

--disable-gss: Disables support for RPCSEC GSS (RPC Security).

Configuring NFS Utilities

Server Configuration

/etc/exports contains the exported directories on NFS servers. Refer to the exports.5 manual page for the syntax of this file. Also refer to the "NFS HowTo" available at http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ for information on how to configure the servers and clients in a secure manner. For example, for sharing the /home directory over the local network, the following line may be added:

/home 192.168.0.0/24(rw,subtree_check,anonuid=99,anongid=99)

Note

Be sure to replace the directory, network address. and prefix above to match your network. The only space in the line above should be between the directory and the network address.

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs-server init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package to start the server at boot.

make install-nfs-server

Now create the /etc/sysconfig/nfs-server configuration file:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/nfs-server << "EOF"
PORT="2049"
PROCESSES="8"
QUOTAS="no"
KILLDELAY="10"
EOF

Note

The above parameters may be optionally placed in /etc/sysconfig/rc.site.

Client Configuration

/etc/fstab contains the directories that are to be mounted on the client. Alternately the partitions can be mounted by using the mount command with the proper options. To mount the /home and /usr partitions, add the following to the /etc/fstab:

<server-name>:/home  /home nfs   rw,_netdev 0 0
<server-name>:/usr   /usr  nfs   ro,_netdev 0 0

The options which can be used are specified in man 5 nfs. If both the client and server are running recent versions of linux, most of the options will be negotiated. You can specify either rw or ro, _netdev if the filesystem is to be automatically mounted at boot, or noauto (and perhaps user) for other filesystems.

If the fileserver is not running a recent version of linux, you may need to specifiy other options.

If you are using systemd, you may need to enable autofs v4 in your kernel, and add the option comment=systemd.automount. Some machines need this, because systemd tries to mount the external fs's before the network is up, others do not need it. An alternative is for root to run mount -a.

Boot Script

Note

The following boot script is not required if the nfs-server script is installed.

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs-client init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package to start the client services at boot.

make install-nfs-client

To automatically mount nfs filesystems, clients will also need to install the netfs bootscript as described in Configuring for Network Filesystems.

Installed Programs: exportfs, mountstats, mount.nfs, mount.nfs4 (link to mount.nfs), nfsiostat, nfsstat, osd_login, rpc.mountd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.statd, rpcdebug, showmount, sm-notify, start-statd, umount.nfs (link to mount.nfs), and umount.nfs4 (link to mount.nfs)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /var/lib/nfs

Short Descriptions

exportfs	maintains a list of NFS exported file systems.
mountstats	displays NFS client per-mount statistics.
mount.nfs	Used to mount a network share using NFS
mount.nfs4	Used to mount a network share using NFSv4
nfsiostat	Report input/output statistics for network filesystems.
nfsstat	displays statistics kept about NFS client and server activity.
osd_login	is a script that is a part of the autologin feature mandated by the pnfs-objects standard.
rpc.mountd	implements the NFS mount protocol on an NFS server.
rpc.nfsd	implements the user level part of the NFS service on the server.
rpc.statd	is used by the NFS file locking service. Run on both sides, client as well as server, when you want file locking enabled.
rpcdebug	sets or clears the kernel's NFS client and server debug flags.
showmount	displays mount information for an NFS server.
sm-notify	is used to send Network Status Monitor reboot messages.
start-statd	is a script called by nfsmount when mounting a filesystem with locking enabled, if statd does not appear to be running. It can be customised with whatever flags are appropriate for the site.
umount.nfs	Used to unmount a network share using NFS
umount.nfs4	Used to unmount a network share using NFSv4

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Configuring for Network Filesystems

While LFS is capable of mounting network file systems such as NFS, these are not mounted by the mountfs init script. Network file systems must be mounted after the networking is activated and unmounted before the network goes down. The netfs bootscript was written to handle both boot-time mounting of network filesystems, if the entry in /etc/fstab contains the _netdev option, and unmounting of all network filesystems before the network is brought down.

As the root user, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs bootscript included with the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-netfs

Last updated on 2011-11-03 16:05:47 -0700

ntp-4.2.8p3

Introduction to ntp

The ntp package contains a client and server to keep the time synchronized between various computers over a network. This package is the official reference implementation of the NTP protocol.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8p3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b98b0cbb72f6df04608e1dd5f313808b
Download size: 6.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 68 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

ntp Dependencies

Required

Wget-1.16.3 (runtime, for update-leap) and Which-2.21

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, libevent-2.0.22, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, libedit, and libopts from AutoGen

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ntp

Installation of ntp

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the ntpd daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 87 ntp &&
useradd -c "Network Time Protocol" -d /var/lib/ntp -u 87 \
        -g ntp -s /bin/false ntp

Install ntp by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --bindir=/usr/sbin    \
            --sysconfdir=/etc     \
            --enable-linuxcaps    \
            --with-lineeditlibs=readline \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ntp-4.2.8p3 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -o ntp -g ntp -d /var/lib/ntp

Command Explanations

--bindir=/usr/sbin: This parameter places the administrative programs in /usr/sbin.

--enable-linuxcaps: ntpd is run as user ntp, so use Linux capabilities for non-root clock control.

--with-lineeditlibs=readline: This option enables Readline support for ntpdc and ntpq programs. If omitted, libedit will be used if installed, otherwise no readline capabilites will be compiled.

Configuring ntp

Config Files

/etc/ntp.conf

Configuration Information

The following configuration file first defines various ntp servers with open access from different continents. Second, it creates a drift file where ntpd stores the frequency offset and a pid file to store the ntpd process ID. Third, it defines the location for the leap-second definition file /etc/ntp.leapseconds, that the update-leap script checks and updates, when necessary. This script can be run as a cron job and the ntp developers recommend a frequency of about three weeks for the updates. Since the documentation included with the package is sparse, visit the ntp website at http://www.ntp.org/ and http://www.pool.ntp.org/ for more information.

cat > /etc/ntp.conf << "EOF"
# Asia
server 0.asia.pool.ntp.org

# Australia
server 0.oceania.pool.ntp.org

# Europe
server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org

# North America
server 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org

# South America
server 2.south-america.pool.ntp.org

driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
pidfile   /var/run/ntpd.pid

leapfile  /etc/ntp.leapseconds
EOF

You may wish to add a “Security session”. For explanations, see https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/accopt.html#restrict.

cat >> /etc/ntp.conf << "EOF"
# Security session
restrict    default limited kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
restrict -6 default limited kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery

restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict ::1
EOF

Synchronizing the Time

There are two options. Option one is to run ntpd continuously and allow it to synchronize the time in a gradual manner. The other option is to run ntpd periodically (using cron) and update the time each time ntpd is scheduled.

If you choose Option one, then install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntp init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-ntpd

If you prefer to run ntpd periodically, add the following command to root's crontab:

ntpd -q

Execute the following command if you would like to set the hardware clock to the current system time at shutdown and reboot:

ln -v -sf ../init.d/setclock /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K46setclock &&
ln -v -sf ../init.d/setclock /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K46setclock

The other way around is already set up by LFS.

Installed Programs: calc_tickadj, ntp-keygen, ntp-wait, ntpd, ntpdate, ntpdc, ntpq, ntptime, ntptrace, sntp, tickadj and update-leap

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/ntp, /usr/share/doc/ntp-4.2.8 and /var/lib/ntp

Short Descriptions

calc_tickadj	calculates optimal value for tick given ntp drift file.
ntp-keygen	generates cryptographic data files used by the NTPv4 authentication and identification schemes.
ntp-wait	is useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence until ntpd has set the time.
ntpd	is a ntp daemon that runs in the background and keeps the date and time synchronized based on response from configured ntp servers. It also functions as a ntp server.
ntpdate	is a client program that sets the date and time based on the response from an ntp server. This command is deprecated.
ntpdc	is used to query the ntp daemon about its current state and to request changes in that state.
ntpq	is a utility program used to monitor ntpd operations and determine performance.
ntptime	reads and displays time-related kernel variables.
ntptrace	traces a chain of ntp servers back to the primary source.
sntp	is a Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client.
tickadj	reads, and optionally modifies, several timekeeping-related variables in older kernels that do not have support for precision timekeeping.
update-leap	is a script to verify and, if necessary, update the leap-second definition file.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

rpcbind-0.2.3

Introduction to rpcbind

The rpcbind program is a replacement for portmap. It is required for import or export of Network File System (NFS) shared directories.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rpcbind/rpcbind-0.2.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c8875246b2688a1adfbd6ad43480278d
Download size: 120 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

rpcbind Dependencies

Required

libtirpc-0.3.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rpcbind

Installation of rpcbind

In order to get rpcbind to work properly, first fix the package to use correct service name:

sed -i "/servname/s:rpcbind:sunrpc:" src/rpcbind.c &&

Install rpcbind by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --bindir=/sbin      \
            --with-rpcuser=root \
            --without-systemdsystemunitdir &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-rpcuser=root: This works around an error in the configure script.

--without-systemdsystemunitdir: BLFS does not support systemd.

Configuring rpcbind

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcbind init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-rpcbind

Installed Program: rpcbind and rpcinfo

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

rpcbind	is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.
rpcinfo	makes an RPC call to an RPC server and reports data according to the requested options.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

rsync-3.1.1

Introduction to rsync

The rsync package contains the rsync utility. This is useful for synchronizing large file archives over a network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 43bd6676f0b404326eee2d63be3cdcfe
Download size: 869 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

rsync Dependencies

Installation of rsync

For security reasons, running the rsync server as an unprivileged user and group is encouraged. If you intend to run rsync as a daemon, create the rsyncd user and group with the following commands issued by the root user:

groupadd -g 48 rsyncd &&
useradd -c "rsyncd Daemon" -d /home/rsync -g rsyncd \
    -s /bin/false -u 48 rsyncd

Install rsync by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --without-included-zlib &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to build HTML API documentation, issue doxygen.

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the documentation, install it using the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d          /usr/share/doc/rsync-3.1.1/api &&
install -v -m644 dox/html/*  /usr/share/doc/rsync-3.1.1/api

Command Explanations

--without-included-zlib: This switch enables compilation with system-installed zlib library.

Configuring rsync

Config Files

/etc/rsyncd.conf

Configuration Information

For client access to remote files, you may need to install the OpenSSH-7.1p1 package to connect to the remote server.

This is a simple download-only configuration to set up running rsync as a server. See the rsyncd.conf(5) man-page for additional options (i.e., user authentication).

cat > /etc/rsyncd.conf << "EOF"
# This is a basic rsync configuration file
# It exports a single module without user authentication.

motd file = /home/rsync/welcome.msg
use chroot = yes

[localhost]
    path = /home/rsync
    comment = Default rsync module
    read only = yes
    list = yes
    uid = rsyncd
    gid = rsyncd

EOF

You can find additional configuration information and general documentation about rsync at http://rsync.samba.org/documentation.html.

Boot Script

Note that you only want to start the rsync server if you want to provide an rsync archive on your local machine. You don't need this script to run the rsync client.

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rsyncd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-rsyncd

Installed Program: rsync

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: Optionally, /usr/share/doc/rsync-3.1.1

Short Descriptions

rsync

is a replacement for rcp (and scp) that has many more features. It uses the “rsync algorithm” which provides a very fast method of syncing remote files. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one end of the link beforehand.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

Samba-4.2.3

Introduction to Samba

The Samba package provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients and Windows networking to Linux clients. Samba can also be configured as a Windows Domain Controller replacement, a file/print server acting as a member of a Windows Active Directory domain and a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver (which among other things provides LAN browsing support).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.2.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: aeaa6ccee87727b7d01df7b6d0864c74
Download size: 20 MB
Estimated disk space required: 476 MB (additional 397 MB for the quicktest, reputedly up to 500 MB additional for all tests)
Estimated build time: 2.1 SBU, using parallelism=4 (additional 7.4 SBU for the quicktest, reputedly up to 110 SBU to run all tests)

Samba Dependencies

Required

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, Cups-2.1.0, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, libarchive-3.1.2, libcap-2.24 with PAM, libgpg-error-1.20, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, popt-1.16, Talloc-2.1.3, Valgrind-3.10.1 (optionally used by the test suite), xfsprogs-4.2.0, ctdb, Gamin, Heimdal, libaio, libunwind, ldb, OpenAFS, tevent, and tdb

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/samba4

Installation of Samba

Note

If you wish to run the test suite after the binaries are built, you must add the --enable-selftest parameter to the configure script below. You may want to run configure with the --help parameter first. There may be other parameters needed to take advantage of optional dependencies.

Install Samba by running the following commands:

./configure                             \
    --prefix=/usr                       \
    --sysconfdir=/etc                   \
    --localstatedir=/var                \
    --with-piddir=/run/samba            \
    --with-pammodulesdir=/lib/security  \
    --without-systemd                   \
    --enable-fhs                        &&

make

According to Samba developers, the limitation to 108 characters of the path length of a unix named pipe socket may be the cause of errors, so that over 1/3 of the tests might fail. For this reason, the switch --with-selftest-prefix=/tmp/quick (or another path with small number of characters) can be used with configure. Even so, the “samba3.raw.eas” test may fail, apparently for the same reason. If one quicktest fails, it can be disabled. For example, “samba3.raw.eas” may be disabled with the following command:

sed -i "/samba3.blackbox.failure.failure/i \^samba3.raw.eas" selftest/knownfail

To test the results, as the root user, issue: make quicktest 2>&1 | tee quicktest.log. Summary of the test results and some other information may be obtained with grep -A5 testsuites quicktest.log. There are other targets (test, subunit-test) available, but take a very long time (over 100 SBU).

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

mv -v /usr/lib/libnss_win{s,bind}.so*   /lib                       &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libnss_winbind.so.2 /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so &&
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libnss_wins.so.2    /usr/lib/libnss_wins.so    &&

install -v -m644    examples/smb.conf.default /etc/samba &&

mkdir -pv /etc/openldap/schema                        &&

install -v -m644    examples/LDAP/README              \
                    /etc/openldap/schema/README.LDAP  &&
                    
install -v -m644    examples/LDAP/samba*              \
                    /etc/openldap/schema              &&
                    
install -v -m755    examples/LDAP/{get*,ol*} \
                    /etc/openldap/schema              &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/samba-4.2.3 &&

install -v -m644    lib/ntdb/doc/design.pdf \
                    /usr/share/doc/samba-4.2.3

Command Explanations

--enable-fhs: Assigns all other file paths in a manner compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).

--without-systemd: Disable systemd integration, which is not part of LFS/BLFS. If you use systemd, replace by --with-systemd.

--with-selftest-prefix=SELFTEST_PREFIX: This option specify the test suite work directory (default=./st).

mv -v /usr/lib/libnss_win{s,bind}.so* /lib: The nss libraries are installed in /usr/lib by default. Move them to /lib.

ln -v -sf ../../lib/libnss_winbind.so.2 /usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so and ln -v -sf ../../lib/libnss_wins.so.2 /usr/lib/libnss_wins.so: These symlinks are required when applicates build against these libraries.

install -v -m644 examples/LDAP/* /etc/openldap/schema: These commands are used to copy sample Samba schemas to the OpenLDAP schema directory.

install -v -m644 ../examples/smb.conf.default /etc/samba: This copies a default smb.conf file into /etc/samba. This sample configuration will not work until you copy it to /etc/samba/smb.conf and make the appropriate changes for your installation. See the configuration section for minimum values which must be set.

Configuring Samba

Config Files

/etc/samba/smb.conf

Printing to SMB Clients

If you use CUPS for print services, and you wish to print to a printer attached to an SMB client, you need to create an SMB backend device. To create the device, issue the following command as the root user:

ln -v -sf /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb

Configuration Information

Due to the complexity and the many various uses for Samba, complete configuration for all the package's capabilities is well beyond the scope of the BLFS book. This section provides instructions to configure the /etc/samba/smb.conf file for two common scenarios. The complete contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf will depend on the purpose of Samba installation.

Note

You may find it easier to copy the configuration parameters shown below into an empty /etc/samba/smb.conf file instead of copying and editing the default file as mentioned in the “Command Explanations” section. How you create/edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file will be left up to you. Do ensure the file is only writeable by the root user (mode 644).

Scenario 1: Minimal Standalone Client-Only Installation

Choose this variant if you only want to transfer files using smbclient, mount Windows shares and print to Windows printers, and don't want to share your files and printers to Windows machines.

A /etc/samba/smb.conf file with the following three parameters is sufficient:

[global]
    workgroup = MYGROUP
    dos charset = cp850
    unix charset = ISO-8859-1

The values in this example specify that the computer belongs to a Windows workgroup named “MYGROUP”, uses the “cp850” character set on the wire when talking to MS-DOS and MS Windows 9x, and that the filenames are stored in the “ISO-8859-1” encoding on the disk. Adjust these values appropriately for your installation. The “unix charset” value must be the same as the output of locale charmap when executed with the LANG variable set to your preferred locale, otherwise the ls command may not display correct filenames of downloaded files.

There is no need to run any Samba servers in this scenario, thus you don't need to install the provided bootscripts.

Scenario 2: Standalone File/Print Server

Choose this variant if you want to share your files and printers to Windows machines in your workgroup in addition to the capabilities described in Scenario 1.

In this case, the /etc/samba/smb.conf.default file may be a good template to start from. Also add “dos charset” and “unix charset” parameters to the “[global]” section as described in Scenario 1 in order to prevent filename corruption. For security reasons, you may wish to define path = /home/alice/shared-files, assuming your user name is alice and you only want to share the files in that directory, instead of your entire home. Then, replace homes by shared-files and change also the “comment” if used the configuration file below or the /etc/samba/smb.conf.default to create yours.

The following configuration file creates a separate share for each user's home directory and also makes all printers available to Windows machines:

[global]
    workgroup = MYGROUP
    dos charset = cp850
    unix charset = ISO-8859-1

[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes

[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    browseable = no
    guest ok = no
    printable = yes

Other parameters you may wish to customize in the “[global]” section include:

    server string =
    security =
    hosts allow =
    load printers =
    log file =
    max log size =
    socket options =
    local master =

Reference the comments in the /etc/samba/smb.conf.default file for information regarding these parameters.

Since the smbd and nmbd daemons are needed in this case, install the samba bootscript. Be sure to run smbpasswd (with the -a option to add users) to enable and set passwords for all accounts that need Samba access. Using the default Samba passdb backend, any user you attempt to add will also be required to exist in the /etc/passwd file.

Advanced Requirements

More complex scenarios involving domain control or membership are possible. Such setups are advanced topics and cannot be adequately covered in BLFS. Many complete books have been written on these topics alone. Note that in some domain membership scenarios, the winbindd daemon and the corresponding bootscript are needed.

There is quite a bit of documentation available which covers many of these advanced configurations. Point your web browser to the links below to view some of the documentation included with the Samba package:

Using Samba, 2nd Edition; a popular book published by O'Reilly http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html
The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
Samba-3 by Example http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/

Boot Script

For your convenience, boot scripts have been provided for Samba. There are two included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package. The first, samba, will start the smbd and nmbd daemons needed to provide SMB/CIFS services. The second script, winbind, starts the winbindd daemon, used for providing Windows domain services to Linux clients.

The default Samba installation uses the nobody user for guest access to the server. This can be overridden by setting the guest account = parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. If you utilize the guest account = parameter, ensure this user exists in the /etc/passwd file. To use the default user, issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 99 nogroup &&
useradd -c "Unprivileged Nobody" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
    -s /bin/false -u 99 nobody

Install the samba script with the following command issued as the root user:

make install-samba

If you also need the winbindd script to resolve names from Windows clients, run:

make install-winbindd

Installed Programs: cifsdd, dbwrap_tool, eventlogadm, gentest, ldbadd, ldbdel, ldbedit, ldbmodify, ldbrename, ldbsearch, locktest, masktest, ndrdump, net, nmbd, nmblookup, ntdbbackup, ntdbdump, ntdbrestore, ntdbtool, ntlm_auth, oLschema2ldif, pdbedit, pidl, profiles, regdiff, regpatch, regshell, regtree, rpcclient, samba, samba_dnsupdate, samba_kcc, samba-regedit, samba_spnupdate, samba-tool, samba_upgradedns, sharesec, smbcacls, smbclient, smbcontrol, smbcquotas, smbd, smbget, smbpasswd, smbspool, smbstatus, smbtar, smbta-util, smbtorture, smbtree, tdbbackup, tdbdump, tdbrestore, tdbtool, testparm, wbinfo, and winbindd

Installed Libraries: libdcerpc-atsvc.so, libdcerpc-binding.so, libdcerpc-samr.so, libdcerpc-server.so, libdcerpc.so, libgensec.so, libndr-krb5pac.so, libndr-nbt.so, libndr.so, libndr-standard.so, libnetapi.so, libnss_winbind.so, libnss_wins.so, libregistry.so, libsamba-credentials.so, libsamba-hostconfig.so, libsamba-passdb.so, libsamba-policy.so, libsamba-util.so, libsamdb.so, libsmbclient-raw.so, libsmbclient.so, libsmbconf.so, libsmbldap.so, libtevent-util.so, libtorture.so, libwbclient.so, mit_samba.so, and winbind_krb5_locator.so; the pam_winbind.so and pam_smbpass.so PAM libraries; and assorted character set, filesystem and support modules under /usr/lib/{python2.7,samba}

Installed Directories: /etc/samba, /run/samba, /usr/include/samba-4.0, /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.x.y/Parse/Pidl/{Samba{3,4},Wireshark}, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba, /usr/lib/samba, /usr/share/doc/samba-4.2.3, /usr/share/samba, and /var/{cache,lib,lock,log,run}/samba

Short Descriptions

cifsdd	is the dd command for SMB.
dbwrap_tool	is used to read and manipulate TDB/CTDB databases using the dbwrap interface.
eventlogadm	is used to write records to eventlogs from STDIN, add the specified source and DLL eventlog registry entries and display the active eventlog names (from `smb.conf`).
gentest	is used to run random generic SMB operations against two SMB servers and show the differences in behavior.
ldbadd	is a command-line utility for adding records to an LDB database.
ldbdel	is a command-line program for deleting LDB database records.
ldbedit	allows you to edit LDB databases using your preferred editor.
ldbmodify	allows you to modify records in an LDB database.
ldbrename	allows you to edit LDB databases using your preferred editor.
ldbsearch	searches an LDB database for records matching a specified expression.
locktest	is used to find differences in locking between two SMB servers.
masktest	is used to find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.
ndrdump	is a DCE/RPC Packet Parser and Dumper.
net	is a tool for administration of Samba and remote CIFS servers, similar to the net utility for DOS/Windows.
nmbd	is the Samba NetBIOS name server.
nmblookup	is used to query NetBIOS names and map them to IP addresses.
ntdbbackup	is a tool for backing up and for validating the integrity of Samba `.ntdb` files.
ntdbdump	is a tool for printing the contents of Samba `.ntdb` files.
ntdbrestore	is a tool for creating a Samba `.ntdb` file out of a ntdbdump output.
ntdbtool	is used to manipulate the contents of Samba `.ntdb` files.
ntlm_auth	is a tool to allow external access to Winbind's NTLM authentication function.
oLschema2ldif	converts LDAP schema's to LDB-compatible LDIF.
pdbedit	is a tool used to manage the SAM database.
pidl	is an IDL (Interface Definition Language) compiler written in Perl.
profiles	is a utility that reports and changes SIDs in Windows registry files. It currently only supports Windows NT.
regdiff	is a Diff program for Windows registry files.
regpatch	applies registry patches to registry files.
regshell	is a Windows registry file browser using readline.
regtree	is a text-mode registry viewer.
rpcclient	is used to execute MS-RPC client side functions.
samba	is a server to provide AD and SMB/CIFS services to clients.
samba_dnsupdate	is used to update our DNS names using TSIG-GSS.
samba_kcc	is a script used to compute your KCC (Knowledge Consistency Checker) topology.
samba-regedit	is a ncurses based tool to manage the Samba registry.
samba_spnupdate	is a script to update the servicePrincipalName names from spn_update_list.
samba-tool	is the main Samba administration tool.
samba_upgradedns	is a Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
sharesec	manipulates share ACL permissions on SMB file shares.
smbcacls	is used to manipulate Windows NT access control lists.
smbclient	is a SMB/CIFS access utility, similar to FTP.
smbcontrol	is used to control running smbd, nmbd and winbindd daemons.
smbcquotas	is used to manipulate Windows NT quotas on SMB file shares.
smbd	is the main Samba daemon which provides SMB/CIFS services to clients.
smbget	is a simple utility with wget-like semantics, that can download files from SMB servers. You can specify the files you would like to download on the command-line.
smbpasswd	changes a user's Samba password.
smbspool	sends a print job to an SMB printer.
smbstatus	reports current Samba connections.
smbtar	is a shell script used for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to Linux tape drives or a file.
smbta-util	is a tool to ease the configuration of the vfs_smb_traffic_analyzer module regarding data encryption.
smbtorture	is a testsuite that runs several tests against a SMB server.
smbtree	is a text-based SMB network browser.
tdbbackup	is a tool for backing up or validating the integrity of Samba `.tdb` files.
tdbdump	is a tool used to print the contents of a Samba `.tdb` file.
tdbrestore	is a tool for creating a Samba `.tdb` file out of a ntdbdump.
tdbtool	is a tool which allows simple database manipulation from the command line.
testparm	checks an `smb.conf` file for proper syntax.
wbinfo	queries a running winbindd daemon.
winbindd	resolves names from Windows NT servers.
`libnss_winbind.so`	provides Name Service Switch API functions for resolving names from NT servers.
`libnss_wins.so`	provides API functions for Samba's implementation of the Windows Internet Naming Service.
`libnetapi.so`	provides the API functions for the administration tools used for Samba and remote CIFS servers.
`libsmbclient.so`	provides the API functions for the Samba SMB client tools.
`libwbclient.so`	provides API functions for Windows domain client services.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

Wget-1.16.3

Introduction to Wget

The Wget package contains a utility useful for non-interactive downloading of files from the Web.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d2e4455781a70140ae83b54ca594ce21
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for the tests)

Wget Dependencies

Optional

libidn-1.32, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, PCRE-8.37; libwww-perl-6.13 with IO::Socket::SSL (required for the test suite); Valgrind-3.10.1 (optional for the test suite), and libpsl

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wget

Installation of Wget

Install Wget by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr      \
            --sysconfdir=/etc  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. The HTTPS tests fail if openssl is used and valgrind is enabled.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This relocates the configuration file from /usr/etc to /etc.

--with-ssl=openssl: This allows the program to use OpenSSL-1.0.2d instead of GnuTLS-3.4.4.1. The combination wget-1.6.3—openssl-1.0.2a is known to be broken.

--enable-valgrind-tests: This allows the tests to be run under valgrind.

Configuring Wget

Config Files

/etc/wgetrc and ~/.wgetrc

If you have installed the Certificate Authority Certificates and you want Wget to use them, as the root user:

echo ca-directory=/etc/ssl/certs >> /etc/wgetrc

Installed Program: wget

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

wget

retrieves files from the Web using the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols. It is designed to be non-interactive, for background or unattended operations.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 10:40:58 -0700

Wireless Tools-29

Introduction to Wireless Tools

The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API in the Linux kernel allowing a driver to expose configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs to user space. A single set of tools can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type as long as the driver supports Wireless Extensions. WE parameters may also be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).

The Wireless Tools (WT) package is a set of tools allowing manipulation of the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface to support the full Wireless Extension.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/wireless_tools.29.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e06c222e186f7cc013fd272d023710cb
Download size: 288 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/WirelessTools

Kernel Configuration

To use Wireless Tools, the kernel must have the appropriate drivers and other support available. The appropriate bus must also be available. For many laptops, the PCMCIA bus (CONFIG_PCCARD) needs to be built. In some cases, this bus support will also need to be built for embedded wireless cards. The appropriate bridge support also needs to be built. For many modern laptops, the CardBus host bridge (CONFIG_YENTA) will be needed.

In addition to the bus, the actual driver for the specific wireless card must also be available. There are many wireless cards and they don't all work with Linux. The first place to look for card support is the kernel. The drivers are located in Device Drivers → Network Device Support → Wireless LAN (non-hamradio). There are also external drivers available for some very common cards. For more information, look at the user notes.

After the correct drivers are loaded, the interface will appear in /proc/net/wireless.

Installation of Wireless Tools

To install Wireless Tools, use the following commands:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr INSTALL_MAN=/usr/share/man install

Command Explanations

INSTALL_MAN=/usr/share/man: Install manual pages in /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man

Installed Programs: ifrename, iwconfig, iwevent, iwgetid, iwlist, iwpriv, and iwspy

Installed Library: libiw.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

ifrename	renames network interfaces based on various static criteria.
iwconfig	configures a wireless network interface.
iwevent	displays wireless events generated by drivers and setting changes.
iwgetid	reports ESSID, NWID or AP/Cell Address of wireless networks.
iwlist	gets detailed wireless information from a wireless interface.
iwpriv	configures optional (private) parameters of a wireless network interface.
iwspy	gets wireless statistics from specific node.
`libiw.so`	contains functions required by the wireless programs and provides an API for other programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-08 09:43:51 -0700

wpa_supplicant-2.5

Introduction to WPA Supplicant

WPA Supplicant is a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) client and IEEE 802.1X supplicant. It implements WPA key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication with an Authentication Server. In addition, it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wireless LAN driver. This is useful for connecting to a password protected wireless access point.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-2.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 96ff75c3a514f1f324560a2376f13110
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (includes optional gui)

WPA Supplicant Dependencies

Optional

D-Bus-1.10.0, libxml2-2.9.2, and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wpa_supplicant

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration as well as specific device drivers for your hardware and recompile the kernel if necessary:

[*] Networking support  --->                              [CONFIG_NET]
  [*] Wireless  --->                                      [CONFIG_WIRELESS]
    <*/M> cfg80211 - wireless configuration API           [CONFIG_CFG80211]
    [*]     cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility    [CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT]
    <*/M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) [CONFIG_MAC80211]
Device Drivers  --->
  [*] Network device support  --->                        [CONFIG_NETDEVICES]
    [*] Wireless LAN  --->                                [CONFIG_WLAN]

Open the submenu and select the options that support your hardware: lspci from pciutils-3.4.0 can be used to view your hardware configuration.

Installation of WPA Supplicant

First you will need to create an initial configuration file for the build process. You can read wpa_supplicant/README and wpa_supplicant/defconfig for the explanation of the following options as well as other options that can be used. Create a build configuration file that should work for standard WiFi setups by running the following command:

cat > wpa_supplicant/.config << "EOF"
CONFIG_BACKEND=file
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SYSLOG_FACILITY=LOG_DAEMON
CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y
CONFIG_DRIVER_WIRED=y
CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_LIBNL32=y
CONFIG_PEERKEY=y
CONFIG_PKCS12=y
CONFIG_READLINE=y
CONFIG_SMARTCARD=y
CONFIG_WPS=y
CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/libnl3
EOF

If you wish to use WPA Supplicant with NetworkManager-1.0.6, make sure that you have installed D-Bus-1.10.0 and libxml2-2.9.2, then add the following options to the WPA Supplicant build configuration file by running the following command:

cat >> wpa_supplicant/.config << "EOF"
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW=y
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_INTRO=y
EOF

Install WPA Supplicant by running the following commands:

cd wpa_supplicant &&
make BINDIR=/sbin LIBDIR=/lib

If you have installed Qt-4.8.7 and wish to build the WPA Supplicant GUI program, run the following commands:

pushd wpa_gui-qt4 &&
qmake wpa_gui.pro &&
make &&
popd

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m755 wpa_{cli,passphrase,supplicant} /sbin/ &&
install -v -m644 doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5/ &&
install -v -m644 doc/docbook/wpa_{cli,passphrase,supplicant}.8 /usr/share/man/man8/

If you have built WPA Supplicant with D-Bus support, you will need to install D-Bus configuration files. Install them by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m644 dbus/fi.{epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant,w1.wpa_supplicant1}.service \
                 /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ &&
install -v -m644 dbus/dbus-wpa_supplicant.conf \
                 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf

If you have built the WPA Supplicant GUI program, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 wpa_gui-qt4/wpa_gui /usr/bin/ &&
install -v -m644 doc/docbook/wpa_gui.8 /usr/share/man/man8/ &&
install -v -m644 wpa_gui-qt4/wpa_gui.desktop /usr/share/applications/ &&
install -v -m644 wpa_gui-qt4/icons/wpa_gui.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/

Note

You will need to restart the system D-Bus daemon before you can use the WPA Supplicant D-Bus interface.

Note

This package installs desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy and you can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have desktop-file-utils-0.22 installed and issue the following command as the root user:

update-desktop-database

Configuring wpa_supplicant

Config File

/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-*.conf

Configuration Information

To connect to an access point that uses a password, you need to put the pre-shared key in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-wifi0.conf. SSID is the string that the access point/router transmits to identify itself. Run the following command as the root user:

wpa_passphrase SSID SECRET_PASSWORD > /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-wifi0.conf

/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-wifi0.conf can hold the details of several access points. When wpa_supplicant is started, it will scan for the SSIDs it can see and choose the appropriate password to connect.

If you want to connect to an access point that isn't password protected, put an entry like this in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-wifi0.conf. Replace "Some-SSID" with the SSID of the access point/router.

network={
  ssid="Some-SSID"
  key_mgmt=NONE
}

There are many options that you could use to tweak how you connect to each access point. They are described in some detail in the wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file in the source tree.

Connecting to an Access Point

If you want to configure network interfaces at boot using wpa_supplicant, you need to install the /lib/services/wpa script included in blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package:

make install-service-wpa

If your router/access point uses DHCP to allocate IP addresses, you can install DHCP-4.3.3 client and use it to automatically obtain network addresses. Create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig-wifi0 by running the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.wifi0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="wlan0"
SERVICE="wpa"

# Additional arguments to wpa_supplicant
WPA_ARGS=""

WPA_SERVICE="dhclient"
DHCP_START=""
DHCP_STOP=""

# Set PRINTIP="yes" to have the script print
# the DHCP assigned IP address
PRINTIP="no"

# Set PRINTALL="yes" to print the DHCP assigned values for
# IP, SM, DG, and 1st NS. This requires PRINTIP="yes".
PRINTALL="no"
EOF

If you prefer dhcpcd-6.9.3 instead of DHCP-4.3.3 client, then create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig-wifi0 by running the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.wifi0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="wlan0"
SERVICE="wpa"

# Additional arguments to wpa_supplicant
WPA_ARGS=""

WPA_SERVICE="dhcpcd"
DHCP_START="-b -q <insert appropriate start options here>"
DHCP_STOP="-k <insert additional stop options here>"
EOF

Alternatively, if you use static addresses on your local network, then create the /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig-wifi0 by running the following command as the root user:

cat > /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.wifi0 << "EOF"
ONBOOT="yes"
IFACE="wlan0"
SERVICE="wpa"

# Additional arguments to wpa_supplicant
WPA_ARGS=""

WPA_SERVICE="ipv4-static"
IP="192.168.1.1"
GATEWAY="192.168.1.2"
PREFIX="24"
BROADCAST="192.168.1.255"
EOF

You can connect to the wireless access point by running the following command as the root user:

ifup wifi0

Replace wlan0 with the correct wireless interface and wifi0 with desired name for the configuration file. Please note that wpa_supplicant-*.conf and ifconfig.* configuration files need to have identical names, ie both contain wifi0 in their name.

Installed Programs: wpa_gui, wpa_supplicant, wpa_passphrase and wpa_cli

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

wpa_gui	is a graphical frontend program for interacting with wpa_supplicant.
wpa_supplicant	is a daemon that can connect to a password protected wireless access point.
wpa_passphrase	takes an SSID and a password and generates a simple configuration that wpa_supplicant can understand.
wpa_cli	is a command line interface used to control a running wpa_supplicant daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-30 20:43:29 -0700

Other Networking Programs

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/othernetprogs

NCPFS contains client and administration tools for use with Novell networks. See the User Notes for details.

Last updated on 2007-04-04 12:42:53 -0700

Chapter 16. Networking Utilities

This chapter contains some tools that come in handy when the network needs investigating.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/basicnetworkingutilities

Avahi-0.6.31

Introduction to Avahi

The Avahi package is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.6.31.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2f22745b8f7368ad5a0a3fddac343f2d
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Avahi Dependencies

Required

Optional

D-Bus Python-1.2.0, PyGTK-2.24.0 and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/avahi

Installation of Avahi

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the avahi-daemon daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -fg 84 avahi &&
useradd -c "Avahi Daemon Owner" -d /var/run/avahi-daemon -u 84 \
        -g avahi -s /bin/false avahi

There should also be a dedicated priviliged access group for Avahi clients. Issue the following command as the root user:

groupadd -fg 86 netdev

Install Avahi by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/\(CFLAGS=.*\)-Werror \(.*\)/\1\2/' configure &&

sed -e 's/-DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED=1//' \
    -e '/-DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED/d'  \
    -i avahi-ui/Makefile.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static     \
            --disable-mono       \
            --disable-monodoc    \
            --disable-python     \
            --disable-qt3        \
            --disable-qt4        \
            --enable-core-docs   \
            --with-distro=none   \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: These seds allow the package to build after the deprecation of symbols in gtkstock.h by current gtk+-3 by removing -Werror and by removing the defines for G{,DK,TK}_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-mono: This parameter disables the Mono bindings.

--disable-monodoc: This parameter disables documentation for the Mono bindings.

--disable-python: This parameter disables the scripts that depend on Python. It also allows a regular install to complete successfully.

--disable-qt3: This parameter disables the building of Qt3 mainloop integration.

--disable-qt4: This parameter disables the building of Qt4Core mainloop integration. Omit this if you have installed Qt4.

--enable-core-docs: This parameter enables the building of documentation.

--with-distro=none: There is an obsolete boot script in the distribution for LFS. This option disables it.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no: Without it, the daemon fails to start in BLFS, which does not support systemd.

--disable-dbus: This parameter disables the use of D-Bus.

--disable-gtk: This parameter disables the use of GTK+2.

--disable-gtk3: This parameter disables the use of GTK+3.

--disable-libdaemon: This parameter disables the use of libdaemon. If you use this option, avahi-daemon won't be built.

--enable-tests: This option enables the building of tests and examples.

--enable-compat-howl: This option enables the compatibility layer for HOWL.

--enable-compat-libdns_sd: This option enables the compatibility layer for libdns_sd.

Configuring avahi

Boot Script

To automatically start the avahi-daemon when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-avahi

Installed Programs: avahi-autoipd, avahi-bookmarks, avahi-browse, avahi-browse-domains, avahi-daemon, avahi-discover, avahi-discover-standalone, avahi-dnsconfd, avahi-publish, avahi-publish-address, avahi-publish-service, avahi-resolve, avahi-resolve-address, avahi-resolve-host-name, avahi-set-host-name, bshell, bssh, and bvnc

Installed Libraries: libavahi-client.so, libavahi-common.so, libavahi-core.so, libavahi-glib.so, libavahi-gobject.so, libavahi-ui-gtk3.so,, libavahi-ui.so, libdns_sd.so, and libhowl.so,

Installed Directories: /etc/avahi/services, /usr/{include/{avahi-client,avahi-common, avahi-compat-howl/{corby,discovery,rendezvous,salt}, avahi-compat-libdns_sd,avahi-core,avahi-glib,avahi-gobject,avahi-ui}, lib/{avahi,python2.7/site-packages/{avahi, avahi_discover}},share/{avahi/interfaces,locale/en_NZ/LC_MESSAGES}}

Short Descriptions

avahi-autoipd	is a IPv4LL network address configuration daemon.
avahi-bookmarks	is a Web service showing mDNS/DNS-SD announced HTTP services using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-browse	browses for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-browse-domains	browses for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-daemon	is the Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon.
avahi-discover	browses for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-discover-standalone	browses for mDNS/DNS-SD services using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-dnsconfd	is a Unicast DNS server from mDNS/DNS-SD configuration daemon.
avahi-publish	registers a mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name or address mapping using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-publish-address	registers a mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name or address mapping using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-publish-service	registers a mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name or address mapping using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-resolve	resolves one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-resolve-address	resolves one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-resolve-host-name	resolves one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon.
avahi-set-host-name	changes the mDNS host name.
bssh	browses for SSH servers on the local network.
bvnc	browses for VNC servers on the local network.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

BIND Utilities-9.10.3

Introduction to BIND Utilities

BIND Utilities is not a separate package, it is a collection of the client side programs that are included with BIND-9.10.3. The BIND package includes the client side programs nslookup, dig and host. If you install BIND server, these programs will be installed automatically. This section is for those users who don't need the complete BIND server, but need these client side applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.3/bind-9.10.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d8cbf04a62a139a841d4bf878087a555
Download size: 8.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 157 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

BIND Utilities Dependencies

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, libxml2-2.9.2, and OpenSSL-1.0.2d

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bind-utils

Installation of BIND Utilities

Install BIND Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make -C lib/dns &&
make -C lib/isc &&
make -C lib/bind9 &&
make -C lib/isccfg &&
make -C lib/lwres &&
make -C bin/dig

This portion of the package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make -C bin/dig install

Command Explanations

make -C lib/...: These commands build the libraries that are needed for the client programs.

make -C bin/dig: This command builds the client programs.

Installed Programs: dig, host, and nslookup

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

See the program descriptions in the BIND-9.10.3 section.

Last updated on 2015-09-26 10:44:19 -0700

mod_dnssd-0.6

Introduction to mod_dnssd

The mod_dnssd package is an Apache HTTPD module which adds Zeroconf support via DNS-SD using Avahi. This allows Apache to advertise itself and the websites available to clients compatible with the protocol.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/mod_dnssd/mod_dnssd-0.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: bed3d95a98168bf0515922d1c05020c5
Download size: 84 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

mod_dnssd Dependencies

Required

Apache-2.4.16 and Avahi-0.6.31

Optional

Lynx-2.8.8rel.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mod_dnssd

Installation of mod_dnssd

Install mod_dnssd by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/unixd_setup_child/ap_&/' src/mod_dnssd.c &&

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-lynx &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install
sed -i 's| usr| /usr|' /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Command Explanations

sed ... src/mod_dnssd.c: Fix an external function call that has been updated since this package was released.

--disable-lynx: This parameter turns off Lynx usage for documentation generation. Remove it if you have Lynx installed.

sed ... /etc/httpd/httpd.conf: Fix a directory path that the intallation procedure incorrectly puts in the httpd configuration file.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: mod_dnssd.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

mod_dnssd.so

is the Apache HTTPD module.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

NetworkManager-1.0.6

Introduction to NetworkManager

NetworkManager is a set of co-operative tools that make networking simple and straightforward. Whether WiFi, wired, 3G, or Bluetooth, NetworkManager allows you to quickly move from one network to another: Once a network has been configured and joined once, it can be detected and re-joined automatically the next time it's available.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager/1.0/NetworkManager-1.0.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/NetworkManager/1.0/NetworkManager-1.0.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 00f5f9ec69725a9f9b99366853c6f73e
Download size: 3.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 359 MB (without the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU (without the tests)

NetworkManager Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, libgudev-230, libndp-1.5, libnl-3.2.25, and NSS-3.20

Optional

BlueZ-5.34, GTK-Doc-1.24, Qt-4.8.7, Valgrind-3.10.1, libteam, and ModemManager

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/NetworkManager

Installation of NetworkManager

Install NetworkManager by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --with-nmtui         \
            --disable-ppp        \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/network-manager-1.0.6 &&
make

An already active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests. To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-nmtui: This parameter enables build of nmtui.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no: This parameter is used for sysv init systems. If you use systemd, replace "no" by the proper directory.

--disable-ppp: This parameter disables parameteral PPP support in NetworkManager.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this switch if you have installed GTK-Doc-1.24 and wish to build the API manuals.

--without-iptables: Use this switch if you don't have Iptables installed.

Configuring NetworkManager

Config Files

/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

Configuration Information

For NetworkManager to work, at least minimal configuration file must be present. Such file is not installed with make install. Issue following command as the root user to create minimal NetworkManager.conf file:

cat >> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf << "EOF"
[main]
plugins=keyfile
EOF

You can add dns=none to suppress changes to /etc/resolv.conf. See man 5 NetworkManager.conf for any additional options.

Boot Script

To automatically start the NetworkManager daemon when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/networkmanager bootscript from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-networkmanager

Installed Programs: NetworkManager, nmcli, nm-online, and, hardlinked to each other: nmtui, nmtui-connect, nmtui-edit, and nmtui-hostname

Installed Libraries: libnm-glib.so, libnm-glib-vpn.so, libnm.so, libnm-util.so, and modules under /usr/lib/NetworkManager

Installed Directories: /{etc,usr/{include,lib,share/gtk-doc/html},var/{lib,run}}/NetworkManager, /usr/{include/libnm{,-glib},share/gtk-doc/html/libnm{,-glib,-util}}, and /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager-1.0.6

Short Descriptions

nmcli	is a command-line tool for controlling NetworkManager and getting its status.
nm-online	is a utility to find out whether you are online.
nmtui	interactive ncurses based interface for nmcli.
nmtui-connect	interactive ncurses based interface connection activate/deactivate.
nmtui-edit	interactive ncurses based interface connection editor.
nmtui-hostname	interactive ncurses based interface hostname editor.
NetworkManager	is the network management daemon.
`libnm-glib.so`	contains functions used by NetworkManager.
`libnm-glib-vpn.so`	contains functions used by NetworkManager VPN plugins.
`libnm-util.so`	contains functions used by NetworkManager utils.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 10:19:24 -0700

Nmap-6.47

Introduction to Nmap

Nmap is a utility for network exploration and security auditing. It supports ping scanning, port scanning and TCP/IP fingerprinting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.47.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: edfe81f6763223c0a29bfa15a8526e2a
Download size: 7.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 133 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for the tests)

Nmap Dependencies

Note

These packages are recommended because if they're not installed, the build process will compile and link against its own (often older) version.

libpcap-1.7.4, PCRE-8.37 and liblinear-2.01

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d, PyGTK-2.24.0 (required for zenmap), Python-2.7.10 (required for ndiff) and Subversion-1.9.1 (required for nmap-update)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nmap

Installation of Nmap

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install Nmap by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-liblua=included &&
make -j1

If you wish to run the test suite, run the following command:

sed -i 's/lib./lib/' zenmap/test/run_tests.py

To test the results, issue: make check as the root user. Tests need a graphical session.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-liblua=included: This switch is required to fix compilation with lua 5.3.

Installed Programs: ncat, ndiff, nmap, nmapfe, nmap-update, nping, uninstall_zenmap, xnmap and zenmap

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{radialnet,zenmapCore,zenmapGUI}, /usr/share/ncat, /usr/share/nmap and /usr/share/zenmap

Short Descriptions

ncat	is a utility for reading and writing data across networks from the command line.
ndiff	is a tool to aid in the comparison of Nmap scans.
nmap	is a utility for network exploration and security auditing. It supports ping scanning, port scanning and TCP/IP fingerprinting.
nmapfe	is a symbolic link to zenmap.
nmap-update	is an updater for Nmap architecture-independent files.
nping	is an open-source tool for network packet generation, response analysis and response time measurement.
uninstall_zenmap	is a Python script to uninstall zenmap.
xnmap	is a symbolic link to zenmap.
zenmap	is a Python based graphical nmap frontend viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

Traceroute-2.0.21

Introduction to Traceroute

The Traceroute package contains a program which is used to display the network route that packets take to reach a specified host. This is a standard network troubleshooting tool. If you find yourself unable to connect to another system, traceroute can help pinpoint the problem.

Note

This package overwrites the version of traceroute that was installed in the inetutils package in LFS. This version is more powerful and allows many more options than the standard version.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/traceroute/traceroute-2.0.21.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 79289adabd6f3ebf9160fc0815ab3150
Download size: 68 KB
Estimated disk space required: 912 KB
Estimated build time: Less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/traceroute

Installation of Traceroute

Install Traceroute by running the following commands:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr install                                 &&
mv /usr/bin/traceroute /bin                              &&
ln -sv -f traceroute /bin/traceroute6                    &&
ln -sv -f traceroute.8 /usr/share/man/man8/traceroute6.8 &&
rm -fv /usr/share/man/man1/traceroute.1

The traceroute.1 file that was installed in LFS by inetutils is no longer relevant. This package overwrites that version of traceroute and installs the man page in man chapter 8.

Installed Program: traceroute and traceroute6 (symlink)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

traceroute	does basically what it says: it traces the route your packets take from the host you are working on to another host on a network, showing all the intermediate hops (gateways) along the way.
traceroute6	is equivalent to traceroute -6.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

Whois-5.2.10

Introduction to Whois

Whois is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name. This package will install two programs by default: whois and mkpasswd. The mkpasswd command is also installed by the Expect-5.45 package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_5.2.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_5.2.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5ccd01e611621f7a395537f8b7190d0a
Download size: 80 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Whois Dependencies

Optional

libidn-1.32

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/whois

Installation of Whois

Build the application with:

make

You can install the whois program, the mkpasswd program, and the locale files independently. Control your choice of what is installed with the following commands issued as the root user:

Note

Installing this version of mkpasswd will overwrite the same command installed by Expect-5.45.

make prefix=/usr install-whois
make prefix=/usr install-mkpasswd
make prefix=/usr install-pos

Command Explanations

HAVE_LIBIDN=1: This make variable adds internationalized string handling support to whois.

Installed Programs: whois and mkpasswd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

whois	is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name.
mkpasswd	generate new password, optionally apply it to a user.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

Wicd-1.7.3

Introduction to Wicd

Wicd is a network manager written in Python. It simplifies network setup by automatically detecting and connecting to wireless and wired networks. Wicd includes support for WPA authentication and DHCP configuration. It provides Curses- and GTK-based graphical frontends for user-friendly control. An excellent KDE-based frontend is also available http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/network/wicd-kde.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://launchpad.net/wicd/1.7/1.7.3/+download/wicd-1.7.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 162ca2e6f4ab903bb7ab2bc0adb7d1aa
Download size: 532 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Wicd Dependencies

Note

Wicd uses ifconfig to activate network connections. ifconfig is provided by both the Inetutils and Net-tools packages. The Inetutils package is part of LFS, but the ifconfig command is not installed by the LFS instructions. If you choose to install the Inetutils version of ifconfig, you need to reinstall the package and configure it without the --disable-ifconfig switch.

Required

Python-2.7.10, D-Bus Python-1.2.0, Wireless Tools-29, and Net-tools-CVS_20101030 (Wicd needs ifconfig and mii-tool from this package)

Optional

pm-utils-1.4.1 (for suspend/resume integration), Urwid (for the Curses-based frontend), and Babel (for internationalization)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wicd

Installation of Wicd

Install Wicd by running the following commands:

sed -e "/wpath.logrotate\|wpath.systemd/d" \
    -e "/detection failed/ a\                self.init=\'init\/default\/wicd\'" \
    -i setup.py                                     &&
rm po/*.po                                          &&

python setup.py configure --no-install-kde     \
                          --no-install-acpi    \
                          --no-install-pmutils \
                          --no-install-init    \
                          --no-install-gnome-shell-extensions \
                          --docdir=/usr/share/doc/wicd-1.7.3

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user, install the package:

LANG=C python setup.py install

Command Explanations

sed -e ... -i setup.py: The first command in this sed prevents installation of logrotate and systemd configuration files. You may omit it if you use these utilities. The second command in this sed fixes buildng with BLFS “distro”.

rm po/*.po: This command removes the international messages associated with this package. The command is required unless Babel is installed. If it is installed, po/ast.po still needs to be removed in order for the build to complete.

--no-install-kde: Prevent installation of an autostart desktop file for KDE. If you use KDE, you should instead install the Wicd KDE Client.

--no-install-acpi: Prevent installation of suspend and resume scripts for acpid. Omit this option if you use acpid.

--no-install-pmutils: Prevent installation of hooks for pm-utils. Omit this option if you use pm-utils.

--no-install-init: Prevent installation of any init scripts, as a bootscript is installed later in the instructions.

--no-install-gnome-shell-extensions: Prevent installation of the respective extensions. Remove this switch, if you are using Gnome Shell.

--wicdgroup=<group>: The group that will have permission to use the Wicd client (default is the users group).

LANG=C: This environment variable is needed to allow the installation to complete.

Configuring Wicd

Config Files

/etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf, /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf and /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf

Configuration Information

To automatically start Wicd at boot time, you need to first install the Wicd bootscript, /etc/rc.d/init.d/wicd, included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package (as user root):

make install-wicd

Since Wicd will now handle all configuration of network devices, the network bootscript installed by LFS should be disabled. This can be achieved by either removing any S*network and K*network symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d directories or by setting ONBOOT=no in any /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.* files.

No manual configuration of Wicd is needed if you use the graphical frontends. If you are only going to use Wicd from command-line, you can configure it using the configuration files in /etc/wicd. For a list of available options, look at the man-pages for: wicd-manager-settings.conf, wicd-wired-settings.conf and wicd-wireless-settings.conf.

Be sure to add all users who are to have rights to open and close network connections with Wicd to the users group (or the group specified with the --wicdgroup configuration option).

Installed Programs: wicd, wicd-cli, wicd-client, wicd-curses, and wicd-gtk

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directories: /etc/wicd, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd, /usr/share/doc/wicd-1.7.3, /usr/share/pixmaps/wicd, /usr/share/wicd, /var/lib/wicd, /var/log/wicd, and /var/run/wicd

Short Descriptions

wicd	is the wicd daemon.
wicd-cli	is a command line interface for configuring the wicd daemon.
wicd-client	is the wicd client. This script attempts to automatically choose the relevant configuration interface.
wicd-curses	is a curses interface for configuring the wicd daemon.
wicd-gtk	is a GTK interface for configuring the wicd daemon

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

Wireshark-1.12.7

Introduction to Wireshark

The Wireshark package contains a network protocol analyzer, also known as a “sniffer”. This is useful for analyzing data captured “off the wire” from a live network connection, or data read from a capture file.

Wireshark provides both a graphical and a TTY-mode front-end for examining captured network packets from over 500 protocols, as well as the capability to read capture files from many other popular network analyzers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/wireshark-1.12.7.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/wireshark/src/wireshark-1.12.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c8ae53f648b1dcbf6e74495401a0f1ab
Download size: 28 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.6 GB, with the Qt GUI
Estimated build time: 6.2 SBU, with the Qt GUI

Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/wireshark-1.12.7-lua_5_3_0-1.patch (allows building the LUA bindings if Lua-5.3.1 is installed and LUA is not disabled by passing --without-lua to configure)
Additional Documentation: https://www.wireshark.org/download/docs/ (contains links to several different docs in a variety of formats)

Wireshark dependencies

Required

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1 and gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1

Optional

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, Lua-5.3.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, adns, GeoIP, and PortAudio

Optional (to build more GUI front-ends)

GTK+-2.24.28, Qt-4.8.7, or Qt-5.5.0

Note

The GTK+ GUI needs one of GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6. If both are installed, GTK+3 is used by default.

The Qt GUI needs one of Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0. If both are installed, Qt5 is used by default.

Both GTK+ and Qt GUI can be built at the same time. If you want to override the defaults, some configure switches have to be set (see “Command Explanations”) or some special instructions have to be issued (see below) when both Qt4 and Qt5 are installed and you want to use Qt4. SBU and disk space required are larger for the Qt GUI. The instructions below suppose you only want to build the GTK+3 GUI.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/wireshark

Kernel Configuration

The kernel must have the Packet protocol enabled for Wireshark to capture live packets from the network:

[*] Networking support --->          [CONFIG_NET]
      Networking options --->
        <*/M> Packet socket          [CONFIG_PACKET]

If built as a module, the name is af_packet.ko.

Installation of Wireshark

Optionally, fix the description of the program in the title. The first change overwrites the default “SVN Unknown” in the title and the second overwrites a utility script that resets the version to “unknown”.

cat > svnversion.h << "EOF" &&
#define SVNVERSION "BLFS"
#define SVNPATH "source"
EOF

cat > make-version.pl << "EOF"
#!/usr/bin/perl
EOF

Wireshark is a very large and complex application. These instructions provide additional security measures to ensure that only trusted users are allowed to view network traffic. First, set up a system group for wireshark. As the root user:

groupadd -g 62 wireshark

If you want to build the Qt GUI (see “Command Explanations”), for the Qt5 GUI, issue:

source setqt5 &&

sed -e 's/"-fPIE"/""/' \
    -e 's/"-pie"/""/'  \
    -i configure

and add CXXFLAGS="-fPIC" to the configure line, or, for the Qt4 GUI, issue:

source setqt4 &&
sed -i 's/Qt5 Qt/Qt/' configure

Continue to install Wireshark by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../wireshark-1.12.7-lua_5_3_0-1.patch  &&

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --with-gtk3       \
            --without-qt      \
            --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/wireshark-1.12.7 &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/pixmaps/wireshark &&

install -v -m644    README{,.linux} doc/README.* doc/*.{pod,txt} \
                    /usr/share/doc/wireshark-1.12.7 &&

pushd /usr/share/doc/wireshark-1.12.7 &&
   for FILENAME in ../../wireshark/*.html; do
      ln -s -v -f $FILENAME .
   done &&
popd &&
unset FILENAME

install -v -m644 -D wireshark.desktop \
                    /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop &&

install -v -m644 -D image/wsicon48.png \
                    /usr/share/pixmaps/wireshark.png &&

install -v -m644    image/*.{png,ico,xpm,bmp} \
                    /usr/share/pixmaps/wireshark

If you downloaded any of the documentation files from the page listed in the 'Additional Downloads', install them by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m644 <Downloaded_Files> \
                 /usr/share/doc/wireshark-1.12.7

Now, set ownership and permissions of sensitive applications to only allow authorized users. As the root user:

chown -v root:wireshark /usr/bin/{tshark,dumpcap} &&
chmod -v 6550 /usr/bin/{tshark,dumpcap}

Finally, add any users to the wireshark group (as root user):

usermod -a -G wireshark <username>

Command Explanations

sed -e 's/"-fPIE"/""/' ... configure: This command is required for Qt-5.5, because it is necessary to compile with CXXFLAGS="-fPIC".

sed -i 's/Qt5 Qt/Qt/' ...: This command is required because, without it, libraries and includes from Qt5 are found and used first, if both versions are installed, when trying to build with Qt4, and make does not complete.

--with-gtk3: By default, the build machinery will build a GUI for both Qt and GTK+, if those libraries are found. If Qt is installed and you do not want the GUI for it to be built, you need to pass --without-qt to the configure script. That overrides the default, so that you must specify --with-gtk3 or --with-gtk2 in order to have the GTK+ GUI built.

--without-qt: disables building of the Qt GUI.

--disable-wireshark: Use this switch if you have GTK+ installed but do not want to build any of the GUIs.

--with-gtk2: Use this option if you want the GTK+2 GUI. Notice that the GUI for only one GTK+ version (either 2 or 3) can be built.

Configuring Wireshark

Config Files

/etc/wireshark.conf and ~/.wireshark/*

Configuration Information

Though the default configuration parameters are very sane, reference the configuration section of the Wireshark User's Guide for configuration information. Most of Wireshark's configuration can be accomplished using the menu options of the wireshark graphical interfaces.

Desktop file for the Qt GUI

If Qt GUI was built and you wish an entry in the desktop menu, there are two possibilities (instructions must be run as root).

If only the Qt GUI was built:

mv -v /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop \
      /usr/share/applications/wireshark-qt.desktop

If both, GTK+ and Qt GUIs were built:

cp -v /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop \
      /usr/share/applications/wireshark-qt.desktop

Now, fix it for wireshark-qt:

sed -e 's/ireshark/&-qt/' \
    -e 's/^\(Icon=wireshark\)-qt/\1/' \
    -i /usr/share/applications/wireshark-qt.desktop

Note

If you want to look at packets, make sure you don't filter them out with Iptables-1.4.21. If you want to exclude certain classes of packets, it is more efficient to do it with iptables than it is with Wireshark.

Installed Programs: capinfos, captype, dftest, dumpcap, editcap, mergecap, randpkt, rawshark, reordercap, text2pcap, tshark, wireshark, and optionally wireshark-qt

Installed Libraries: libfiletap.so, libwireshark.so, libwiretap.so, libwsutil.so, and numerous modules under /usr/lib/wireshark/plugins

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/wireshark, /usr/share/doc/wireshark-1.12.7, /usr/share/pixmaps/wireshark, and /usr/share/wireshark

Short Descriptions

capinfos	reads a saved capture file and returns any or all of several statistics about that file. It is able to detect and read any capture supported by the Wireshark package.
captype	prints the file types of capture files.
dftest	is a display-filter-compiler test program.
dumpcap	is a network traffic dump tool. It lets you capture packet data from a live network and write the packets to a file.
editcap	edits and/or translates the format of capture files. It knows how to read libpcap capture files, including those of tcpdump, Wireshark and other tools that write captures in that format.
mergecap	combines multiple saved capture files into a single output file.
randpkt	creates random-packet capture files.
rawshark	dump and analyze raw libpcap data.
reordercap	reorder timestamps of input file frames into output file.
text2pcap	reads in an ASCII hex dump and writes the data described into a libpcap-style capture file.
tshark	is a TTY-mode network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture packet data from a live network or read packets from a previously saved capture file.
wireshark	is the GTK+ GUI network protocol analyzer. It lets you interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved capture file.
wireshark-qt	is the Qt GUI network protocol analyzer. It lets you interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved capture file.
`libwireshark.so`	contains functions used by the Wireshark programs to perform filtering and packet capturing.
`libwiretap.so`	is a library being developed as a future replacement for `libpcap`, the current standard Unix library for packet capturing. For more information, see the `README` file in the source `wiretap` directory.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

Chapter 17. Networking Libraries

These applications are support libraries for other applications in the book. It is unlikely that you would just install these libraries, you will generally find that you will be referred to this chapter to satisfy a dependency of other applications.

cURL-7.44.0

Introduction to cURL

The cURL package contains a utility and a library used for transferring files with URL syntax to any of the following protocols: FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. Its ability to both download and upload files can be incorporated into other programs to support functions like streaming media.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.44.0.tar.lzma
Download MD5 sum: 2f924c80bb7124dff1b39f54ffda3781
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 52 MB (including tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (9.2 SBU including tests, with -j4)

cURL Dependencies

Optional

libidn-1.32, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, Samba-4.2.3, c-ares, libmetalink, libssh2, and SPNEGO

Optional for Running the Test Suite

stunnel-5.23 (for the HTTPS and FTPS tests) and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/curl

Installation of cURL

Install cURL by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr              \
            --disable-static           \
            --enable-threaded-resolver &&
make

To run the test suite, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

find docs \( -name Makefile\* \
          -o -name \*.1       \
          -o -name \*.3 \)    \
          -exec rm {} \;      &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/curl-7.44.0 &&
cp -v -R docs/*     /usr/share/doc/curl-7.44.0

Simple tests to the new installed curl: curl --trace-ascii debugdump.txt http://www.example.com/ and curl --trace-ascii d.txt --trace-time http://example.com/. Inspect the locally created trace files debugdump.txt and d.txt, which contain version downloaded files information, etc. One file has the time for each action logged.

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-threaded-resolver: This switch enables cURL's builtin threaded DNS resolver.

--with-gssapi: This parameter adds Kerberos 5 support to libcurl.

--without-ssl --with-gnutls: Use to build with GnuTLS support instead of OpenSSL for SSL/TLS.

find docs ... -exec rm {} \;: This command removes Makefiles and man files from the documentation directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.

Installed Programs: curl and curl-config

Installed Library: libcurl.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/curl and /usr/share/doc/curl-7.44.0

Short Descriptions

curl	is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax.
curl-config	prints information about the last compile, like libraries linked to and prefix setting.
`libcurl.so`	provides the API functions required by curl and other programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

GeoClue-0.12.0

Introduction to GeoClue

GeoClue is a modular geoinformation service built on top of the D-Bus messaging system. The goal of the GeoClue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://launchpad.net/geoclue/trunk/0.12/+download/geoclue-0.12.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 33af8307f332e0065af056ecba65fec2
Download size: 556 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch (if GPSD is installed): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/geoclue-0.12.0-gpsd_fix-1.patch

GeoClue Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, GConf-3.2.6 and libxslt-1.1.28

Recommended if you are building GNOME

libsoup-2.50.0 and NetworkManager-1.0.6

Optional

GPSD, GTK+-2.24.28 and oFono

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/geoclue

Installation of GeoClue

Install GeoClue by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../geoclue-0.12.0-gpsd_fix-1.patch &&

sed -i "s@ -Werror@@" configure &&
sed -i "s@libnm_glib@libnm-glib@g" configure &&

sed -i "s@geoclue/libgeoclue.la@& -lgthread-2.0@g" \
       providers/skyhook/Makefile.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i "s@ -Werror@@" configure: This sed removes -Werror from the CFLAGS variable, otherwise the build will fail with gcc-4.7.

sed -i "s@libnm_glib@libnm-glib@g" configure: This sed fixes detection of NetworkManager libraries.

sed -i "s@geoclue/libgeoclue.la@& -lgthread-2.0@g" .. : This sed fixes building GeoClue with recent binutils.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgeoclue.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/geoclue, /usr/share/geoclue-providers, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue

Short Descriptions

libgeoclue.so

contains functions that provide the GeoClue geoinformation application programming interface.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

glib-networking-2.44.0

Introduction to GLib Networking

The GLib Networking package contains Network related gio modules for GLib.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib-networking/2.44/glib-networking-2.44.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib-networking/2.44/glib-networking-2.44.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6989b20cf3b26dd5ae272e04a9acb0b3
Download size: 368 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

GLib Networking Dependencies

Required

Optional

libproxy

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/glib-networking

Installation of GLib Networking

Install GLib Networking by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                                 \
            --with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt \
            --disable-static                              &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt: This parameter specifies where the trusted root certificates are located.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: None

Installed Libraries: libgiognomeproxy.so and libgiognutls.so

Installed Directories: None

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

ldns-1.6.17

Introduction to ldns

ldns is a fast DNS library with the goal to simplify DNS programming and to allow developers to easily create software conforming to current RFCs and Internet drafts. This packages also includes the drill tool.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/ldns/ldns-1.6.17.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a79423bcc4129e6d59b616b1cae11e5e
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

ldns Dependencies

Optional

Certificate Authority Certificates and libpcap-1.7.4 (for example programs), Python-2.7.10 and SWIG-3.0.7 (for Python bindings), and Doxygen-1.8.10 (for html documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ldns

Installation of ldns

Install ldns by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/defined(@$also)/@$also/' doc/doxyparse.pl &&

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --with-drill      &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and want to build html documentation, run the following command:

make doc

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built html documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ldns-1.6.17 &&
install -v -m644 doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/ldns-1.6.17

Command Explanations

sed ... doc/doxyparse.pl: This command fixes an error introduced with perl-5.22.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-drill: This option enables building of the drill tool.

--with-examples: This option enables building of the example programs.

--with-pyldns: This option enables building of the Python bindings.

Installed Programs: drill and ldns-config

Installed Library: libldns.so and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_ldns.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ldns and /usr/share/doc/ldns-1.6.17

Short Descriptions

drill	is a tool like dig from BIND Utilities-9.10.3 designed to get all sorts of information out of the DNS.
ldns-config	shows compiler and linker flags for ldns usage.
`libldns.so`	provides the ldns API functions to programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

libevent-2.0.22

Introduction to libevent

libevent is an asynchronous event notification software library. The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also supports callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/levent/libevent-2.0.22-stable.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c4c56f986aa985677ca1db89630a2e11
Download size: 835 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests and 6 MB for the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 1.3 SBU for the tests)

libevent Dependencies

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 (for API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libevent

Installation of libevent

Install libevent by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to build API documentation, issue doxygen Doxyfile.

To test the results, issue: make verify.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the API documentation, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.22/api &&
cp      -v -R       doxygen/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.22/api

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: event_rpcgen.py

Installed Libraries: libevent_core.so, libevent_extra.so, libevent_openssl.so, libevent_pthreads.so and libevent.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/event2 and /usr/share/doc/libevent-2.0.22

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libnl-3.2.25

Introduction to libnl

The libnl suite is a collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol based Linux kernel interfaces.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libnl3/libnl-3.2.25.tar.gz/03f74d0cd5037cadc8cdfa313bbd195c/libnl-3.2.25.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 03f74d0cd5037cadc8cdfa313bbd195c
Download size: 816 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests and 37MB for the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Optional Download

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libnl3/libnl-doc-3.2.25.tar.gz/641f73052d9f54e720efe1a476a20237/libnl-doc-3.2.25.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 641f73052d9f54e720efe1a476a20237
Download size: 15 MB

libnl Dependencies

Optional

Check-0.10.0 (for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libnl

Installation of libnl

Install libnl by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you wish to install the API documentation, as the root user:

mkdir -vp /usr/share/doc/libnl-3.2.25 &&
tar -xf ../libnl-doc-3.2.25.tar.gz --strip-components=1 --no-same-owner \
        -C /usr/share/doc/libnl-3.2.25

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-cli: Use this parameter if you don't want to install cli tools provided by the package.

Installed Programs: genl-ctrl-list, nl-class-add, nl-class-delete, nl-classid-lookup, nl-class-list, nl-cls-add, nl-cls-delete, nl-cls-list, nl-link-list, nl-pktloc-lookup, nl-qdisc-add, nl-qdisc-delete, and nl-qdisc-list

Installed Libraries: libnl-3.so, libnl-cli-3.so, libnl-genl-3.so, libnl-idiag-3.so, libnl-nf-3.so, libnl-route-3.so, and cli modules under /usr/lib/libnl/cli tree

Installed Directories: /etc/libnl, /usr/include/libnl3, /usr/lib/libnl, and /usr/share/doc/libnl-3.2.25

Short Descriptions

genl-ctrl-list	queries the Generic Netlink controller in kernel and prints a list of all registered Generic Netlink families including the version of the interface that has been registered.
nl-class-add	add or update or replace Traffic Classes
nl-class-delete	delete Traffic Classes
nl-classid-lookup	is used to resolve qdisc/class names to classid values and vice versa.
nl-class-list	list Traffic Classes.
nl-cls-add	add a classifier.
nl-cls-delete	delete a classifier.
nl-cls-list	list classifiers.
nl-link-list	dump link attributes.
nl-pktloc-lookup	lookup packet location definitions.
nl-qdisc-add	add queueing disciplines (qdiscs) in the kernel.
nl-qdisc-delete	delete queueing disciplines (qdiscs) in the kernel.
nl-qdisc-list	list queueing disciplines (qdiscs) in the kernel.
`libnl*-3.so`	These libraries contain API functions used to access Netlink interfaces in Linux kernel.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 08:27:00 -0700

libpcap-1.7.4

Introduction to libpcap

libpcap provides functions for user-level packet capture, used in low-level network monitoring.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.7.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b2e13142bbaba857ab1c6894aedaf547
Download size: 648 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libpcap-1.7.4-enable_bluetooth-1.patch (Needed for bluez-5.21)

libpcap Dependencies

Optional

BlueZ-5.34, libnl-3.2.25, libusb-1.0.19, Software distribution for the DAG, and Septel range of passive network monitoring cards.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libpcap

Installation of libpcap

Install libpcap by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../libpcap-1.7.4-enable_bluetooth-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

If you want to disable installing the static library, use this sed:

sed -i '/INSTALL_DATA.*libpcap.a\|RANLIB.*libpcap.a/ s/^/#/' Makefile

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-bluetooth=no: Necessary, if the recommended patch is not applied, because since 1.6.1 this application needs a fix, in order to build with bluez-5.21.

Installed Program: pcap-config

Installed Libraries: libpcap.so, libpcap.a (optional)

Installed Directory: /usr/include/pcap

Short Descriptions

pcap-config	provides configuration information for libpcap.
`libpcap.{a,so}`	are libraries used for user-level packet capture.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

libndp-1.5

Introduction to libndp

The libndp package provides a wrapper for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. It also provides a tool named ndptool for sending and receiving NDP messages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://libndp.org/files/libndp-1.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: beb82e8d75d8382d1b7c0bb0f68be429
Download size: 332 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libndp

Installation of libndp

Install libndp by running the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static     &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: ndptool

Installed Library: libndp.so

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

ndptool	tool for sending and receiving NDP messages.
`libndp.so`	provides a wrapper for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

libsoup-2.50.0

Introduction to libsoup

The libsoup is HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObject and the GLib main loop to integrate with GNOME applications and it also has an asynchronous API for use in threaded applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.50/libsoup-2.50.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.50/libsoup-2.50.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9a84d66e1b7ccd3bd340574b11eccc15
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB (additional 14 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the test suite)

libsoup Dependencies

Required

glib-networking-2.44.0, libxml2-2.9.2 and SQLite-3.8.11.1

Optional

Apache-2.4.16 (required to run the test suite), cURL-7.44.0 (required to run the test suite), GTK-Doc-1.24, PHP-5.6.13 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests) and Samba-4.2.3 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsoup

Installation of libsoup

Install libsoup by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libsoup-2.4.so and libsoup-gnome-2.4.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libsoup-2.4, /usr/include/libsoup-gnome-2.4 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4

Short Descriptions

`libsoup-2.4.so`	provides functions for asynchronous HTTP connections.
`libsoup-gnome-2.4.so`	provides GNOME specific features.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

libtirpc-0.3.2

Introduction to libtirpc

The libtirpc package contains libraries that support programs that use the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) API. It replaces the RPC, but not the NIS library entries that used to be in glibc.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libtirpc/libtirpc/0.3.2/libtirpc-0.3.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 373d5ad46b1d19759ec763a9f0afcf4d
Download size: 480 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libtirpc-0.3.2-api_fixes-1.patch

libtirpc Dependencies

Optional

MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 for the GSSAPI

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libtirpc

Installation of libtirpc

First, fix some API issues:

patch -Np1 -i ../libtirpc-0.3.2-api_fixes-1.patch

Install libtirpc by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --disable-gssapi  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/lib/libtirpc.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/libtirpc.so.1.0.10 /usr/lib/libtirpc.so

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-gssapi: This switch is needed if no GSSAPI is installed. Remove this switch if you have one installed (for example MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2) and you wish to use it.

mv -v /usr/lib/libtirpc.so.* ...: Move shared libraries into /lib so they are available before /usr is mounted.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libtirpc.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/tirpc

Short Descriptions

libtirpc.so

provides the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) API functions required by other programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

neon-0.30.1

Introduction to neon

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.30.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 231adebe5c2f78fded3e3df6e958878e
Download size: 892 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.9 MB (additional 18 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for the tests)

neon Dependencies

Optional

libxml2-2.9.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, libproxy, and pakchois,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/neon

Installation of neon

Fix some code when building with gnutls-3.4 and later:

sed -e 's/client_set/set/'  \
    -e 's/gnutls_retr/&2/'  \
    -e 's/type = t/cert_&/' \
    -i src/ne_gnutls.c

Install neon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --with-ssl       \
            --enable-shared  \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Most of the ssl tests fail, using --with-ssl=gnutls.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-ssl: This switch enables SSL support using OpenSSL or GnuTLS respectively. Remove it if you don't have any of these installed. To force GnuTLS usage when both are present, simply pass --with-ssl=gnutls to the configure script.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-libxml2: This switch forces the use of libxml2 instead of Expat.

Installed Program: neon-config

Installed Library: libneon.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/neon and /usr/share/doc/neon-0.30.1

Short Descriptions

neon-config	is a script that provide information about an installed copy of the neon library.
`libneon.so`	is used as a high-level interface to common HTTP and WebDAV methods.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Serf-1.3.8

Introduction to Serf

The Serf package contains a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. It multiplexes connections, running the read/write communication asynchronously. Memory copies and transformations are kept to a minimum to provide high performance operation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://serf.googlecode.com/svn/src_releases/serf-1.3.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2e4efe57ff28cb3202a112e90f0c2889
Download size: 140 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB (additional 2.2 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for the tests)

Serf Dependencies

Required

Apr-Util-1.5.4, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, and SCons-2.3.6

Optional

MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, for the GSSAPI

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/serf

Installation of Serf

Install Serf by running the following commands:

sed -i "/Append/s:RPATH=libdir,::"   SConstruct &&
sed -i "/Default/s:lib_static,::"    SConstruct &&
sed -i "/Alias/s:install_static,::"  SConstruct &&
scons PREFIX=/usr

If you wish to run the test suite, fix one file:

sed -i test/test_buckets.c \
    -e 's://\(    buf_size = orig_len + (orig_len / 1000) + 12;\):/\*\1\ */:'

To test the results, issue: scons check. With above fix, 1 out of 65 tests still fails for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

scons PREFIX=/usr install

Command Explanations

sed -i "...": The first command removes the runtime path from a shared library and the next two commands disable building and installing of the static library.

GSSAPI=/usr: Use this switch if you have installed a GSSAPI library and you want serf to use it.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libserf-1.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/serf-1

Short Descriptions

libserf-1.so

contains the Serf API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Chapter 18. Text Web Browsers

People who are new to Unix-based systems tend to ask the question "Why on earth would I want a text-mode browser? I'm going to compile X and use Konqueror/Mozilla/Whatever!". Those who have been around systems for a while know that when (not if) you manage to mess up your graphical browser install and you need to look up some information on the web, a console based browser will save you. Also, there are quite a few people who prefer to use one of these browsers as their principle method of browsing; either to avoid the clutter and bandwidth which accompanies images or because they may use a text-to-speech synthesizer which can read the page to them (of use for instance to partially sighted or blind users). In this chapter you will find installation instructions for three console web browsers:

Links-2.12

Introduction to Links

Links is a text and graphics mode WWW browser. It includes support for rendering tables and frames, features background downloads, can display colors and has many other features.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.12.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5d763ab72dc57bbc310feb95679c9d14
Download size: 6.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 54 MB (with --enable-graphics)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with --enable-graphics)

Links Dependencies

Optional

Graphics mode requires at least one of GPM-1.20.7 (mouse support to be used with a framebuffer-based console), SVGAlib, DirectFB, and X Window System

For decoding various image formats Links can utilize libpng-1.6.18, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, and LibTIFF-4.0.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/LinksBrowser

Installation of Links

Install Links by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/links-2.12 &&
install -v -m644 doc/links_cal/* KEYS BRAILLE_HOWTO \
    /usr/share/doc/links-2.12

Command Explanations

--enable-graphics: This switch enables support for graphics mode.

Configuring Links

Config Files

~/.links/*

Configuration Information

Links stores its configuration in per-user files in the ~/.links directory. These files are created automatically when links is run for the first time.

Installed Program: links

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/links-2.12

Short Descriptions

links

is a text and graphics mode WWW browser.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 17:49:38 -0700

Lynx-2.8.8rel.2

Introduction to Lynx

Lynx is a text based web browser.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b231c2aa34dfe7ca25681ef4e55ee7e8
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Lynx Dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d or GnuTLS-3.4.4.1 (experimental), Zip-3.0, UnZip-6.0, an MTA (that provides a sendmail command), and Sharutils-4.15.2 (for a uudecode program)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Lynx

Installation of Lynx

Install Lynx by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/lynx \
            --datadir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2 \
            --with-zlib            \
            --with-bzlib           \
            --with-screen=ncursesw \
            --enable-locale-charset &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install-full &&
chgrp -v -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2/lynx_doc

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/lynx: This parameter is used so that the configuration files are located in /etc/lynx instead of /usr/etc.

--datadir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2: This parameter is used so that the documentation files are installed into /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2 instead of /usr/share/lynx_{doc,help}.

--with-zlib: This enables support for linking libz into Lynx.

--with-bzlib: This enables support for linking libbz2 into Lynx.

--with-screen=ncursesw: This switch enables the use of advanced wide-character support present in the system NCurses library. This is needed for proper display of characters and line wrapping in multibyte locales.

--enable-locale-charset: This switch allows Lynx to deduce the proper character encoding for terminal output from the current locale. A configuration step is still needed (see below), but unlike the situation without this switch, the configuration step becomes the same for all users (without the switch one must specify the display character set explicitly). This is important for environments such as a LiveCD, where the amount of system-specific configuration steps has to be reduced to the minimum.

--enable-nls: This switch allows Lynx to print translated messages (such as questions about cookies and SSL certificates).

--with-ssl: This enables support for linking SSL into Lynx.

--with-gnutls: This enables experimental support for linking GnuTLS into Lynx.

make install-full: In addition to the standard installation, this target installs the documentation and help files.

chgrp -v -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2/lynx_doc: This command corrects the improper group ownership of installed documentation files.

Configuring Lynx

Config Files

/etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

Configuration Information

The proper way to get the display character set is to examine the current locale. However, Lynx does not do this by default. As the root user, change this setting:

sed -i 's/#\(LOCALE_CHARSET\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

The built-in editor in Lynx Breaks Multibyte Characters. This issue manifests itself in multibyte locales, e.g., as the Backspace key not erasing non-ASCII characters properly, and as incorrect data being sent to the network when one edits the contents of text areas. The only solution to this problem is to configure Lynx to use an external editor (bound to the “Ctrl+X e” key combination by default). Still as the root user:

sed -i 's/#\(DEFAULT_EDITOR\):/\1:vi/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

Lynx handles the following values of the DEFAULT_EDITOR option specially by adding cursor-positioning arguments: “emacs”, “jed”, “jmacs”, “joe”, “jove”, “jpico”, “jstar”, “nano”, “pico”, “rjoe”, “vi” (but not “vim”: in order to position the cursor in Vim-7.4, set this option to “vi”).

By default, Lynx doesn't save cookies between sessions. Again as the root user, change this setting:

sed -i 's/#\(PERSISTENT_COOKIES\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

Many other system-wide settings such as proxies can also be set in the /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg file.

Installed Program: lynx

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/lynx and /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8rel.2

Short Descriptions

lynx

is a general purpose, text-based, distributed information browser for the World Wide Web.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 13:06:01 -0700

W3m-0.5.3

Introduction to W3m

w3m is primarily a pager but it can also be used as a text-mode WWW browser.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/w3m/w3m-0.5.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1b845a983a50b8dec0169ac48479eacc
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/w3m-0.5.3-bdwgc72-1.patch

W3m Dependencies

Required

GC-7.4.2

Optional

GPM-1.20.7, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, Imlib2-1.4.7, GTK+-2.24.28, Imlib (not recommended: obsolete, abandoned upstream, buggy, and gives no additional functionality as compared to other image loading libraries), gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, Compface-1.5.2, and nkf, a Mail User Agent, and an External Browser

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/W3M

Installation of W3m

Install w3m by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../w3m-0.5.3-bdwgc72-1.patch &&
sed -i 's/file_handle/file_foo/' istream.{c,h} &&
sed -i 's#gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0#& x11#' configure &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D doc/keymap.default /etc/w3m/keymap &&
install -v -m644    doc/menu.default /etc/w3m/menu &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/w3m-0.5.3 &&
install -v -m644    doc/{HISTORY,READ*,keymap.*,menu.*,*.html} \
                    /usr/share/doc/w3m-0.5.3

Command Explanations

patch -p1 < ../w3m-0.5.3-bdwgc72-1.patch: This patch fixes compiling w3m with GC-7.2 installed.

sed -i 's/file_handle/file_foo/' istream.{c,h}: This sed renames the file_handle function to avoid a clash with a glibc function that has the same name, defined in /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h.

sed -i 's#gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0#& x11#' configure: This sed fixes compiling w3m using GTK+-2.24.28 as its image library. It has no impact if GTK+-2.24.28 is not installed.

--sysconfdir=/etc: This option puts the configuration files in /etc.

Configuring W3m

Config Files

/etc/w3m/* and ~/.w3m/*

Installed Programs: w3m and w3mman

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/libexec/w3m, /usr/share/w3m, and /usr/share/doc/w3m-0.5.3

Short Descriptions

w3m	is a text based web browser and pager.
w3mman	is an interface to the on-line reference manuals in w3m.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

Chapter 19. Mail/News Clients

Mail Clients help you retrieve (Fetchmail), sort (Procmail), read and compose responses (Heirloom mailx, Mutt, Pine, Kmail, Balsa, Evolution, SeaMonkey) to email.

News clients also help you retrieve, sort, read and compose responses, but these messages travel through USENET (a worldwide bulletin board system) using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).

Fetchmail-6.3.26

Introduction to Fetchmail

The Fetchmail package contains a mail retrieval program. It retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to the local (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be read by normal mail user agents.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.26.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.at.gnucash.org/pub/infosys/mail/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.3.26.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 61b66faad044afa26e142bb1791aa2b3
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Fetchmail Dependencies

Optional

Python-2.7.10 and Tk-8.6.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fetchmail

Installation of Fetchmail

Install Fetchmail by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl --enable-fallback=procmail &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-ssl: This enables SSL support, so that you can handle connections to secure POP3 and IMAP servers.

--enable-fallback=procmail: This tells Fetchmail to hand incoming mail to Procmail for delivery, if the port 25 mail server is not present or not responding.

Configuring Fetchmail

Config Files

~/.fetchmailrc

Configuration Information

cat > ~/.fetchmailrc << "EOF"
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
set no bouncemail
set postmaster root

poll SERVERNAME :
    user <username> pass <password>;
    mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T";
EOF

chmod -v 0600 ~/.fetchmailrc

This is an example configuration that should suffice for most people. You can add as many users and servers as you need using the same syntax.

man fetchmail: Look for the section near the bottom named CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES. It gives some quick examples. There are countless other configuration options once you get used to it.

Installed Programs: fetchmail and fetchmailconf

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

fetchmail	when executed as a user, this will source `~/.fetchmailrc` and download the appropriate mail.
fetchmailconf	it will assist you in setting up and editing a `~/.fetchmailrc` configuration file, by using a Tk GUI interface. It requires Python and it must have the Tkinker module available.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

mailx-12.5

Introduction to Heirloom mailx

The Heirloom mailx package (formerly known as the Nail package) contains mailx, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx command with additional support for MIME messages, IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. Heirloom mailx is especially useful for writing scripts and batch processing.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/heirloom-mailx/heirloom-mailx_12.5.orig.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/heirloom-mailx/heirloom-mailx_12.5.orig.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 29a6033ef1412824d02eb9d9213cb1f2
Download size: 317 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/heirloom-mailx-12.5-fixes-1.patch

Heirloom mailx Dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d or NSS-3.20, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication), and an MTA

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mailx

Installation of Heirloom mailx

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install Heirloom mailx by running the following commands.

patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-mailx-12.5-fixes-1.patch &&
make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail -j1

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install &&
ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/mail &&
ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/nail &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-12.5 &&
install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-12.5

Command Explanations

make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail: This changes the default MTA path of /usr/lib/sendmail.

make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install: This changes the default installation path of /usr/local and the default install command path of /usr/ucb.

Configuring Heirloom mailx

Config Files

/etc/nail.rc, ~/.mailrc and ~/.nailrc

Installed Programs: mail, mailx and nail

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

mailx	is a command-line mail user agent compatible with the mailx command found on commercial Unix versions.
mail	is a symbolic link to mailx.
nail	is a symbolic link to mailx.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

Mutt-1.5.24

Introduction to Mutt

The Mutt package contains a Mail User Agent. This is useful for reading, writing, replying to, saving, and deleting your email.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-1.5.24.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 7f25d27f3c7c82285ac07aac35f5f0f2
Download size: 3.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB (plus a further 8MB for the PDF manual)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (plus a further 0.2 SBU to build the PDF manual)

Mutt Dependencies

Optional

Aspell-0.60.6.1, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, GDB-7.10, GnuPG-2.1.7, GPGME-1.6.0, libgssapi, libidn-1.32, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, Mixmaster, an MTA (that provides a sendmail command), S-Lang-2.2.4, OpenSSL-1.0.2d or GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, Berkeley DB-6.1.26 or QDBM or Tokyo Cabinet

Optional (To Regenerate HTML Documentation)

libxslt-1.1.28 and either Lynx-2.8.8rel.2, w3m-0.5.3, or ELinks

Optional (To Generate PDF Manual)

docbook-dsssl-1.79, OpenJade-1.3.2, and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mutt

Installation of Mutt

Note

This version of Mutt is a development release. The BLFS editors have determined that it provides a stable program and fixes two issues in the current stable version of Mutt: a segmentation fault that occurs under certain conditions and a compilation problem when building with recent versions of GCC.

Mutt requires a group named mail. You can add this group, if it does not exist, with this command:

groupadd -g 34 mail

If you did not install an MTA, you need to modify the ownership of /var/mail with this command:

chgrp -v mail /var/mail

Mutt will rebuild the html documentation if libxslt is present, then use that to update the text manual - even if none of the specified browsers are present. That will create an empty text file, so we will save the shipped file.

Install Mutt by running the following commands:

cp -v doc/manual.txt{,.shipped} &&
./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24 \
            --enable-pop      \
            --enable-imap     \
            --enable-hcache   \
            --without-qdbm    \
            --with-gdbm       \
            --without-bdb     \
            --without-tokyocabinet &&
make &&
test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}

To generate the PDF manual with texlive-20150521, run the following command:

make -C doc manual.pdf

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you generated the PDF manual, install it and the source TeX file by issuing the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 doc/manual.{pdf,tex} \
    /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24

Command Explanations

--enable-pop: This switch enables POP3 support.

--enable-imap: This switch enables IMAP support.

--enable-hcache: This switch enables header caching.

--without-qdbm: This switch disables QDBM as the header cache backend.

--without-tokyocabinet: This switch disables Tokyo Cabinet as the header cache backend.

--with-gdbm: This switch enables GDBM as the header cache backend.

--without-bdb: This switch disables Berkeley DB as the header cache backend.

--enable-smtp: This switch enables SMTP relay support.

--with-ssl: This parameter adds SSL/TLS support from OpenSSL-1.0.2d in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are enabled.

--with-sasl: This parameter adds authentication support from Cyrus SASL-2.1.26 in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are enabled. Depending on the server configuration, this may not be needed for POP3 or IMAP. However, it is needed for SMTP authentication.

--with-slang: Use S-Lang instead of Ncurses.

test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}: if the text manual is now empty (libxslt is installed, but without any of the specified text browsers), restore it from the copy.

Configuring Mutt

Config Files

/etc/Muttrc, ~/.muttrc, /etc/mime.types, ~/.mime.types

Configuration Information

No changes in these files are necessary to begin using Mutt. When you are ready to make changes, the man page for muttrc is a good starting place.

In order to utilize GnuPG, use the following command:

cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24/samples/gpg.rc >> ~/.muttrc

Installed Programs: flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, pgpewrap, pgpring, and smime_keys

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24

Short Descriptions

flea	is a bug submitter for Mutt.
mutt	is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which enables you to read, write and delete your email.
mutt_dotlock	implements the mail spool file lock.
muttbug	is a script that executes flea.
pgpewrap	prepares a command line for the GnuPG-2.1.7 utilities.
pgpring	is a key ring dumper for PGP. It is not needed for GnuPG-2.1.7.
smime_keys	manages a keystore for S/MIME certificates.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Procmail-3.22

Introduction to Procmail

The Procmail package contains an autonomous mail processor. This is useful for filtering and sorting incoming mail.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/mail/procmail/procmail-3.22.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/procmail/procmail-3.22.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1678ea99b973eb77eda4ecf6acae53f1
Download size: 226 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/procmail

Installation of Procmail

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install Procmail by running the following commands as the root user:

sed -i 's/getline/get_line/' src/*.[ch] &&

make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp MANDIR=/usr/share/man install &&
make install-suid

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/getline/get_line/' src/*.[ch]: This renames procmail's getline function to avoid conflict with the getline function from glibc.

make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install: This prevents make from asking you where to test file-locking patterns.

make install-suid: Modifies permissions of the installed files.

Configuring Procmail

Config Files

/etc/procmailrc and ~/.procmailrc

Configuration Information

Recipes have to be written and placed in ~/.procmailrc for execution. The procmailex man page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes. For additional information, see also http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/.

Installed Programs: formail, lockfile, mailstat and procmail

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

formail	is a filter that can be used to format mail into mailbox format.
lockfile	is a utility that can lock a file for single use interactively or in a script.
mailstat	prints a summary report of mail that has been filtered by procmail since the last time mailstat was ran.
procmail	is an autonomous mail processor. It performs all the functions of an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent).

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Re-alpine-2.03

Introduction to Re-alpine

Re-alpine is the continuation of Alpine; a text-based email client developed by the University of Washington.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/files/re-alpine-2.03.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 566d269d4bd43aba68f377110a6295d5
Download size: 5.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 122 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU

Re-alpine Dependencies

Optional

OpenLDAP-2.4.42, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, Aspell-0.60.6.1, Tcl-8.6.4, and Linux-PAM-1.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/re-alpine

Installation of Re-alpine

Install Re-alpine by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --sysconfdir=/etc   \
            --without-ldap      \
            --without-krb5      \
            --with-ssl-dir=/usr \
            --with-passfile=.pine-passfile &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-ldap: Disables LDAP support.

--without-krb5: Disables Kerberos support.

--with-ssl-dir=/usr: Sets the root path to OpenSSL libraries and include files.

--with-passfile=.pine-passfile: Sets the password cache file.

--without-ssl: Disables OpenSSL support.

Configuring Re-alpine

Config Files

~/.pinerc

Configuration Information

It is not required to manually edit any configuration files to use the Alpine email client. Users can configure Alpine using the graphical configuration menu, which stores the changes in ~/.pinerc.

Installed Programs: alpine, pico, pilot, rpdump, and rpload

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directories: none

Short Descriptions

alpine	is the Alpine mailer.
pico	is a standalone text editor similar to the Alpine message composer.
pilot	is a standalone file system navigator.
rpdump	is a utility for downloading a pinerc or address book to the local machine.
rpload	is a utility for uploading a local pinerc or address book to an IMAP server.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

Other Mail and News Programs

Balsa-2.5.2 is a GTK2 based mail client.

SeaMonkey-2.38 includes both a mail client and newsreader in its installation.

Thunderbird-38.3.0 is a mail/news client based on the Mozilla code base.

Last updated on 2013-06-01 05:20:39 -0700

Part V. Servers

Chapter 20. Major Servers

Major servers are the programs that provide content or services to users or other programs.

Apache-2.4.16

Introduction to Apache HTTPD

The Apache HTTPD package contains an open-source HTTP server. It is useful for creating local intranet web sites or running huge web serving operations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.4.16.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2b19cd338fd526dd5a63c57b1e9bfee2
Download size: 4.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 73 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/httpd-2.4.16-blfs_layout-1.patch

Apache HTTPD Dependencies

Required

Apr-Util-1.5.4 and PCRE-8.37

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, Doxygen-1.8.10, libxml2-2.9.2, Lynx-2.8.8rel.2 or Links-2.12 or ELinks, OpenLDAP-2.4.42 (Apr-Util-1.5.4 needs to be installed with ldap suport), rsync-3.1.1, Distcache, and Lua-5.3.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/apache

Installation of Apache HTTPD

For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user and group is strongly encouraged. Create the following group and user using the following commands as root:

groupadd -g 25 apache &&
useradd -c "Apache Server" -d /srv/www -g apache \
        -s /bin/false -u 25 apache

Build and install Apache HTTPD by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../httpd-2.4.16-blfs_layout-1.patch           &&

sed '/dir.*CFG_PREFIX/s@^@#@'     -i support/apxs.in        &&

./configure --enable-authnz-fcgi                            \
            --enable-layout=BLFS                            \
            --enable-mods-shared="all cgi"                  \
            --enable-mpms-shared=all                        \
            --enable-suexec=shared                          \
            --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config                \
            --with-apr-util=/usr/bin/apu-1-config           \
            --with-suexec-bin=/usr/lib/httpd/suexec         \
            --with-suexec-caller=apache                     \
            --with-suexec-docroot=/srv/www                  \
            --with-suexec-logfile=/var/log/httpd/suexec.log \
            --with-suexec-uidmin=100                        \
            --with-suexec-userdir=public_html               &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user (notice that DESTDIR does not work properly as unpriviledged user):

make install                                 &&

mv -v /usr/sbin/suexec /usr/lib/httpd/suexec &&
chgrp apache           /usr/lib/httpd/suexec &&
chmod 4754             /usr/lib/httpd/suexec &&

chown -v -R apache:apache /srv/www

Command Explanations

sed '/dir.*CFG_PREFIX/s@^@#@'...: Forces the apxs utility to use absolute pathnames for modules, when instructed to do so.

--enable-authnz-fcgi: Build FastCGI authorizer-based authentication and authorization (mod_authnz_fcgi.so fast CGI module).

--enable-mods-shared="all cgi": The modules should be compiled and used as Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) so they can be included and excluded from the server using the run-time configuration directives.

--enable-mpm-shared=all: This switch ensures that all MPM (Multi Processing Modules) are built as Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs), so the user can choose which one to use at runtime.

--enable-suexec: This switch enables building of the Apache suEXEC module which can be used to allow users to run CGI and SSI scripts under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server.

--with-suexec-*: These switches control suEXEC module behavior, such as default document root, minimal UID that can be used to run the script under the suEXEC. Please note that with minimal UID 100, you can't run CGI or SSI scripts under suEXEC as the apache user.

... /usr/lib/httpd/suexec: These commands put suexec wrapper into proper location, since it is not meant to be run directly. They also adjust proper permissions of the binary, making it setgid apache.

chown -R apache:apache /srv/www: By default, the installation process installs files (documentation, error messages, default icons, etc.) with the ownership of the user that extracted the files from the tar file. If you want to change the ownership to another user, you should do so at this point. The only requirement is that the document directories need to be accessible by the httpd process with (r-x) permissions and files need to be readable (r--) by the apache user.

Configuring Apache

Config Files

/etc/httpd/httpd.conf and /etc/httpd/extra/*

Configuration Information

See file:///usr/share/httpd/manual/configuring.html for detailed instructions on customising your Apache HTTP server configuration file.

Boot Script

If you want the Apache server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-httpd

Installed Programs: ab, apachectl, apxs, checkgid, dbmmanage, fcgistarter, htcacheclean, htdbm, htdigest, htpasswd, httpd, httxt2dbm, logresolve, rotatelogs, and suexec

Installed Libraries: Several libraries under /usr/lib/httpd/modules/

Installed Directories: /etc/httpd, /srv/www, /usr/include/httpd, /usr/lib/httpd, /usr/share/httpd, /var/log/httpd, and /var/run/httpd

Short Descriptions

ab	is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HTTP server.
apachectl	is a front end to the Apache HTTP server which is designed to help the administrator control the functioning of the Apache httpd daemon.
apxs	is a tool for building and installing extension modules for the Apache HTTP server.
checkgid	is a program that checks whether it can setgid to the group specified. This is to see if it is a valid group for Apache2 to use at runtime. If the user (should be run as superuser) is in that group, or can setgid to it, it will return 0.
dbmmanage	is used to create and update the DBM format files used to store usernames and passwords for basic authentication of HTTP users.
fcgistarter	is a tool to start a FastCGI program.
htcacheclean	is used to clean up the disk cache.
htdbm	is used to manipulate the DBM password databases.
htdigest	is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames, realms and passwords for digest authentication of HTTP users.
htpasswd	is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames and passwords for basic authentication of HTTP users.
httpd	is the Apache HTTP server program.
httxt2dbm	is used to generate DBM files from text, for use in RewriteMap.
logresolve	is a post-processing program to resolve IP-addresses in Apache's access log files.
rotatelogs	is a simple program for use in conjunction with Apache's piped log file feature.
suexec	allows users to run CGI and SSI applications as a different user.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

BIND-9.10.3

Introduction to BIND

The BIND package provides a DNS server and client utilities. If you are only interested in the utilities, refer to the BIND Utilities-9.10.3.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.10.3/bind-9.10.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d8cbf04a62a139a841d4bf878087a555
Download size: 8.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 137 MB (additional 60 MB for the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (additional 24+ minutes, processor independent, to run the complete test suite)

Additional Downloads

Optional patch (if net-tools is not installed): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/bind-9.10.3-use_iproute2-1.patch

BIND Dependencies

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, libxml2-2.9.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, and geoip

Optional database backends

Berkeley DB-6.1.26, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, and unixODBC-2.3.2

Optional (to run the test suite)

Net::DNS-1.02 and Net-tools-CVS_20101030 (you may omit net-tools by using the optional patch to utilize iproute2, but the IPv6 tests will fail)

Optional (to rebuild the documentation)

Doxygen-1.8.10, libxslt-1.1.28, and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/bind

Installation of BIND

If you have chosen not to install net-tools, apply the iproute2 patch with the following command:

patch -Np1 -i ../bind-9.10.3-use_iproute2-1.patch

Install BIND by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc       \
            --localstatedir=/var    \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --enable-threads        \
            --with-libtool          \
            --disable-static        \
            --with-randomdev=/dev/urandom &&
make

Issue the following commands to run the complete suite of tests. First, as the root user, set up some test interfaces:

Note

If IPv6 is not enabled in the kernel, there will be several error messages: "RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted". These messages do not afffect the tests.

bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up

The test suite may indicate some skipped tests depending on what configuration options are used. Some tests are marked “UNTESTED ” if Net::DNS-1.02 is not installed. To run the tests, as an unprivileged user, execute:

make -k check

Again as root, clean up the test interfaces:

bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh down

Finally, install the package as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 0755 /usr/lib/lib{bind9,dns,isc{,cc,cfg},lwres}.so &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/bind-9.10.3/{arm,misc} &&
install -v -m644    doc/arm/*.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/bind-9.10.3/arm &&
install -v -m644    doc/misc/{dnssec,ipv6,migrat*,options,rfc-compliance,roadmap,sdb} \
                    /usr/share/doc/bind-9.10.3/misc

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This parameter forces BIND to look for configuration files in /etc instead of /usr/etc.

--enable-threads: This parameter enables multi-threading capability.

--with-libtool: This parameter forces the building of dynamic libraries and links the installed binaries to these libraries.

--with-randomdev=/dev/urandom: This parameter specifes a non-blocking random device for use with digital signatures.

--enable-fetchlimit: Use this option if you want to be able to limit the the rate of recursive client queries. This may be useful on servers which receive a large number of queries.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

chmod 0755 /usr/lib/{lib{bind9,dns,isc{,cc,cfg},lwres}.so: Enable the execute bit to prevent a warning when using ldd to check library dependencies.

cd doc; install ...: These commands install additional package documentation. Omit any or all of these commands if desired.

Configuring BIND

Config files

named.conf, root.hints, 127.0.0, rndc.conf and resolv.conf

Configuration Information

BIND will be configured to run in a chroot jail as an unprivileged user (named). This configuration is more secure in that a DNS compromise can only affect a few files in the named user's HOME directory.

Create the unprivileged user and group named:

groupadd -g 20 named &&
useradd -c "BIND Owner" -g named -s /bin/false -u 20 named &&
install -d -m770 -o named -g named /srv/named

Set up some files, directories and devices needed by BIND:

cd /srv/named &&
mkdir -p dev etc/namedb/{slave,pz} usr/lib/engines var/run/named &&
mknod /srv/named/dev/null c 1 3 &&
mknod /srv/named/dev/urandom c 1 9 &&
chmod 666 /srv/named/dev/{null,urandom} &&
cp /etc/localtime etc &&
touch /srv/named/managed-keys.bind &&
cp /usr/lib/engines/libgost.so usr/lib/engines &&
[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && ln -sv lib usr/lib64

The rndc.conf file contains information for controlling named operations with the rndc utility. Generate a key for use in the named.conf and rdnc.conf with the rndc-confgen command:

rndc-confgen -r /dev/urandom -b 512 > /etc/rndc.conf &&
sed '/conf/d;/^#/!d;s:^# ::' /etc/rndc.conf > /srv/named/etc/named.conf

Complete the named.conf file from which named will read the location of zone files, root name servers and secure DNS keys:

cat >> /srv/named/etc/named.conf << "EOF"
options {
    directory "/etc/namedb";
    pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
    statistics-file "/var/run/named.stats";

};
zone "." {
    type hint;
    file "root.hints";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
    type master;
    file "pz/127.0.0";
};

// Bind 9 now logs by default through syslog (except debug).
// These are the default logging rules.

logging {
    category default { default_syslog; default_debug; };
    category unmatched { null; };

  channel default_syslog {
      syslog daemon;                      // send to syslog's daemon
                                          // facility
      severity info;                      // only send priority info
                                          // and higher
  };

  channel default_debug {
      file "named.run";                   // write to named.run in
                                          // the working directory
                                          // Note: stderr is used instead
                                          // of "named.run"
                                          // if the server is started
                                          // with the '-f' option.
      severity dynamic;                   // log at the server's
                                          // current debug level
  };

  channel default_stderr {
      stderr;                             // writes to stderr
      severity info;                      // only send priority info
                                          // and higher
  };

  channel null {
      null;                               // toss anything sent to
                                          // this channel
  };
};
EOF

Create a zone file with the following contents:

cat > /srv/named/etc/namedb/pz/127.0.0 << "EOF"
$TTL 3D
@      IN      SOA     ns.local.domain. hostmaster.local.domain. (
                        1       ; Serial
                        8H      ; Refresh
                        2H      ; Retry
                        4W      ; Expire
                        1D)     ; Minimum TTL
                NS      ns.local.domain.
1               PTR     localhost.
EOF

Create the root.hints file with the following commands:

Note

Caution must be used to ensure there are no leading spaces in this file.

cat > /srv/named/etc/namedb/root.hints << "EOF"
.                       6D  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       6D  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       198.41.0.4
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.228.79.201
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       199.7.91.13
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.203.230.10
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.5.5.241
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.112.36.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       128.63.2.53
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.36.148.17
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       192.58.128.30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       199.7.83.42
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     6D  IN      A       202.12.27.33
EOF

The root.hints file is a list of root name servers. This file must be updated periodically with the dig utility. A current copy of root.hints can be obtained from ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/named.root. Consult the BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual for details.

Create or modify resolv.conf to use the new name server with the following commands:

Note

Replace <yourdomain.com> with your own valid domain name.

cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.bak &&
cat > /etc/resolv.conf << "EOF"
search <yourdomain.com>
nameserver 127.0.0.1
EOF

Set permissions on the chroot jail with the following command:

chown -R named:named /srv/named

Boot Script

To start the DNS server at boot, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-bind

Now start BIND with the new boot script:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/bind start

Testing BIND

Test out the new BIND 9 installation. First query the local host address with dig:

dig -x 127.0.0.1

Now try an external name lookup, taking note of the speed difference in repeated lookups due to the caching. Run the dig command twice on the same address:

dig www.linuxfromscratch.org &&
dig www.linuxfromscratch.org

You can see almost instantaneous results with the named caching lookups. Consult the BIND Administrator Reference Manual located at doc/arm/Bv9ARM.html in the package source tree, for further configuration options.

Installed Programs: arpaname, bind9-config hardlinked to isc-config.sh, ddns-confgen, delv, dig, dnssec-checkds, dnssec-coverage, dnssec-dsfromkey, dnssec-importkey, dnssec-keyfromlabel, dnssec-keygen, dnssec-revoke, dnssec-settime, dnssec-signzone, dnssec-verify, genrandom, host, isc-hmac-fixup, lwresd hardlinked to named, named-checkconf, named-checkzone, named-compilezone (symlink), named-journalprint, named-rrchecker, nsec3hash, nslookup, nsupdate, rndc, rndc-confgen, and tsig-keygen (symlink)

Installed Libraries: libbind9.so, libdns.so, libirs.so, libisc.so, libisccc.so, libisccfg.so, and liblwres.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{bind9,dns,dst,irs,isc,isccc,isccfg,lwres,pk11,pkcs11}, /usr/share/doc/bind-9.10.3 and /srv/named

Short Descriptions

arpaname	translate IP addresses to the corresponding ARPA names.
bind9-config	hardlinked to isc-config.sh.
ddns-confgen	generates a key for use by nsupdate and named.
delv	is a new debugging tool that is a successor to dig.
dig	interrogates DNS servers.
dnssec-checkds	is a DNSSEC delegation consistency checking tool.
dnssec-coverage	verifies that the DNSSEC keys for a given zone or a set of zones have timing metadata set properly to ensure no future lapses in DNSSEC coverage.
dnssec-dsfromkey	outputs the Delegation Signer (DS) resource record (RR).
dnssec-importkey	reads a public DNSKEY record and generates a pair of .key/.private files.
dnssec-keyfromlabel	gets keys with the given label from a crypto hardware and builds key files for DNSSEC.
dnssec-keygen	is a key generator for secure DNS.
dnssec-revoke	Set the REVOKED bit on a DNSSEC key.
dnssec-settime	set the key timing metadata for a DNSSEC key.
dnssec-signzone	generates signed versions of zone files.
dnssec-verify	verifies that a zone is fully signed for each algorithm found in the DNSKEY RRset for the zone, and that the NSEC / NSEC3 chains are complete.
genrandom	generate a file containing random data.
host	is a utility for DNS lookups.
isc-config.sh	prints information related to the installed version of ISC BIND.
isc-hmac-fixup	fixes HMAC keys generated by older versions of BIND.
lwresd	is a caching-only name server for local process use.
named	is the name server daemon.
named-checkconf	checks the syntax of `named.conf` files.
named-checkzone	checks zone file validity.
named-compilezone	is similar to named-checkzone, but it always dumps the zone contents to a specified file in a specified format.
named-journalprint	print zone journal in human-readable form.
named-rrchecker	read a individual DNS resource record from standard input and checks if it is syntactically correct.
nsec3hash	generates an NSEC3 hash based on a set of NSEC3 parameters.
nslookup	is a program used to query Internet domain nameservers.
nsupdate	is used to submit DNS update requests.
rndc	controls the operation of BIND.
rndc-confgen	generates `rndc.conf` files.
tsig-keygen	is a symlink to ddns-confgen.

Last updated on 2015-09-26 10:44:19 -0700

ProFTPD-1.3.5a

Introduction to ProFTPD

The ProFTPD package contains a secure and highly configurable FTP daemon. This is useful for serving large file archives over a network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.5a.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b9d3092411478415b31d435f8e26d173
Download size: 29 MB
Estimated disk space required: 69 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

ProFTPD Dependencies

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, PCRE-8.37, PostgreSQL-9.4.4 and to run tests: Check-0.10.0 and Test::Unit-0.14

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/proftpd

Installation of ProFTPD

For security reasons, you should install ProFTPD using an unprivileged user and group. As the root user:

groupadd -g 46 proftpd                             &&
useradd -c proftpd -d /srv/ftp -g proftpd \
        -s /usr/bin/proftpdshell -u 46 proftpd     &&

install -v -d -m775 -o proftpd -g proftpd /srv/ftp &&
ln -v -s /bin/false /usr/bin/proftpdshell          &&
echo /usr/bin/proftpdshell >> /etc/shells

Install ProFTPD as an unprivileged user by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/run &&
make

The tests for this package require a very old (2001) version of the Perl Module Test::Unit. Even when using that version of Test::Unit, there are many failures (41/1397) although the program appears to run well. The tests take a long time (45 minutes, not CPU dependent) and are not recommended. To test the results anyway, add the switch: --enable-tests to the configure, and issue: make check. If the tests are run with root privileges, more tests are run, but there are more failures.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

install -v -d -m775 -o proftpd -g proftpd /srv/ftp: Create the home directory for ProFTPD.

ln -v -s /bin/false /usr/bin/proftpdshell: Set the default shell as a link to an invalid shell.

echo /usr/bin/proftpdshell >> /etc/shells: Fake a valid shell for compatibility purposes.

Note

The above two commands can be omitted if the following directive is placed in the configuration file:

RequireValidShell off

By default, proftpd will require that users logging in have valid shells. The RequireValidShell directive turns off this requirement. This is only recommended if you are setting up your FTP server exclusively for anonymous downloads.

Note

Support for most of the dependency packages requires using options passed to the configure script. View the output from ./configure --help for complete information about enabling dependency packages.

Configuring ProFTPD

Config Files

/etc/proftpd.conf

Configuration Information

This is a simple, download-only sample configuration. See the ProFTPD documentation in /usr/share/doc/proftpd and consult the website at http://www.proftpd.org/ for example configurations.

cat > /etc/proftpd.conf << "EOF"
# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file
# It establishes a single server and a single anonymous login.

ServerName                      "ProFTPD Default Installation"
ServerType                      standalone
DefaultServer                   on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                            21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask                           022

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service

MaxInstances                    30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User                            proftpd
Group                           proftpd

# To cause every FTP user to be "jailed" (chrooted) into their home
# directory, uncomment this line.
#DefaultRoot ~


# Normally, files should be overwritable.
<Directory /*>
  AllowOverwrite                on
</Directory>

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.
<Anonymous ~proftpd>
  User                          proftpd
  Group                         proftpd
  # Clients should be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "proftpd"
  UserAlias                     anonymous proftpd

  # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
  MaxClients                    10

  # 'welcome.msg' should be displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
  # in each newly chdired directory.
  DisplayLogin                  welcome.msg
  DisplayChdir                  .message

  # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
  <Limit WRITE>
    DenyAll
  </Limit>
</Anonymous>
EOF

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-proftpd

Installed Programs: ftpasswd, ftpcount, ftpdctl, ftpmail, ftpquota, ftpscrub, ftpshut, ftptop, ftpwho, in.proftpd (symlink to proftpd), proftpd, and prxs

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/{include,lib}/proftpd

Short Descriptions

proftpd	is the FTP daemon.
ftpcount	shows the current number of connections.
ftpdctl	is used to control the proftpd daemon while it is running.
ftpasswd	is a Perl script designed to create and manage AuthUserFiles and AuthGroupFiles of the correct format for proftpd.
ftpmail	is a Perl script for sending email based on the proftpd TransferLog.
ftpquota	is a Perl script designed to create and manage limits and tally files for the mod_quotatab + mod_quotatab_file module combination for proftpd.
ftpscrub	provides a way to scrub the scoreboard file on demand.
ftpshut	shuts down all proftpd servers at a given time.
ftptop	displays running status on connections.
ftpwho	shows current process information for each session.
prxs	is a Perl script designed to compile and install third-party modules, from source code, as DSO modules for the installed proftpd.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

vsftpd-3.0.3

Introduction to vsftpd

The vsftpd package contains a very secure and very small FTP daemon. This is useful for serving files over a network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://security.appspot.com/downloads/vsftpd-3.0.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: da119d084bd3f98664636ea05b5bb398
Download size: 196 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

vsftpd Dependencies

Optional

libcap-2.24 with PAM, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, and OpenSSL-1.0.2d

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vsftpd

Installation of vsftpd

For security reasons, running vsftpd as an unprivileged user and group is encouraged. Also, a user should be created to map anonymous users. As the root user, create the needed directories, users, and groups with the following commands:

install -v -d -m 0755 /usr/share/vsftpd/empty &&
install -v -d -m 0755 /home/ftp               &&
groupadd -g 47 vsftpd                         &&
groupadd -g 45 ftp                            &&

useradd -c "vsftpd User"  -d /dev/null -g vsftpd -s /bin/false -u 47 vsftpd &&
useradd -c anonymous_user -d /home/ftp -g ftp    -s /bin/false -u 45 ftp

If you did not install the optional libcap2 package, run the following to avoid a build error:

sed -i -e 's|#define VSF_SYSDEP_HAVE_LIBCAP|//&|' sysdeputil.c

Build vsftpd as an unprivileged user using the following command:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Once again, become the root user and install vsftpd with the following commands:

install -v -m 755 vsftpd        /usr/sbin/vsftpd    &&
install -v -m 644 vsftpd.8      /usr/share/man/man8 &&
install -v -m 644 vsftpd.conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &&
install -v -m 644 vsftpd.conf   /etc

Command Explanations

install -v -d ...: This creates the directory that anonymous users will use (/home/ftp) and the directory the daemon will chroot into (/usr/share/vsftpd/empty).

Note

/home/ftp should not be owned by the user vsftpd, or the user ftp.

echo "#define VSF_BUILD_TCPWRAPPERS" >>builddefs.h: Use this prior to make to add support for tcpwrappers.

echo "#define VSF_BUILD_SSL" >>builddefs.h: Use this prior to make to add support for SSL.

install -v -m ...: The Makefile uses non-standard installation paths. These commands install the files in /usr and /etc.

Configuring vsftpd

Config Files

/etc/vsftpd.conf

Configuration Information

vsftpd comes with a basic anonymous-only configuration file that was copied to /etc above. While still as root, this file should be modified because it is now recommended to run vsftpd in standalone mode. Also, you should specify the privilege separation user created above. Finally, you should specify the chroot directory. man vsftpd.conf will give you all the details.

cat >> /etc/vsftpd.conf << "EOF"
background=YES
listen=YES
nopriv_user=vsftpd
secure_chroot_dir=/usr/share/vsftpd/empty
EOF

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-vsftpd

Installed Program: vsftpd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: //usr/share/vsftpd, /home/ftp

Short Descriptions

vsftpd

is the FTP daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

Chapter 21. Mail Server Software

MTAs are the programs which transport mail from one machine to the other. The traditional MTA is Sendmail, however there are several other choices.

As well as SMTP servers there is a POP server (qpopper) and an IMAP server (Courier-IMAP).

Dovecot-2.2.18

Introduction to Dovecot

Dovecot is an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot aims to be lightweight, fast and easy to set up as well as highly configurable and easily extensible with plugins.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.18.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1e42eb3b69544c447ad882d7858f3630
Download size: 4.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 257 MB (additional 14 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (additional 0.4 SBU for the tests)

Dovecot Dependencies

Optional

CLucene-2.3.3.4, ICU-55.1, libcap-2.24 with PAM, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 (for GSSAPI support), OpenLDAP-2.4.42, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1, Valgrind-3.10.1, Cassandra, lz4, and stemmer

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dovecot

Installation of Dovecot

There should be dedicated users and groups for unprivileged Dovecot processes and for processing users' logins. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 42 dovecot &&
useradd -c "Dovecot unprivileged user" -d /dev/null -u 42 \
        -g dovecot -s /bin/false dovecot &&
groupadd -g 43 dovenull &&
useradd -c "Dovecot login user" -d /dev/null -u 43 \
        -g dovenull -s /bin/false dovenull

Install Dovecot by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.2.18 \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue make -k check. One test fails for unknown reason

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-ldap: This switch enables OpenLDAP authentication support.

--with-pgsql: This switch enables PostgreSQL authentication support.

--with-mysql: This switch enables MySQL authentication support.

--with-sqlite: This switch enables SQLite authentication support.

--with-lucene: This switch enables CLucene full text search support.

--with-krb5: This switch enables GSSAPI authentication support.

Configuring Dovecot

Config Files

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*, and /etc/dovecot/local.conf

Configuration Information

Copy an example configuration, which you can use as a starting point:

cp -rv /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.2.18/example-config/* /etc/dovecot

The following configuration is a simple proof of concept with IMAP service using local users for authentication and mailbox location. Reading files from the conf.d directory is commented out since the included example configuration requires OpenSSL and Linux PAM.

sed -i '/^\!include / s/^/#/' /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf &&
chmod -v 1777 /var/mail &&
cat > /etc/dovecot/local.conf << "EOF"
protocols = imap
ssl = no
# The next line is only needed if you have no IPv6 network interfaces
listen = *
mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
passdb {
  driver = shadow
}
EOF

You will definitely want to read the official documentation at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/ if you plan to use Dovecot in production environment.

Boot Script

If you want the Dovecot server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-dovecot

Installed Programs: doveadm, doveconf, dovecot, dsync, and various internal programs

Installed Libraries: various internal plugins

Installed Directories: /etc/dovecot, /usr/{include,lib,libexec,share}/dovecot and /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.2.18

Short Descriptions

doveadm	is the Dovecot administration tool.
doveconf	is Dovecot's configuration dumping utility.
dovecot	is the IMAP and POP server.
dsync	is Dovecot's mailbox synchronization utility.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

Exim-4.86

Introduction to Exim

The Exim package contains a Mail Transport Agent written by the University of Cambridge, released under the GNU Public License.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://mirrors-uk.go-parts.com/eximftp/exim/exim4/exim-4.86.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.86.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 797f248ef3e0c0e2f178e915f88fc4e9
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Additional Downloads

Additional formats of the documentation (text-based docs are shipped with the sources) can be downloaded by following the links shown at http://exim.org/docs.html.

Exim Dependencies

Required

PCRE-8.37

Optional

Berkeley DB-6.1.26 or TDB (alternatives to GDBM, built in LFS), Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, libidn-1.32, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, OpenSSL-1.0.2d or GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1, X Window System, and OpenDMARC

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/exim

Installation of Exim

Before building Exim, as the root user you should create the group and user exim which will run the exim daemon:

groupadd -g 31 exim &&
useradd -d /dev/null -c "Exim Daemon" -g exim -s /bin/false -u 31 exim

Install Exim with the following commands:

sed -e 's,^BIN_DIR.*$,BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/sbin,' \
    -e 's,^CONF.*$,CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim.conf,' \
    -e 's,^EXIM_USER.*$,EXIM_USER=exim,' \
    -e 's,^EXIM_MONITOR,#EXIM_MONITOR,' src/EDITME > Local/Makefile &&
printf "USE_GDBM = yes\nDBMLIB = -lgdbm\n" >> Local/Makefile &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/exim.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/exim-4.86 &&
install -v -m644 doc/* /usr/share/doc/exim-4.86 &&
ln -sfv exim /usr/sbin/sendmail

Command Explanations

sed -e ... > Local/Makefile: Most of Exim's configuration options are compiled in using the directives in Local/Makefile which is created from the src/EDITME file. This command specifies the minimum set of options. Descriptions for the options are listed below.

printf ... > Local/Makefile: Setting those variables allows to use GDBM instead of the default Berkeley DB. Remove this command if you have installed Berkeley DB-6.1.26.

BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/sbin: This installs all of Exim's binaries and scripts in /usr/sbin.

CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim.conf: This installs Exim's main configuration file in /etc.

EXIM_USER=exim: This tells Exim that after the daemon no longer needs root privileges, the process hands off the daemon to the exim user.

#EXIM_MONITOR: This defers building the Exim monitor program, as it requires X Window System support, by commenting out the EXIM_MONITOR line in the Makefile. If you wish to build the monitor program, omit this sed command and issue the following command before building the package (modify Local/eximon.conf, if necessary): cp exim_monitor/EDITME Local/eximon.conf.

ln -sfv exim /usr/sbin/sendmail: Creates a link to sendmail for applications which need it. Exim will accept most Sendmail command-line options.

Adding Additional Functionality

To utilize some or all of the dependency packages, you'll need to modify Local/Makefile to include the appropriate directives and parameters to link additional libraries before you build Exim. Local/Makefile is heavily commented with instructions on how to do this. Listed below is additional information to help you link these dependency packages or add additional functionality.

If you wish to build and install the .info documentation, refer to http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch04.html#SECTinsinfdoc.

If you wish to build in Exim's interfaces for calling virus and spam scanning software directly from access control lists, uncomment the WITH_CONTENT_SCAN=yes parameter and review the information found at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch41.html.

To use a backend database other than Berkeley DB, see the instructions at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch04.html#SECTdb.

For SSL functionality, see the instructions at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch04.html#SECTinctlsssl and http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch39.html.

For tcpwrappers functionality, see the instructions at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch04.html#SECID27.

For information about adding authentication mechanisms to the build, see chapters 33-37 of http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/index.html.

For information about linking Linux-PAM, refer to the instructions http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpcond.

For information about linking database engine libraries used for Exim name lookups, see the instructions at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch09.html.

If you wish to add Readline support to Exim when invoked in “test expansion” (-be) mode, see the information in the -be section of http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch05.html#id2525974.

You may wish to modify the default configuration and send log files to syslog instead of the default /var/spool/exim/log directory. See the information at http://exim.org/exim-html-4.86/doc/html/spec_html/ch49.html.

Configuring Exim

Config Files

/etc/exim.conf and /etc/aliases

Configuration Information

A default (nothing but comments) /etc/aliases file is installed during the package installation if this file did not exist on your system. Create the necessary aliases and start the Exim daemon using the following commands:

cat >> /etc/aliases << "EOF"
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root
EOF
exim -v -bi &&
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m

Note

To protect an existing /etc/aliases file, the command above appends these aliases to it. This file should be checked and duplicate aliases removed, if present.

The /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q15m command starts the Exim daemon with a 15 minute interval in processing the mail queue. Adjust this parameter to suit your desires.

Boot Script

To automate the running of exim at startup, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-exim

The bootscript also starts the Exim daemon and dispatches a queue runner process every 15 minutes. Modify the -q<time interval> parameter in /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim, if necessary for your installation.

Installed Programs: exicyclog, exigrep, exim, exim-4.86-3, exim_checkaccess, exim_dbmbuild, exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb, exim_lock, exim_tidydb, eximstats, exinext, exipick, exiqgrep, exiqsumm, exiwhat, and optionally, eximon, eximon.bin, and sendmail (symlink)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/exim-4.86 and /var/spool/exim

Short Descriptions

exicyclog	cycles Exim log files.
exigrep	searches Exim log files.
exim	is a symlink to the exim-4.86-3 MTA daemon.
exim-4.86-3	is the Exim mail transport agent daemon.
exim_checkaccess	states whether a given recipient address from a given host is acceptable or not.
exim_dbmbuild	creates and rebuilds Exim databases.
exim_dumpdb	writes the contents of Exim databases to the standard output.
exim_fixdb	modifies data in Exim databases.
exim_lock	locks a mailbox file.
exim_tidydb	removes old records from Exim databases.
eximstats	generates mail statistics from Exim log files.
exinext	queries remote host retry times.
exipick	selects messages based on various criteria.
exiqgrep	is a utility for selective queue listing.
exiqsumm	produces a summary of the messages in the mail queue.
exiwhat	queries running Exim processes.
eximon	is a start-up shell script for eximon.bin used to set the required environment variables before running the program.
eximon.bin	is a monitor program which displays current information in an X window, and also contains a menu interface to Exim's command line administration options.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

Postfix-3.0.2

Introduction to Postfix

The Postfix package contains a Mail Transport Agent (MTA). This is useful for sending email to other users of your host machine. It can also be configured to be a central mail server for your domain, a mail relay agent or simply a mail delivery agent to your local Internet Service Provider.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-3.0.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d1dc2c23011c222129db3d91aa4f312a
Download size: 4.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 198 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Postfix Dependencies

Optional

ICU-55.1 for Email Address Internationalization (SMTPUTF8) support, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, PCRE-8.37, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SQLite-3.8.11.1, and CDB or TinyCDB

Note that SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and CDB are only useful if there is a known need for them.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/postfix

Installation of Postfix

Adding Users and Groups

Before you compile the program, you need to create users and groups that will be expected to be in place during the installation. Add the users and groups with the following commands issued by the root user:

groupadd -g 32 postfix &&
groupadd -g 33 postdrop &&
useradd -c "Postfix Daemon User" -d /var/spool/postfix -g postfix \
        -s /bin/false -u 32 postfix &&
chown -v postfix:postfix /var/mail

Configuring the Build

The README files are formatted to be read with a pager like Less or More. If you want to use a text editor, make them legible with the following sed:

sed -i 's/.\x08//g' README_FILES/*

If you are running a linux-4.x kernel, apply the following sed to allow the makedefs script to recognize it:

sed -i 's/Linux.3\*/Linux.[34]\*/' makedefs

The Postfix source tree does not contain a configure script, rather the makefile in the top-level directory contains a makefiles target that regenerates all the other makefiles in the build tree. If you wish to use additional software such as a database back-end for virtual users, or TLS/SSL authentication, you will need to regenerate the makefiles using one or more of the appropriate CCARGS and AUXLIBS settings listed below.

For more details read the readme files.

Cyrus-SASL

To use Cyrus-SASL with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -I/usr/include/sasl'
AUXLIBS='-lsasl2'

OpenLDAP

To use OpenLDAP with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DHAS_LDAP'
AUXLIBS='-lldap -llber'

Sqlite

To use Sqlite with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DHAS_SQLITE'
AUXLIBS='-lsqlite3 -lpthread'

MySQL

To use MySQL with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql'
AUXLIBS='-lmysqlclient -lz -lm'

PostgreSQL

To use PostgreSQL with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DHAS_PGSQL -I/usr/include/postgresql'
AUXLIBS='-lpq -lz -lm'

CDB/TinyCDB

To use CDB or TinyCDB with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DHAS_CDB'
AUXLIBS='</path/to/CDB>/libcdb.a'

StartTLS Authentication

To use OpenSSL with Postfix, use the following arguments:

CCARGS='-DUSE_TLS -I/usr/include/openssl/'
AUXLIBS='-lssl -lcrypto'

Installing Postfix

If you have Cyrus SASL and OpenSSL installed, install Postfix by running the following commands:

make CCARGS="-DUSE_TLS -I/usr/include/openssl/                     \
             -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -I/usr/include/sasl" \
     AUXLIBS="-lssl -lcrypto -lsasl2"                              \
     makefiles &&
make

This package does not come with a useful test suite.

Now, as the root user:

sh postfix-install -non-interactive \
   daemon_directory=/usr/lib/postfix \
   manpage_directory=/usr/share/man \
   html_directory=/usr/share/doc/postfix-3.0.2/html \
   readme_directory=/usr/share/doc/postfix-3.0.2/readme

Command Explanations

make makefiles: This command rebuilds the makefiles throughout the source tree to use the options contained in the CCARGS and AUXLIBS variables.

sh postfix-install -non-interactive: This keeps the install script from asking any questions, thereby accepting default destination directories in all but the few cases. If the html_directory and readme_directory options are not set then the documentation will not be installed.

CCARGS="-DNO_EAI ...": this will turn off SMTPUTF8 support, for example if the rest of your email address infrastructure cannot handle UTF-8 email addresses and message header values.

Configuring Postfix

Config Files

/etc/aliases, /etc/postfix/main.cf, and /etc/postfix/master.cf

Configuration Information

Create (or append to an existing) /etc/aliases with the following command. Change <LOGIN> for your non-root login identity so mail addressed to root can be forwarded to you. As the root user:

cat >> /etc/aliases << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/aliases

MAILER-DAEMON:    postmaster
postmaster:       root

root:             <LOGIN>
# End /etc/aliases
EOF

To protect an existing /etc/aliases file, the above command appends these aliases to it if it exists. This file should be checked and duplicate aliases removed, if present.

Note

The /etc/postfix/main.cf and /etc/postfix/master.cf files must be personalized for your system. The main.cf file needs your fully qualified hostname. You will find that main.cf is self documenting, so load it into your editor to make the changes you need for your situation.

Note

Postfix can also be set up to run in a chroot jail. See the file in the source examples/chroot-setup/LINUX2 for details.

If you have an existing configuration, you can run the postfix utility to add any necessary definitions to your existing files. As the root user:

/usr/sbin/postfix upgrade-configuration

Before starting Postfix, you should check that your configuration and file permissions will work properly. Run the following commands as the root user to check and start your Postfix server:

/usr/sbin/postfix check &&
/usr/sbin/postfix start

Boot Script

To automate the running of Postfix at startup, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-postfix

Installed Programs: mailq (symlink), newaliases (symlink), postalias, postcat, postconf, postdrop, postfix, postkick, postlock, postlog, postmap, postmulti, postqueue, postsuper, and sendmail

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /{etc,usr/lib}/postfix, /usr/share/doc/postfix-3.0.2 and /var/{lib,spool}/postfix

Short Descriptions

mailq	A symlink to `sendmail`.
newaliases	A symlink to `sendmail`.
postalias	is a utility for Postfix alias database maintenance
postcat	Prints the contents of files from the Postfix queue in human readable format.
postconf	Displays or changes the value of Postfix configuration parameters.
postdrop	Creates a file in the maildrop directory and copies its standard input to the file.
postfix	is the Postfix control program.
postkick	Sends requests to the specified service over a local transport channel.
postlock	Locks a mail folder for exclusive use, and executes commands passed to it.
postlog	A Postfix-compatible logging interface for use in, for example, shell scripts.
postmap	Creates or queries one or more Postfix lookup tables, or updates an existing one.
postmulti	is the Postfix multi-instance manager. It allows a system administrator to manage multiple Postfix instances on a single host.
postqueue	The Postfix user interface for queue management.
postsuper	The Postfix user interface for superuser queue management.
sendmail	is the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

sendmail-8.15.2

Introduction to sendmail

The sendmail package contains a Mail Transport Agent (MTA).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.15.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a824fa7dea4d3341efb6462ccd816f00
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

sendmail Dependencies

Required

OpenLDAP-2.4.42 (client)

Recommanded

OpenSSL-1.0.2d and Cyrus SASL-2.1.26

Optional

ghostscript-9.16 (for creating PDF documentation), Procmail-3.22 (the configuration proposed below requires that procmail be present at run-time), and nph

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sendmail

Installation of sendmail

Before building sendmail, create the required user, group and directory with the following commands issued as the root user:

groupadd -g 26 smmsp                               &&
useradd -c "Sendmail Daemon" -g smmsp -d /dev/null \
        -s /bin/false -u 26 smmsp                  &&
chmod -v 1777 /var/mail                            &&
install -v -m700 -d /var/spool/mqueue

Note

See the source tree sendmail/README file for information on linking optional packages into the build. Use the example below, which adds support for SASL, StartTLS (OpenSSL) and OpenLDAP, as a starting point. Of course, modify it to suit your particular needs.

cat >> devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"
APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF',`-DSTARTTLS -DSASL -DLDAPMAP')
APPENDDEF(`confLIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto -lsasl2 -lldap -llber -ldb')
APPENDDEF(`confINCDIRS', `-I/usr/include/sasl')
EOF

Install sendmail with the following commands:

cat >> devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF"
define(`confMANGRP',`root')
define(`confMANOWN',`root')
define(`confSBINGRP',`root')
define(`confUBINGRP',`root')
define(`confUBINOWN',`root')
EOF

sed -i 's|/usr/man/man|/usr/share/man/man|' \
    devtools/OS/Linux           &&

cd sendmail                     &&
sh Build                        &&
cd ../cf/cf                     &&
cp generic-linux.mc sendmail.mc &&
sh Build sendmail.cf

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /etc/mail &&
sh Build install-cf &&

cd ../..            &&
sh Build install    &&

install -v -m644 cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &&
cp -v -R cf/* /etc/mail                               &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2/{cf,sendmail} &&

install -v -m644 CACerts FAQ KNOWNBUGS LICENSE PGPKEYS README RELEASE_NOTES \
        /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2 &&

install -v -m644 sendmail/{README,SECURITY,TRACEFLAGS,TUNING} \
        /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2/sendmail &&

install -v -m644 cf/README /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2/cf &&

for manpage in sendmail editmap mailstats makemap praliases smrsh
do
    install -v -m644 $manpage/$manpage.8 /usr/share/man/man8
done &&

install -v -m644 sendmail/aliases.5    /usr/share/man/man5 &&
install -v -m644 sendmail/mailq.1      /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 sendmail/newaliases.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 vacation/vacation.1   /usr/share/man/man1

Install the sendmail Installation and Operations Guide with the following commands:

Note

Remove op.pdf from the make and install commands below if you don't have Ghostscript installed.

cd doc/op                                       &&
sed -i 's/groff/GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff/' Makefile &&
make op.txt op.pdf

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2 &&
install -v -m644 op.ps op.txt op.pdf /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2 &&
cd ../..

Command Explanations

cat > devtools/Site/site.config.m4 << "EOF": This creates a configuration file changing some of the default settings.

sed ... devtools/OS/Linux: The site.config.m4 does not honor a change to the man directory, so fix it in the OS definitions.

sed ... include/sm/bdb.h: This allows sendmail to build properly with Berkeley DB-6.1.26 versions 5 and above.

sh Build; sh Build sendmail.cf; sh Build install-cf; sh Build install: sendmail uses an m4 based build script to create the various Makefiles. These commands build and install the package.

for manpage in...;do...;done; install ...: The man pages are installed already formatted and man displays them somewhat garbled. These commands replace the formatted pages with pages man can display properly.

Configuring sendmail

Config Files

/etc/mail/*

Configuration Information

Note

Ensure you have a fully qualified domain name defined in /etc/hosts for your system before proceeding.

Create the /etc/mail/local-host-names and /etc/mail/aliases files using the following commands as the root user:

echo $(hostname) > /etc/mail/local-host-names
cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF"
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root

EOF
newaliases

sendmail's primary configuration file, /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, is complex and not meant to be directly edited. The recommended method for changing it is to modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and various m4 files, then run the m4 macro processor from within /etc/mail as follows:

cd /etc/mail &&
m4 m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf

A full explanation of the files to modify, and the available parameters can be found in /etc/mail/README.

Boot Script

To automate the running of sendmail at startup, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-sendmail

Note

The -qNm option to sendmail, where N is number of minutes, controls how often sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5 minutes is used in the init script. Individual workstation users may want to set this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail may want to set it higher.

Installed Programs: editmap, mailstats, makemap, praliases, sendmail, smrsh, and vacation; symlinks to /usr/sbin/sendmail: hoststat, mailq, newaliases, and purgestat

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/mail, /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.15.2, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue

Short Descriptions

editmap	queries and edits sendmail map files.
hoststat	prints sendmail's persistent host status.
mailstats	displays sendmail statistics.
mailq	prints a summary of outbound mail messages waiting for delivery.
makemap	creates sendmail map files.
newaliases	rebuilds `/etc/mail/aliases.db` from the contents of `/etc/mail/aliases`.
praliases	displays current sendmail aliases.
purgestat	causes sendmail to clear (purge) all its host-status information.
sendmail	is the sendmail mail transport agent.
smrsh	is a restricted shell for sendmail.
vacation	is an email auto responder.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

Chapter 22. Databases

This chapter includes databases that range from single-user read/write to industrial database servers with transaction support. Generally, you will be sent here to satisfy dependencies to other applications although building a SQL server on a base LFS system is entirely possible.

Berkeley DB-6.1.26

Introduction to Berkeley DB

The Berkeley DB package contains programs and utilities used by many other applications for database related functions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.1.26.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9525aa57a282d49e5d1bf5e48ffa8a56
Download size: 36 MB
Estimated disk space required: 296 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Berkeley DB Dependencies

Optional

Tcl-8.6.4, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 or Java-1.8.0.60, and Sharutils-4.15.2 (for the uudecode command - Java bindings are required)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/db

Installation of Berkeley DB

Install Berkeley DB by running the following commands:

cd build_unix                        &&
../dist/configure --prefix=/usr      \
                  --enable-compat185 \
                  --enable-dbm       \
                  --disable-static   \
                  --enable-cxx       &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/db-6.1.26 install &&

chown -v -R root:root                        \
      /usr/bin/db_*                          \
      /usr/include/db{,_185,_cxx}.h          \
      /usr/lib/libdb*.{so,la}                \
      /usr/share/doc/db-6.1.26

Command Explanations

cd build_unix && ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr...: This replaces the normal ./configure command, as Berkeley DB comes with various build directories for different platforms.

--enable-compat185: This switch enables building the DB-1.85 compatibility API.

--enable-cxx: This switch enables building C++ API libraries.

--enable-dbm: Enables legacy interface support needed by some older packages.

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/db-6.1.26 install: This installs the documentation in the standard location instead of /usr/docs.

chown -v -R root:root ...:This command changes the ownership of various installed files from the uid:gid of the builder to root:root.

--enable-tcl --with-tcl=/usr/lib: Enables Tcl support in DB and creates the libdb_tcl libraries.

--enable-java: Enables Java support in DB and creates the libdb_java libraries.

Installed Programs: db_archive, db_checkpoint, db_deadlock, db_dump, db_hotbackup, db_load, db_log_verify, db_printlog, db_recover, db_replicate, db_stat, db_tuner, db_upgrade, and db_verify

Installed Libraries: libdb.so, libdb_cxx.so, libdb_java.so, and libdb_tcl.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/db-6.1.26

Short Descriptions

db_archive	prints the pathnames of log files that are no longer in use.
db_checkpoint	is a daemon process used to monitor and checkpoint database logs.
db_deadlock	is used to abort lock requests when deadlocks are detected.
db_dump	converts database files to a flat file format readable by db_load.
db_hotbackup	creates "hot backup" or "hot failover" snapshots of Berkeley DB databases.
db_load	is used to create database files from flat files created with db_dump.
db_log_verify	verifies the log files of a database.
db_printlog	converts database log files to human readable text.
db_recover	is used to restore a database to a consistent state after a failure.
db_replicate	is a daemon process that provides replication/HA services on a transactional environment.
db_stat	displays database environment statistics.
db_tuner	analyzes the data in a btree database, and suggests a page size that is likely to deliver optimal operation.
db_upgrade	is used to upgrade database files to a newer version of Berkeley DB.
db_verify	is used to run consistency checks on database files.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

MariaDB-10.0.21

Introduction to MariaDB

MariaDB is a community-developed fork and a drop-in replacement for the MySQL relational database management system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://downloads.mariadb.org/interstitial/mariadb-10.0.21/source/mariadb-10.0.21.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/mariadb/mariadb-10.0.21/source/mariadb-10.0.21.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 956561f3798d1fe8dfbe4b665287a87a
Download size: 54 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.5 GB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 10 SBU, (with tests)

Note

The installed size of MariaDB is 388 MB, but this can be reduced by about 168 MB, if desired, by removing the /usr/share/mysql/test directory after installation.

MariaDB Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and OpenSSL-1.0.2d

Optional

Boost-1.59.0, libxml2-2.9.2, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, PCRE-8.37, Ruby-2.2.3, unixODBC-2.3.2, Valgrind-3.10.1, Groonga, KyTea, Judy, libaio, lz4, MeCab, MessagePack, mruby, Sphinx, TokuDB, and ZeroMQ

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mariadb

Installation of MariaDB

Warning

MariaDB and MySQL cannot be installed on the same system without extensive changes to the build configuration of one of the two applications.

For security reasons, running the server as an unprivileged user and group is strongly encouraged. Issue the following (as root) to create the user and group:

groupadd -g 40 mysql &&
useradd -c "MySQL Server" -d /srv/mysql -g mysql -s /bin/false -u 40 mysql

Install MariaDB by running the following commands:

sed -i "s@data/test@\${INSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR}@g" sql/CMakeLists.txt &&

mkdir build &&
cd build    &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                       \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr                      \
      -DINSTALL_DOCDIR=share/doc/mariadb-10.0.21       \
      -DINSTALL_DOCREADMEDIR=share/doc/mariadb-10.0.21 \
      -DINSTALL_MANDIR=share/man                       \
      -DINSTALL_MYSQLSHAREDIR=share/mysql              \
      -DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=share/mysql/test          \
      -DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR=lib/mysql/plugin             \
      -DINSTALL_SBINDIR=sbin                           \
      -DINSTALL_SCRIPTDIR=bin                          \
      -DINSTALL_SQLBENCHDIR=share/mysql/bench          \
      -DINSTALL_SUPPORTFILESDIR=share/mysql            \
      -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/srv/mysql                       \
      -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock        \
      -DWITH_EXTRA_CHARSETS=complex                    \
      -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=ON                        \
      -DTOKUDB_OK=0                                    \
      .. &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: Set correct installation directory for some components.

-DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=ON: This switch enables compiling the embedded server library needed by certain applications, such as Amarok..

-DWITH_EXTRA_CHARSETS=complex: This switch enables support for the complex character sets.

-DWITHOUT_SERVER=ON -DWITH_UNIT_TESTS=OFF: Use these switches if you don't want the server and would like to build the client only.

Note

There are numerous options available to cmake. Check the output of the cmake . -LH for additional customization options.

Configuring MySQL

Config Files

/etc/mysql/my.cnf and ~/.my.cnf

Configuration Information

Create basic /etc/mysql/my.cnf using the following command as the root user:

install -v -dm 755 /etc/mysql &&
cat > /etc/mysql/my.cnf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/mysql/my.cnf

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password       = your_password
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
datadir         = /srv/mysql
skip-external-locking
key_buffer_size = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 16K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all.
skip-networking

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
server-id       = 1

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables
#bdb_cache_size = 4M
#bdb_max_lock = 10000

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /srv/mysql
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /srv/mysql
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer_size = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

# End /etc/mysql/my.cnf
EOF

You can now install a database and change the ownership to the unprivileged user and group (perform as the root user):

mysql_install_db --basedir=/usr --datadir=/srv/mysql --user=mysql &&
chown -R mysql:mysql /srv/mysql

Further configuration requires that the MariaDB server is running. Start the server using the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -o mysql -g mysql -d /run/mysqld &&
mysqld_safe --user=mysql 2>&1 >/dev/null &

A default installation does not set up a password for the administrator, so use the following command as the root user to set one.

mysqladmin -u root password

Configuration of the server is now finished. Shut the server down using the following command as the root user:

mysqladmin -p shutdown

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package as the root user to start the MariaDB server during system boot-up.

make install-mysql

Installed Programs: aria_chk, aria_dump_log, aria_ftdump, aria_pack, aria_read_log, innochecksum, msql2mysql, my_print_defaults, myisam_ftdump, myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, mysql, mysql_client_test, mysql_client_test_embedded, mysql_config, mysql_convert_table_format, mysql_embedded, mysql_find_rows, mysql_fix_extensions, mysql_install_db, mysql_plugin, mysql_secure_installation, mysql_setpermission, mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysql_upgrade, mysql_waitpid, mysql_zap, mysqlaccess, mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlbug, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe, mysqldump, mysqldumpslow, mysqlhotcopy, mysqlimport, mysqlshow, mysqlslap, mysqltest, mysqltest_embedded, mytop, perror, replace, resolve_stack_dump, and resolveip

Installed Libraries: libmysqlclient.{so,a}, libmysqlclient_r.{so,a} (symbolic links to libmysqlclient.{so,a}), libmysqld.{so,a}, libmysqlservices.a, and several under /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/

Installed Directories: /{etc,srv,usr/{include,lib,share}}/mysql and /usr/share/doc/mariadb-10.0.21

Short Descriptions

The Perl DBI modules must be installed for some of the MariaDB support programs to function properly.

Short Descriptions

aria_chk	is used to check, repair, optimize, sort and get information about Aria tables.
aria_dump_log	is a tool to dump content of Aria log pages.
aria_ftdump	displays full-text index information.
aria_pack	is a tool to generate compressed, read-only Aria tables.
aria_read_log	displays Aria log file contents.
innochecksum	prints checksums for InnoDB files.
msql2mysql	is a tool to convert mSQL programs for use with MySQL.
my_print_defaults	displays the options from option groups of option files.
myisam_ftdump	displays information about FULLTEXT indexes in MyISAM tables.
myisamchk	gets information about your database tables or checks, repairs, or optimizes them.
myisamlog	displays MyISAM log file contents.
myisampack	is a tool for compressing MyISAM tables.
mysql	is a simple SQL shell with input line editing capabilities.
mysql_client_test	is used for testing aspects of the MySQL client API that cannot be tested using mysqltest and its test language.
mysql_client_test_embedded	is a tool to test client API for embedded server.
mysql_config	provides you with useful information for compiling your MySQL client and connecting it to MySQL.
mysql_convert_table_format	converts the tables in a database to use a particular storage engine.
mysql_embedded	is a MySQL client statically linked to libmysqld.
mysql_find_rows	reads files containing SQL statements and extracts statements that match a given regular expression or that contain USE db_name or SET statements.
mysql_fix_extensions	converts the extensions for MyISAM (or ISAM ) table files to their canonical forms.
mysql_install_db	initializes the MySQL data directory and creates the system tables that it contains, if they do not exist.
mysql_plugin	is a utility that enable MySQL administrators to manage which plugins a MySQL server loads.
mysql_secure_installation	is a tool to improve MySQL installation security.
mysql_setpermission	sets permissions in the MySQL grant tables.
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql	loads the time zone tables in the mysql database.
mysql_upgrade	examines all tables in all databases for incompatibilities with the current version of MySQL Server.
mysql_waitpid	signals a process to terminate and waits for the process to exit.
mysql_zap	is a tool to kill processes that match a pattern.
mysqlaccess	checks the access privileges for a host name, user name, and database combination.
mysqladmin	is a client for performing administrative operations.
mysqlbinlog	read binary log files.
mysqlbug	is a tool to generate bug report.
mysqlcheck	performs table maintenance: It checks, repairs, optimizes, or analyzes tables.
mysqld	is the MySQL server daemon.
mysqld_multi	is designed to manage several mysqld processes that listen for connections on different Unix socket files and TCP/IP ports.
mysqld_safe	is the recommended way to start a mysqld server on Unix and NetWare.
mysqldump	is a backup program.
mysqldumpslow	parses MySQL slow query log files and prints a summary of their contents.
mysqlhotcopy	locks the table, flush the table and then performs a copy of the database.
mysqlimport	reads a range of data formats, and inserts the data into a database.
mysqlshow	shows the structure of a MariaDB database.
mysqlslap	is a diagnostic program designed to emulate client load for a MySQL server and to report the timing of each stage.
mysqltest	runs a test case against a MySQL server and optionally compares the output with a result file.
mysqltest_embedded	is similar to the mysqltest command but is built with support for the libmysqld embedded server.
mytop	is a console-based tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL server.
perror	is a utility that displays descriptions for system or storage engine error codes.
replace	is a MariaDB/MySQL extension to the SQL standard.
resolve_stack_dump	resolves a numeric stack dump to symbols.
resolveip	is a utility for resolving IP addresses to host names and vice versa.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

PostgreSQL-9.4.4

Introduction to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.4.4/postgresql-9.4.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.4.4/postgresql-9.4.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1fe952c44ed26d7e6a335cf991a9c1c6
Download size: 17 MB
Estimated disk space required: 194 MB (additional 6 MB to run the testsuite)
Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU to run the testsuite)

PostgreSQL Dependencies

Optional

Python-2.7.10, Tcl-8.6.4, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, libxml2-2.9.2, libxslt-1.1.28, OpenLDAP-2.4.42, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 and Bonjour

Optional (To Regenerate Documentation)

docbook-4.5, docbook-dsssl-1.79, OpenJade-1.3.2, and SGMLSpm-1.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/postgresql

Installation of PostgreSQL

Install PostgreSQL with the following commands:

sed -i '/DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR/s@/tmp@/run/postgresql@' src/include/pg_config_manual.h &&
./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --enable-thread-safety \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/postgresql-9.4.4 &&
make

There are a number of programs in the contrib/ directory. If you are going to run this installation as a server and wish to build some of them, enter make -C contrib or make -C contrib/<SUBDIR-NAME> for each subdirectory.

Now, as the root user:

make install      &&
make install-docs

If you made any of the contrib/ programs, as the root user:

make -C contrib/<SUBDIR-NAME> install

Warning

This package contains a known security hole that allows other users on the same machine to gain access to an operating system account while it is doing "make check": CVE-2014-0067. Tests must be run after install, with postgresql server down, as unprivileged user.

To test the results, issue: make check.

If you only intend to use PostgreSQL as a client to connect to a server on another machine, your installation is complete and you should not run the remaining commands.

Initialize a database cluster with the following commands issued by the root user:

install -v -dm700 /srv/pgsql/data &&
install -v -dm755 /run/postgresql &&
groupadd -g 41 postgres &&
useradd -c "PostgreSQL Server" -g postgres -d /srv/pgsql/data \
        -u 41 postgres &&
chown -Rv postgres:postgres /srv/pgsql /run/postgresql &&
su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/initdb -D /srv/pgsql/data'

As the root user, start the database server with the following command:

su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/postgres -D /srv/pgsql/data > \
                  /srv/pgsql/data/logfile 2>&1 &'

Still as user root, create a database and verify the installation:

su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/createdb test' &&
echo "create table t1 ( name varchar(20), state_province varchar(20) );" \
    | (su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/psql test ') &&
echo "insert into t1 values ('Billy', 'NewYork');" \
    | (su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/psql test ') &&
echo "insert into t1 values ('Evanidus', 'Quebec');" \
    | (su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/psql test ') &&
echo "insert into t1 values ('Jesse', 'Ontario');" \
    | (su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/psql test ') &&
echo "select * from t1;" | (su - postgres -c '/usr/bin/psql test')

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: This sed changes server socket location from /tmp to /run/postgresql.

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/postgresql-9.4.4: This switch puts the documentation in a versioned directory.

--enable-thread-safety: This switch makes the client libraries thread-safe by allowing concurrent threads in libpq and ECPG programs to safely control their private connection handles.

--with-openssl: build with support for OpenSSL encrypted connections.

--with-perl: build the PL/Perl server-side language.

--with-python: build the PL/Python server-side language.

--with-tcl: build the PL/Tcl server-side language.

groupadd ...; useradd ...: These commands add an unprivileged user and group to run the database server.

createdb test; create table t1; insert into t1 values...; select * from t1: Create a database, add a table to it, insert some rows into the table and select them to verify that the installation is working properly.

Configuring PostgreSQL

Config Files

$PGDATA/pg_ident.con, $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf and $PGDATA/postgresql.conf

The PGDATA environment variable is used to distinguish database clusters from one another by setting it to the value of the directory which contains the cluster desired. The three configuration files exist in every PGDATA/ directory. Details on the format of the files and the options that can be set in each can be found in file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-9.4.4/html/index.html.

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-postgresql

Installed Programs: clusterdb, createdb, createlang, createuser, dropdb, droplang, dropuser, ecpg, initdb, pg_basebackup, pg_config, pg_controldata, pg_ctl, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_isready, pg_receivexlog, pg_recvlogical, pg_resetxlog, pg_restore, pltcl_delmod, pltcl_listmod, pltcl_loadmod, postgres, postmaster (deprecated), psql, reindexdb, vacuumdb, and optionally (in contrib/) oid2name, pg_archivecleanup, pgbench, pg_standby, pg_test_fsync, pg_test_timing, pg_upgrade, pg_xlogdump, vacuumlo, and many others

Installed Libraries: libecpg.{so,a}, libecpg_compat.{so,a}, libpgcommon.a, libpgport.a, libpgtypes.{so,a}, libpq.{so,a}, various charset modules, and optionally programming language modules under /usr/lib/postgresql

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{libpq,postgresql}, /usr/lib/postgresql, /usr/share/{doc/postgresql-9.4.4,postgresql}, and /srv/pgsql

Short Descriptions

clusterdb	is a utility for reclustering tables in a PostgreSQL database.
createdb	creates a new PostgreSQL database.
createlang	defines a new PostgreSQL procedural language.
createuser	defines a new PostgreSQL user account.
dropdb	removes a PostgreSQL database.
droplang	removes a PostgreSQL procedural language.
dropuser	removes a PostgreSQL user account.
ecpg	is the embedded SQL preprocessor.
initdb	creates a new database cluster.
oid2name	resolves OIDs (Object IDs) and file nodes in a PostgreSQL data directory.
pg_archivecleanup	clean up PostgreSQL WAL (write-ahead log) archive files.
pg_basebackup	takes base backups of a running PostgreSQL cluster.
pg_config	retrieves PostgreSQL version information.
pg_controldata	returns information initialized during initdb, such as the catalog version and server locale.
pg_ctl	controls stopping and starting the database server.
pg_dump	dumps database data and metadata into scripts which are used to recreate the database.
pg_dumpall	recursively calls pg_dump for each database in a cluster.
pg_isready	check the connection status of a PostgreSQL server.
pg_receivexlog	is used to stream transaction log from a running PostgreSQL cluster.
pg_recvlogical	controls PostgreSQL logical decoding streams.
pg_resetxlog	clears the write-ahead log and optionally resets some fields in the `pg_control` file.
pg_restore	creates databases from dump files created by pg_dump.
pg_standby	supports the creation of a PostgreSQL warm standby server.
pg_test_fsync	determine fastest wal_sync method for PostgreSQL.
pg_test_timing	measure timing overhead.
pg_upgrade	upgrade a PostgreSQL server instance.
pg_xlogdump	display a human-readable rendering of the write-ahead log of a PostgreSQL database cluster.
pgbench	run a benchmark test on PostgreSQL.
pltcl_delmod	is a support script used to delete a module from a PL/Tcl table. The command requires the Pgtcl package to be installed also.
pltcl_listmod	is a support script used to list the modules in a PL/Tcl table. The command requires the Pgtcl package to be installed also.
pltcl_loadmod	is a support script used to load a module into a PL/Tcl table. The command requires the Pgtcl package to be installed also.
postgres	is the PostgreSQL database server.
postmaster	(deprecated, a symlink to postgres) is a multi-user database daemon.
psql	is a console based database shell.
reindexdb	is a utility for rebuilding indexes in a database.
vacuumdb	compacts databases and generates statistics for the query analyzer.
vacuumlo	remove orphaned large objects from a PostgreSQL database.
`libecpg.{so,a}`	contains functions to support embedded SQL in C programs.
`libecpg_compat.{so,a}`	is the ecpg compatibility library.
`libgport.a`	is the port-specific subsystem of the Postgres backend.
`libpgtypes.{so,a}`	contains functions for dealing with Postgres data types.
`libpq.{so,a}`	is the C programmer's API to Postgres.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:49:47 -0700

SQLite-3.8.11.1

Introduction to SQLite

The SQLite package is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-autoconf-3081101.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 298c8d6af7ca314f68de92bc7a356cbe
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 70 MB (with Optional Documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional Documentation

Download (HTTP): http://sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-doc-3081101.zip
Download MD5 sum: 29fc9f4d2346187b11c09f867d69b427
Download size: 4.9 MB

SQLite Dependencies

Optional

UnZip-6.0 (required to unzip the documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sqlite

Installation of SQLite

If you downloaded the optional documentation, issue the following command to install the documentation into the source tree:

unzip -q ../sqlite-doc-3081101.zip

Install SQLite by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static        \
            CFLAGS="-g -O2 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3=1 \
            -DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1     \
            -DSQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY=1       \
            -DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE=1              \
            -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB=1" &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you downloaded the optional documentation, issue the following commands as the root user to install it:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.8.11.1 &&
cp -v -R sqlite-doc-3081101/* /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.8.11.1

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

CFLAGS="-g -O2 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3=1 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1 -DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE -DSQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY=1 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB=1": Applications such as Firefox require secure delete and enable unlock notify to be turned on. Since firefox-41 the dbstat virtual table is also required. The only way to do this is to include them in the CFLAGS. By default, these are set to "-g -O2" so we specify that to preserve those settings. You may, of course, wish to omit the '-g' if you do not wish to create debugging information. For further information on what can be specified see http://www.sqlite.org/compile.html.

Installed Program: sqlite3

Installed Library: libsqlite3.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.8.11.1

Short Descriptions

sqlite3	A terminal-based front-end to the SQLite library that can evaluate queries interactively and display the results.
`libsqlite3.so`	contains the SQLite API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 13:34:11 -0700

Chapter 23. Other Server Software

Here you will find many ways to share your machine with the rest of the world or your local network. Before installing any packages in this chapter, you need to be sure you understand what the package does and how to set it up correctly. It might also be helpful to learn about the consequences of an improper setup so that you can analyze the risks.

OpenLDAP-2.4.42

Introduction to OpenLDAP

The OpenLDAP package provides an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/openldap-2.4.42.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 47c8e2f283647a6105b8b0325257e922
Download size: 5.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 53 MB (client), 103 MB (server)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (client), 1.2 SBU (server)

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/openldap-2.4.42-consolidated-1.patch

OpenLDAP Dependencies

Optional

ICU-55.1, Pth-2.0.7, unixODBC-2.3.2, MariaDB-10.0.21 or PostgreSQL-9.4.4 or MySQL, OpenSLP, and Berkeley DB-6.1.26 (not recommended by the developers)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openldap

Installation of OpenLDAP

Note

If you only need to install the client side ldap* binaries, corresponding man pages, libraries and header files (referred to as a “client-only” install), issue these commands instead of the following ones (no test suite available):

patch -Np1 -i ../openldap-2.4.42-consolidated-1.patch &&
autoconf &&

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --enable-dynamic  \
            --disable-debug   \
            --disable-slapd &&
make depend &&
make

Then, as the root user:

make install

Warning

If upgrading from a previos installation that used Berkeley DB as the backend, you will need to dump the database(s) using the slapcat utility, relocate all files in /var/lib/openldap, change all instances of bdb to mdb in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf and any files in /etc/openldap/slapd.d, and import using the slapadd utility after the installation is completed.

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the slapd daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 83 ldap &&
useradd  -c "OpenLDAP Daemon Owner" \
         -d /var/lib/openldap -u 83 \
         -g ldap -s /bin/false ldap

Install OpenLDAP by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../openldap-2.4.42-consolidated-1.patch &&
autoconf &&

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --sysconfdir=/etc     \
            --localstatedir=/var  \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --disable-static      \
            --disable-debug       \
            --with-tls=openssl    \
            --with-cyrus-sasl     \
            --enable-dynamic      \
            --enable-crypt        \
            --enable-spasswd      \
            --enable-slapd        \
            --enable-modules      \
            --enable-backends=mod \
            --disable-ndb         \
            --disable-sql         \
            --disable-shell       \
            --disable-bdb         \
            --disable-hdb         \
            --enable-overlays=mod &&

make depend &&
make

The tests appear to be fragile. Errors may cause the tests to abort prior to finishing, apparently due to timing issues. The tests take about 65 minutes and are processor independent. To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -dm700 -o ldap -g ldap /var/lib/openldap     &&
install -v -dm700 -o ldap -g ldap /etc/openldap/slapd.d &&
chmod   -v    640     /etc/openldap/slapd.{conf,ldif}   &&
chown   -v  root:ldap /etc/openldap/slapd.{conf,ldif}   &&

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/openldap-2.4.42 &&
cp      -vfr      doc/{drafts,rfc,guide} \
                  /usr/share/doc/openldap-2.4.42

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-debug: This switch disables the debugging code in OpenLDAP.

--enable-dynamic: This switch forces the OpenLDAP libraries to be dynamically linked to the executable programs.

--enable-crypt: This switch enables using of crypt(3) passwords.

--enable-spasswd: This switch enables SASL password verification.

--enable-modules: This switch enables dynamic module support.

--enable-rlookups: This switch enables reverse lookups of client hostnames.

--enable-backends: This switch enables all available backends.

--enable-overlays: This switch enables all available overlays.

--disable-ndb: This switch disables MySQL NDB Cluster backend which causes configure to fail if MySQL is present.

--disable-sql: This switch explicitly disables the SQL backend. Omit this switch if a SQL server is installed and you are going to use a SQL backend.

--libexecdir=/usr/lib: This switch controls where the /usr/lib/openldap directory is installed. Everything in that directory is a library, so it belongs under /usr/lib instead of /usr/libexec.

--enable-slp: This switch enables SLPv2 support. Use it if you have installed OpenSLP.

Note

You can run ./configure --help to see if there are other switch you can pass to the configure command to enable other options or dependency packages.

install ..., chown ..., and chmod ...: Having slapd configuration files and ldap databases in /var/lib/openldap readable by anyone is a SECURITY ISSUE, especially since a file stores the admin password in PLAIN TEXT. That's why mode 640 and root:ldap ownership were used. The owner is root, so only root can modify the file, and group is ldap, so that the group which owns slapd daemon could read but not modify the file in case of a security breach.

Configuring OpenLDAP

Config Files

/etc/openldap/*

Configuration Information

Configuring the slapd servers can be complex. Securing the LDAP directory, especially if you are storing non-public data such as password databases, can also be a challenging task. You'll need to modify the /etc/openldap/slapd.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf files to set up OpenLDAP for your particular needs.

Resources to assist you with topics such as choosing a directory configuration, backend and database definitions, access control settings, running as a user other than root and setting a chroot environment include:

The slapd man page.
The slapd.conf man page.
The OpenLDAP 2.4 Administrator's Guide (also installed locally in /usr/share/doc/openldap-2.4.42/guide/admin).
Documents located at http://www.openldap.org/pub/.

Mozilla Address Directory

By default, LDAPv2 support is disabled in the slapd.conf file. Once the database is properly set up and Mozilla is configured to use the directory, you must add allow bind_v2 to the slapd.conf file.

Boot Script

To automate the startup of the LDAP server at system bootup, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package using the following command:

make install-slapd

Note

You'll need to modify the /etc/sysconfig/slapd to include the parameters needed for your specific configuration. See the slapd man page for parameter information.

Testing the Configuration

Start the LDAP server using the init script:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/slapd start

Verify access to the LDAP server with the following command:

ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts

The expected result is:

# extended LDIF
#
# LDAPv3
# base <> with scope baseObject
# filter: (objectclass=*)
# requesting: namingContexts
#

#
dn:
namingContexts: dc=my-domain,dc=com

# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success

# numResponses: 2
# numEntries: 1

Installed Programs: ldapadd, ldapcompare, ldapdelete, ldapexop, ldapmodify, ldapmodrdn, ldappasswd, ldapsearch, ldapurl, ldapwhoami, slapacl, slapadd, slapauth, slapcat, slapd, slapdn, slapindex, slappasswd, slapschema, and slaptest

Installed Libraries: liblber.so, libldap.so, libldap_r.so, and several under /usr/lib/openldap

Installed Directories: /{etc,{usr,var}/lib}/openldap and /usr/share/doc/openldap-2.4.42

Short Descriptions

ldapadd	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and adds entries.
ldapcompare	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and performs a compare using specified parameters.
ldapdelete	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and deletes one or more entries.
ldapexop	issues the LDAP extended operation specified by oid or one of the special keywords whoami, cancel, or refresh.
ldapmodify	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and modifies entries.
ldapmodrdn	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and modifies the RDN of entries.
ldappasswd	is a tool used to set the password of an LDAP user.
ldapsearch	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and performs a search using specified parameters.
ldapurl	is a command that allows to either compose or decompose LDAP URIs.
ldapwhoami	opens a connection to an LDAP server, binds and displays whoami information.
slapacl	is used to check the behavior of slapd by verifying access to directory data according to the access control list directives defined in its configuration.
slapadd	is used to add entries specified in LDAP Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) to an LDAP database.
slapauth	is used to check the behavior of the slapd in mapping identities for authentication and authorization purposes, as specified in slapd.conf.
slapcat	is used to generate an LDAP LDIF output based upon the contents of a slapd database.
slapd	is the standalone LDAP server.
slapdn	checks a list of string-represented DNs based on schema syntax.
slapindex	is used to regenerate slapd indexes based upon the current contents of a database.
slappasswd	is an OpenLDAP password utility.
slapschema	is used to check schema compliance of the contents of a slapd database.
slaptest	checks the sanity of the `slapd.conf` file.
`liblber.so`	is a set of Lightweight Basic Encoding Rules routines. These routines are used by the LDAP library routines to encode and decode LDAP protocol elements using the (slightly simplified) Basic Encoding Rules defined by LDAP. They are not normally used directly by an LDAP application program except in the handling of controls and extended operations.
`libldap.so`	supports the LDAP programs and provide functionality for other programs interacting with LDAP.
`libldap_r.so`	contains the functions required by the LDAP programs to produce the results from LDAP requests.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Unbound-1.5.4

Introduction to Unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. It is designed as a set of modular components that incorporate modern features, such as enhanced security (DNSSEC) validation, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), and a client resolver library API as an integral part of the architecture.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.unbound.net/downloads/unbound-1.5.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f85854baad15adc7ce8acefe6cda4cf8
Download size: 4.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 90 MB (with HTML documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (Add 0.2 SBU for tests)

Unbound Dependencies

Required

TCP wrappers (deprecated)

Optional

libevent-2.0.22, Python-2.7.10, SWIG-3.0.7 (for Python bindings), Doxygen-1.8.10 (for html documentation), and dnstap

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/unbound

Installation of Unbound

There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the unbound daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 88 unbound &&
useradd -c "Unbound DNS resolver" -d /var/lib/unbound -u 88 \
        -g unbound -s /bin/false unbound

Install Unbound by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --with-pidfile=/run/unbound.pid &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 package installed and want to build html documentation, run the following command:

make doc

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/sbin/unbound-host /usr/bin/

If you built html documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/unbound-1.5.4 &&
install -v -m644 doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/unbound-1.5.4

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-libevent: This option enables libevent support allowing use of large outgoing port ranges.

--with-pyunbound: This option enables building of the Python bindings.

Configuring Unbound

Config Files

/etc/unbound/unbound.conf

Configuration Information

In the default configuration, unbound will bind to localhost (127.0.0.1 IP address) and allow recursive queries only from localhost clients. If you want to use unbound for local DNS resolution, run the following command as the root user:

echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf

If you are using a DHCP client for connecting to a network, /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten with values provided by DHCP server. You can override this, for example in DHCP-4.3.3, by running the following command as the root user:

sed -i '/request /i\supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;' \
       /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

For advanced configuration see /etc/unbound/unbound.conf file and the documentation.

When Unbound is installed, some package builds fail if the file /etc/unbound/root.key is not found. This file is created by running the boot script (install instructions below). Alternatively, it can be created by running the following command as the root user:

unbound-anchor

Boot Script

If you want the Unbound server to start automatically when the system is booted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/unbound init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-unbound

Installed Programs: unbound, unbound-anchor, unbound-checkconf, unbound-control, unbound-control-setup, and unbound-host

Installed Library: libunbound.so and (optional) /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_unbound.so

Installed Directories: /etc/unbound and /usr/share/doc/unbound-1.5.4

Short Descriptions

unbound	is a DNS resolver daemon.
unbound-anchor	performs setup or update of the root trust anchor for DNSSEC validation.
unbound-checkconf	checks unbound configuration file for syntax and other errors.
unbound-control	performs remote administration on the unbound DNS resolver.
unbound-control-setup	generates self-signed certificate and private keys for the server and client.
unbound-host	is a DNS lookup utility similar to host from BIND Utilities-9.10.3.
`libunbound.so`	provides the Unbound API functions to programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

xinetd-2.3.15

Introduction to xinetd

xinetd is the eXtended InterNET services daemon, a secure replacement for inetd.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/svn/x/xinetd-2.3.15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 77358478fd58efa6366accae99b8b04c
Download size: 308 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xinetd Dependencies

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xinetd

Installation of xinetd

Install xinetd by running the following commands:

sed -i -e "s/exec_server/child_process/" xinetd/builtins.c       &&
sed -i -e "/register unsigned count/s/register//" xinetd/itox.c  &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-loadavg &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... xinetd/builtins.c: This command fixes a security issue.

sed ... xinetd/itox.c: This command fixes some compiler warnings.

Configuring xinetd

Config Files

/etc/xinetd.conf and /etc/xinetd.d/*

Configuration Information

Ensure the path to all daemons is /usr/sbin, rather than the default path of /usr/bin, and install the xinetd configuration files by running the following commands as the root user:

cat > /etc/xinetd.conf << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/xinetd
# Configuration file for xinetd

defaults
{
      instances       = 60
      log_type        = SYSLOG daemon
      log_on_success  = HOST PID USERID
      log_on_failure  = HOST USERID
      cps             = 25 30
}

# All service files are stored in the /etc/xinetd.d directory

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

# End /etc/xinetd
EOF

All of the following files have the statement, "disable = yes". To activate any of the services, this statement will need to be changed to "disable = no".

Note

The following files are listed to demonstrate several xinetd applications. In many cases, these applications are not needed. Some classic applications are considered security risks. For example, telnet, rlogin, rexec, and rsh transmit unencrypted usernames and passwords over the network and can be easily replaced with a more secure alternative: ssh.

install -v -d -m755 /etc/xinetd.d &&

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/systat << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/systat

service systat
{
   disable           = yes
   socket_type       = stream
   wait              = no
   user              = nobody
   server            = /bin/ps
   server_args       = -auwwx
   only_from         = 128.138.209.0
   log_on_success    = HOST
}

# End /etc/xinetd.d/systat
EOF

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/echo << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/echo

service echo
{
   disable     = yes
   type        = INTERNAL
   id          = echo-stream
   socket_type = stream
   protocol    = tcp
   user        = root
   wait        = no
}

service echo
{
   disable     = yes
   type        = INTERNAL
   id          = echo-dgram
   socket_type = dgram
   protocol    = udp
   user        = root
   wait        = yes
}

# End /etc/xinetd.d/echo
EOF

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/chargen << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/chargen

service chargen
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = chargen-stream
   socket_type    = stream
   protocol       = tcp
   user           = root
   wait           = no
}

service chargen
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = chargen-dgram
   socket_type    = dgram
   protocol       = udp
   user           = root
   wait           = yes
}

# End /etc/xinetd.d/chargen
EOF

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/daytime << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/daytime

service daytime
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = daytime-stream
   socket_type    = stream
   protocol       = tcp
   user           = root
   wait           = no
}

service daytime
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = daytime-dgram
   socket_type    = dgram
   protocol       = udp
   user           = root
   wait           = yes
}

# End /etc/xinetd.d/daytime
EOF

cat > /etc/xinetd.d/time << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/xinetd.d/time

service time
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = time-stream
   socket_type    = stream
   protocol       = tcp
   user           = root
   wait           = no
}

service time
{
   disable        = yes
   type           = INTERNAL
   id             = time-dgram
   socket_type    = dgram
   protocol       = udp
   user           = root
   wait           = yes
}

# End /etc/xinetd.d/time
EOF

The format of the /etc/xinetd.conf is documented in the xinetd.conf.5 man page.

Boot Script

As the root user, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-xinetd

As the root user, use the new boot script to start xinetd:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start

Check the /var/log/daemon.log to ensure the appropriate services are started. If no services are enabled, the program will not start without the -stayalive option.

Installed Programs: itox, xconv.pl, and xinetd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/xinetd.d/

Short Descriptions

itox	is a utility used for converting `inetd.conf` files to `xinetd.conf` format.
xconv.pl	is a Perl script used for converting `inetd.conf` files to `xinetd.conf` format, similar to itox.
xinetd	is the Internet services daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 14:41:53 -0700

Part VI. X + Window and Display Managers

Chapter 24. X Window System Environment

This chapter contains instructions to build and configure a graphical user environment.

Xorg, in addition to clearing up some licensing issues with XFree86, introduced a completely auto-tooled build for the X Window system. This means that the packages build and install using the conventional configure, make and make install commands, as opposed to a proprietary build system that required hand editing of configuration parameters in a C-like syntax.

Xorg also brought with it a modular build system. While this separation into modules resulted in full control of the features available to the X server on any given installation, it also made the installation more tedious as it requires installing more than 100 different packages to obtain a functional X Window environment. Most large commercial distributions have elected to use Xorg over the XFree86 distribution due to both licensing issues and the increased functionality provided by it over XFree86. With the modular build system, also came incremental updates to individual packages. The distribution of Xorg is given a release number by the developers, in this case Xorg-7.7, and is referred to as the "katamari" by the upstream developers.

Introduction to Xorg-7.7

Xorg is a freely redistributable, open-source implementation of the X Window System. This system provides a client/server interface between display hardware (the mouse, keyboard, and video displays) and the desktop environment, while also providing both the windowing infrastructure and a standardized application interface (API).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7

Xorg Download and Installation Instructions

Xorg-7.0 introduced a completely auto-tooled, modular build system. With the new modular build system, it is no longer possible to download the entire package in a single file. In fact, there will be well over 100 packages that need to be fetched from the download location. To assist with such a large task, installing Wget-1.16.3 is strongly recommended for downloading the needed files. A complete wget file list is provided for each page that includes multiple packages.

Given the number of packages available, deciding which packages you need to install for your particular setup may seem a bit overwhelming at first. Take a look at this page and this thread to get an idea of what you will need. If you are unsure, you should install all packages at the cost of extra disk space.

Note

Even if you intend to download only the necessary packages, you should download the wget file lists. The list of files are ordered by dependency, and the package versions listed in the files are known to work well with each other. Further, the wget file lists contain comments for specific packages that are deprecated or are not recommended to install. Newer packages are likely intended for the next release of Xorg and have already proved to be incompatible with current versions of software installed in BLFS. The installed size of Xorg can be reduced considerably by installing only the packages that you will need and use, however, the BLFS book cannot account for all dependencies and build options for the individual Xorg packages. The instructions assume that all packages have been built. A wiki page containing dependency information is under development. You are encouraged to add to these pages if you discover additional information that may be helpful to other users who selectively install individual packages.

Additionally, because of the large number of repetitive commands, you are encouraged to partially automate the build. Instructions have been given that utilize the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package. It is recommended that you use the :NOPASSWD configuration option for the user that will be building the xorg packages.

Setting up the Xorg Build Environment

Note

The following instructions assume that the shell startup files have been set up as described in The Bash Shell Startup Files.

First, you'll need to create a working directory:

mkdir xc &&
cd xc

As with previous releases of the X Window System, it may be desirable to install Xorg into an alternate prefix. This is no longer common practice among Linux distributions. The common installation prefix for Xorg on Linux is /usr. There is no standard alternate prefix, nor is there any exception in the current revision of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Release 7 of the X Window System. Alan Coopersmith of Sun Microsystems, has recently stated "At Sun, we were using /usr/X11 and plan to stick with it." Only the /opt/* prefix or the /usr prefix adhere to the current FHS guidelines.

Choose your installation prefix, and set the XORG_PREFIX variable with the following command:

export XORG_PREFIX="<PREFIX>"

Throughout these instructions, you will use the following configure switches for all of the packages. Create the XORG_CONFIG variable to use for this parameter substitution:

export XORG_CONFIG="--prefix=$XORG_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var --disable-static"

Create an /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh configuration file containing these variables as the root user:

cat > /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh << "EOF"
XORG_PREFIX="<PREFIX>"
XORG_CONFIG="--prefix=$XORG_PREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-static"
export XORG_PREFIX XORG_CONFIG
EOF
chmod 644 /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh

Note

If you've decided to use the standard /usr prefix, you can omit the remainder of this page and continue at util-macros-1.19.0.

If you've decided to not use the standard prefix, be sure to add $XORG_PREFIX/bin to your PATH environment variable, and $XORG_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig and $XORG_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. It is also helpful to specify additional search paths for gcc and an include directory for the aclocal program. Issue the following commands as the root user:

cat >> /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh << "EOF"

pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/bin             PATH
pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig   PKG_CONFIG_PATH
pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH

pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/lib             LIBRARY_PATH
pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/include         C_INCLUDE_PATH
pathappend $XORG_PREFIX/include         CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

ACLOCAL='aclocal -I $XORG_PREFIX/share/aclocal'

export PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH ACLOCAL LIBRARY_PATH C_INCLUDE_PATH CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
EOF

You should also add $XORG_PREFIX/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file. Again, as the root user, issue the following command:

echo "$XORG_PREFIX/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

You should also modify /etc/man_db.conf, adding appropriate MANDATORY_MANPATH, MANPATH_MAP, and MANDB_MAP entries following the examples for /usr/X11R6. Issue the following command as the root user:

sed "s@/usr/X11R6@$XORG_PREFIX@g" -i /etc/man_db.conf

Some applications look for shared files in /usr/share/X11. Create a symbolic link to the proper location as the root user:

ln -sf $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11 /usr/share/X11

If building KDE, some cmake files look for Xorg in places other than $XORG_PREFIX. Allow cmake to find Xorg with:

ln -sf $XORG_PREFIX /usr/X11R6

Finally, if building on x86_64, you will need to create the $XORG_PREFIX/lib directory and the $XORG_PREFIX/lib64 symlink. Again, as the root user, issue the following commands:

install -v -m755 -d $XORG_PREFIX &&
install -v -m755 -d $XORG_PREFIX/lib &&
ln -sf lib $XORG_PREFIX/lib64

Last updated on 2015-02-23 21:00:51 -0800

util-macros-1.19.0

Introduction to util-macros

The util-macros package contains the m4 macros used by all of the Xorg packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/util/util-macros-1.19.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/util/util-macros-1.19.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1cf984125e75f8204938d998a8b6c1e1
Download size: 80 KB
Estimated disk space required: 500 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

util-macros Dependencies

Required

Xorg build environment (should be set for the following instructions to work)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/util-macros

Installation of util-macros

Install util-macros by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig and $XORG_PREFIX/share/util-macros

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xorg Protocol Headers

Introduction to Xorg Protocol Headers

The Xorg protocol headers provide the header files required to build the system, and to allow other applications to build against the installed X Window system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/proto/
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/proto/
Download size: 3.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Xorg Protocol Headers Dependencies

Required

util-macros-1.19.0

Optional

fop-2.0, libxslt-1.1.28, xmlto-0.0.26 and AsciiDoc (to build additional documentation)

Note

There is a reciprocal dependency with fop-2.0. If you wish to build the documentation, you'll need to re-install the Protocol Headers after the installation is complete and fop-2.0 has been installed.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7ProtocolHeaders

Downloading Xorg Protocol Headers

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

cat > proto-7.7.md5 << "EOF"
1a05fb01fa1d5198894c931cf925c025  bigreqsproto-1.1.2.tar.bz2
98482f65ba1e74a08bf5b056a4031ef0  compositeproto-0.4.2.tar.bz2
998e5904764b82642cc63d97b4ba9e95  damageproto-1.2.1.tar.bz2
4ee175bbd44d05c34d43bb129be5098a  dmxproto-2.3.1.tar.bz2
b2721d5d24c04d9980a0c6540cb5396a  dri2proto-2.8.tar.bz2
a3d2cbe60a9ca1bf3aea6c93c817fee3  dri3proto-1.0.tar.bz2
e7431ab84d37b2678af71e29355e101d  fixesproto-5.0.tar.bz2
36934d00b00555eaacde9f091f392f97  fontsproto-2.1.3.tar.bz2
5565f1b0facf4a59c2778229c1f70d10  glproto-1.4.17.tar.bz2
6caebead4b779ba031727f66a7ffa358  inputproto-2.3.1.tar.bz2
94afc90c1f7bef4a27fdd59ece39c878  kbproto-1.0.7.tar.bz2
2d569c75884455c7148d133d341e8fd6  presentproto-1.0.tar.bz2
a46765c8dcacb7114c821baf0df1e797  randrproto-1.5.0.tar.bz2
1b4e5dede5ea51906f1530ca1e21d216  recordproto-1.14.2.tar.bz2
a914ccc1de66ddeb4b611c6b0686e274  renderproto-0.11.1.tar.bz2
cfdb57dae221b71b2703f8e2980eaaf4  resourceproto-1.2.0.tar.bz2
edd8a73775e8ece1d69515dd17767bfb  scrnsaverproto-1.2.2.tar.bz2
e658641595327d3990eab70fdb55ca8b  videoproto-2.3.2.tar.bz2
5f4847c78e41b801982c8a5e06365b24  xcmiscproto-1.2.2.tar.bz2
70c90f313b4b0851758ef77b95019584  xextproto-7.3.0.tar.bz2
120e226ede5a4687b25dd357cc9b8efe  xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0.tar.bz2
a036dc2fcbf052ec10621fd48b68dbb1  xf86dgaproto-2.1.tar.bz2
1d716d0dac3b664e5ee20c69d34bc10e  xf86driproto-2.1.1.tar.bz2
e793ecefeaecfeabd1aed6a01095174e  xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1.tar.bz2
9959fe0bfb22a0e7260433b8d199590a  xineramaproto-1.2.1.tar.bz2
3ce2f230c5d8fa929f326ad1f0fa40a8  xproto-7.0.28.tar.bz2
EOF

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

mkdir proto &&
cd proto &&
grep -v '^#' ../proto-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
    -B http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/proto/ &&
md5sum -c ../proto-7.7.md5

Installation of Xorg Protocol Headers

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

One way to handle this situation is to create a short bash function that automatically selects the appropriate method. Once the command is set in the environment, it does not need to be set again.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../proto-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
  as_root make install
  popd
  rm -rf $packagedir
done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

exit

Command Explanations

bash -e: This command starts a subshell that will exit if any command returns a value other than 0, causing the for loop to exit immediately if an error occurs. This also eliminates the need for the && construct used elsewhere in the book.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/include/GL, $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/bigreqsproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/compositeproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/damageproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/dri2proto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/dri3proto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/fixesproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/fontsproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/kbproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/presentproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/randrproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/recordproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/renderproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/resourceproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/scrnsaverproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/videoproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xcmiscproto, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xextproto and $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xproto

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libXau-1.0.8

Introduction to libXau

The libXau package contains a library implementing the X11 Authorization Protocol. This is useful for restricting client access to the display.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXau-1.0.8.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXau-1.0.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 685f8abbffa6d145c0f930f00703b21b
Download size: 289 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libXau Dependencies

Required

Xorg Protocol Headers

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libXau

Installation of libXau

Install libXau by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libXau.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libXau.so

is the library of X authority database routines.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libXdmcp-1.1.2

Introduction to libXdmcp

The libXdmcp package contains a library implementing the X Display Manager Control Protocol. This is useful for allowing clients to interact with the X Display Manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXdmcp-1.1.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXdmcp-1.1.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 18aa5c1279b01f9d18e3299969665b2e
Download size: 324 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libXdmcp Dependencies

Required

Xorg Protocol Headers

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libXdmcp

Installation of libXdmcp

Install libXdmcp by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libXdmcp.so

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXdmcp

Short Descriptions

libXdmcp.so

is the X Display Manager Control Protocol library.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xcb-proto-1.11

Introduction to xcb-proto

The xcb-proto package provides the XML-XCB protocol descriptions that libxcb uses to generate the majority of its code and API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-proto-1.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6bf2797445dc6d43e9e4707c082eff9c
Download size: 136 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-proto Dependencies

Required

Python-2.7.10 or Python-3.4.3, and Xorg build environment (should be set for the following instructions to work)

Optional (required to run the tests)

libxml2-2.9.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-proto

Installation of xcb-proto

Install xcb-proto by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/share/xcb and $XORG_PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xcbgen or $XORG_PREFIX/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xcbgen

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libxcb-1.11.1

Introduction to libxcb

The libxcb package provides an interface to the X Window System protocol, which replaces the current Xlib interface. Xlib can also use XCB as a transport layer, allowing software to make requests and receive responses with both.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.11.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f97a65e6158775de518ac391935634c2
Download size: 508 KB
Estimated disk space required: 42 MB, with tests (124 MB with doxygen generated documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU, with tests (0.3 SBU with doxygen generated documentation)

libxcb Dependencies

Required

libXau-1.0.8 and xcb-proto-1.11

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 (to generate API documentation) Check-0.10.0 (to run tests) and libxslt-1.1.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxcb

Installation of libxcb

Install libxcb by running the following commands:

sed -i "s/pthread-stubs//" configure &&

./configure $XORG_CONFIG      \
            --enable-xinput   \
            --without-doxygen \
            --docdir='${datadir}'/doc/libxcb-1.11.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed "s/pthread-stubs//" -i configure: This sed removes dependency on libpthread-stubs package which is useless on Linux.

--enable-xinput: This switch enables XCB Xinput extension.

--without-doxygen: Do not use doxygen to generate API documentation (default: auto). Without it, if Doxygen-1.8.10 is installed, the API documentation will be generated and installed.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libxcb.so, libxcb-composite.so, libxcb-damage.so, libxcb-dpms.so, libxcb-dri2.so, libxcb-dri3.so, libxcb-glx.so, libxcb-present.so, libxcb-randr.so, libxcb-record.so, libxcb-render.so, libxcb-res.so, libxcb-screensaver.so, libxcb-shape.so, libxcb-shm.so, libxcb-sync.so, libxcb-xevie.so, libxcb-xf86dri.so, libxcb-xfixes.so, libxcb-xinerama.so, libxcb-xinput.so, libxcb-xkb.so, libxcb-xprint.so, libxcb-xtest.so, libxcb-xvmc.so, and libxcb-xv.so

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/include/xcb and $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libxcb-1.11.1

Short Descriptions

libxcb.so

is an interface to the X Window System protocol.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Xorg Libraries

Introduction to Xorg Libraries

The Xorg libraries provide library routines that are used within all X Window applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/
Download size: 13 MB
Estimated disk space required: 239 MB
Estimated build time: 2.9 SBU

Xorg Libraries Dependencies

Required

Fontconfig-2.11.1 and libxcb-1.11.1

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26 with one or more of the following: fop-2.0, Links-2.12, Lynx-2.8.8rel.2, and w3m-0.5.3 (to generate additional PDF or text documentation for the libXfont package).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Libraries

Downloading Xorg Libraries

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

cat > lib-7.7.md5 << "EOF"
c5ba432dd1514d858053ffe9f4737dd8  xtrans-1.3.5.tar.bz2
2e36b73f8a42143142dda8129f02e4e0  libX11-1.6.3.tar.bz2
52df7c4c1f0badd9f82ab124fb32eb97  libXext-1.3.3.tar.bz2
d79d9fe2aa55eb0f69b1a4351e1368f7  libFS-1.0.7.tar.bz2
addfb1e897ca8079531669c7c7711726  libICE-1.0.9.tar.bz2
499a7773c65aba513609fe651853c5f3  libSM-1.2.2.tar.bz2
7a773b16165e39e938650bcc9027c1d5  libXScrnSaver-1.2.2.tar.bz2
8f5b5576fbabba29a05f3ca2226f74d3  libXt-1.1.5.tar.bz2
41d92ab627dfa06568076043f3e089e4  libXmu-1.1.2.tar.bz2
769ee12a43611cdebd38094eaf83f3f0  libXpm-3.5.11.tar.bz2
e5e06eb14a608b58746bdd1c0bd7b8e3  libXaw-1.0.13.tar.bz2
b985b85f8b9386c85ddcfe1073906b4d  libXfixes-5.0.1.tar.bz2
f7a218dcbf6f0848599c6c36fc65c51a  libXcomposite-0.4.4.tar.bz2
5db92962b124ca3a8147daae4adbd622  libXrender-0.9.9.tar.bz2
1e7c17afbbce83e2215917047c57d1b3  libXcursor-1.1.14.tar.bz2
0cf292de2a9fa2e9a939aefde68fd34f  libXdamage-1.1.4.tar.bz2
0920924c3a9ebc1265517bdd2f9fde50  libfontenc-1.1.3.tar.bz2
96f76ba94b4c909230bac1e2dcd551c4  libXfont-1.5.1.tar.bz2
331b3a2a3a1a78b5b44cfbd43f86fcfe  libXft-2.3.2.tar.bz2
9c4a69c34b19ec1e4212e849549544cb  libXi-1.7.4.tar.bz2
9336dc46ae3bf5f81c247f7131461efd  libXinerama-1.1.3.tar.bz2
309762867e41c6fd813da880d8a1bc93  libXrandr-1.5.0.tar.bz2
45ef29206a6b58254c81bea28ec6c95f  libXres-1.0.7.tar.bz2
25c6b366ac3dc7a12c5d79816ce96a59  libXtst-1.2.2.tar.bz2
e0af49d7d758b990e6fef629722d4aca  libXv-1.0.10.tar.bz2
eba6b738ed5fdcd8f4203d7c8a470c79  libXvMC-1.0.9.tar.bz2
d7dd9b9df336b7dd4028b6b56542ff2c  libXxf86dga-1.1.4.tar.bz2
298b8fff82df17304dfdb5fe4066fe3a  libXxf86vm-1.1.4.tar.bz2
ba983eba5a9f05d152a0725b8e863151  libdmx-1.1.3.tar.bz2
ace78aec799b1cf6dfaea55d3879ed9f  libpciaccess-0.13.4.tar.bz2
4a4cfeaf24dab1b991903455d6d7d404  libxkbfile-1.0.9.tar.bz2
66662e76899112c0f99e22f2fc775a7e  libxshmfence-1.2.tar.bz2
EOF

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

mkdir lib &&
cd lib &&
grep -v '^#' ../lib-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
    -B http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/ &&
md5sum -c ../lib-7.7.md5

Installation of Xorg Libraries

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

Some libraries come with a test suite. If you wish to execute them, either comment out the rm -rf ... below, so that, after all libraries are installed, you can come back to the corresponding directory and run make check, or do individual builds, running the tests for each of those distributed with working test suites. Alternatively, you can uncomment the line #make check ..., and at the end, check the test results with:

grep -A9 summary *make_check.log

BLFS developers have confirmed that libX11, libXt and libxshmfence are distributed with working test suites.

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../lib-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  case $packagedir in
    libXfont-[0-9]* )
      ./configure $XORG_CONFIG --disable-devel-docs
    ;;
    libXt-[0-9]* )
      ./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
                  --with-appdefaultdir=/etc/X11/app-defaults
    ;;
    * )
      ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
    ;;
  esac
  make
  #make check 2>&1 | tee ../$packagedir-make_check.log
  as_root make install
  popd
  rm -rf $packagedir
  as_root /sbin/ldconfig
done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

exit

Command Explanations

--with-fop: Use fop-2.0 to generate PDF documentation (only for the libXfont package).

--disable-devel-docs: Disable generation of text documentation in the libXfont package if xmlto-0.0.26 is installed without a text browser. Omit this parameter (or the entire case statement) if a text browser is installed.

Configuration of Xorg Libraries

If you've chosen to install Xorg into /usr, then no further configuration is necessary and you can skip the rest of this section. If you've opted for an alternate prefix, you should create three symlinks to satisfy the expected environment of several packages. Execute the following commands as the root user:

ln -sv $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 &&
ln -sv $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11 /usr/include/X11

Installed Programs: cxpm and sxpm

Installed Libraries: libdmx.so, libfontenc.so, libFS.so, libICE.so, libpciaccess.so, libSM.so, libX11.so, libXaw6.so, libXaw7.so, libXaw.so, libXcomposite.so, libXcursor.so, libXdamage.so, libXext.so, libXfixes.so, libXfont.so, libXft.so, libXinerama.so, libXi.so, libxkbfile.so, libXmu.so, libXmuu.so, libXpm.so, libXrandr.so, libXrender.so, libXRes.so, libxshmfence.so, libXss.so, libXt.so, libXtst.so, libXvMC.so, libXvMCW.so, libXv.so, libXxf86dga.so and libXxf86vm.so

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11/fonts, $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11/Xtrans, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libFS, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libICE, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libSM, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libX11, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXaw, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXext, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXi, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXmu, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXrender, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXt, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXtst, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libXvMC, $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/xtrans and $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/locale

Short Descriptions

cxpm	checks the format of an XPM file.
sxpm	shows an XPM file and/or converts XPM 1 or 2 files to XPM 3.
`libdmx.so`	is the X Window System DMX (Distributed Multihead X) extension library.
`libfontenc.so`	is the X11 font encoding library.
`libFS.so`	is the library interface to the X Font Server.
`libICE.so`	is the X Inter Client Exchange Library.
`libpciaccess.so`	is the generic PCI Access library for X.
`libSM.so`	is the X Session Management Library.
`libX11.so`	is the Xlib Library.
`libXaw6.so`	is the X Athena Widgets Library, version 6.
`libXaw7.so`	is the X Athena Widgets Library, version 7.
`libXaw.so`	are symbolic links to the current X Athena Widgets Library, version 7.
`libXcomposite.so`	is the X Composite Library.
`libXcursor.so`	is the X Cursor management library.
`libXdamage.so`	is the X Damage Library.
`libXext.so`	is the Misc X Extension Library.
`libXfixes.so`	provides augmented versions of core protocol requests.
`libXfont.so`	is the X font library.
`libXft.so`	is the X FreeType interface library.
`libXinerama.so`	is the Xinerama Library.
`libXi.so`	is the X Input Extension Library.
`libxkbfile.so`	is the xkbfile Library.
`libXmu.so`	is the X interface library for miscellaneous utilities not part of the Xlib standard.
`libXmuu.so`	is the Mini Xmu Library.
`libXpm.so`	is the X Pixmap Library.
`libXrandr.so`	is the X Resize, Rotate and Reflection extension library.
`libXrender.so`	is the X Render Library.
`libXRes.so`	is the X-Resource extension client library.
`libxshmfence.so`	exposes an event API on top of Linux futexes.
`libXss.so`	is the X11 Screen Saver extension client library.
`libXt.so`	is the X Toolkit Library.
`libXtst.so`	is the Xtst Library.
`libXvMC.so`	is the X-Video Motion Compensation Library.
`libXvMCW.so`	is the XvMC Wrapper including the Nonstandard VLD extension.
`libXv.so`	is the X Window System video extension library.
`libXxf86dga.so`	is the client library for the XFree86-DGA extension.
`libXxf86vm.so`	is the client library for the XFree86-VidMode X extension.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xcb-util-0.4.0

Introduction to xcb-util

The xcb-util package provides additional extensions to the XCB library, many that were previously found in Xlib, but are not part of core X protocol.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-0.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2e97feed81919465a04ccc71e4073313
Download size: 292 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-util Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-util

Installation of xcb-util

Install xcb-util by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxcb-util.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libxcb-util.so

Provides utility functions for other XCB utilities.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xcb-util-image-0.4.0

Introduction to xcb-util-image

The xcb-util-image package provides additional extensions to the XCB library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-image-0.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 08fe8ffecc8d4e37c0ade7906b3f4c87
Download size: 324 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-util-image Dependencies

Required

xcb-util-0.4.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-util-image

Installation of xcb-util-image

Install xcb-util-image by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

To test the results, issue: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxcb-image.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libxcb-image.so

Is a port of Xlib's XImage and XShmImage functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0

Introduction to xcb-util-keysyms

The xcb-util-keysyms package contains a library for handling standard X key constants and conversion to/from keycodes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1022293083eec9e62d5659261c29e367
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-util-keysyms Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-util-keysyms

Installation of xcb-util-keysyms

Install xcb-util-keysyms by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxcb-keysyms.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libxcb-keysyms.so

provides the standard X key constants and API functions for conversion to/from keycodes.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9

Introduction to xcb-util-renderutil

The xcb-util-renderutil package provides additional extensions to the XCB library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 468b119c94da910e1291f3ffab91019a
Download size: 288 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-util-renderutil Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-util-renderutil

Installation of xcb-util-renderutil

Install xcb-util-renderutil by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxcb-render-util.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libxcb-render-util.so

Provides convenience functions for the Render extension.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xcb-util-wm-0.4.1

Introduction to xcb-util-wm

The xcb-util-wm package contains libraries which provide client and window-manager helpers for EWMH and ICCCM.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-wm-0.4.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 87b19a1cd7bfcb65a24e36c300e03129
Download size: 316 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcb-util-wm Dependencies

Required

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcb-util-wm

Installation of xcb-util-wm

Install xcb-util-wm by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libxcb-ewmh.so and libxcb-icccm.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

`libxcb-ewmh.so`	provides the client and window-manager helpers for EWMH.
`libxcb-icccm.so`	provides the client and window-manager helpers for ICCCM.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

MesaLib-10.6.6

Introduction to MesaLib

Mesa is an OpenGL compatible 3D graphics library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.6.6/mesa-10.6.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ce091e6e969392f7c63ca8c0275bbc0f
Download size: 6.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 234 MB (without tests)
Estimated build time: 8.0 SBU (without tests)

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/mesa-10.6.6-llvm_3_7-1.patch
Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/mesa-10.6.6-add_xdemos-1.patch (installs 2 demo programs for testing MesaLib - not needed if you install the mesa-demos package)

MesaLib Dependencies

Required

Xorg Libraries and libdrm-2.4.64

Optional

mesa-demos (provides more than 300 extra demos to test MesaLib; this includes the same programs added by the patch above), Bellagio OpenMAX Integration Layer (for mobile platforms) and Wayland

Note

The instructions below assume that elfutils and LLVM with the r600/amdgpu backend are installed. You will need to modify the instructions if you choose not to install them. Please note that elfutils and LLVM are required for Gallium3D r300, r600 and radeonsi drivers. For an explanation of Gallium3D please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium3D.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mesalib

Installation of MesaLib

If you have downloaded the xdemos patch (needed if testing the Xorg installation per BLFS instructions), apply it by running the following command:

patch -Np1 -i ../mesa-10.6.6-add_xdemos-1.patch

Install MesaLib by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../mesa-10.6.6-llvm_3_7-1.patch &&

GLL_DRV="nouveau,r300,r600,radeonsi,svga,swrast" &&

./autogen.sh CFLAGS='-O2' CXXFLAGS='-O2'    \
            --prefix=$XORG_PREFIX           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc               \
            --enable-texture-float          \
            --enable-gles1                  \
            --enable-gles2                  \
            --enable-osmesa                 \
            --enable-xa                     \
            --enable-gbm                    \
            --enable-glx-tls                \
            --with-egl-platforms="drm,x11"  \
            --with-gallium-drivers=$GLL_DRV &&

unset GLL_DRV &&

make

If you have applied the xdemos patch, build the demo programs by running the following command:

make -C xdemos DEMOS_PREFIX=$XORG_PREFIX

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have built the demo programs, install them by running the following command as the root user:

make -C xdemos DEMOS_PREFIX=$XORG_PREFIX install

If desired, install the optional documentation by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/mesa-10.6.6 &&
cp -rfv docs/* /usr/share/doc/mesa-10.6.6

Command Explanations

CFLAGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2": By default, Autoconf sets CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to "-g -O2". That results in binaries and libraries being built with debugging symbols which make them bigger. Override the default flags to omit -g compiler flag so the final libraries are smaller.

--enable-texture-float: This switch enables floating-point textures and render buffers. Please consult docs/patents.txt to see if there are any legal issues if you use this feature.

--enable-gles1: This switch enables support for OpenGL ES 1.x API.

--enable-gles2: This switch enables support for OpenGL ES 2.x API.

--enable-osmesa: This switch enables building of the libOSMesa library.

--enable-xa: This switch enables building of the XA X Acceleration API (Required for VMware 3D Driver).

--enable-gbm: This switch enables building of the Mesa Graphics Buffer Manager library.

--enable-glx-tls: This switch enables TLS (Thread Local Storage) support in GLX.

--with-egl-platforms="...": This parameter controls which platforms EGL will be built for. Available platforms are drm, x11 and wayland.

--with-gallium-drivers="...": This parameter controls which Gallium3D drivers should be built. Available drivers are: i915, ilo, nouveau, r300, r600, radeonsi, svga and swrast. You will need to remove r300, r600 and radeonsi from the list if you did not install elfutils and LLVM with the r600/amdgpu backend.

--enable-r600-llvm-compiler: Use this switch to enable an experimental R600 LLVM backend for graphics shaders which claims to speed up the driver.

--enable-sysfs: Use this switch to enable simple PCI identification method, required for building DRI on systems without udev.

Installed Programs: glxgears and glxinfo

Installed Libraries: libEGL.so, libgbm.so, libglapi.so, libGLESv1_CM.so, libGLESv2.so, libGL.so, libOSMesa.so, libxatracker.so, libXvMCnouveau.so, and libXvMCr600.so

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/{include/{EGL,GL,GLES,GLES2,GLES3,KHR},lib/{dri,vdpau}} and /usr/share/doc/mesa-10.6.6 (optional)

Short Descriptions

glxgears	is a GL demo useful for troubleshooting graphics problems.
glxinfo	is a diagnostic program that displays information about the graphics hardware and installed GL libraries.
`libEGL.so`	provides a native platform graphics interface as defined by the EGL-1.4 specification.
`libgbm.so`	is the Mesa Graphics Buffer Manager library.
`libGLESv1_CM.so`	is the Mesa OpenGL ES 1.1 library.
`libGLES2.so`	is the Mesa OpenGL ES 2.0 library.
`libGL.so`	is the main Mesa OpenGL library.
`libOSMesa.so`	is the Mesa Off-screen Rendering library.
`libxatracker.so`	is the Xorg Gallium3D acceleration library.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 08:35:40 -0700

xbitmaps-1.1.1

Introduction to xbitmaps

The xbitmaps package contains bitmap images used by multiple applications built in Xorg chapter.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xbitmaps-1.1.1.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xbitmaps-1.1.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7444bbbd999b53bec6a60608a5301f4c
Download size: 116 KB
Estimated disk space required: 855 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xbitmaps Dependencies

Required

util-macros-1.19.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xbitmaps

Installation of xbitmaps

Install xbitmaps by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/include/X11/bitmaps

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Xorg Applications

Introduction to Xorg Applications

The Xorg applications provide the expected applications available in previous X Window implementations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/
Download size: 4.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 51 MB
Estimated build time: 1.9 SBU

Xorg Applications Dependencies

Required

libpng-1.6.18, MesaLib-10.6.6, xbitmaps-1.1.1, and xcb-util-0.4.0

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1 and both cairo-5c and Nickle (only if you wish to try to run the undocumented xkeyhost script).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Applications

Downloading Xorg Applications

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

cat > app-7.7.md5 << "EOF"
53a48e1fdfec29ab2e89f86d4b7ca902  bdftopcf-1.0.5.tar.bz2
25dab02f8e40d5b71ce29a07dc901b8c  iceauth-1.0.7.tar.bz2
c4a3664e08e5a47c120ff9263ee2f20c  luit-1.1.1.tar.bz2
18c429148c96c2079edda922a2b67632  mkfontdir-1.0.7.tar.bz2
9bdd6ebfa62b1bbd474906ac86a40fd8  mkfontscale-1.1.2.tar.bz2
e238c89dabc566e1835e1ecb61b605b9  sessreg-1.1.0.tar.bz2
2c47a1b8e268df73963c4eb2316b1a89  setxkbmap-1.3.1.tar.bz2
3a93d9f0859de5d8b65a68a125d48f6a  smproxy-1.0.6.tar.bz2
f0b24e4d8beb622a419e8431e1c03cd7  x11perf-1.6.0.tar.bz2
7d6003f32838d5b688e2c8a131083271  xauth-1.0.9.tar.bz2
0066f23f69ca3ef62dcaeb74a87fdc48  xbacklight-1.2.1.tar.bz2
9956d751ea3ae4538c3ebd07f70736a0  xcmsdb-1.0.5.tar.bz2
b58a87e6cd7145c70346adad551dba48  xcursorgen-1.0.6.tar.bz2
8809037bd48599af55dad81c508b6b39  xdpyinfo-1.3.2.tar.bz2
fceddaeb08e32e027d12a71490665866  xdriinfo-1.0.5.tar.bz2
249bdde90f01c0d861af52dc8fec379e  xev-1.2.2.tar.bz2
90b4305157c2b966d5180e2ee61262be  xgamma-1.0.6.tar.bz2
f5d490738b148cb7f2fe760f40f92516  xhost-1.0.7.tar.bz2
305980ac78a6954e306a14d80a54c441  xinput-1.6.1.tar.bz2
0012a8e3092cddf7f87b250f96bb38c5  xkbcomp-1.3.0.tar.bz2
c747faf1f78f5a5962419f8bdd066501  xkbevd-1.1.4.tar.bz2
502b14843f610af977dffc6cbf2102d5  xkbutils-1.0.4.tar.bz2
0ae6bc2a8d3af68e9c76b1a6ca5f7a78  xkill-1.0.4.tar.bz2
5dcb6e6c4b28c8d7aeb45257f5a72a7d  xlsatoms-1.1.2.tar.bz2
9fbf6b174a5138a61738a42e707ad8f5  xlsclients-1.1.3.tar.bz2
2dd5ae46fa18abc9331bc26250a25005  xmessage-1.0.4.tar.bz2
723f02d3a5f98450554556205f0a9497  xmodmap-1.0.9.tar.bz2
6101f04731ffd40803df80eca274ec4b  xpr-1.0.4.tar.bz2
fae3d2fda07684027a643ca783d595cc  xprop-1.2.2.tar.bz2
441fdb98d2abc6051108b7075d948fc7  xrandr-1.4.3.tar.bz2
b54c7e3e53b4f332d41ed435433fbda0  xrdb-1.1.0.tar.bz2
a896382bc53ef3e149eaf9b13bc81d42  xrefresh-1.0.5.tar.bz2
dcd227388b57487d543cab2fd7a602d7  xset-1.2.3.tar.bz2
7211b31ec70631829ebae9460999aa0b  xsetroot-1.1.1.tar.bz2
558360176b718dee3c39bc0648c0d10c  xvinfo-1.1.3.tar.bz2
6b5d48464c5f366e91efd08b62b12d94  xwd-1.0.6.tar.bz2
b777bafb674555e48fd8437618270931  xwininfo-1.1.3.tar.bz2
3025b152b4f13fdffd0c46d0be587be6  xwud-1.0.4.tar.bz2
EOF

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

mkdir app &&
cd app &&
grep -v '^#' ../app-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
    -B http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/ &&
md5sum -c ../app-7.7.md5

Installation of Xorg Applications

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../app-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  case $packagedir in
    luit-[0-9]* )
      line1="#ifdef _XOPEN_SOURCE"
      line2="#  undef _XOPEN_SOURCE"
      line3="#  define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600"
      line4="#endif"

      sed -i -e "s@#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H@$line1\n$line2\n$line3\n$line4\n\n&@" sys.c
      unset line1 line2 line3 line4
    ;;
    sessreg-* )
      sed -e 's/\$(CPP) \$(DEFS)/$(CPP) -P $(DEFS)/' -i man/Makefile.in
    ;;
  esac
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
  make
  as_root make install
  popd
  rm -rf $packagedir
done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

exit

Unless you installed the optional dependencies, remove an undocumented script which is reported to be broken (xkeystone provided by the xrandr package).

rm -f $XORG_PREFIX/bin/xkeystone

Command Explanations

sed -e 's/\$(CPP) \$(DEFS)/$(CPP) -P $(DEFS)/' -i man/Makefile.in: with gcc-5 the behaviour of cpp was changed to emit line numbers. That results in unterminated sed commands in filenames.sed. Adding -P restores the old behaviour.

Installed Programs: bdftopcf, iceauth, luit, mkfontdir, mkfontscale, sessreg, setxkbmap, smproxy, x11perf, x11perfcomp, xauth, xbacklight, xcmsdb, xcursorgen, xdpr, xdpyinfo, xdriinfo, xev, xgamma, xhost, xinput, xkbbell, xkbcomp, xkbevd, xkbvleds, xkbwatch, xkill, xlsatoms, xlsclients, xmessage, xmodmap, xpr, xprop, xrandr, xrdb, xrefresh, xset, xsetroot, xvinfo, xwd, xwininfo, and xwud

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

bdftopcf	converts an X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format.
iceauth	is the ICE authority file utility.
luit	provides locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals.
mkfontdir	creates an index of X font files in a directory.
mkfontscale	creates an index of scalable font files for X.
sessreg	manages utmp/wtmp entries for non-init clients.
setxkbmap	sets the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension.
smproxy	is the Session Manager Proxy.
x11perf	is an X11 server performance test program.
x11perfcomp	is an X11 server performance comparison program.
xauth	is the X authority file utility.
xbacklight	adjusts backlight brightness using RandR extension.
xcmsdb	is the Device Color Characterization utility for the X Color Management System.
xcursorgen	creates an X cursor file from a collection of PNG images.
xdpr	dumps an X window directly to a printer.
xdpyinfo	is a display information utility for X.
xdriinfo	queries configuration information of DRI drivers.
xev	prints contents of X events.
xgamma	alters a monitor's gamma correction through the X server.
xhost	is a server access control program for X.
xinput	is a utility to configure and test X input devices.
xkbbell	is an XKB utility program that raises a bell event.
xkbcomp	compiles an XKB keyboard description.
xkbevd	is the XKB event daemon.
xkbvleds	shows the XKB status of keyboard LEDs.
xkbwatch	monitors modifier keys and LEDs.
xkill	kills a client by its X resource.
xlsatoms	lists interned atoms defined on the server.
xlsclients	lists client applications running on a display.
xmessage	displays a message or query in a window.
xmodmap	is a utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in X.
xpr	prints an X window dump.
xprop	is a property displayer for X.
xrandr	is a primitive command line interface to RandR extension.
xrdb	is the X server resource database utility.
xrefresh	refreshes all or part of an X screen.
xset	is the user preference utility for X.
xsetroot	is the root window parameter setting utility for X.
xvinfo	prints out X-Video extension adaptor information.
xwd	dumps an image of an X window.
xwininfo	is a window information utility for X.
xwud	is an image displayer for X.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xcursor-themes-1.0.4

Introduction to xcursor-themes

The xcursor-themes package contains the redglass and whiteglass animated cursor themes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xcursor-themes-1.0.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xcursor-themes-1.0.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: fdfb0ad9cfceed60e3bfe9f18765aa0d
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xcursor-themes Dependencies

Required

Xorg Applications

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xcursor-themes

Installation of xcursor-themes

Install xcursor-themes by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/share/icons/handhelds, $XORG_PREFIX/share/icons/redglass and $XORG_PREFIX/share/icons/whiteglass

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Xorg Fonts

Introduction to Xorg Fonts

The Xorg font packages provide needed fonts to the Xorg applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/font/
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/font/
Download size: 15.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 278 MB
Estimated build time: 2.3 SBU

Xorg Fonts Dependencies

Required

xcursor-themes-1.0.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Fonts

Downloading Xorg Fonts

First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:

cat > font-7.7.md5 << "EOF"
23756dab809f9ec5011bb27fb2c3c7d6  font-util-1.3.1.tar.bz2
0f2d6546d514c5cc4ecf78a60657a5c1  encodings-1.0.4.tar.bz2
1347c3031b74c9e91dc4dfa53b12f143  font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
6c9f26c92393c0756f3e8d614713495b  font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
66fb6de561648a6dce2755621d6aea17  font-adobe-utopia-100dpi-1.0.4.tar.bz2
e99276db3e7cef6dccc8a57bc68aeba7  font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.4.tar.bz2
fcf24554c348df3c689b91596d7f9971  font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.4.tar.bz2
6d25f64796fef34b53b439c2e9efa562  font-alias-1.0.3.tar.bz2
cc0726e4a277d6ed93b8e09c1f195470  font-arabic-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
9f11ade089d689b9d59e0f47d26f39cd  font-bh-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
565494fc3b6ac08010201d79c677a7a7  font-bh-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
c8b73a53dcefe3e8d3907d3500e484a9  font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
f6d65758ac9eb576ae49ab24c5e9019a  font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
e8ca58ea0d3726b94fe9f2c17344be60  font-bh-ttf-1.0.3.tar.bz2
53ed9a42388b7ebb689bdfc374f96a22  font-bh-type1-1.0.3.tar.bz2
6b223a54b15ecbd5a1bc52312ad790d8  font-bitstream-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
d7c0588c26fac055c0dd683fdd65ac34  font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2
5e0c9895d69d2632e2170114f8283c11  font-bitstream-type1-1.0.3.tar.bz2
e452b94b59b9cfd49110bb49b6267fba  font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.3.tar.bz2
3e0069d4f178a399cffe56daa95c2b63  font-cursor-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
0571bf77f8fab465a5454569d9989506  font-daewoo-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
6e7c5108f1b16d7a1c7b2c9760edd6e5  font-dec-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
bfb2593d2102585f45daa960f43cb3c4  font-ibm-type1-1.0.3.tar.bz2
a2401caccbdcf5698e001784dbd43f1a  font-isas-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
cb7b57d7800fd9e28ec35d85761ed278  font-jis-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
143c228286fe9c920ab60e47c1b60b67  font-micro-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
96109d0890ad2b6b0e948525ebb0aba8  font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.3.tar.bz2
6306c808f7d7e7d660dfb3859f9091d2  font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.3.tar.bz2
e3e7b0fda650adc7eb6964ff3c486b1c  font-misc-meltho-1.0.3.tar.bz2
c88eb44b3b903d79fb44b860a213e623  font-misc-misc-1.1.2.tar.bz2
56b0296e8862fc1df5cdbb4efe604e86  font-mutt-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
e805feb7c4f20e6bfb1118d19d972219  font-schumacher-misc-1.1.2.tar.bz2
6f3fdcf2454bf08128a651914b7948ca  font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.4.tar.bz2
beef61a9b0762aba8af7b736bb961f86  font-sony-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
948f2e07810b4f31195185921470f68d  font-sun-misc-1.0.3.tar.bz2
829a3159389b7f96f629e5388bfee67b  font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.3.tar.bz2
3eeb3fb44690b477d510bbd8f86cf5aa  font-xfree86-type1-1.0.4.tar.bz2
EOF

To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands:

mkdir font &&
cd font &&
grep -v '^#' ../font-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
    -B http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/font/ &&
md5sum -c ../font-7.7.md5

Installation of Xorg Fonts

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../font-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
  make
  as_root make install
  popd
  as_root rm -rf $packagedir
done

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

exit

When all of the fonts have been installed, the system must be configured so that Fontconfig can find the TrueType fonts since they are outside of the default search path of /usr/share/fonts. Make symlinks to the Xorg TrueType font directories by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts                               &&
ln -svfn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF &&
ln -svfn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF

Installed Programs: bdftruncate and ucs2any

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts

Short Descriptions

bdftruncate	generates a truncated BDF font from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font.
ucs2any	generates BDF fonts in any encoding from an ISO 10646-1 encoded BDF font.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

XKeyboardConfig-2.15

Introduction to XKeyboardConfig

The XKeyboardConfig package contains the keyboard configuration database for the X Window System.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.15.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/data/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.15.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4af1deeb7c5f4cad62e65957d98d6758
Download size: 940 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

XKeyboardConfig Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xkeyboard-config

Installation of XKeyboardConfig

Install XKeyboardConfig by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg: By default, the XKB rules installed are named "base". This creates symlinks named "xorg" to those rules, which is the default name used by Xorg.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/xkb

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Xorg-Server-1.17.2

Introduction to Xorg Server

The Xorg Server is the core of the X Window system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.17.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.17.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 397e405566651150490ff493e463f1ad
Download size: 5.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 535 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 1.4 SBU (with tests)

Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/xorg-server-1.17.2-add_prime_support-1.patch

Xorg Server Dependencies

Required

OpenSSL-1.0.2d or Nettle-3.1.1 or libgcrypt-1.6.3, Pixman-0.32.6, Xorg Fonts, and xkeyboard-config-2.15

Optional

acpid-2.0.25 (runtime), Doxygen-1.8.10 (to build API documentation), fop-2.0, (to build documentation), ghostscript-9.16 (to build documentation), xcb-util-image-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, xcb-util-wm-0.4.1 (all three to build Xephyr) and xmlto-0.0.26 (to build documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xorg7Server

Installation of Xorg Server

If you have downloaded the optional patch, apply it by running the following command:

patch -Np1 -i ../xorg-server-1.17.2-add_prime_support-1.patch

Install the server by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG            \
           --enable-glamor          \
           --enable-install-setuid  \
           --enable-suid-wrapper    \
           --disable-systemd-logind \
           --with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now as the root user:

make install &&
mkdir -pv /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d &&
cat >> /etc/sysconfig/createfiles << "EOF"
/tmp/.ICE-unix dir 1777 root root
/tmp/.X11-unix dir 1777 root root
EOF

Command Explanations

--enable-glamor: Build the Glamor DIX (Device Independent X) module which is currently required for Southern Islands and Sea Islands radeon video chipsets, optional for some other radeons, and also optional for the intel driver. It is also used by the modesetting driver (which is part of this package) for on hardware using KMS and which offers acceleration.

--enable-install-setuid: The Xorg binary must run as the root user. This switch ensures that the binary is installed setuid when make is run by an unprivileged user.

--enable-suid-wrapper: Build suid-root wrapper for legacy driver support on rootless xserver systems.

--disable-systemd-logind: Do not build systemd-logind support, otherwise, an error (EE), logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, occurs when starting the X server. Systemd is not supported by BLFS.

cat >> /etc/sysconfig/createfiles...: This command creates the /tmp/.ICE-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix directories at startup, and ensures that the permissions and ownership are correct as required by the server.

--enable-dmx: Build DMX (Distributed Multihead X) server.

--enable-kdrive: this option allows the configure script to enable Xephyr if its dependencies are met.

Installed Programs: cvt, dmxaddinput, dmxaddscreen, dmxinfo, dmxreconfig, dmxresize, dmxrminput, dmxrmscreen, dmxtodmx, dmxwininfo, gtf, vdltodmx, X, Xdmx, xdmxconfig, Xephyr, Xnest, Xorg, and Xvfb

Installed Libraries: several under $XORG_PREFIX/lib/xorg/modules/{,drivers,extensions} including modesetting_drv.so

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/{include/xorg,lib/xorg,share/X11/xorg.conf.d} and /var/lib/xkb

Short Descriptions

cvt	calculates VESA CVT mode lines.
dmx*	are various tools used for manipulating the dmx server.
gtf	calculates VESA GTF mode lines.
vdltodmx	is a tool used to convert VDL config files to DMX config files.
X	is a symbolic link to Xorg.
Xdmx	is a proxy X server that uses one or more other X servers as its display devices.
Xephyr	is a nested X server which supports modern X extensions.
Xnest	is a nested X server.
Xorg	is the X11R7 X Server.
Xvfb	is the virtual framebuffer X server for X Version 11.
xdmxconfig	is a graphical configuration utility for the dmx server.
`modesetting_drv.so`	provides a video driver for machines using Kernel Mode Setting (KMS). This will use glamor if that has been enabled and the hardware offers acceleration.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Xorg Drivers

Introduction to Xorg Drivers

The Xorg Drivers page contains the instructions for building Xorg drivers that are necessary in order for Xorg Server to take advantage of the hardware that it is running on. At least one input and one video driver are required for Xorg Server to start.

On machines using KMS, the modesetting driver is provided by xorg-server and can be used instead of the video driver for the specific hardware, but with reduced performance. It can also be used (without hardware acceleration) in virtual machines running under qemu.

Note

If you are unsure which video hardware you have, you can use lspci from pciutils-3.4.0 to find out which video hardware you have and then look at the descriptions of the packages in order to find out which driver you need.

Note

In addition to the drivers listed below, there are several other drivers for very old hardware that may still be relevant. Instructions for building these now unmaintained drivers may be found in a prior version of BLFS: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.6/x/x7driver.html

Xorg Video Drivers

Xorg ATI Driver-7.5.0
Xorg Fbdev Driver-0.4.4
Xorg Intel Driver-2.99.917
Xorg Nouveau Driver-1.0.11
Xorg VMware Driver-13.1.0

Hardware Video Acceleration

libva-1.6.0
libvdpau-1.1.1

Libevdev 1.4.4

Introduction to Libevdev

The Libevdev package contains common functions for Xorg input drivers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/libevdev-1.4.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b66443bb664cfaf2ba7b3f8c238ea951
Download size: 404 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.0 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

Libevdev Dependencies

Required

Python-2.7.10 or Python-3.4.3

Optional

Check-0.10.0 (required for tests), Doxygen-1.8.10, and Valgrind-3.10.1 (optional for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libevdev

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Input device support --->
    <*> Generic input layer (needed for...) [CONFIG_INPUT]
    <*>   Event interface                   [CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV]
    [*]   Miscellaneous devices  --->       [CONFIG_INPUT_MISC]
      <*>    User level driver support      [CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT]

Installation of Libevdev

Install Libevdev by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

If you have the optional Check-0.10.0 package installed, the regression tests can be run as the root user with make check, in a graphical session. One test shuts down and locks the screen, then you are asked to give the password to unlock it and get the previous state back.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Xorg Programs: libevdev-tweak-device, mouse-dpi-tool, and touchpad-edge-detector

Installed Xorg Library: libevdev.so

Installed Xorg Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/include/libevdev-1.0

Short Descriptions

libevdev-tweak-device	is a tool to change some kernel device properties.
mouse-dpi-tool	is a tool to estimate the resolution of a mouse.
touchpad-edge-detector	touchpad-edge-detector is a tool that reads the touchpad events from the kernel and calculates the minimum and maximum for the x and y coordinates, respectively.
`libevdev.so`	is a library of Xorg driver input functions.

Xorg Evdev Driver-2.9.2

Introduction to Xorg Evdev Driver

The Xorg Evdev Driver package contains Generic Linux input driver for the Xorg X server. It handles keyboard, mouse, touchpads and wacom devices, though for touchpad and wacom advanced handling, additional drivers are required.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 99eebf171e6c7bffc42d4fc430d47454
Download size: 380 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xorg Evdev Driver Dependencies

Required

Libevdev-1.4.4 and Xorg-Server-1.17.2

Installation of Xorg Evdev Driver

Install Xorg Evdev Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Xorg Driver: evdev_drv.so

Short Descriptions

evdev_drv.so

is an Xorg input driver for Linux generic event devices.

Xorg Synaptics Driver-1.8.2

Introduction to Xorg Synaptics Driver

The Xorg Synaptics Driver package contains the X.Org Input Driver, support programs and SDK for Synaptics touchpads. Even though the evdev driver can handle touchpads very well, this driver is required if you want to use advanced features like multi tapping, scrolling with touchpad, turning the touchpad off while typing, etc.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.8.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-synaptics-1.8.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8ed68e8cc674dd61adb280704764aafb
Download size: 476 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xorg Synaptics Driver Dependencies

Required

Libevdev-1.4.4 and Xorg-Server-1.17.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-synaptics-driver

Installation of Xorg Synaptics Driver

Install Xorg Synaptics Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: synclient and syndaemon

Installed Xorg Driver: synaptics_drv.so

Short Descriptions

synclient	is a command line utility used to query and modify Synaptics driver options.
syndaemon	is a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.
`synaptics_drv.so`	is an Xorg input driver for touchpads.

Xorg VMMouse Driver-13.1.0

Introduction to Xorg VMMouse Driver

The Xorg VMMouse Driver package contains the VMMouse input driver for the Xorg X server. The VMMouse driver enables support for the special VMMouse protocol that is provided by VMware virtual machines to give absolute pointer positioning. It can be used with Qemu, too.

Note

Starting with version 4.1, the linux kernel supports the VMMouse protocol so that this driver is not needed anymore. Furthermore, kernel support conflicts with earlier versions of this driver (before 13.1), so it is advisable to either remove this driver if you plan to always use kernels with versions greater or equal to 4.1, or update this driver to 13.1 or above if you want to be able to use both old and recent kernels.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse-13.1.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse-13.1.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 85e2e464b7219c495ad3a16465c226ed
Download size: 312 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xorg VMMouse Driver Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-vmmouse-driver

Kernel Configuration

To get kernel support for the VMMouse, enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Processor type and features --->
  [*] Symmetric multi-processing support          [CONFIG_SMP]
  [*] Support for extended (non-PC) x86 platforms [CONFIG_X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM]
  [*] ScaleMP vSMP                                [CONFIG_X86_VSMP]
Device Drivers --->
  Input device support --->
    [*] Mice --->                                 [CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE]
      <*/M> PS/2 mouse                            [CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2]
      [*] Virtual mouse (vmmouse)                 [CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_VMMOUSE]

Installation of Xorg VMMouse Driver

Install Xorg VMMouse Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG               \
            --without-hal-fdi-dir      \
            --without-hal-callouts-dir \
            --with-udev-rules-dir=/lib/udev/rules.d &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-udev-rules-dir=/lib/udev/rules.d: This switch specifies where udev rules should be installed.

--without-hal-*-dir: These switches disable installation of the HAL components which are not needed on Linux.

Installed Program: vmmouse_detect

Installed Xorg Drivers: vmmouse_drv.so

Short Descriptions

vmmouse_detect	is a tool for detecting if running in a VMware environment where vmmouse is used.
`vmmouse_drv.so`	is an Xorg input driver for VMware Mouse.

Xorg Wacom Driver-0.31.0

Introduction to Xorg Wacom Driver

The Xorg Wacom Driver package contains the X.Org X11 driver and SDK for Wacom and Wacom-like tablets. It is not required to use a Wacom tablet, the xf86-input-evdev driver can handle these devices without problems.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/xf86-input-wacom-0.31.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e6a2e87b73e2744f839c410d41e6cf8d
Download size: 580 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)

Xorg Wacom Drivers Dependencies

Required

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and Graphviz-2.38.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-wacom-driver

Kernel Configuration

To use a Wacom tablet with USB interface, enable the following options in your kernel configuration and recompile. Note that other configuration options could be required for tablet with a serial or bluetooth interface:

Device Drivers  --->
  HID support  --->
    <*/M> HID bus support                                      [CONFIG_HID]
            Special HID drivers --->
              <*/M> Wacom Intuos/Graphire tablet support (USB) [CONFIG_HID_WACOM]

Installation of Xorg Wacom Driver

Install Xorg Wacom Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-systemd-unit-dir=no &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: isdv4-serial-debugger, isdv4-serial-inputattach, and xsetwacom

Installed Xorg Driver: wacom_drv.so

Short Descriptions

xsetwacom	is a commandline utility used to query and modify wacom driver settings.
`wacom_drv.so`	is an Xorg input driver for Wacom devices.

Xorg ATI Driver-7.5.0

Introduction to Xorg ATI Driver

The Xorg ATI Driver package contains the X.Org Video Driver for ATI Radeon video cards including all chipsets ranging from R100 to R900 and the newer RAxx chipsets.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

For Direct Rendering to work with newer Radeon Cards (R300 and later chipsets), you need to enable the r300, r600 and radeonsi Gallium drivers at MesaLib-10.6.6 build time. Also, some cards require Firmware to be available when the kernel driver is loaded. Firmware can be obtained from http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/linux-firmware/. See the section called “Kernel Configuration for additional firmware” below for additional firmware.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-7.5.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 29654190e37310b87e44a14c229967ee
Download size: 791 KB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Xorg ATI Driver Dependencies

Required

Xorg-Server-1.17.2 (recommended to be built with glamor enabled)

Note

Glamor is required for "Southern Islands" and later GPUs but optional for R300 to R700, Evergreen and "Northern Islands" GPUs - see the link in the section called “Glamor Acceleration” below.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-ati-driver

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Graphics support --->
    Direct rendering Manager --->
      <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support) ---> [CONFIG_DRM]
      <*> ATI Radeon                                          [CONFIG_DRM_RADEON]

Kernel Configuration for additional firmware

If you need to add firmware, install the file(s) and then point to them in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary. To find out which firmware you need, consult the Decoder ring for engineering vs marketing names. Download any firmware for your card which is named like: <ENGINEERING_NAME>_rlc.bin, etc. Note that for R600 and R700 family, generic R600_rlc.bin and R700_rlc.bin are necessary in adition to the model specific firmware, while for later generations (Evergreen, "Northern Islands" and probably "Southern Islands") you need the BTC_rlc.bin in adition to the model specific firmware. Below is an example for Radeon HD6470, which is "Northern Islands" GPU with a network card that also requires the firmware:

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/BTC_rlc.bin radeon/CAICOS_mc.bin radeon/CAICOS_me.bin
radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin radeon/CAICOS_smc.bin rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

Note

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE should all be on one line. It is shown above as two lines for presentation only.

Tip

You can check dmesg output after boot to see which firmware is missing.

Alternatively, if you change CONFIG_DRM_RADEON to '=m' in your .config the firmware can be loaded automatically from /lib/firmware/radeon when it installs the module. This offers a tiny space saving, but also means that the screen will be blank for a longer time before the framebuffer appears. Distros take this approach because it is not practical to specify every possible firmware and the kernel would be excessively big.

Installation of Xorg ATI Driver

Install Xorg ATI Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Glamor Acceleration

Glamor is an acceleration library which uses cards' 3D capabilities to accelerate 2D rendering. Glamor acceleration is required for Radeon "Southern Islands" GPUs which use "radeonsi" Gallium3D driver from MesaLib-10.6.6. To see which cards fall under "Southern Islands" category, read the Decoder ring for engineering vs marketing names. Please note that Glamor acceleration can be used with other chips as well, from the R300 onwards. On at least some Northern Islands chips it is beneficial.

Glamor acceleration is not enabled by default for chipsets that don't use "radeonsi" Gallium3D driver. You have to use an xorg.conf file to enable it. To enable Glamor for cards other than "Southern Islands" and later, create the following file in ${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ as the root user:

cat >> ${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-glamor.conf << "EOF"
Section "Device"
        Identifier "radeon"
        Driver "ati"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
EOF

Installed Xorg Drivers: ati_drv.so and radeon_drv.so

Short Descriptions

`ati_drv.so`	is a wrapper driver for ATI video cards that autodetects ATI video hardware and loads radeon, mach64 or r128 driver.
`radeon_drv.so`	is an Xorg video driver for ATI Radeon based video cards.

Xorg Fbdev Driver-0.4.4

Introduction to Xorg Fbdev Driver

The Xorg Fbdev Driver package contains the X.Org Video Driver for framebuffer devices. This driver is often used as fallback driver if the hardware specific and VESA drivers fail to load or are not present. If this driver is not installed, Xorg Server will print a warning on startup, but it can be safely ignored if hardware specific driver works well.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3931c0e19d441cc576dc088f9eb9fd73
Download size: 287 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xorg Fbdev Driver Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-fbdev-driver

Installation of Xorg Fbdev Driver

Install Xorg Fbdev Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Xorg Driver: fbdev_drv.so

Short Descriptions

fbdev_drv.so

is an Xorg video driver for framebuffer devices.

Xorg Intel Driver-2.99.917

Introduction to Xorg Intel Driver

The Xorg Intel Driver package contains the X.Org Video Driver for Intel integrated video cards including 8xx, 9xx, Gxx, Qxx and HD graphics processors (SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

This is a development version of the Intel driver which is needed to work properly with the latest hardware.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: fa196a66e52c0c624fe5d350af7a5e7b
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 78 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Xorg Intel Driver Dependencies

Required

xcb-util-0.4.0 and Xorg-Server-1.17.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-intel-driver

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration. Only one of the lines “Intel I810” or “Intel 8xx/9xx...” needs to be selected. If you select the latter, “Enable modesetting...” is needed too. Recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Graphics support --->
    Direct rendering Manager --->
      <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support) ---> [CONFIG_DRM]
      <*> Intel I810                                          [CONFIG_DRM_I810]
      <*> Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics                   [CONFIG_DRM_I915]
      [*]   Enable modesetting on intel by default            [CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS]

Installation of Xorg Intel Driver

Install Xorg Intel Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --enable-kms-only --enable-uxa &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Working around problems with the Intel driver

The SandyBridge New Acceleration (SNA) code is intended to replace the old UXA (UMA Acceleration Architecture), but it is a large body of code and sometimes causes problems. In particular, when a system is built with gcc-5 and kernel headers from linux-4.0, trying to run this driver using SNA will cause a segfault on some, or perhaps all, of the supported chips if a 4.0 or newer kernel is used (a 3.19.0 kernel, also built with gcc-5, worked ok). To work around this, as well as enabling support for UXA, it is necessary to force UXA to be used by creating a configuration file.

If this problem applies to you, create the following file as the root user:

cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf << "EOF"
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Intel Graphics"
        Driver "intel"
        Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
EndSection
EOF

Command Explanations

--enable-kms-only: This switch omits the UMS (User Mode Setting) code.

--enable-uxa: This switch allows the old UXA code to be compiled in addition to the default SNA.

Installed Library: libIntelXvMC.so

Installed Xorg Driver: intel_drv.so

Short Descriptions

intel_drv.so

is an Xorg video driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets.

Xorg Nouveau Driver-1.0.11

Introduction to Xorg Nouveau Driver

The Xorg Nouveau Driver package contains the X.Org Video Driver for NVidia Cards including RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, GeForce 256, QUADRO, GeForce2, QUADRO2, GeForce3, QUADRO DDC, nForce, nForce2, GeForce4, QUADRO4, GeForce FX, QUADRO FX, GeForce 6XXX and GeForce 7xxx chipsets.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a0d2932d84ba10c4933c8332c9afe157
Download size: 569 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xorg Nouveau Drivers Dependencies

Required

Xorg-Server-1.17.2 (recommended to be built with glamor enabled)

Note

The new “Maxwell” GPU requires Glamor to be built with the Xorg server. Note that the BLFS editors have not tested that hardware.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-nouveau-driver

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Graphics support --->
    Direct rendering Manager --->
      <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support) ---> [CONFIG_DRM]
      <*> Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards                              [CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU]
      [*]   Support for backlight control                     [CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT]

Installation of Xorg Nouveau Driver

Install Xorg Nouveau Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Glamor Acceleration

Glamor is an acceleration library which uses cards' 3D capabilities to accelerate 2D rendering. Glamor acceleration is enabled by default for the new “Maxwell” GPU's. According to the documentation, Glamor acceleration can be used with other chips as well, but that does not seem functional yet.

If you want anyway to try to enable Glamor for GPU's other than the new “Maxwell” ones, create the following file as the root user:

cat >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf << "EOF"
Section "Device"
        Identifier "nvidia"
        Driver "nouveau"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
EOF

Installed Xorg Driver: nouveau_drv.so

Short Descriptions

nouveau_drv.so

is an Xorg video driver for nVidia video cards.

Xorg VMware Driver-13.1.0

Introduction to Xorg VMware Driver

The Xorg VMware Driver package contains the X.Org Video Driver for VMware SVGA virtual video cards.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-vmware-13.1.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-vmware-13.1.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0cba22fed4cb639d5c4276f7892c543d
Download size: 452 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xorg VMware Driver Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xorg-vmware-driver

Kernel Configuration

Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Graphics support  --->
    Direct Rendering Manager  --->
      <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support) --->  [CONFIG_DRM]
      <*> DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU                    [CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX]
      [*]   Enable framebuffer console under vmwgfx by default [CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX_FBCON]

Installation of Xorg VMware Driver

Install Xorg VMware Driver by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Xorg Driver: vmware_drv.so

Short Descriptions

vmware_drv.so

is an Xorg video driver for VMware SVGA virtual video card.

libva-1.6.0

Introduction to libva

The libva package contains a library which provides access to hardware accelerated video processing, using hardware to accelerate video processing in order to offload the central processing unit (CPU) to decode and encode compressed digital video. VA API video decode/encode interface is platform and window system independent targeted at Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in the X Window System however it can potentially also be used with direct framebuffer and graphics sub-systems for video output. Accelerated processing includes support for video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending, and rendering.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva/libva-1.6.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3f1241b4080db53c120325932f393f33
Download size: 772 KB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Additional Downloads

Intel Driver Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/releases/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver-1.6.0.tar.bz2
Intel Driver Download MD5 sum: d7678f7c66cbb135cced82ee2af6d8e8
Intel Driver Download size: 1.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libva Dependencies

Required

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and Wayland

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libva

Installation of libva

Install libva by running the following commands:

mkdir -p m4 &&
autoreconf -fi           &&
./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installation of libva-intel-driver

The libva-intel-driver is designed specifically for video cards based on an Intel GPU. Unpack the libva-intel tarball using the normal procedures and install the driver by running the following commands:

mkdir -p m4              &&
autoreconf -fi           &&
./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

mkdir -p m4: This command prevents an error that may occur when running autoreconf.

autoreconf -fi: This command regenerates the configure script to prevent a mandatory test for wayland-scanner when configuring.

Installed Programs: avcenc, h264encode, jpegenc, loadjpeg, mpeg2vaenc, mpeg2vldemo, putsurface, putsurface_wayland, and vainfo

Installed Libraries: libva-drm.so, libva-egl.so, libva-glx.so, libva.so, libva-tpi.so, libva-wayland.so, and libva-x11.so

Installed Drivers: dummy_drv_video.so and i965_drv_video.so

Installed Directory: $XORG_PREFIX/include/va

Short Descriptions

libva.so

contains API functions which provide access to hardware accelerated video processing.

libvdpau-1.1.1

Introduction to libvdpau

The libvdpau package contains a library which implements the VDPAU library.

VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) is an open source library (libvdpau) and API originally designed by Nvidia for its GeForce 8 series and later GPU hardware targeted at the X Window System This VDPAU API allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video-hardware.

Currently, the portions capable of being offloaded by VDPAU onto the GPU are motion compensation (mo comp), inverse discrete cosine transform (iDCT), VLD (variable-length decoding) and deblocking for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1, WMV3/WMV9 encoded videos. Which specific codecs of these that can be offloaded to the GPU depends on the version of the GPU hardware; specifically, to also decode MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), Xvid/OpenDivX (DivX 4), and DivX 5 formats, a GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series (the eleventh generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units) or newer GPU hardware is required.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/vdpau/libvdpau-1.1.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2fa0b05a4f4d06791eec83bc9c854d14
Download size: 420 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.3 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)

libvdpau Dependencies

Required

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, Graphviz-2.38.0, and texlive-20150521 or install-tl-unx

Runtime Dependency

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libvdpau

Installation of libvdpau

Install libvdpau by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libvdpau-1.1.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libvdpau.so

Installed Directories: $XORG_PREFIX/{include,lib}/vdpau and $XORG_PREFIX/share/doc/libvdpau-1.1.1

Short Descriptions

libvdpau.so

contains functions to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video-hardware.

libvdpau-va-gl-0.3.4

Introduction to libvdpau-va-gl

The libvdpau-va-gl package contains a library which implements the VDPAU library. Libvdpau_va_gl uses OpenGL under the hood to accelerate drawing and scaling and the VA-API (if available) to accelerate video decoding. For now VA-API is available on some Intel chips, and on some AMD video adapters with the help of the libvdpau driver.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Libvdpau-va-gl Driver Download (HTTP): https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl/releases/download/v0.3.4/libvdpau-va-gl-0.3.4.tar.gz
Libvdpau-va-gl Driver Download MD5 sum: 09ceb2f75eafccc9b002d35ede0de6a5
Libvdpau-va-gl Driver Download size: 100 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libvdpau-va-gl Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, FFmpeg-2.7.2, GLU-9.0.0, libvdpau-1.1.1, and libva-1.6.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, Graphviz-2.38.0, and texlive-20150521 or install-tl-unx

Runtime Dependency

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libvdpau

Installation of libvdpau-va-gl

Install libvdpau-va-gl by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$XORG_PREFIX .. &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. The tests must be run from an Xorg environment.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuration

To allow libvdpau to find libvdpau-va-gl, set an environment variable. As the root user:

echo "export VDPAU_DRIVER=va_gl" >> /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libvdpau_va_gl.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libvdpau_va_gl.so

contains functions to implement the OpenGL backend to the VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) API.

Last updated on 2015-03-03 11:19:14 -0800

twm-1.0.9

Introduction to twm

The twm package contains a very minimal window manager.

This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/twm-1.0.9.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/twm-1.0.9.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 59a6f076cdacb5f6945dac809bcf4906
Download size: 280 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

twm Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/twm

Installation of twm

Install twm by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/^rcdir =/s,^\(rcdir = \).*,\1/etc/X11/app-defaults,' src/Makefile.in &&
./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i -e '/^rcdir =/s...: This command ensures the twm configuration file gets installed in the proper location.

Installed Programs: twm

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /etc/X11/app-defaults

Short Descriptions

twm

is the Tab Window Manager for the X Window System.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xterm-320

Introduction to xterm

xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.

This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-320.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 0d7f0e6390d132ae59876b3870e5783d
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

xterm Dependencies

Required

Xorg Applications

Optional

Valgrind-3.10.1 and man2html

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Xterm

Installation of xterm

Install xterm by running the following commands:

sed -i '/v0/{n;s/new:/new:kb=^?:/}' termcap &&
printf '\tkbs=\\177,\n' >> terminfo &&

TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo \
./configure $XORG_CONFIG     \
    --with-app-defaults=/etc/X11/app-defaults &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
make install-ti

Command Explanations

sed -i ... termcap, printf ... >> terminfo: These commands modify the terminal description so that the Backspace key is expected to send the character with ASCII code 127. This is done for consistency with the Linux console.

TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo: This ensures that the xterm terminfo files are installed to the system terminfo database.

--with-app-defaults=...: Sets the location for the app-defaults directory.

make install-ti: This command installs corrected terminfo description files for use with xterm.

Configuring xterm

There are two ways to configure xterm. You can add the X resource definitions to the user's ~/.Xresources file, or add them to the system-wide $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm file.

In order for xterm to follow the locale settings in the environment, use TrueType fonts, and follow the Linux convention about the code sent by the Backspace key, add the following definitions as the root user:

cat >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm << "EOF"
*VT100*locale: true
*VT100*faceName: Monospace
*VT100*faceSize: 10
*backarrowKeyIsErase: true
*ptyInitialErase: true
EOF

Installed Programs: koi8rxterm, resize, uxterm, and xterm

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

koi8rxterm	is a wrapper script to set up xterm with a KOI8-R locale.
resize	prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window.
uxterm	is a wrapper script that modifies the current locale to use UTF-8 and starts xterm with the proper settings.
xterm	is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xclock-1.0.7

Introduction to xclock

The xclock package contains a simple clock application which is used in the default xinit configuration.

This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xclock-1.0.7.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xclock-1.0.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6f150d063b20d08030b98c45b9bee7af
Download size: 161 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xclock Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xclock

Installation of xclock

Install xclock by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xclock

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

xclock

is an analog/digital clock for X.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xinit-1.3.4

Introduction to xinit

The xinit package contains a usable script to start the xserver.

This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xinit-1.3.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xinit-1.3.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4e928452dfaf73851413a2d8b8c76388
Download size: 162 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

xinit Dependencies

Required (runtime only)

twm-1.0.9, xclock-1.0.7, and xterm-320

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xinit

Installation of xinit

First, modify startx, hence the X session starts on the first unused virtual terminal, which normally is vt7:

sed -e '/$serverargs $vtarg/ s/serverargs/: #&/' \
    -i startx.cpp

Note

If you have already installed this package without the sed above, there is no need to reinstall. Just modify the installed startx, issuing, as the root user:

sed -e '/$serverargs $vtarg/ s/serverargs/: #&/' \
    -i.orig /usr/bin/startx

Install xinit by running the following commands:

./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
            --with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/app-defaults &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ldconfig

Installed Programs: xinit and startx

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

startx	initializes an X session.
xinit	is the X Window System initializer.

Last updated on 2015-09-25 06:48:24 -0700

Xorg-7.7 Testing and Configuration

Testing Xorg

Note

Before starting Xorg for the first time, is is useful to rebuild the library cache by running ldconfig as the root user.

To test the Xorg installation, issue startx. This command brings up a rudimentary window manager called twm with three xterm windows and one xclock window. The xterm window in the upper left is a login terminal and running exit from this terminal will exit the X Window session. The third xterm window may be obscured on your system by the other two xterms.

Generally, there is no specific configuration required for Xorg, but customization is possible. For details see the section called “Setting up Xorg Devices” below.

Checking the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) Installation

DRI is a framework for allowing software to access graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner. It is installed in X by default (using MesaLib) if you have a supported video card.

To check if DRI drivers are installed properly, check the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log for statements such as:

(II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled

(II) NOUVEAU(0): Loaded DRI module

Note

DRI configuration may differ if you are using alternate drivers, such as those from NVIDIA or ATI.

Although all users can use software acceleration, any hardware acceleration (DRI2) is only available to root and members of the video group.

If your driver is supported, add any users that might use X to that group:

usermod -a -G video <username>

Another way to determine if DRI is working properly is to use one of the two optionally installed OpenGL demo programs in MesaLib-10.6.6. From an X terminal, run glxinfo and look for the phrase:

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes

If direct rendering is enabled, you can add verbosity by running LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo. This will show the drivers, device nodes and files used by the DRI system.

To confirm that DRI2 hardware acceleration is working, you can (still in the X terminal) run the command glxinfo | egrep "(OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version)". If that reports something other than Software Rasterizer then you have working acceleration for the user who ran the command.

If your hardware does not have any DRI2 driver available, it will use a Software Rasterizer for Direct Rendering. In such cases, you can use a new, LLVM-accelerated, Software Rasterizer called LLVMPipe. In order to build LLVMPipe just make sure that LLVM-3.7.0 is present at MesaLib build time. Note that all decoding is done on the CPU instead of the GPU, so the display will run slower than with hardware acceleration. To check if you are using LLVMpipe, review the output ot the glxinfo command above. An example of the output using the Software Rasterizer is shown below:

OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 256 bits)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.4.5

You can also force LLVMPipe by exporting the LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 environment variable when starting Xorg.

Again, if you have built the Mesa OpenGL demos, you can also run the test program glxgears. This program brings up a window with three gears turning. The X terminal will display how many frames were drawn every five seconds, so this will give a rough benchmark. The window is scalable, and the frames drawn per second is highly dependent on the size of the window. On some hardware, glxgears will run synchronized with the vertical refresh signal and the frame rate will be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.

Hybrid Graphics

Hybrid Graphics is still in experimental state for Linux. Xorg Developers have developed a technology called PRIME that can be used for switching between integrated and muxless discrete GPU at will. Automatic switching is not possible at the moment.

In order to use PRIME for GPU switching, make sure that you are using Linux Kernel 3.4 or later (recommended). You will need latest DRI and DDX drivers for your hardware and Xorg Server 1.13 or later with an optional patch applied.

Xorg Server should load both GPU drivers automaticaly. In order to run a GLX application on a discrete GPU, you will need to export the DRI_PRIME=1 environment variable. For example,

DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | egrep "(OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer|OpenGL version)"

will show OpenGL vendor, renderer and version for the discrete GPU.

If the last command reports same OpenGL renderer with and without DRI_PRIME=1, you will need to check your installation.

Xft Font Protocol

Xft provides antialiased font rendering through Freetype, and fonts are controlled from the client side using Fontconfig. The default search path is /usr/share/fonts and ~/.fonts. Fontconfig searches directories in its path recursively and maintains a cache of the font characteristics in fonts.cache-1 files in each directory. If the cache appears to be out of date, it is ignored, and information is (slowly) fetched from the fonts themselves. This cache can be regenerated using the fc-cache command at any time. You can see the list of fonts known by Fontconfig by running the command fc-list.

If you've installed Xorg in any prefix other than /usr, the X fonts were not installed in a location known to Fontconfig. This prevents Fontconfig from using the poorly rendered Type 1 fonts or the non-scalable bitmapped fonts. Symlinks were created from the OTF and TTF X font directories to /usr/share/fonts/X11-{OTF,TTF}. This allows Fontconfig to use the OpenType and TrueType fonts provided by X (which are scalable and of higher quality).

Fontconfig uses names such as "Monospace 12" to define fonts. Applications generally use generic font names such as "Monospace", "Sans" and "Serif". Fontconfig resolves these names to a font that has all characters that cover the orthography of the language indicated by the locale settings. Knowledge of these font names is included in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Fonts that are not listed in this file are still usable by Fontconfig, but they will not be accessible by the generic family names.

Standard scalable fonts that come with X provide very poor Unicode coverage. You may notice in applications that use Xft that some characters appear as a box with four binary digits inside. In this case, a font set with the available glyphs has not been found. Other times, applications that don't use other font families by default and don't accept substitutions from Fontconfig will display blank lines when the default font doesn't cover the orthography of the user's language. This happens, e.g., with Fluxbox in the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale.

In order to provide greater Unicode coverage, it is recommended that you install these fonts:

DejaVu fonts - These fonts are replacements for the Bitstream Vera fonts and provide Latin-based scripts with accents and Cyrillic glyphs.
FreeFont - This set of fonts covers nearly every non-CJK character, but is not visually pleasing. Fontconfig will use it as a last resort to substitute generic font family names.
Microsoft Core fonts - These fonts provide slightly worse Unicode coverage than FreeFont, but are better hinted. Be sure to read the license before using them. These fonts are listed in the aliases in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory by default.
Firefly New Sung font - This font provides Chinese coverage. This font is listed in the aliases in the the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory by default.
Arphic fonts - A similar set of Chinese fonts to the Firefly New Sung font. These fonts are listed in the aliases in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory by default.
Kochi fonts - These provide Japanese characters, and are listed in the aliases in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory by default.
Baekmuk fonts - These fonts provide Korean coverage, and are listed in the aliases in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory by default.
Cantarell fonts - The Cantarell typeface family provides a contemporary Humanist sans serif. It is particularly optimised for legibility at small sizes and is the preferred font family for the GNOME-3 user interface.

The list above will not provide complete Unicode coverage. For more information, please visit the Unicode Font Guide.

Rendered examples of many of the above fonts can be found at this font analysis site.

As a font installation example, consider the installation of the DejaVu fonts. From the unpacked source directory, run the following commands as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu &&
install -v -m644 *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu &&
fc-cache -v /usr/share/fonts/dejavu

Setting up Xorg Devices

For most hardware configurations, modern Xorg will automatically get the server configuration correct without any user intervention. There are, however, some cases where auto-configuration will be incorrect. Following are some example manual configuration items that may be of use in these instances.

Setting up X Input Devices

For most input devices, no additional configuration will be necessary. This section is provided for informational purposes only.

A sample default XKB setup could look like the following (executed as the root user):

cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xkb-defaults.conf << "EOF"
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "XKB Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
    Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
EOF

Fine Tuning Display Settings

Again, with modern Xorg, little or no additional configuration is necessary. If you should need extra options passed to your video driver, for instance, you could use something like the following (again, executed as the root user):

cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/videocard-0.conf << "EOF"
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
    BoardName   "ATI Radeon 7500"
    Option      "NoAccel" "true"
EndSection
EOF

Another common setup is having multiple server layouts for use in different environments. Though the server will automatically detect the presence of another monitor, it may get the order incorrect:

cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/server-layout.conf << "EOF"
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "DefaultLayout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
    Option         "Xinerama"
EndSection
EOF

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 25. X Libraries

This chapter does not contain libraries that are required to run X. It does contain libraries that enhance X. In some cases the enhancement is as simple as font support. In others it is as complex as libraries that sit between X and applications that run on X whose purpose is to standardize the look and feel and inter-process communications for different applications. They also assist programmers by supplying common elements.

ATK-2.16.0

Introduction to ATK

ATK provides the set of accessibility interfaces that are implemented by other toolkits and applications. Using the ATK interfaces, accessibility tools have full access to view and control running applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.16/atk-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atk/2.16/atk-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c7c5002bd6e58b4723a165f1bf312116
Download size: 684 KB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

ATK Dependencies

Required

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/atk

Installation of ATK

Install ATK by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libatk-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/atk-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/atk

Short Descriptions

libatk-1.0.so

contains functions that are used by assistive technologies to interact with the desktop applications.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Atkmm-2.22.7

Introduction to Atkmm

Atkmm is the official C++ interface for the ATK accessibility toolkit library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atkmm/2.22/atkmm-2.22.7.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/atkmm/2.22/atkmm-2.22.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fec7db3fc47ba2e0c95d130ec865a236
Download size: 388 KB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Atkmm Dependencies

Required

ATK-2.16.0 and GLibmm-2.44.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/atkmm

Installation of Atkmm

Install Atkmm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libatkmm-1.6.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/atkmm-1.6, /usr/lib/atkmm-1.6, /usr/share/devhelp/books/atkmm-1.6 and /usr/share/doc/atkmm-1.6

Short Descriptions

libatkmm-1.6.so

contains the ATK API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-14 14:12:10 -0700

at-spi2-core-2.16.0

Introduction to At-Spi2 Core

The At-Spi2 Core package is a part of the GNOME Accessibility Project. It provides a Service Provider Interface for the Assistive Technologies available on the GNOME platform and a library against which applications can be linked.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi2-core/2.16/at-spi2-core-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi2-core/2.16/at-spi2-core-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: be6eeea370f913b7639b609913b2cf02
Download size: 448 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

At-Spi2 Core Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0, GLib-2.44.1, and Xorg Libraries

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/at-spi2-core

Installation of At-Spi2 Core

Install At-Spi2 Core by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

A session bus address is necessary to run the tests. To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libatspi.so

Installed Directories: /etc/at-spi2, /usr/include/at-spi-2.0, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libatspi

Short Descriptions

libatspi.so

contains the At-Spi2 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

at-spi2-atk-2.16.0

Introduction to At-Spi2 Atk

The At-Spi2 Atk package contains a library that bridges ATK to At-Spi2 D-Bus service.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi2-atk/2.16/at-spi2-atk-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi2-atk/2.16/at-spi2-atk-2.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8936488c8cdce0e158f80b2e247527f9
Download size: 280 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

At-Spi2 Atk Dependencies

Required

at-spi2-core-2.16.0 and ATK-2.16.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/at-spi2-atk

Installation of At-Spi2 Atk

Install At-Spi2 Atk by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. An already active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR” method, /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the following command as the root user:

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libatk-bridge-2.0.so and /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/at-spi2-atk

Short Descriptions

`libatk-bridge.so`	is the Accessibility Toolkit GTK+ module.
`libatk-bridge-2.0.so`	Contains the common functions used by GTK+ Accessibility Toolkit Bridge.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Cairo-1.14.2

Introduction to Cairo

Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF and SVG. Experimental backends include OpenGL, Quartz and XCB file output. Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (e.g., through the X Render Extension). The Cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations in Cairo include stroking and filling cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e1cdfaf1c6c995c4d4c54e07215b0118
Download size: 34 MB
Estimated disk space required: 0.1 GB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Cairo Dependencies

Required

libpng-1.6.18 and Pixman-0.32.6

Optional

Cogl-1.20.0, GTK-Doc-1.24, libdrm-2.4.64, LZO-2.09, MesaLib-10.6.6, Qt-4.8.7, Valgrind-3.10.1, DirectFB, jbig2dec, and Skia

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cairo

Installation of Cairo

Install Cairo by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --enable-tee &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-tee: This switch enables experimental tee surface backend which is required if using system-installed Cairo with Mozilla applications.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-xlib-xcb: This switch enables experimental Xlib/XCB functions used by some window managers.

--enable-gl: This switch enables Cairo's experimental OpenGL surface which is required for Wayland compositor and some other packages that are not part of BLFS.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: cairo-sphinx and cairo-trace

Installed Libraries: libcairo.so, libcairo-gobject.so and libcairo-script-interpreter.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/cairo, /usr/lib/cairo and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/cairo

Short Descriptions

cairo-sphinx	is an internal utility for regression analysis.
cairo-trace	generates a log of all calls made by an application to Cairo.
`libcairo.so`	contains the 2D graphics functions required for rendering to the various output targets.
`libcairo-gobject.so`	contains functions that integrate Cairo with GLib-2.44.1's GObject type system.
`libcairo-script-interpreter.so`	contains the script interpreter functions for executing and manipulating Cairo execution traces.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Cairomm-1.10.0

Introduction to Cairomm

The Cairomm package provides a C++ interface to Cairo.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.10.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9c63fb1c04c8ecd3c5e6473075b8c39f
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Cairomm Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.14.2 and libsigc++-2.4.1

Optional

Boost-1.59.0 and Doxygen-1.8.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cairomm

Installation of Cairomm

Install Cairomm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libcairomm-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/cairomm-1.0, /usr/lib/cairomm-1.0, /usr/share/devhelp/books/cairomm-1.0 and /usr/share/doc/cairomm-1.0

Short Descriptions

libcairomm-1.0.so

contains the Cairo API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Cogl-1.20.0

Introduction to Cogl

Cogl is a modern 3D graphics API with associated utility APIs designed to expose the features of 3D graphics hardware using a direct state access API design, as opposed to the state-machine style of OpenGL.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/cogl/1.20/cogl-1.20.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/cogl/1.20/cogl-1.20.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5b28897194d9ff76a574a9493d1f7ee0
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 60 MB
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU

Cogl Dependencies

Required

gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, MesaLib-10.6.6, and Pango-1.36.8

Optional

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK-Doc-1.24, SDL-1.2.15, SDL2, and Wayland

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cogl

Installation of Cogl

Install Cogl by running the following commands:

Note

This package may occasionally fail when building with multiple processors. See Using Multiple Processors for more information.

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gles1 --enable-gles2 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. The tests should be run from an X terminal on the hardware accelerated Xorg Server.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gles1: This switch enables support for OpenGL ES 1.1.

--enable-gles2: This switch enables support for OpenGL ES 2.0.

--enable-cogl-gst: This switch enables gstreamer support.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libcogl-gles2.so, libcogl-pango.so, libcogl-path.so, and libcogl.so, and optional libraries libcogl-gst.so and /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstcogl.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/cogl and /usr/share/cogl

Short Descriptions

`libcogl-gles2.so`	is the OpenGL ES 2.0 integration library for Cogl.
`libcogl-pango.so`	is the Pango integration library for Cogl.
`libcogl.so`	is an object oriented GL/GLES Abstraction/Utility Layer library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Clutter-1.22.4

Introduction to Clutter

The Clutter package contains an open source software library used for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

Anything built with this toolkit needs hardware 3D acceleration from the graphics driver at runtime. This is provided by MesaLib (or by proprietary graphics drivers), but is not available for every graphics card nor for all virtual machines. You may wish to review Checking the DRI installation.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter/1.22/clutter-1.22.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter/1.22/clutter-1.22.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 26494256c980d49703a553916e3083cd
Download size: 5.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 95 MB (additional 14 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (additional 0.5 SBU for tests)

Clutter Dependencies

Required

ATK-2.16.0, Cogl-1.20.0, and JSON-GLib-1.0.4

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, Libevdev-1.4.4, libgudev-230, libxkbcommon, Tslib, and Wayland

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/clutter

Installation of Clutter

Install Clutter by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-egl-backend &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check (you must be in an xterm or similar to do this, because it launches some windows).

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-egl-backend: This switch enables the experimental EGL windowing backend.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libclutter-1.0.so and libclutter-glx-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/clutter-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{cally,clutter}

Short Descriptions

libclutter-1.0.so

contains the Clutter API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

clutter-gst-3.0.10

Introduction to Clutter Gst

The Clutter Gst is an integration library for using GStreamer with Clutter. Its purpose is to implement the ClutterMedia interface using GStreamer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter-gst/3.0/clutter-gst-3.0.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter-gst/3.0/clutter-gst-3.0.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: dbba4246ad1be53c190c237c19633453
Download size: 384 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Clutter Gst Dependencies

Required

Clutter-1.22.4 and gst-plugins-base-1.4.5

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/clutter-gst

Installation of Clutter Gst

Install Clutter Gst by running the following commands:

Note

This package fails to build over an ssh session.

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libclutter-gst-3.0.so and /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstclutter.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/clutter-gst-3.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/clutter-gst

Short Descriptions

libclutter-gst-3.0.so

contains the Clutter Gst API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

clutter-gtk-1.6.2

Introduction to Clutter Gtk

The Clutter Gtk package is a library providing facilities to integrate Clutter into GTK+ applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter-gtk/1.6/clutter-gtk-1.6.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/clutter-gtk/1.6/clutter-gtk-1.6.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 557d814c3e70cc3a2d1cf3816919b14f
Download size: 308 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Clutter Gtk Dependencies

Required

Clutter-1.22.4 and GTK+-3.16.6

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/clutter-gtk

Installation of Clutter Gtk

Install Clutter Gtk by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libclutter-gtk-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/clutter-gtk-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/clutter-gtk-1.0

Short Descriptions

libclutter-gtk-1.0.so

contains the Clutter Gtk API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

FLTK-1.3.3

Introduction to FLTK

FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation libraries used for creating graphical user interfaces for applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fltk.org/pub/fltk/1.3.3/fltk-1.3.3-source.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9ccdb0d19dc104b87179bd9fd10822e3
Download size: 4.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 199 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

FLTK Dependencies

Required

Optional

alsa-lib-1.0.29, desktop-file-utils-0.22, Doxygen-1.8.10, GLU-9.0.0, MesaLib-10.6.6, and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fltk

Installation of FLTK

Note

The tar extraction directory is fltk-1.3.3 and not fltk-1.3.3-source as indicated by the tarball name.

Install FLTK by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/cat./d' documentation/Makefile       &&

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --enable-shared  &&
make

If you wish to create the API documentation, issue:

make -C documentation html

The tests for the package are interactive. To execute the tests, run test/unittests. In addition, there are 70 other executable test programs in the test directory that can be run individually.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.3.3 install

If desired, install some example games built as a part of the tests, extra documentation and example programs. As the root user:

make -C test          docdir=/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.3.3 install-linux &&
make -C documentation docdir=/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.3.3 install-linux

Command Explanations

sed ... documentation/Makefile: Avoid installing pages in /usr/share/man/cat*.

Installed Programs: blocks, checkers, fltk-config, fluid, and sudoku

Installed Libraries: libfltk.{a,so}, libfltk_forms.{a,so}, libfltk_gl.{a,so}, and libfltk_images.{a,so}

Installed Directories: /usr/include/FL and /usr/share/doc/fltk-1.3.3

Short Descriptions

blocks	is a FLTK-based block elimination game.
checkers	is a FLTK-based version of the game of checkers.
fltk-config	is a utility script that can be used to get information about the current version of FLTK that is installed on the system.
fluid	is an interactive GUI designer for FLTK.
sudoku	is an implementation of the popular Sudoku game.
`libfltk.so`	contains functions that provide an API to implement graphical user interfaces.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Freeglut-3.0.0

Introduction to Freeglut

Freeglut is intended to be a 100% compatible, completely opensourced clone of the GLUT library. GLUT is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs, implementing a simple windowing API, which makes learning about and exploring OpenGL programming very easy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-3.0.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 90c3ca4dd9d51cf32276bc5344ec9754
Download size: 412 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Freeglut Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and MesaLib-10.6.6

Installation of Freeglut

Install Freeglut by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr      \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release       \
      -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_DEMOS=OFF       \
      -DFREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF \
      ..

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DFREEGLUT_BUILD_DEMOS=ON: Build optional demo programs. Installation of the demo programs must be done manually. The demo programs are limited and installation is not recommended.

-DFREEGLUT_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF: Do not build the static library.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libglut.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libglut.so

contains functions that implement the OpenGL Utility Toolkit.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7

Introduction to Gdk Pixbuf

The Gdk Pixbuf is a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. It is used by GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 to load and manipulate images. In the past it was distributed as part of GTK+ 2 but it was split off into a separate package in preparation for the change to GTK+ 3.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.31/gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.31/gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8a42218ed76a75e38dc737c0c5d30190
Download size: 2.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 9.5 SBU for the tests)

Gdk Pixbuf Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 and libpng-1.6.18

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

JasPer-1.900.1 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gdk-pixbuf

Installation of Gdk Pixbuf

Install Gdk Pixbuf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-x11 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. The tests make a heavy use of disk.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

If you installed the package on to your system using a “DESTDIR” method, an important file was not installed and should be copied and/or generated. Generate it using the following command as the root user:

gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache

Command Explanations

--with-x11: This switch enables building of the Gdk Pixbuf X11 library which is needed for many packages.

--with-libjasper: If you've installed JasPer-1.900.1 and you want Gdk Pixbuf to use it to compile a JPEG2000 image loader, pass this switch to configure.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: gdk-pixbuf-csource, gdk-pixbuf-pixdata, and gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders

Installed Libraries: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so and libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,lib}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gdk-pixbuf

Short Descriptions

gdk-pixbuf-csource	is a small utility that generates C code containing images, used for compiling images directly into programs.
gdk-pixbuf-pixdata	is a tool used to convert GdkPixbuf to GdkPixdata.
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders	collects information about loadable modules for Gdk Pixbuf and writes it to the default cache file location, or to stdout.
`libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so`	contains functions used to load and render images.
`libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so`	contains functions used to manipulate images and interfaces with Xlib.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GLU-9.0.0

Introduction to GLU

This package provides the Mesa OpenGL Utility library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

GLU Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/glu-9.0.0.tar.bz2
GLU Download MD5 sum: be9249132ff49275461cf92039083030
GLU Download size: 484 KB
Estimated GLU disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated GLU build time: 0.2 SBU

GLU Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/glu

Installation of GLU

Install GLU by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$XORG_PREFIX --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libGLU.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libGLU.so

is the Mesa OpenGL Utility library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GOffice-0.10.23

Introduction to GOffice

The GOffice package contains a library of GLib/GTK document centric objects and utilities. This is useful for performing common operations for document centric applications that are conceptually simple, but complex to implement fully. Some of the operations provided by the GOffice library include support for plugins, load/save routines for application documents and undo/redo functions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/goffice/0.10/goffice-0.10.23.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/goffice/0.10/goffice-0.10.23.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 93697a64c4f75544bc71d8ffe20a5836
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 90 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (with tests)

GOffice Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6, libgsf-1.14.34, librsvg-2.40.10, and Which-2.21

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0, ghostscript-9.16, GTK-Doc-1.24, Lasem, and libspectre

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/goffice010

Installation of GOffice

Install GOffice by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

If you wish to run the tests, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libgoffice-0.10.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgoffice-0.10, /usr/{lib,share}/goffice and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/goffice-0.10

Short Descriptions

libgoffice-0.10.so

contains API functions to provide support for document centric objects and utilities.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

GTK+-2.24.28

Introduction to GTK+ 2

The GTK+ 2 package contains libraries used for creating graphical user interfaces for applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.28.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-2.24.28.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bfacf87b2ea67e4e5c7866a9003e6526
Download size: 13 MB
Estimated disk space required: 376 MB
Estimated build time: 2.8 SBU

GTK+ 2 Dependencies

Required

ATK-2.16.0, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7 and Pango-1.36.8

Optional

Cups-2.1.0, DocBook-utils-0.6.14, gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtk+2

Installation of GTK+ 2

Install GTK+ 2 by running the following commands:

sed -e 's#l \(gtk-.*\).sgml#& -o \1#' \
    -i docs/{faq,tutorial}/Makefile.in      &&

sed -e 's#pltcheck.sh#$(NULL)#g' \
    -i gtk/Makefile.in                      &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&

make

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that you must run the tests from a session with X Window Display capability (i.e., not a text-based terminal/console) as the tests attempt to open an X window, and the tests can take an excessively long time. Using an X Window, the tests should take less than 0.3 SBU.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

If you installed the package on to your system using a “DESTDIR” method, an important file was not installed and must be copied and/or generated. Generate it using the following command as the root user:

gtk-query-immodules-2.0 --update-cache

Command Explanations

sed -i 's#l $gtk-.*$.sgml#& -o \1#' docs/{faq,tutorial}/Makefile.in: If you have DocBook-utils-0.6.14 installed (specifically, if configure finds db2html) then it will try to use it to rebuild some of its HTML documentation and fail due to bugs in some of the Makefiles. This sed fixes the Makefiles.

sed -i -e 's#pltcheck.sh#$(NULL)#g' gtk/Makefile.in: This sed disables one test known to fail. Not necessary, if not running the tests.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring GTK+ 2

Config Files

~/.gtkrc-2.0, /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, and /usr/share/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Configuration Information

GTK+ 2 themes change the way a GTK+ 2 application looks. A GTK+ 2 icon theme can be used to change the icons that appear on the application's toolbar. If you have installed a GTK+ 2 theme (such as gnome-themes (requires GTK Engines-2.20.2)) or a GTK+ icon theme (such as adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1) you can set your preferences in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

cat > ~/.gtkrc-2.0 << "EOF"
include "/usr/share/themes/Glider/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "hicolor"
EOF

There are many more themes available at Gnome-Look.org and other places.

Once you've settled on themes you like, you can (as the root user) make them the default system wide:

cat > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc << "EOF"
include "/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-icon-theme-name = "elementary"
EOF

LXAppearance-0.6.1 is a GTK+ 2 application that can help you choose the themes you like.

Installed Programs: gtk-builder-convert, gtk-demo, gtk-query-immodules-2.0, and gtk-update-icon-cache

Installed Libraries: libgailutil.so, libgdk-x11-2.0.so, and libgtk-x11-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /etc/gtk-2.0, /usr/include/{gail-1.0,gtk-2.0,gtk-unix-print-2.0}, /usr/lib/gtk-2.0, /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.24.28, /usr/share/gtk-2.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gail-libgail-util,gdk2,gtk2}, and /usr/share/themes/{Default,Emacs,Raleigh}

Short Descriptions

gtk-builder-convert	converts glade files into XML files which can be loaded with GtkBuilder.
gtk-demo	demonstrates GTK+ 2 functionality and provides code for the examples.
gtk-query-immodules-2.0	collects information about loadable input method modules for GTK+ 2 and writes it to standard output.
gtk-update-icon-cache	creates mmap()able cache files for icon themes. Starting with gtk+-2.24.24, add the flag “--include-image-data” to this command, if you wish previous behavior, with image data in the cache.
`libgdk-x11-2.0.so`	contains functions that act as a wrapper around the low-level drawing and windowing functions provided by the underlying graphics system.
`libgtk-x11-2.0.so`	contains functions that provide an API to implement graphical user interfaces.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

GTK+-3.16.6

Introduction to GTK+ 3

The GTK+ 3 package contains libraries used for creating graphical user interfaces for applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/3.16/gtk+-3.16.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/3.16/gtk+-3.16.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: fc59e5c8b5a4585b60623dd708df400b
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 501 MB (with test suite)
Estimated build time: 6.1 SBU (with test suite)

GTK+ 3 Dependencies

Required

at-spi2-atk-2.16.0, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, and Pango-1.36.8

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1 (for tests), Colord-1.2.12, Cups-2.1.0, DocBook-utils-0.6.14, GTK-Doc-1.24, hicolor-icon-theme-0.15 (needed for tests), JSON-GLib-1.0.4, rest, libxkbcommon, and Wayland

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtk3

Installation of GTK+ 3

Note

GTK+ 3 will overwrite gtk-update-icon-cache from GTK+-2.24.28 if it is installed. There is nothing wrong about that assuming that both programs provide same functionality. If you wish to keep one from GTK+ 2 you can add --enable-gtk2-dependency to the configure command.

Install GTK+ 3 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr             \
            --sysconfdir=/etc         \
            --enable-broadway-backend \
            --enable-x11-backend      \
            --disable-wayland-backend &&
make

Some tests fail if /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled is not found. If you wish to run the test suite, create (or update) the file using the following command as the root user:

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

To test the results you need a graphical session, then issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

gtk-query-immodules-3.0 --update-cache

Note

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Command Explanations

--enable-broadway-backend: switch enables the HTML5 GTK backend.

--enable-x11-backend: switch enables the X11 GDK backend.

--disable-wayland-backend: switch disables the Wayland GDK backend because Wayland isn't available in BLFS.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring GTK+ 3

Config Files

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Configuration Information

GTK+ 3 themes change the way a GTK+ 3 application looks. An icon theme can be used to change the icons that appear on the application's toolbar. If you have installed a GTK+ 3 theme (eg gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2 or an icon theme (such as adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1) you can set your prefences in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini. Eg:

mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-3.0 &&
cat > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini << "EOF"
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome
EOF

There are many more themes available at http://gnome-look.org/ and other places.

Once you've settled on themes you like, you can (as the root user) make them the default system wide:

cat > /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini << "EOF"
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Clearwaita
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = elementary
EOF

Installed Programs: broadwayd, gtk3-demo, gtk3-demo-application, gtk3-icon-browser, gtk3-widget-factory, gtk-encode-symbolic-svg, gtk-launch, gtk-query-immodules-3.0, and gtk-update-icon-cache

Installed Libraries: libgailutil-3.so, libgdk-3.so, and libgtk-3.so

Installed Directories: /etc/gtk-3.0, /usr/include/{gail,gtk}-3.0, /usr/{lib,share}/gtk-3.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gail-libgail-util3,gdk3,gtk3}, and /usr/share/themes/{Default,Emacs}/gtk-3.0

Short Descriptions

broadwayd	provides support for displaying GTK+ 3 applications in a web browser, using HTML5 and web sockets.
gtk-encode-symbolic-svg	converts symbolic svg icons into specially prepared png files. GTK+ 3 can load and recolor these pngs, just like original svgs, but loading them is much faster.
gtk-launch	launches an application using the given name. The name should match application desktop file name, as residing in `/usr/share/application`, with or without the '.desktop' suffix.
gtk-query-immodules-3.0	collects information about loadable input method modules for GTK+ 3 and writes it to the default cache file location, or to standard output.
gtk-update-icon-cache	is an icon theme caching utility that creates mmap()able cache files for icon themes.
gtk3-demo	is a simple program that demonstrates some of the things that can be done with GTK+ 3
gtk3-demo-application	is a simple GTK+ 3 application.
gtk3-icon-browser	is a utility to explore the icons in the current icon theme. It shows icons in various sizes, their symbolic variants where available, as well as a description of the icon and its context.
gtk3-widget-factory	is a program to view GTK+ 3 themes and widgets.
`libgailutil-3.so`	contains functions that implements the accessibility interfaces defined by the GNOME Accessibility Toolkit.
`libgdk-3.so`	contains functions that act as a wrapper around the low-level drawing and windowing functions provided by the underlying graphics system.
`libgtk-3.so`	contains functions that provide an API to implement graphical user interfaces.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GTK Engines-2.20.2

Introduction to GTK Engines

The GTK Engines package contains eight themes/engines and two additional engines for GTK2.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk-engines/2.20/gtk-engines-2.20.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk-engines/2.20/gtk-engines-2.20.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5deb287bc6075dc21812130604c7dc4f
Download size: 676 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

GTK Engines Dependencies

Required

Optional

Lua-5.3.1 and Which-2.21 (required for test suite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtk-engines

Installation of GTK Engines

Install GTK Engines by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-lua --with-system-lua: Use these switches if you installed Lua and want to build Lua theming engine.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libclearlooks.so, libcrux-engine.so, libglide.so, libhcengine.so, libindustrial.so, libmist.so, libredmond95.so and libthinice.so (GTK-2 engines libraries)

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines, /usr/share/gtk-engines, /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks, /usr/share/themes/Crux, /usr/share/themes/Industrial, /usr/share/themes/Mist, /usr/share/themes/Redmond and /usr/share/themes/ThinIce

Installed Themes: Clearlooks, Crux, Industrial, Mist, Redmond and ThinIce

Short Descriptions

engine libraries

are manager systems for specific themes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Gtkmm-2.24.4

Introduction to Gtkmm

The Gtkmm package provides a C++ interface to GTK+ 2. It can be installed alongside Gtkmm-3.16.0 (the GTK+ 3 version) with no namespace conflicts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkmm/2.24/gtkmm-2.24.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkmm/2.24/gtkmm-2.24.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b9ac60c90959a71095f07f84dd39961d
Download size: 10 MB
Estimated disk space required: 296 MB
Estimated build time: 3.6 SBU

Gtkmm Dependencies

Required

Atkmm-2.22.7, GTK+-2.24.28 and Pangomm-2.36.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtkmm2

Installation of Gtkmm

Install Gtkmm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libgdkmm-2.4.so and libgtkmm-2.4.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gdkmm-2.4, /usr/include/gtkmm-2.4, /usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4, /usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4, /usr/share/devhelp/books/gtkmm-2.4, and /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-2.4

Short Descriptions

`libgdkmm-2.4.so`	contains the GDK API classes.
`libgtkmm-2.4.so`	contains the GTK+ API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Gtkmm-3.16.0

Introduction to Gtkmm

The Gtkmm package provides a C++ interface to GTK+ 3.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkmm/3.16/gtkmm-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkmm/3.16/gtkmm-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: daa0c2407e50ff0602236c334c775717
Download size: 10.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 316 MB (Additional 16 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU (Additional 0.9 SBU for tests)

Gtkmm Dependencies

Required

Atkmm-2.22.7, GTK+-3.16.6, and Pangomm-2.36.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtkmm3

Installation of Gtkmm

Install Gtkmm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libgdkmm-3.0.so and libgtkmm-3.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gdkmm-3.0, /usr/include/gtkmm-3.0, /usr/lib/gdkmm-3.0, /usr/lib/gtkmm-3.0, /usr/share/devhelp/books/gtkmm-3.0, and /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0

Short Descriptions

`libgdkmm-3.0.so`	contains the GDK API classes.
`libgtkmm-3.0.so`	contains the GTK+ 3 API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

gtksourceview-3.16.1

Introduction to GtkSourceView

The GtkSourceView package contains libraries used for extending the GTK+ text functions to include syntax highlighting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtksourceview/3.16/gtksourceview-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtksourceview/3.16/gtksourceview-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e727db8202d23a54b54b69ebc66f5331
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 65 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (additional less than 0.1 SBU for the tests)

GtkSourceView Dependencies

Required

Optional

Vala-0.28.1 Glade and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gtksourceview

Installation of GtkSourceView

Install GtkSourceView by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue make check. The tests need to be run in a graphical environment.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgtksourceview-3.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gtksourceview-3.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gtksourceview-3.0, and /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0

Short Descriptions

libgtksourceview-3.0.so

contains function extensions for the GtkTextView widget.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Imlib2-1.4.7

Introduction to Imlib2

Imlib2 is a graphics library for fast file loading, saving, rendering and manipulation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/files/imlib2-src/1.4.7/imlib2-1.4.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f2f1418c376da6125453f90f2d58d938
Download size: 869 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Imlib2 Dependencies

Required

Optional

libpng-1.6.18, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, LibTIFF-4.0.5, giflib-5.1.1, and libid3tag

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/imlib2

Installation of Imlib2

Install Imlib2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/imlib2-1.4.7 &&
install -v -m644    doc/{*.gif,index.html} \
                    /usr/share/doc/imlib2-1.4.7

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: imlib2_bumpmap, imlib2_colorspace, imlib2-config, imlib2_conv, imlib2_grab, imlib2_poly, imlib2_show, imlib2_test, and imlib2_view

Installed Libraries: libImlib2.so and various filters and image loader modules.

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/imlib2, /usr/share/doc/imlib2-1.4.7, and /usr/share/imlib2

Short Descriptions

imlib2_bumpmap	is to test the imlib2 bumpmap function.
imlib2_colorspace	is to test the imlib2 colorspace function.
imlib2-config	is a script used to obtain imlib2 building informations.
imlib2_poly	is to test the imlib2 poly function.
imlib2_conv	converts images between formats.
imlib2_grab	take screenshots.
imlib2_show	is an imlib2 program test.
imlib2_test	is an imlib2 program test.
imlib2_view	diplays images files.
`libImlib2.so`	provides the functions for programs to deal with various image data formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

keybinder2-0.3.0

Introduction to keybinder2

The keybinder2 package contains a utility library registering global X keyboard shortcuts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/keybinder/keybinder-0.3.0.tar.gz/2a0aed62ba14d1bf5c79707e20cb4059/keybinder-0.3.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2a0aed62ba14d1bf5c79707e20cb4059
Download size: 372 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

keybinder2 Dependencies

Required

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Lua-5.3.1 (currently broken, because older lua version is required)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/keybinder2

Installation of keybinder2

Install keybinder2 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lua &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-lua: Use this switch to disable Lua-5.3.1 bindings (currently broken, because older lua version is required).

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libkeybinder.so and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keybinder/_keybinder.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keybinder and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/keybinder

Short Descriptions

libkeybinder.so

is the library that registers global X keyboard shortcuts.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

libdrm-2.4.64

Introduction to libdrm

libdrm provides a user space library for accessing the DRM, direct rendering manager, on operating systems that support the ioctl interface. libdrm is a low-level library, typically used by graphics drivers such as the Mesa DRI drivers, the X drivers, libva and similar projects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.64.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 543b2d28359cf33974fa0e772dd61732
Download size: 628 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (0.8 SBU, with tests)

libdrm Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1 and libxslt-1.1.28 (to build manual pages), and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdrm

Installation of libdrm

Install libdrm by running the following commands:

sed -e "/pthread-stubs/d" \
    -i configure.ac &&
autoreconf -fiv     &&

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-udev \
            --disable-valgrind &&
make

To check the results, issue make check. Tests may hang for unknown reasons. If nouveau threaded test hangs, you can disable it with sed -i 's/^TESTS/#&/' tests/nouveau/Makefile.in.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e "/pthread-stubs/d" -i configure.ac: This sed removes dependency on libpthread-stubs package which is useless on Linux.

--enable-udev: This parameter enables support for using Udev instead of mknod.

--disable-valgrind: This parameter fixes a hard dependency on Valgrind.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libdrm_amdgpu.so, libdrm_intel.so, libdrm_nouveau.so, libdrm_radeon.so, libdrm.so, and libkms.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lib{drm,kms}

Short Descriptions

`libdrm_amdgpu.so`	contains the AMDGPU specific Direct Rendering Manager functions.
`libdrm_intel.so`	contains the Intel specific Direct Rendering Manager functions.
`libdrm_nouveau.so`	contains the open source nVidia (Nouveau) specific Direct Rendering Manager functions.
`libdrm.so`	contains the Direct Rendering Manager API functions.
`libdrm_radeon.so`	contains the AMD Radeon specific Direct Rendering Manager functions.
`libkms.so`	contains API functions for kernel mode setting abstraction.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libepoxy-1.3.1

Introduction to libepoxy

libepoxy is a library for handling OpenGL function pointer management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy/releases/download/v1.3.1/libepoxy-1.3.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 96f6620a9b005a503e7b44b0b528287d
Download size: 804 KB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB (with the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with the tests)

libepoxy Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libepoxy

Installation of libepoxy

Install libepoxy by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libepoxy.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/epoxy

Short Descriptions

libepoxy.so

contains API functions for handling OpenGL function pointer management.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

libglade-2.6.4

Introduction to libglade

The libglade package contains libglade libraries. These are useful for loading Glade interface files in a program at runtime.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libglade/2.6/libglade-2.6.4.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libglade/2.6/libglade-2.6.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d1776b40f4e166b5e9c107f1c8fe4139
Download size: 348 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libglade Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.9.2 and GTK+-2.24.28

Optional

Python-2.7.10 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libglade

Installation of libglade

Install libglade by running the following commands:

sed -i '/DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED/d' glade/Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. One of the tests, test-convert, is known to fail.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i '/DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED/d': Some of the glib functions that libglade uses were declared deprecated in glib-2.30. This sed removes the G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED CFLAG.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: libglade-convert (requires python)

Installed Library: libglade-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include/libglade-2.0/glade,share/{gtk-doc/html/libglade, xml/libglade}}

Short Descriptions

libglade-convert	is used to convert old Glade interface files to Glade-2.0 standards.
`libglade-2.0.so`	contain the functions necessary to load Glade interface files.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

libnotify-0.7.6

Introduction to libnotify

The libnotify library is used to send desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a4997019d08f46f3bf57b78e6f795a59
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4,9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libnotify Dependencies

Required

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

notification-daemon-3.16.1 or xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4

Required (runtime)

Note

GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libnotify

Installation of libnotify

Install libnotify by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: notify-send

Installed Library: libnotify.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libnotify and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify

Short Descriptions

notify-send	is a command used to send notifications.
`libnotify.so`	contains the libnotify API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libxklavier-5.4

Introduction to libxklavier

The libxklavier package contains a utility library for X keyboard.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/libxklavier/libxklavier-5.4.tar.bz2/13af74dcb6011ecedf1e3ed122bd31fa/libxklavier-5.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 13af74dcb6011ecedf1e3ed122bd31fa
Download size: 384 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libxklavier Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, ISO Codes-3.59, libxml2-2.9.2 and Xorg Libraries

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Vala-0.28.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxklavier

Installation of libxklavier

Install libxklavier by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-xkb-base=$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/xkb: Use this switch if the $XORG_PREFIX is anything other than /usr.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxklavier.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libxklavier and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxklavier

Short Descriptions

libxklavier.so

contains XKB utility functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Pango-1.36.8

Introduction to Pango

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. It can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.36/pango-1.36.8.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pango/1.36/pango-1.36.8.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 217a9a753006275215fa9fa127760ece
Download size: 1012 KB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB (additional 2 MB to rebuild and install the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU to rebuild and install the API documentation)

Pango Dependencies

Required

Fontconfig-2.11.1 (must be built with FreeType-2.6 using Harfbuzz-1.0.3) and GLib-2.44.1

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pango

Installation of Pango

Install Pango by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. One test fails for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

pango-querymodules --update-cache

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring Pango

Config Files

/etc/pango/pangorc, ~/.pangorc and the file specified in the environment variable PANGO_RC_FILE

Configuration Information

The Pango module path is specified by the key Pango/ModulesPath in the Pango config database, which is read from the config files listed above.

Installed Programs: pango-querymodules and pango-view

Installed Libraries: libpango-1.0.so, libpangocairo-1.0.so, libpangoft2-1.0.so, and libpangoxft-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /etc/pango, /usr/include/pango-1.0, /usr/lib/pango, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/pango

Short Descriptions

pango-querymodules	is a module registration utility that collects information about Pango loadable modules.
pango-view	renders a given file through Pango for viewing purposes.
`libpango-1.0.so`	contain low level layout rendering routines, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text, and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Pangomm-2.36.0

Introduction to Pangomm

The Pangomm package provides a C++ interface to Pango.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pangomm/2.36/pangomm-2.36.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/pangomm/2.36/pangomm-2.36.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 62910723211d86ab825b666b479871c9
Download size: 756 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Pangomm Dependencies

Required

Cairomm-1.10.0, GLibmm-2.44.0 and Pango-1.36.8

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pangomm

Installation of Pangomm

Install Pangomm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libpangomm-1.4.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/pangomm-1.4, /usr/lib/pangomm-1.4, /usr/share/devhelp/books/pangomm-1.4, and /usr/share/doc/pangomm-1.4

Short Descriptions

libpangomm-1.4.so

contains the Pango API classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Qt-4.8.7

Introduction to Qt4

Qt4 is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) (in which cases Qt4 is classified as a widget toolkit), and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. One of the major users of Qt is KDE4.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.7/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d990ee66bf7ab0c785589776f35ba6ad
Download size: 230 MB
Estimated disk space required: 2.3 GB
Estimated build time: 12 SBU, using parallelism=4

Additional Downloads

Recommended package: http://download.kde.org/stable/qtwebkit-2.3/2.3.4/src/qtwebkit-2.3.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 42ef76d0cf7d0c611ef83418e9f297ff
Download size: 50 MB
Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/qtwebkit-2.3.4-gcc5-1.patch

Qt Dependencies

Required

Optional

Cups-2.1.0, GTK+-2.24.28 (GTK+ 2 theme support), MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, PulseAudio-6.0, and unixODBC-2.3.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qt4

Qt Installation Alternatives

The installation of Qt presents several challenges and choices. Complicating the Qt installation is the fact that there are two versions, Qt4 and Qt5, that have executable programs with identical names. If both packages are installed on one system, the only methods to manage which set of programs is used is to either control the users' PATH or to rename files either directly or via symbolic links. Both packages cannot be installed in the same directory.

If you are only going to install one of the Qt versions, the choice of installation methods is easier. You can either install the components in the several directories of the /usr hierarchy or install the entire package in a separate directory of your choice.

If both versions of Qt are to be installed, one or both versions need to be installed in a separate directory. For the purposes here we use the /opt directory. The selection of which version is being used by individual users on a system is controlled by the PATH variable. Other systems can be designed, but the BLFS editors find the PATH method easiest.

The advantage of installing in /usr is that no updates to the /etc/ld.so.conf or /etc/man_db.conf files are required. The package files are distributed within several subdirectories of the /usr hierarchy. This is the method that most commercial distributions use. The disadvantage for BLFS users is that this Qt instance cannot be upgraded while it is in use. For instance, it cannot be upgraded from a running KDE environment. It also precludes having multiple versions of Qt on your system and does not allow reverting to an existing, known working instance of Qt.

The advantage of installing Qt in a custom directory such as /opt/qt-4.8.7 or /opt/qt-5.5.0 is that it keeps all the package files consolidated in a dedicated directory hierarchy. By using this method, an update can be made without overwriting a previous installation and users can easily revert to a previous version by changing one symbolic link or merely changing the PATH variable. It also allows a developer to maintain multiple versions of Qt4 or Qt5 for testing.

Setting the installation prefix

Installing in /opt/qt4

The BLFS editors recommend installing Qt4 in a directory other than /usr, ie /opt/qt4. To do this, set the following environment variable:

export QT4PREFIX=/opt/qt4

Tip

Sometimes, the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/qt4 is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/qt-4.8.7. To create a versioned Qt4 directory, you may rename the directory and create a symlink:

mkdir -pv /opt/qt-4.8.7
ln -sfnv qt-4.8.7 /opt/qt4

Later on, you may want to install other versions of Qt4. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/qt4 as the prefix again. Which version of Qt4 you use depends only on where the symlink points.

Installation of Qt4

Warning

If Qt4 is being reinstalled into the same directory as an existing instance, run the commands done by root, such as make install, from a console or non-Qt4 based window manager. It overwrites Qt4 libraries that should not be in use during the install process.

Caution

If you did not install some of the recommended dependencies, examine ./configure --help output to check how to disable them or use internal versions bundled in the source tarball.

Note

The build time and space required for the full Qt4 is quite long. The instructions below do not build the tutorials and examples. Removing the -nomake lines will create a complete build.

Note

The BLFS editors do not recommend installing Qt4 into the /usr hierarchy because it becomes difficult to find components and to update to a new version. If you do want to install Qt4 in /usr, the directories need to be specified explicitly. In this case, set QT4PREFIX=/usr and add the following to the configure arguments below:

-bindir         /usr/bin/qt4                \
-plugindir      /usr/lib/qt4/plugins        \
-importdir      /usr/lib/qt4/imports        \
-headerdir      /usr/include/qt4            \
-datadir        /usr/share/qt4              \
-docdir         /usr/share/doc/qt4          \
-translationdir /usr/share/qt4/translations \
-demosdir       /usr/share/doc/qt4/demos    \
-examplesdir    /usr/share/doc/qt4/examples \

Install Qt4 by running the following commands:

./configure -prefix           $QT4PREFIX \
            -sysconfdir       /etc/xdg   \
            -confirm-license             \
            -opensource                  \
            -release                     \
            -dbus-linked                 \
            -openssl-linked              \
            -system-sqlite               \
            -no-phonon                   \
            -no-phonon-backend           \
            -no-webkit                   \
            -no-openvg                   \
            -nomake demos                \
            -nomake examples             \
            -optimized-qmake             &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now as the root user:

make install &&
rm -rf $QT4PREFIX/tests

Remove references to the build directory from the installed .pc files by running the following command as the root user:

find $QT4PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig -name "*.pc" -exec perl -pi -e "s, -L$PWD/?\S+,,g" {} \;

Remove references to the build directory in the installed library dependency (prl) files by running the following command as the root user:

for file in $QT4PREFIX/lib/libQt*.prl; do
     sed -r -e '/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d'    \
            -e 's/(QMAKE_PRL_LIBS =).*/\1/' \
            -i $file
done

Building Qtwebkit

The bundled version of qtwebkit in the main package requires an obsolete version of the gstreamer package. To overcome this, we use a more recent version available separately.

To start, the upstream package is unusual in that it does not come in a directory, so we have to create one before unpacking the tarball. After that, we need to make the package compatible with the latest version of gcc and use an included script to actually complete the build. To do this, run the following instructions:

mkdir qtwebkit-2.3.4 &&
pushd qtwebkit-2.3.4 &&

tar -xf ../../qtwebkit-2.3.4.tar.gz             &&
patch -Np1 -i ../../qtwebkit-2.3.4-gcc5-1.patch &&

QTDIR=$QT4PREFIX PATH=$PATH:$QT4PREFIX/bin \
Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --qt            \
                           --no-webkit2    \
                           --prefix=$QT4PREFIX

If desired, the build process can use parallel processors by adding the option --makeargs=-j<number> to the build-webkit instruction above.

To install the package, as the root user:

make -C WebKitBuild/Release install

Installing Auxillary Files

The following instructions assume that your working directory is the top of the Qt4 source tree:

popd

Install images and create the menu entries for installed applications. The QT4BINDIR variable is used here to point to the directory for the executable programs. If you have changed the bindir above, QT4BINDIR will need to be adjusted below. Be sure that the QT4BINDIR variable is defined in root's environment and as the root user:

QT4BINDIR=$QT4PREFIX/bin

install -v -Dm644 src/gui/dialogs/images/qtlogo-64.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/qt4logo.png       &&

install -v -Dm644 tools/assistant/tools/assistant/images/assistant-128.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/assistant-qt4.png &&

install -v -Dm644 tools/designer/src/designer/images/designer.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/designer-qt4.png  &&

install -v -Dm644 tools/linguist/linguist/images/icons/linguist-128-32.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/linguist-qt4.png  &&

install -v -Dm644 tools/qdbus/qdbusviewer/images/qdbusviewer-128.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/qdbusviewer-qt4.png &&

install -dm755 /usr/share/applications &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/assistant-qt4.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt4 Assistant
Comment=Shows Qt4 documentation and examples
Exec=$QT4BINDIR/assistant
Icon=assistant-qt4.png
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;Documentation;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/designer-qt4.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt4 Designer
Comment=Design GUIs for Qt4 applications
Exec=$QT4BINDIR/designer
Icon=designer-qt4.png
MimeType=application/x-designer;
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/linguist-qt4.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt4 Linguist
Comment=Add translations to Qt4 applications
Exec=$QT4BINDIR/linguist
Icon=linguist-qt4.png
MimeType=text/vnd.trolltech.linguist;application/x-linguist;
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/qdbusviewer-qt4.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt4 QDbusViewer
GenericName=D-Bus Debugger
Comment=Debug D-Bus applications
Exec=$QT4BINDIR/qdbusviewer
Icon=qdbusviewer-qt4.png
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;Debugger;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/qtconfig-qt4.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt4 Config
Comment=Configure Qt4 behavior, styles, fonts
Exec=$QT4BINDIR/qtconfig
Icon=qt4logo.png
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Settings;
EOF

Some packages such as VLC-2.2.1 look for certain executables with a -qt4 suffix. Run the following command as the root user to create the necessary symlinks:

for file in moc uic rcc qmake lconvert lrelease lupdate; do
  ln -sfrvn $QT4BINDIR/$file /usr/bin/$file-qt4
done

Command Explanations

-confirm-license: Accept license without prompting user during configuration.

-opensource: Install the opensource version of Qt.

-release: This switch disables building with debugging symbols.

-nomake examples -nomake demos: These switches disable building programs that are only of interest to a developer using Qt.

-system-sqlite: This switch enables use the system version of SQLite.

-no-nis: This switch disables support for Network Information Service (NIS) which has been deprecated in recent versions of Glibc.

-no-phonon -no-phonon-backend: These switches disable building of the bundled Phonon library. Better version is provided by phonon-4.8.3 package.

-dbus-linked -openssl-linked: These switches enable explicit linking of the D-Bus and OpenSSL libraries into Qt libraries instead of dlopen()-ing them.

-no-openvg: This switch disables OpenVG support in Qt.

-optimized-qmake: This switch enables building of the optimized qmake program.

-no-dbus: Use this switch if you don't have D-Bus installed.

Configuring Qt

Configuration Information

If you installed Qt in /usr, create an environment variable needed by certain packages. As the root user:

cat > /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh

QT4DIR=/usr
QTDIR=$QT4DIR
export QT4DIR QTDIR

# End /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh
EOF

If you installed Qt4 in a location other than /usr, you need to update the following configuration files so that Qt is correctly found by other packages and system processes.

As the root user, update the /etc/ld.so.conf file and the dynamic linker's run-time cache file:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF
# Begin Qt addition

/opt/qt4/lib

# End Qt addition
EOF

ldconfig

As the root user, create the /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh file:

cat > /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh

QT4DIR=/opt/qt4
QTDIR=$QT4DIR

pathappend $QT4DIR/bin           PATH
pathappend $QT4DIR/lib/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH

export QT4DIR QTDIR

# End /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh
EOF

Choosing Qt Program Versions

If you install both Qt4 and Qt5, you can use some simple scripts to select the currently active set of Qt programs. As the root user, create the following scripts:

cat > /usr/bin/setqt4 << 'EOF'
if [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x/usr" ] && [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x" ]; then pathremove  $QT5DIR/bin; fi
if [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x/usr" ]; then pathprepend $QT4DIR/bin; fi
echo $PATH
EOF

cat > /usr/bin/setqt5 << 'EOF'
if [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x/usr" ] && [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x" ]; then pathremove  $QT4DIR/bin; fi
if [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x/usr" ]; then pathprepend $QT5DIR/bin; fi
echo $PATH
EOF

You should now be able to use the appropriate Qt version by running source setqt4 or source setqt5 as desired. (Setting the PATH wont work in a subshell.) Another technique that can be used is to create appropriate alias additions to your ~/.bashrc like alias setqt4='source setqt4'.

Installed Programs: assistant, designer, lconvert, linguist, lrelease, lupdate, moc, pixeltool, qcollectiongenerator, qdbuscpp2xml, qdbus, qdbusviewer, qdbusxml2cpp, qdoc3, qhelpconverter, qhelpgenerator, qmake, qmlplugindump, qmlviewer, qt3to4, qtconfig, qttracereplay, rcc, uic3, uic, xmlpatterns, and xmlpatternsvalidator

Installed Libraries: libQtUiTools.a, libQt3Support.so, libQtCLucene.so, libQtCore.so, libQtDBus.so, libQtDeclarative.so, libQtDesignerComponents.so, libQtDesigner.so, libQtGui.so, libQtHelp.so, libQtMultimedia.so, libQtNetwork.so, libQtOpenGL.so, libQtScript.so, libQtScriptTools.so, libQtSql.so, libQtSvg.so, libQtTest.so, libQtWebKit.so, libQtXmlPatterns.so, and libQtXml.so, and several plugins under /opt/qt4/imports and /opt/qt4/plugins

Installed Directories: /usr/include/qt4, /usr/lib/qt4, /usr/share/doc/qt4, and /usr/share/qt4 OR /opt/qt4 and /opt/qt-4.8.7

Short Descriptions

assistant	is a tool for presenting on-line documentation.
designer	is a full-fledged GUI builder. It includes powerful features such as preview mode, automatic widget layout, support for custom widgets, and an advanced property editor.
lconvert	is part of Qt4's Linguist tool chain. It can be used as a standalone tool to convert and filter translation data files.
linguist	provides support for translating applications into local languages.
lrelease	is a simple command line tool. It reads a Qt project file and produces message files used by the application.
lupdate	reads a Qt project file, finds the translatable strings in the specified source, header and Qt Designer interface files, and produces or updates the translation files listed in the project file.
moc	generates Qt meta object support code.
pixeltool	is a desktop magnifier and as you move your mouse around the screen it will show the magnified contents in its window.
qcollectiongenerator	is a tool used to create a Qt Help Collection.
qdbuscpp2xml	takes a C++ source file and generates a D-Bus XML definition of the interface.
qdbus	lists available services, object paths, methods, signals, and properties of objects on a bus.
qdbusviewer	is a graphical D-Bus browser.
qdbusxml2cpp	is a tool that can be used to parse interface descriptions and produce static code representing those interfaces,
qdoc3	is a tool used by Qt Developers to generate documentation for software projects.
qhelpconverter	is a tool used to convert files to Qt help format.
qhelpgenerator	is a tool used to generate a Qt compressed help file.
qmake	uses information stored in project files to determine what should go in the makefiles it generates.
qmlplugindump	is a tool to create a qmltypes file.
qmlviewer	is a tool for loading QML documents that makes it easy to quickly develop and debug QML applications.
qt3to4	qt3to4 is a tool to help update Qt3 code to Qt4.
qtconfig	is used to customize the appearance of Qt applications.
qttracereplay	is a tool to replay all drawing operations recording with -graphicssystem trace into a trace buffer.
rcc	is a resource compiler used in conjunction with designer.
uic	is a Qt user interface compiler.
uic3	is a tool to generate Qt4 code out of user interface files generated by the Qt3 version of designer.
xmlpatterns	provides support for XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and XML Schema validation.
xmlpatternsvalidator	is a tool used to validate XML documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 08:00:47 -0700

Qt-5.5.0

Introduction to Qt5

Qt5 is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) (in which cases Qt5 is classified as a widget toolkit), and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. One of the major users of Qt is KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.5/5.5.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.5.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 65d5282f3dee0336da9ed1f77148952f
Download size: 305 MB
Estimated disk space required: 7.3 GB (184 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 90 SBU

Qt5 Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.0.29, Certificate Authority Certificates, Cups-2.1.0, D-Bus-1.10.0 (required for QtWebKit), GLib-2.44.1, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (QtWebKit HTML5 Video Support), ICU-55.1 (required for QtWebKit), JasPer-1.900.1, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libmng-2.0.3, libpng-1.6.18, LibTIFF-4.0.5, libwebp-0.4.3, MesaLib-10.6.6, mtdev-1.1.5, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, PCRE-8.37, SQLite-3.8.11.1, Ruby-2.2.3 (required for QtWebKit), xcb-util-image-0.4.0, xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, and xcb-util-wm-0.4.1

Optional

GeoClue-0.12.0, GTK+-2.24.28 (GTK+ Theme Support), Harfbuzz-1.0.3, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, PulseAudio-6.0, unixODBC-2.3.2, IBus, and libxkbcommon

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qt5

Qt Installation Alternatives

Setting the installation prefix

Installing in /opt/qt5

The BLFS editors recommend installing Qt5 in a directory other than /usr, ie /opt/qt5. To do this, set the following environment variable:

export QT5PREFIX=/opt/qt5

Tip

Sometimes, the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/qt5 is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/qt-5.5.0. To create a versioned Qt5 directory, you may rename the directory and create a symlink:

mkdir /opt/qt-5.5.0
ln -sfnv qt-5.5.0 /opt/qt5

Later on, you may want to install other versions of Qt5. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/qt5 as the prefix again. Which version of Qt5 you use depends only on where the symlink points.

Installation of Qt5

Warning

If Qt5 is being reinstalled into the same directory as an existing instance, run the commands done by root, such as make install, from a console or non-Qt5 based window manager. It overwrites Qt5 libraries that should not be in use during the install process.

Caution

If you did not install some of the recommended dependencies, examine ./configure --help output to check how to disable them or use internal versions bundled in the source tarball.

Note

The build time and space required for the full Qt5 is quite long. The instructions below do not build the tutorials and examples. Removing the -nomake line will create a complete build.

Note

The BLFS editors do not recommend installing Qt5 into the /usr hierarchy because it becomes difficult to find components and to update to a new version. If you do want to install Qt5 in /usr, the directories need to be specified explicitly. In this case, set QT5PREFIX=/usr and add the following to the configure arguments below:

-bindir         /usr/bin/qt5                \
-plugindir      /usr/lib/qt5/plugins        \
-importdir      /usr/lib/qt5/imports        \
-headerdir      /usr/include/qt5            \
-datadir        /usr/share/qt5              \
-docdir         /usr/share/doc/qt5          \
-translationdir /usr/share/qt5/translations \
-demosdir       /usr/share/doc/qt5/demos    \
-examplesdir    /usr/share/doc/qt5/examples \

Install Qt5 by running the following commands:

./configure -prefix         $QT5PREFIX \
            -sysconfdir     /etc/xdg   \
            -confirm-license           \
            -opensource                \
            -dbus-linked               \
            -openssl-linked            \
            -system-harfbuzz           \
            -system-sqlite             \
            -nomake examples           \
            -no-rpath                  \
            -optimized-qmake           \
            -skip qtwebengine          &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Remove references to the build directory from the installed .pc files by running the following command as the root user:

find $QT5PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig -name "*.pc" -exec perl -pi -e "s, -L$PWD/?\S+,,g" {} \;

Remove references to the build directory from installed library dependency (prl) and profile include (pri) files by running the following commands as the root user:

find $QT5PREFIX -name qt_lib_bootstrap_private.pri \
   -exec sed -i -e "s:$PWD/qtbase:/$QT5PREFIX/lib/:g" {} \; &&

find $QT5PREFIX -name \*.prl \
   -exec sed -i -e '/^QMAKE_PRL_BUILD_DIR/d' {} \;

Install images and create the menu entries for installed applications. The QT5BINDIR variable is used here to point to the directory for the executable programs. If you have changed the bindir above, QT5BINDIR will need to be adjusted below. Be sure that the QT5BINDIR variable is defined in root's environment and as the root user:

QT5BINDIR=$QT5PREFIX/bin

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/pixmaps/                  &&

install -v -Dm644 qttools/src/assistant/assistant/images/assistant-128.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/assistant-qt5.png &&

install -v -Dm644 qttools/src/designer/src/designer/images/designer.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/designer-qt5.png  &&

install -v -Dm644 qttools/src/linguist/linguist/images/icons/linguist-128-32.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/linguist-qt5.png  &&

install -v -Dm644 qttools/src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/images/qdbusviewer-128.png \
                  /usr/share/pixmaps/qdbusviewer-qt5.png &&

install -dm755 /usr/share/applications &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/assistant-qt5.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt5 Assistant 
Comment=Shows Qt5 documentation and examples
Exec=$QT5BINDIR/assistant
Icon=assistant-qt5.png
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;Documentation;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/designer-qt5.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt5 Designer
GenericName=Interface Designer
Comment=Design GUIs for Qt5 applications
Exec=$QT5BINDIR/designer
Icon=designer-qt5.png
MimeType=application/x-designer;
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/linguist-qt5.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt5 Linguist
Comment=Add translations to Qt5 applications
Exec=$QT5BINDIR/linguist
Icon=linguist-qt5.png
MimeType=text/vnd.trolltech.linguist;application/x-linguist;
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;
EOF

cat > /usr/share/applications/qdbusviewer-qt5.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Qt5 QDbusViewer 
GenericName=D-Bus Debugger
Comment=Debug D-Bus applications
Exec=$QT5BINDIR/qdbusviewer
Icon=qdbusviewer-qt5.png
Terminal=false
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Qt;Development;Debugger;
EOF

Some packages such as VLC-2.2.1 look for certain executables with a -qt5 suffix. Run the following command as the root user to create the necessary symlinks:

for file in moc uic rcc qmake lconvert lrelease lupdate; do
  ln -sfrvn $QT5BINDIR/$file /usr/bin/$file-qt5
done

Command Explanations

-confirm-license: Accept license without prompting user during configuration.

-opensource: Install the opensource version of Qt.

-release: This switch disables building with debugging symbols.

-nomake examples: This switch disables building of the example programs included in the source tarball. Remove it if you want to build them.

-system-sqlite: This switch enables use of the system version of SQLite.

-no-nis: This switch disables support for Network Information Service (NIS) which has been removed from recent versions of Glibc.

-dbus-linked -openssl-linked: These switches enable explicit linking of the D-Bus and OpenSSL libraries into Qt5 libraries instead of dlopen()-ing them.

-skip qtwebengine: This switch disables building the Qt Web Engine. It is not presently used by any applications. Note that building the Qt Web Engine increases the build time and the installed size by almost 50%.

-optimized-qmake: This switch enables building of the optimized qmake program.

-system-harfbuzz: This switch enables use of the system version of Harfbuzz which fixes some font rendering issues in Qt5 applications but doesn't have all the features that the included one has.

Configuring Qt5

Configuration Information

If you installed Qt5 in /usr, create an environment variable needed by certain packages. As the root user:

cat > /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh << EOF
# Begin /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh

QT5DIR=/usr
export QT5DIR

# End /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh
EOF

If you installed Qt5 in a location other than /usr, you need to update the following configuration files so that Qt5 is correctly found by other packages and system processes.

As the root user, update the /etc/ld.so.conf file and the dynamic linker's run-time cache file:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF
# Begin Qt addition

/opt/qt5/lib

# End Qt addition
EOF

ldconfig

As the root user, create the /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh file:

cat > /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh

QT5DIR=/opt/qt5

pathappend $QT5DIR/bin           PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/lib/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH

export QT5DIR

# End /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh
EOF

Choosing Qt Program Versions

If you install both Qt4 and Qt5, you can use some simple scripts to select the currently active set of Qt programs. As the root user, create the following scripts:

cat > /usr/bin/setqt4 << 'EOF'
if [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x/usr" ] && [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x" ]; then pathremove  $QT5DIR/bin; fi
if [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x/usr" ]; then pathprepend $QT4DIR/bin; fi
echo $PATH
EOF

cat > /usr/bin/setqt5 << 'EOF'
if [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x/usr" ] && [ "x$QT4DIR" != "x" ]; then pathremove  $QT4DIR/bin; fi
if [ "x$QT5DIR" != "x/usr" ]; then pathprepend $QT5DIR/bin; fi
echo $PATH
EOF

Installed Programs: assistant, designer, lconvert, linguist, lrelease, lupdate, moc, pixeltool, qcollectiongenerator, qdbuscpp2xml, qdbus, qdbusviewer, qdbusxml2cpp, qdoc, qhelpconverter, qhelpgenerator, qlalr, qmake, qml1plugindump, qmlbundle, qmleasing, qmlimportscanner, qmllint, qmlmin, qmlplugindump, qmlprofiler, qml, qmlscene, qmltestrunner, qmlviewer, qtdiag, qtpaths, rcc, syncqt.pl, uic, xmlpatterns, and xmlpatternsvalidator

Installed Libraries: libEnginio.so, libqgsttools_p.so, libQt5Bluetooth.so, libQt5Bootstrap.a, libQt5CLucene.so, libQt5Concurrent.so, libQt5Core.so, libQt5DBus.so, libQt5Declarative.so, libQt5DesignerComponents.so, libQt5Designer.so, libQt5Gui.so, libQt5Help.so, libQt5Location.so, libQt5MultimediaQuick_p.so, libQt5Multimedia.so, libQt5MultimediaWidgets.so, libQt5Network.so, libQt5Nfc.so, libQt5OpenGLExtensions.a, libQt5OpenGL.so, libQt5PlatformSupport.a, libQt5Positioning.so, libQt5PrintSupport.so, libQt5QmlDevTools.a, libQt5Qml.so, libQt5QuickParticles.so, libQt5Quick.so, libQt5QuickTest.so, libQt5QuickWidgets.so, libQt5Script.so, libQt5ScriptTools.so, libQt5Sensors.so, libQt5SerialPort.so, libQt5Sql.so, libQt5Svg.so, libQt5Test.so, libQt5UiTools.a, libQt5WebChannel.so, libQt5WebEngineCore.so, libQt5WebEngine.so, libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so, libQt5WebKit.so, libQt5WebKitWidgets.so, libQt5WebSockets.so, libQt5Widgets.so, libQt5X11Extras.so, libQt5XmlPatterns.so, libQt5Xml.so, and several plugins under /opt/qt5/{imports,plugins,qml}

Installed Directories: /usr/include/qt5, /usr/lib/qt5, /usr/share/doc/qt5, and /usr/share/qt5 OR /opt/qt5 and /opt/qt-5.5.0

Short Descriptions

assistant	is a tool for presenting on-line documentation.
designer	is a full-fledged GUI builder. It includes powerful features such as preview mode, automatic widget layout, support for custom widgets, and an advanced property editor.
lconvert	is part of Qt5's Linguist tool chain. It can be used as a standalone tool to convert and filter translation data files.
linguist	provides support for translating applications into local languages.
lrelease	is a simple command line tool. It reads a Qt project file and produces message files used by the application.
lupdate	reads a Qt project file, finds the translatable strings in the specified source, header and Qt Designer interface files, and produces or updates the translation files listed in the project file.
moc	generates Qt meta object support code.
pixeltool	is a desktop magnifier and as you move your mouse around the screen it will show the magnified contents in its window.
qcollectiongenerator	is a tool used to create a Qt Help Collection.
qdbuscpp2xml	takes a C++ source file and generates a D-Bus XML definition of the interface.
qdbus	lists available services, object paths, methods, signals, and properties of objects on a bus.
qdbusviewer	is a graphical D-Bus browser.
qdbusxml2cpp	is a tool that can be used to parse interface descriptions and produce static code representing those interfaces,
qdoc	is a tool used by Qt Developers to generate documentation for software projects.
qhelpconverter	is a tool used to convert files to Qt help format.
qhelpgenerator	is a tool used to generate a Qt compressed help file.
qlalr	is a tool used to generate code from grammar specifications.
qmake	uses information stored in project files to determine what should go in the makefiles it generates.
qml1plugindump	is a symlink to qtchooser.
qmlbundle	is a tool used to manage QML bundle.
qmleasing	is a tool used to define the easing curves using an interactive curve editor.
qmlimportscanner	is a tool used to import QML files from a directory.
qmllint	is a syntax checker for QML files.
qmlmin	removes comments and layout characters from a QML file.
qmlplugindump	is a tool to create a qmltypes file.
qmlprofiler	is a tool used to analyze QML applications.
qmlscene	is a utility that loads and displays QML documents even before the application is complete.
qmltestrunner	is a tool used to make tests.
qmlviewer	is a tool for loading QML documents that makes it easy to quickly develop and debug QML applications.
qtdiag	is a tool for reporting diagnostic information about Qt and its environment.
qtpaths	is a tool to query Qt path information.
rcc	is a resource compiler used in conjunction with designer.
syncqt.pl	is a script to create the forwarding headers in the include directories. It is an internal development tool.
uic	is a Qt user interface compiler.
xmlpatterns	provides support for XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and XML Schema validation.
xmlpatternsvalidator	is a tool used to validate XML documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 08:00:47 -0700

startup-notification-0.12

Introduction to startup-notification

The startup-notification package contains startup-notification libraries. These are useful for building a consistent manner to notify the user through the cursor that the application is loading.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases/startup-notification-0.12.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2cd77326d4dcaed9a5a23a1232fb38e9
Download size: 347 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

startup-notification Dependencies

Required

Xorg Libraries and xcb-util-0.4.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/startup-notification

Installation of startup-notification

Install startup-notification by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D doc/startup-notification.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12/startup-notification.txt

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libstartup-notification-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/startup-notification-1.0 and /usr/share/doc/startup-notification-0.12

Short Descriptions

libstartup-notification-1.so

provides the functions to assist applications in communicating with the cursor system to provide feedback to the user that the application is loading.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

WebKitGTK+-2.4.9

Introduction to WebKitGTK+

The WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ 3 and/or GTK+ 2 platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.4.9.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 312fd29eb7f5970660c6a64b8bf8420e
Download size: 9.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.6 GB (both built)
Estimated build time: 40 SBU (using parallelism=4, both built, webkitgtk-3.0 takes a little longer than webkitgtk-1.0)

WebKitGTK+ Dependencies

Required

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6, ICU-55.1, libgudev-230, libsecret-0.18.3, libsoup-2.50.0, libwebp-0.4.3, MesaLib-10.6.6, Ruby-2.2.3, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and Which-2.21

Note

WebKit2 links againstGTK+ 2 (even if GTK+ 3 is being used), in order to be able to use NPAPI plugins such as Adobe Flash.

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, Harfbuzz-1.0.3, LLVM-3.7.0, GeoClue2, and MathML

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/webkitgtk

Installation of WebKitGTK+

If you have not installed GTK-Doc-1.24, fix a bug that will cause make install to fail:

sed -e '/generate-gtkdoc --rebase/s:^:# :' \
    -i GNUmakefile.in

Upstream standard now is to link this package against GTK+ 3. However, for backward compatibility, many users need also another instance, linked to GTK+ 2. Both can be installed in the same system, without any problems. However, some packages can alternatively be linked to either one. Here, both build methods are presented and recommended to be built, but if you know which one you need, just jump to the respective part.

Build and install WebKitGTK+ against GTK+ 3

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands:

mkdir -vp build-3           &&
cp -a Documentation build-3 &&
cd build-3                  &&

../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-introspection &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite. However, there are two useable basic graphical web browsers in the build directory, Programs/GtkLauncher and Programs/MiniBrowser. If launching any one fails, there is a problem with the build.

Note

When installing, the Makefile does some additional compiling and linking. If you do not have Xorg in /usr, the LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables need to be defined for the root user. If using sudo to assume root, use the -E option to pass your current environment variables for the install process.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Finally, leave the buid directory:

cd ..

Build and install WebKitGTK+ against GTK+ 2

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands:

mkdir -vp build-1

If you have built and installed the package against GTK+ 3. skip the following command, because the previous docummentation also applies here:

cp -a Documentation build-1

Now, change into the build directory and effectively start the build and install:

cd build-1  &&

../configure --prefix=/usr  \
             --with-gtk=2.0 \
             --disable-webkit2 &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite. However, there is one useable basic graphical web browser in the build directory, Programs/GtkLauncher. If launching it fails, there is a problem with the build.

Note

Now, as the root user:

make install

Finally, leave the buid directory:

cd ..

Command Explanations

--enable-introspection: This switch enables support for Gobject Introspection and is required for a GNOME Desktop. Remove if you don't have Gobject Introspection installed or you don't want to install GNOME.

--disable-geolocation: Use this option if you did not install GeoClue-0.12.0 or configure will fail.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: jsc-1 and jsc-3

Installed Libraries: libjavascriptcoregtk-{1,3}.0.so, libwebkit2gtk-3.0.so, and libwebkitgtk-{1,3}.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/webkitgtk-{1,3}.0, /usr/lib/webkit2gtk-3.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom,}gtk, and /usr/share/webkitgtk-{1,3}.0

Short Descriptions

jsc-1	is a command-line utility that allows you to run JavaScript programs outside of the context of a web browser.
jsc-3	is a command-line utility that allows you to run JavaScript programs outside of the context of a web browser.
`libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0.so`	contains core JavaScript API functions used by jsc-1 and `libwebkitgtk-1.0.so`.
`libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so`	contains core JavaScript API functions used by jsc-3 and `libwebkitgtk-3.0.so`.
`libwebkitgtk-1.0.so`	contains the WebKitGTK+ API functions for GTK+ 2.
`libwebkitgtk-3.0.so`	contains the WebKitGTK+ API functions for GTK+ 3.
`libwebkit2gtk-3.0.so`	contains the WebKit2 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

WebKitGTK+-2.8.5

Introduction to WebKitGTK+

The WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ 3 and GTK+ 2 platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.8.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: df79991848a5096d3a75289ebce547ae
Download size: 10 MB
Estimated disk space required: 973 MB (100 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 31 SBU (using parallelism=4, estimated 80+ SBU using 1 core)

WebKitGTK+ Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK+-2.24.28, GTK+-3.16.6, ICU-55.1, libgudev-230, libsecret-0.18.3, libsoup-2.50.0, libwebp-0.4.3, MesaLib-10.6.6, Ruby-2.2.3, SQLite-3.8.11.1 and Which-2.21

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, Harfbuzz-1.0.3, LLVM-3.7.0, GeoClue2, and MathML

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/webkitgtk

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands:

sed -e 's/“/\"/' -e 's/”/\"/' \
    -i Source/WebCore/xml/XMLViewer.{css,js} &&

mkdir -vp build &&
cd        build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON       \
      -DPORT=GTK                  \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib  \
      -DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON     \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite. However, there is a useable basic graphical web browser in the build directory, build/bin/MiniBrowser. If launching it fails, there is a problem with the build.

Note

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -vdm755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom}gtk-4.0 &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkit2gtk-4.0/html/*   \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-4.0       &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkitdomgtk-4.0/html/* \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitdomgtk-4.0

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: Fixes typos in two source code files.

-DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON: This switch enables the Mini Browser compilation and install.

-DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON: This switch enables building against the system installed malloc.

-DENABLE_GEOLOCATION=OFF: Use this switch if you don't want to install GeoClue-0.12.0 or GeoClue2.

-DENABLE_GTKDOC=ON: Use this switch if GTK-Doc-1.24 is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: jsc and MiniBrowser

Installed Libraries: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so and libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0, /usr/lib/webkit2gtk-4.0, /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom}gtk-4.0

Short Descriptions

jsc	is a command-line utility that allows you to run JavaScript programs outside of the context of a web browser.
MiniBrowser	is a very simple graphical browser.
`libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so`	contains core JavaScript API functions used by jsc and `libwebkit2gtk-4.0`.
`libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so`	contains the WebKit2 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Chapter 26. Display Managers

Introduction

Display Managers are graphical programs used for starting the graphical display (currently, the X server) and providing a login capability for a Window Manager or Desktop Environment.

There are many Display Managers available. Some of the more well known include: GDM, KDM (deprecated), LightDM, LXDM, Slim, and SDDM.

Among the Desktop Environments available for Linux you find: Enlightenment, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, and XFce.

Choosing a Display Manager or Desktop Environment is highly subjective. The choice depends on the look and feel of the packages, the resources (memory and disk space) required, and the utilities included.

In this chapter, the installation instructions of some Display Managers are presented. Later in the book, you will find other ones, which are provided as part of some Desktop Environments.

Last updated on 2015-08-01 16:47:07 -0700

lxdm-0.5.0

Introduction to LXDM

The LXDM is a lightweight Display Manager for the LXDE desktop. It can also be used as an alternative to other Display Managers such as GNOME's GDM or LightDM.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxdm/lxdm-0.5.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a51686720e606ca456d7f56ae4159d1f
Download size: 232 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXDM Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28, ISO Codes-3.59, and librsvg-2.40.10 (runtime, for default theme background)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxdm

Installation of LXDM

First, some fixes.

cat > pam/lxdm << "EOF" &&
#%PAM-1.0
auth        required    pam_unix.so
auth        requisite   pam_nologin.so
account     required    pam_unix.so
password    required    pam_unix.so
session     required    pam_unix.so
EOF

sed -i 's:sysconfig/i18n:profile.d/i18n.sh:g' data/lxdm.in &&
sed -i 's:/etc/xprofile:/etc/profile:g' data/Xsession &&
sed -e 's/^bg/#&/'        \
    -e '/reset=1/ s/# //' \
    -e 's/logou$/logout/' \
    -e "/arg=/a arg=$XORG_PREFIX/bin/X" \
    -i data/lxdm.conf.in

Install LXDM by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-pam        \
            --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

cat > pam/lxdm << "EOF" ...: Replace default /etc/pam.d/lxdm by another one appropriate for BLFS.

sed -i ... data/lxdm.conf.in: Modifications in the default configuration: (1) fix the background to the default one; (2) restart X when session is close; (3) typo; and (4) include XORG_PREFIX, which may be different from /usr.

sed -i ... data/Xsession: Source /etc/profile, instead of other file, according to BLFS standard.

sed -i ... data/lxdm.in: Fix greeter's locale for BLFS specification.

--with-pam: This parameter enables use of pam authentication.

--with-systemdsystemunitdir=no: BLFS does not support systemd.

Configuring LXDM

Config Files

/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/lxdm init script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-lxdm

Configuration Information

The LXDM daemon configuration file (/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf) specifies options that include numlock on/off, backgraound image (bg), session, etc. You can set a default session by uncommenting the line: session=/usr/bin/startlxde and replacing startlxde with your session of choice. For GNOME session=/usr/bin/gnome-session. For OPENBOX session=/usr/bin/openbox-session and for XFCE session=/usr/bin/startxfce4.

It is also possible to set the preferred session on a per-user basis by editing the ~/.dmrc file for each user and adding:

[Desktop]
        Session=xfce

You can replace the default dummy face in the greeting screen by another image representing your user. For that, copy or symlink the desired image to your home directory with the name .face.

Starting lxdm

You can manually start lxdm, e.g, if the bootscript has been installed, by running, as root user:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/lxdm start

By convention, X should be executed at runlevel 5, consequently, the same is true for lxdm. However, the LFS default runlevel is 3. Changing to runlevel 5, from the console (as root user) starts the lxdm bootscript and presents the greeter screen:

init 5

In order to permanently set the default to 5, starting the lxdm greeter screen automatically, you can modify /etc/inittab. As the root user:

cp -v /etc/inittab{,-orig} &&
sed -i '/initdefault/ s/3/5/' /etc/inittab

Note

One important script, executed after login is /etc/lxdm/Xsession which we have fixed to fit BLFS specifications.

Installed Programs: lxdm, lxdm-binary and lxdm-config

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/lxdm and /usr/share/lxdm

Short Descriptions

lxdm	is a script to execute lxdm-binary
lxdm-binary	is the actual Display Manager; needs to be executed with option `-d` to daemonize
lxdm-config	is a graphical customizing program

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

sddm-0.12.0

Introduction to SDDM

The SDDM package contains a lightweight display manager based upon Qt and QML.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases/download/v0.12.0/sddm-0.12.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 520aab2b0ec3f9c253a7391133e2b1a9
Download size: 3.7 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU

SDDM Dependencies

Required

Optional

Docutils (for the man pages)

Runtime Dependencies

ConsoleKit2-1.0.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sddm

Installation of SDDM

First, create a dedicated user and group to take control of the sddm daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 64 sddm &&
useradd  -c "SDDM Daemon" \
         -d /var/lib/sddm \
         -u 64 -g sddm    \
         -s /bin/false sddm

First, fix the application to start upowerd, if necessary, and after login, start the session with ck-launch-session:

sed -e '/UPOWER_SERVICE)/ s:^://:' \
    -i src/daemon/PowerManager.cpp &&

sed -e 's/eval exec/& ck-launch-session /' \
    -i data/scripts/Xsession

Install SDDM by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DENABLE_JOURNALD=OFF       \
      -DDBUS_CONFIG_FILENAME=sddm_org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -dm755 -o sddm -g sddm /var/lib/sddm

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply additional compiler optimizations.

-DENABLE_JOURNALD=OFF: This switch is used because BLFS does not support systemd.

-DDBUS_CONFIG_FILENAME=sddm_org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf: This switch is used for safety reason: other DMs already use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf. Verify in your system taht this is not the case, if you wish to remove it.

-DBUILD_MAN_PAGES=ON: This switch may be used if you want the man pages to be installed. Notice that you need Docutils to build them.

Configuring SDDM

Config File

/etc/sddm.conf

This file is not installed with the build instructions, and default values are used by sddm. In order to generate the example sddm.example.conf, issue:

sddm --example-config > sddm.example.conf

Note

This command generates an example config file, which depends on several conditions of the system where it is generated. A few options are defaults from upstream. If there is a previously installed /etc/sddm.conf, it will generate a replica. When it is generated during an X session, some session configurations are replicated, e.g. if the cursor from the Adwaita theme is already configured, you will obtain CursorTheme=Adwaita in the example file generated.

If there is no /etc/sddm.conf file yet, as the root user, copy the example file to /etc/sddm.conf:

cp -v sddm.example.conf /etc/sddm.conf

Normally, you want to edit this file. For example, if Xorg is installed in /opt, use your preferred editor as the root user to replace the default XauthPath value by /opt/xorg/bin/xauth. Or, as the root user, issue:

sed -e '/ServerPath/ s|usr|opt/xorg|' \
    -i.orig /etc/sddm.conf

This command will do the substitution and create a copy of the original file with name /etc/sddm.conf.orig.

From now on, we will describe how to modify configurations using sed. Of course, you may instead use your preferred editor as the root user.

For security reasons, you normally want the default ServerArguments=-nolisten tcp, unless a remote machine needs access to the local X server. In that case, as the root user, issue:

sed -e 's/-nolisten tcp//'\
    -i /etc/sddm.conf

Desktop (Notebook) users, normally wish the Num Lock key on (off). For that, as the root user, issue:

sed -e 's/\"none\"/\"on\"/' \
    -i /etc/sddm.conf

for Desktop users. For Notebook users, replace \"on\" by \"off\", in the command above.

Boot Script

Install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sddm init script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-sddm

Linux PAM Configuration

If you have built SDDM with Linux PAM support, create the necessary configuration files by running the following commands as the root user:

cat > /etc/pam.d/sddm << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/sddm

auth     requisite      pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so

auth     required       pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet
auth     include        system-auth

account  include        system-account
password include        system-password

session  required       pam_limits.so
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/sddm
EOF

cat > /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin

auth     requisite      pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so

auth     required       pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet
auth     required       pam_permit.so

account  include        system-account

password required       pam_deny.so

session  required       pam_limits.so
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin
EOF

cat > /etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter

auth     required       pam_env.so
auth     required       pam_permit.so

account  required       pam_permit.so
password required       pam_deny.so
session  required       pam_unix.so
-session optional       pam_systemd.so

# End /etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter
EOF

Starting sddm

If the sddm bootscript has been installed, start sddm by running, as the root user:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sddm start

By convention, X should be executed at runlevel 5, consequently, the same is true for sddm. However, LFS default runlevel is 3. Changing to runlevel 5, from a console terminal, as root user, starts the sddm bootscript, bringing up the greeter screen:

init 5

In order to permanently set the default to 5, starting the sddm greeter screen automatically, modify /etc/inittab. As the root user:

cp -v /etc/inittab{,-orig} &&
sed -i '/initdefault/ s/3/5/' /etc/inittab

Available Sessions

The greeter offers a list of available sessions, depending on the Window Managers and Desktop Environments installed. The list includes sessions which have a corresponding .desktop file installed under /usr/share/xsessions. Most of the Window Managers and Desktop Environments automatically provide those files, but if necessary, you may include a custom one.

Themes

Four themes are installed at /usr/share/sddm/themes: circles, elarun, maldives, and maui. The default theme is “maui”. You can install other themes in that directory. In order to change the theme, you need to edit /etc/sddm.conf, using your preferred text editor, to change the default “maui” theme, replacing “Current=maui” by “Current=<insert new theme name here>”, e.g. “Current=maldives”.

In order to see the theme without leaving the session, issue:

sddm-greeter --test-mode --theme <theme path>

Known Issues

This application works well, but there are issues. You find the mainstream known issues at Issues. The BLFS development team have found some issues.

Note

In the next couple of paragraphs, due to a problem with sddm-greeter, we mention how to define the keyboard used there. Notice that this is also the keyboard that will be used in the X session, unless there is a configuration in the Desktop Environment or in the Window Manager overriding it, afterwards.

Keyboard selection: the greeter shows a double question mark or the wrong keyboard. When you start to type the password or user name (depending on the theme, only password), the right keyboard selection magically appears. Optionally, a workaround is to include the keyboard list in /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup script, as the root user:

echo 'setxkbmap "<your keyboard comma separated list>"' >> \
     /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup

E.g. echo 'setxkbmap "fr,gb,br,us"' >> /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup. A very accurate definition of the keyboard(s) is possible, for example: echo 'setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout br,us -variant abnt2,dvorak -keycodes evdev' >> /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup. See man setxkbmap.

Dircolors: the /etc/dircolors file is not honoured. Particularly, the compressed files are not displayed in red colour. If this happens, a workaround is to issue, as the root user:

echo "source /etc/profile.d/dircolors.sh" >> /etc/bashrc

It has been reported that problems may happen with this package, if Xorg is installed with a prefix other than /usr. So far, BLFS development team has not hit any problem, in this case.

Installed Programs: sddm and sddm-greeter

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $QT5DIR/qml/SddmComponents, /usr/share/sddm, and /var/lib/sddm

Short Descriptions

sddm	is a display and login manager based on Qt libraries.
sddm-greeter	is an auxiliary process that displays the greeter, a graphical user interface that performs user authentication and initiates the selected window manager or display environment.

Last updated on 2015-09-26 09:18:35 -0700

Chapter 27. Window Managers

Introduction

Window Managers and Desktop Environments are the primary user interfaces into the X Window System. A window manager is a program that controls the appearance of windows and provides the means by which the user can interact with them. A Desktop Environment provides a more complete interface to the operating system, and provides a range of integrated utilities and applications.

There are many Window Managers available. Some of the more well known ones include fvwm2, Window Maker, AfterStep, Enlightenment, Sawfish, and Blackbox.

The Desktop Environments available for Linux are GNOME, KDE, and XFce.

Choosing a Window Manager or Desktop Environment is highly subjective. The choice depends on the look and feel of the packages, the resources (RAM, disk space) required, and the utilities included. One web site that provides a very good summary of what is available, screenshots, and their respective features is Window Managers for X.

In this chapter, the installation instructions of several Window Managers and one lightweight Desktop Environment are presented. Later in the book, both KDE and GNOME have their own sections.

Last updated on 2013-03-08 15:46:06 -0800

Fluxbox-1.3.7

Introduction to Fluxbox

The Fluxbox package contains a window manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fluxbox/fluxbox-1.3.7.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub//sourceforge/f/fl/fluxbox/fluxbox/1.3.7/fluxbox-1.3.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b44afd10ee1e64624c23115aa51dcd55
Download size: 772 KB
Estimated disk space required: 101 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

Fluxbox Dependencies

Required

X Window System

Optional

D-Bus-1.10.0 (runtime), FriBidi-0.19.7, and Imlib2-1.4.7 (if you wish to use other image formats in addition to XPM)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fluxbox

Installation of Fluxbox

Install Fluxbox by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring Fluxbox

Config Files

~/.fluxbox/init, ~/.fluxbox/keys, and ~/.fluxbox/menu

Configuration Information

If Fluxbox is the only Window Manager you want to use, you can start it with an .xinitrc file in your home folder. Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding.

echo startfluxbox > ~/.xinitrc

Or alternatively, if you use a login manager like GDM or KDM and would like to be able to choose Fluxbox at the login prompt, create a fluxbox.desktop file like this.

As root:

cat > /usr/share/xsessions/fluxbox.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Fluxbox
Comment=This session logs you into Fluxbox
Exec=startfluxbox
Type=Application
EOF

If you didn't install GDM or KDM in /usr, then change that command to fit the prefix you chose.

Now create the Fluxbox configuration files:

mkdir -v ~/.fluxbox &&
cp -v /usr/share/fluxbox/init ~/.fluxbox/init &&
cp -v /usr/share/fluxbox/keys ~/.fluxbox/keys

To generate the application menu, first you may wish to run fluxbox-generate_menu -h, in order to choose any <user_options>, then issue:

cd ~/.fluxbox &&
fluxbox-generate_menu <user_options>

Alternately, copy a pregenerated menu:

cp -v /usr/share/fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu

Menu items are added by editing ~/.fluxbox/menu. The syntax is explained on the fluxbox man page.

If you want to use an image as your desktop background, copy the theme you like into ~/.fluxbox. Then add a line to make it use the correct image. In the following command, change <theme> for the name of the theme you want and change </path/to/nice/image.ext> to point to the actual image you want to use, where ext must be “xpm”, if Imlib2-1.4.7 is not installed to allow other image formats.

cp /usr/share/fluxbox/styles/<theme> ~/.fluxbox/theme &&

sed -i 's,\(session.styleFile:\).*,\1 ~/.fluxbox/theme,' ~/.fluxbox/init &&

[ -f ~/.fluxbox/theme ] &&
echo "background.pixmap: </path/to/nice/image.ext>" >> ~/.fluxbox/theme ||
[ -d ~/.fluxbox/theme ] &&
echo "background.pixmap: </path/to/nice/image.ext>" >> ~/.fluxbox/theme/theme.cfg

In some locales the font specified in the theme may not contain the needed characters. This results in menus with blank items. You can fix this by editing ~/.fluxbox/theme with a text editor and altering it so that it names a suitable font.

Installed Programs: fluxbox, fbsetbg, fbsetroot, fluxbox-generate_menu, startfluxbox, fbrun, fluxbox-remote, and fluxbox-update_configs

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/fluxbox and ~/.fluxbox

Short Descriptions

fluxbox	is a window manager for X11 based on Blackbox 0.61.0.
fbsetbg	is a utility that sets the background image. It requires one of the following at runtime: Esetroot, wmsetbg, feh, hsetroot, chbg, display, qiv, xv, xsri, xli, or xsetbg. It also requires which if Esetroot is found.
fbsetroot	is a utility to change root window appearance based on the Blackbox application bsetroot.
fluxbox-generate_menu	is a utility that generates a menu by scanning your `PATH`.
startfluxbox	is a session startup script that allows for command executions prior to fluxbox starting.
fbrun	displays a run dialog window.
fluxbox-remote	provides command line access to key commands for Fluxbox.
fluxbox-update_configs	use to manage config files (reload, update, test).

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

IceWM-1.3.8

Introduction to IceWM

IceWM is a window manager with the goals of speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/icewm/icewm-1.3.8.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 6d61aced3bd20b9e7caeb7e8380368c8
Download size: 888 KB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

IceWM Dependencies

Required

X Window System and gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icewm

Installation of IceWM

Note

This version of IceWM is nominally a development release, but it provides a stable working environment and can be built without using obsolete libraries.

Install IceWM by running the following commands:

sed -i '/^LIBS/s/\(.*\)/\1 -lfontconfig/' src/Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install         &&
make install-docs    &&
make install-man     &&
make install-desktop

Command Explanations

sed -i '/^LIBS/s/$.*$/\1 -lfontconfig/' src/Makefile.in: this fixes the build with recent versions of binutils.

Configuring IceWM

Config Files

~/.icewm/keys, ~/.icewm/menu, and ~/.icewm/preferences, and ~/.icewm/toolbar, and ~/.icewm/winoptions. The default versions are installed in /usr/share/icewm/ and will be used if you have not copied them to ~/.icewm.

Configuration Information

If IceWM is the only Window Manager you want to use, you can start it with an .xinitrc file in your home folder. Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding.

echo icewm-session > ~/.xinitrc

Now create the IceWM configuration files:

mkdir -v ~/.icewm                                       &&
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/keys ~/.icewm/keys               &&
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/menu ~/.icewm/menu               &&
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/preferences ~/.icewm/preferences &&
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/toolbar ~/.icewm/toolbar         &&
cp -v /usr/share/icewm/winoptions ~/.icewm/winoptions

You can now edit these files to meet your requirements. In particular, review the preferences file. You can use Logout -> Restart-IceWM on the main menu to load your changed preferences, but changes to the background only take effect when IceWM is started.

The syntax of the menus is explained in the help files, which you can access by running help from the menu, but some of the detail is out of date and the default selections in the menus (a few old applications on the main menu, everything else on the Programs menu) will benefit from being updated to meet your needs. The following examples are provided to encourage you to think about how you wish to organise your menus. Please note the following:

If a program listed in the menu has not been installed, it will not appear when the menu is displayed. Similarly, if the program exists but the specified icon does not, no icon will be displayed in the menu.
The icons can be either .xpm or .png files, and there is no need to specify the extension. If the icon is located in the "library" (/usr/share/icewm/icons) there is no need to specifiy the path.
Most programs are in sub-menus, and the main menu will always append entries for windows, help, settings, logout at the bottom.
An icon for firefox was copied to the library directory and given a meaningful name. The icon for xine is xine.xpm which was installed to a pixmap directory.
The default toolbar is not altered.

It is unlikely that these examples meet your desires, but if you wish to use them run the following commands:

cat > ~/.icewm/menu << "EOF" &&
prog Urxvt xterm urxvt
prog GVolWheel /usr/share/pixmaps/gvolwheel/audio-volume-medium gvolwheel
separator
menufile General folder general
menufile Multimedia folder multimedia
menufile Tool_bar folder toolbar
EOF
cat > ~/.icewm/general << "EOF" &&
prog Firefox firefox firefox
prog Epiphany /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/apps/web-browser epiphany
prog Midori /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/midori midori
separator
prog Gimp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gimp gimp
separator
prog Evince /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/evince evince
prog Epdfview /usr/share/epdfview/pixmaps/icon_epdfview-48 epdfview
EOF
cat > ~/.icewm/multimedia << "EOF"
prog Audacious /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/audacious audacious
separator
prog Parole /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/parole parole
prog Totem /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/totem totem
prog Vlc /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/vlc vlc
prog Xine /usr/share/pixmaps/xine xine
EOF

If you wish to put icons on your desktop, you will need to install a program such as Rox-Filer-2.11 which provides a pinboard. If you do that you will no longer be able to access the menu by right-clicking on the desktop, you will have to use the IceWM button. To ensure that the rox pinboard is running, the following commands will put it in the startup file:

cat > ~/.icewm/startup << "EOF"
rox -p Default &
EOF &&
chmod +x ~/.icewm/startup

Tip

There are a number of keyboard shortcuts in IceWM:

Ctrl + Alt + FN : go to ttyN.
Ctrl + Alt + N : go to desktop number N
Ctrl + Alt + Space : open a box on the taskbar where you can key in the name of an application and run it.

Installed Programs: icehelp, icesh, icewm, icewm-session, icewm-set-gnomewm, icewmbg, icewmhint, icewmtray

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/icewm-1.3.8, /usr/share/icewm and ~/.icewm

Short Descriptions

icehelp	is used to display the html manual.
icesh	is a command-line window manager which can be used in `~/.icewm/startup`.
icewm	is the window manager.
icewm-session	runs icewmbg, icewm, icewmtray, startup, shutdown (i.e. startup and shutdown scripts are run if installed).
icewm-set-gnomewm	is a script to set the GNOME to icewm using gconftool.
icewmbg	is used to set the background, according to the various `DesktopBackground` settings in the preferences.
icewmhint	is used internally.
icewmtray	provides the tray.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

openbox-3.6.1

Introduction to openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable desktop window manager with extensive standards support. It allows you to control almost every aspect of how you interact with your desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://openbox.org/dist/openbox/openbox-3.6.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b72794996c6a3ad94634727b95f9d204
Download size: 944 KB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Openbox Dependencies

Required

X Window System and Pango-1.36.8 (compiled with support for libXft)

Optional

D-Bus-1.10.0 (runtime), Imlib2-1.4.7 (to enable icons in the right click menu), PyXDG-0.25, startup-notification-0.12, and librsvg-2.40.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openbox

Installation of Openbox

Note

If XORG_PREFIX is not /usr, tell gcc about it:

export LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib

If you installed only Python 3 PyXDG module convert one of the scripts to Python 3:

2to3 -w data/autostart/openbox-xdg-autostart &&
sed 's/python/python3/' -i data/autostart/openbox-xdg-autostart

Install Openbox by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/openbox-3.6.1 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This option puts Openbox's configuration files in /etc/xdg/openbox instead of /usr/etc/xdg/openbox.

--docdir=/usr/share/doc/openbox-3.6.1: this puts a few files in a versioned directory in /usr/share/doc.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Configuring Openbox

Config Files

/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart, /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml, /etc/xdg/openbox/rc.xml, ~/.config/openbox/autostart, ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

Configuration Information

Openbox's right click menu can be used to launch programs. The menu itself is configured with 2 files, /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml and ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml. To make changes to the menu, copy /etc/xdg/openbox/menu.xml to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and edit it:

cp -rf /etc/xdg/openbox ~/.config

~/.config/openbox/menu.xml can be edited with a text editor or you can install Obmenu (requires pyxml and PyGTK-2.24.0).

To have icons in your right click menu requires installing Imlib2-1.4.7 before you install Openbox. To set an icon for an entry in the menu edit ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml and add an icon to the <item> tag like this:

<item label="Mplayer" icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png">

Many other aspects of Openbox's behaviour are configured with ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml such as what keybindings are used to launch programs or which mouse button launches the main menu.

Details of the theme that Openbox applies to window decorations are configured in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml. You can get a list of the available themes with the command:

ls -d /usr/share/themes/*/openbox-3 | sed 's#.*es/##;s#/o.*##'

Starting Openbox

To automatically start openbox when you start Xorg:

echo openbox > ~/.xinitrc

If you want to set a background image to your desktop you can use display and launch it from ~/.xinitrc just before openbox:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
display -backdrop -window root /path/to/beautiful/picture.jpeg
exec openbox
EOF

Or if you like a bit of variety, put a selection of images in a folder (in this example, the directory ~/.config/backgrounds) and choose one at random each time you xinit:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
# make an array which lists the pictures:
picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*)
# create a random integer between 0 and the number of pictures:
random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[@]} ))
# display the chosen picture:
display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[${random_number}]}"
exec openbox
EOF

If you like to have the numlock key set whan you start Xorg, install Numlockx and add that to your xinitrc. Another useful application is D-Bus-1.10.0:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
. /etc/profile
picture_list=(~/.config/backgrounds/*)
random_number=$(( ${RANDOM} % ${#picture_list[*]} ))
display -backdrop -window root "${picture_list[${random_number}]}"
numlockx
eval $(dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session)
lxpanel &
exec openbox
EOF

Installed Programs: gdm-control, gnome-panel-control, obxprop, openbox, openbox-gnome-session, openbox-kde-session and openbox-session

Installed Libraries: libobrender.so and libobt.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/openbox, /usr/include/openbox, /usr/share/doc/openbox-3.6.1 and /usr/share/themes.

Short Descriptions

gdm-control	is a command line tool to send signals to GDM.
gnome-panel-control	is a command line utility to invoke the Gnome Panel run dialog/menu.
obxprop	is a tool for displaying the properties on an x window. It has a similar functionality to xprop, but allows you to see UTF-8 strings as text.
openbox	is a standards compliant, highly configurable, window manager.
openbox-gnome-session	is a script to launch an Gnome session with Openbox as your window manager from your `~/.xinitrc`.
openbox-kde-session	is a script to launch an KDE session with Openbox as your window manager from your `~/.xinitrc`.
openbox-session	is a script to launch an Openbox session from your `~/.xinitrc`.
`libobrender.so`	contains the functions used by Openbox for theme rendering.
`libobt.so`	is the Openbox toolkit library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

sawfish-1.11

Introduction to sawfish

The sawfish package contains a window manager. This is useful for organizing and displaying windows where all window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish_1.11.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 19a8f3e4edefa747d8aa5dff772a98d0
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 50 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

sawfish Dependencies

Required

rep-gtk-0.90.8.2 and Which-2.21

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sawfish

Installation of sawfish

Install sawfish by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pango  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring sawfish

Configuration Information

Be sure to backup your current .xinitrc before proceeding.

cat >> ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
exec sawfish
EOF

Optionally, you can use a Display Manager, such as lxdm-0.5.0.

From the developers: “The default menu binding is somewhat obscure; you must middle-click on the background to bring up the menus. (If you have a two-button mouse, try clicking both buttons simultaneously)”. You can find this at sawfish's FAQ.

Installed Programs: sawfish, sawfish-about, sawfish-client, sawfish-config, sawfish-kde4-session, sawfish-lumina-session, sawfish-mate-session, and sawfish-xfce-session

Installed Libraries: Several internal modules under /usr/lib/sawfish tree

Installed Directory: /usr/include/sawfish, /usr/lib/sawfish, /usr/lib/rep/sawfish, and /usr/share/sawfish

Short Descriptions

`sawfish`	is the extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language.
`sawfish-about`	is the sawfish about window.
`sawfish-client`	allows you to connect to a window manager process and evaluate arbitrary Lisp forms.
`sawfish-config`	is the sawfish configuration manager.
sawfish-kde4-session	is a script to run KDE4 using sawfish.
sawfish-mate-session	is a script to run mate using sawfish.
sawfish-lumina-session	is a script to run Lumina using sawfish.
sawfish-xfce-session	is a script to run xfce using sawfish.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 16:03:44 -0700

Other Window Managers

twm is the Tab Window Manager. This is the default window manager installed by the X Window System packages.

mwm is the Motif® Window Manager. It is an OSF/Motif® clone packaged and installed with LessTif.

Last updated on 2012-05-06 08:26:39 -0700

Part VII. KDE

KDE is a comprehensive desktop environment with a huge number of applications written for it and a huge amount of users. It is based on the Qt framework.

There are two versions of KDE. KDE4 is a mature version that combines libraries and the desktop environment into one set of packages and has numerous appplications that can be built on that base. For KDE5, the libraries, now called KDE Frameworks 5 or KF5, are separate from the desktop environment called KDE Plasma 5.

For more information visit the official KDE project site at http://www.kde.org/.

Chapter 28. Introduction to KDE

KDE Preliminaries

KDE is a comprehensive desktop environment with a huge number of applications written for it and a huge amount of users. It is based on the Qt framework.

For more information visit the official KDE project site at http://www.kde.org/.

Common Packages

There are several packages that are common to both versions of KDE. These packages are presented in the following sections of this chapter.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Phonon-4.8.3

Introduction to Phonon

Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE. It replaces the old aRts package. Phonon needs either the GStreamer or VLC backend.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/4.8.3/src/phonon-4.8.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/phonon/4.8.3/src/phonon-4.8.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 88bb9867261803eed61ff53a7c026338
Download size: 316 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Phonon Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, GLib-2.44.1, and Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0

Optional

PulseAudio-6.0 and QZeitgeist

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon

Installation of Phonon

The Phonon libraries are used by both KDE4 and KF5, but they must be linked to Qt-4.8.7 and Qt-5.5.0 respectively. The two versions do not conflict with each other.

If building for KDE4, make sure Qt-4.8.7 has been built without the bundled Phonon library. This package provides a better implementation.

Install the qt4 based version of Phonon by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt4 &&

sed -i "s:BSD_SOURCE:DEFAULT_SOURCE:g" cmake/FindPhononInternal.cmake &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr                                \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                                 \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib                                 \
      -DPHONON_INSTALL_QT_EXTENSIONS_INTO_SYSTEM_QT=FALSE        \
      -DDBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Install qt5 based version ofPhonon by running the following commands:

Note

If the extracted files of the package are still present from a qt4 version of the build, be sure to remove it and extract a fresh copy of the source files.

source /usr/bin/setqt5 &&

sed -i "s:BSD_SOURCE:DEFAULT_SOURCE:g" cmake/FindPhononInternal.cmake &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr    \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release     \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib     \
      -DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON   \
      -D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... cmake/FindPhononInternal.cmake: Silence a lot of warnings caused by the latest toolchain.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-DPHONON_INSTALL_QT_EXTENSIONS_INTO_SYSTEM_QT=FALSE: This switch ensures that the plugins and mkspecs files get installed in the correct location.

-DDBUS_INTERFACES_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces: This switch sets the correct installation path for the D-Bus interfaces file.

-DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON: This switch is used to ensure that Qt5 version of the library is built even if Qt4 is present.

-D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO: This switch is used to disable a check that would cause cmake to fail when using Qt-5.4.2 and later.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libphonon.so, libphonon4qt5.so libphononexperimental.so, and libphonon4qt5experimental.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/KDE/Phonon, /usr/include/phonon, /usr/include/phonon4qt5, /usr/lib/cmake/phonon, /usr/lib/cmake/phonon4qt5, /usr/share/phonon. amd /usr/share/phonon4qt5

Last updated on 2015-09-24 05:44:01 -0700

Phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.8.2

Introduction to the Phonon-backend-gstreamer

This package provides a Phonon backend which utilizes the GStreamer media framework. Its library is used by both KDE4 and KF5, but they must be linked to Qt-4.8.7 and Qt-5.5.0 respectively. The two versions do not conflict with each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-gstreamer/4.8.2/src/phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.8.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-gstreamer/4.8.2/src/phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.8.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ce441035dc5a00ffaac9a64518ab5c62
Download size: 76 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Phonon-backend-gstreamer Dependencies

Required

GStreamer-1.4.5, libxml2-2.9.2, and phonon-4.8.3

Installation of Phonon-backend-gstreamer

Install the qt4 based version of Phonon-backend-gstreamer by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt4 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Install the qt5 based version of Phonon-backend-gstreamer by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt5 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr    \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib     \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release     \
      -DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON   \
      -D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib: This switch is used to get libraries to install to /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on a 64 bit system.

-DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON: This switch is used to ensure that Qt5 version of the backend is built even if Qt4 is present.

-D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO: This switch is used to disable a check that would cause cmake to fail when using Qt-5.4.2 or later.

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: phonon_gstreamer.so (two versions in different directories)

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend, /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend, and /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends

Last updated on 2015-09-24 05:44:01 -0700

Phonon-backend-vlc-0.8.2

Introduction to the Phonon-backend-vlc

This package provides a Phonon backend which utilizes the VLC media framework. Its library is used by both KDE4 and KF5, but they must be linked to Qt-4.8.7 and Qt-5.5.0 respectively. The two versions do not conflict with each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-vlc/0.8.2/src/phonon-backend-vlc-0.8.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-vlc/0.8.2/src/phonon-backend-vlc-0.8.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3937517ce4929dea4398ad9834507f97
Download size: 60 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Phonon-backend-vlc Dependencies

Required

phonon-4.8.3 and VLC-2.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon-backend-vlc

Installation of Phonon-backend-vlc

Install the qt4 based version of Phonon-backend-vlc by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt4 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Install the qt5 based version of Phonon-backend-vlc by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt5 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr    \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib     \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release     \
      -DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON   \
      -D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib: This switch is used to get libraries to install to /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on a 64 bit system.

-DPHONON_BUILD_PHONON4QT5=ON: This switch is used to ensure that Qt5 version of the backend is built even if Qt4 is present.

-D__KDE_HAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY=NO: This switch is used to disable a check that would cause cmake to fail when using Qt-5.4.2 or later.

Installed Program: none

Installed Libraries: phonon_vlc.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend, /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/phonon4qt5_backend, and /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends

Last updated on 2015-09-24 05:44:01 -0700

Polkit-Qt-0.112.0

Introduction to Polkit-Qt

Polkit-Qt provides an API to PolicyKit in the Qt environment. Its libraries are used by both KDE4 and KF5, but they must be linked to Qt-4.8.7 and Qt-5.5.0 respectively. The two versions do not conflict with each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE4.x/admin/polkit-qt-1-0.112.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE4.x/admin/polkit-qt-1-0.112.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bee71b71c12797e6fc498540a06c829b
Download size: 68 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Polkit-Qt Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, Polkit-0.113, and Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/polkit-qt

Installation of Polkit-Qt

Install the Qt4 based version of Polkit-Qt by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt4 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -DUSE_QT4=TRUE              \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Install the Qt5 based version of Polkit-Qt by running the following commands:

source /usr/bin/setqt5 &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib: This switch is used to get libraries to install to $KDE_PREFIX/lib instead of $KDE_PREFIX/lib64 on a 64 bit system.

-DUSE_QT4=TRUE: This switch is used to ensure that Qt4 version of the library is built even if Qt5 is present.

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: libpolkit-qt-agent-1.so, libpolkit-qt5-agent-1.so, libpolkit-qt-core-1.so, libpolkit-qt5-core-1.so, libpolkit-qt-gui-1.so, and libpolkit-qt5-gui-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/polkit-qt-1, /usr/include/polkit-qt5-1, /usr/lib/cmake/PolkitQt-1, and /usr/lib/cmake/PolkitQt5-1

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.3+15.10.20150604

Introduction to libdbusmenu-qt

This library provides a Qt implementation of the DBusMenu specification that exposes menus via DBus. Its libraries are used by both KDE4 and KF5, but they must be linked to Qt-4.8.7 and Qt-5.5.0 respectively. The two versions do not conflict with each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.3+15.10.20150604.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d21a1f5569e0bc9c9245b4f71761c62f
Download size: 40 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libdbusmenu-qt Dependencies

Required

Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0

Optional

QJson-0.8.1 (for building the test suite) and Doxygen-1.8.10 (for building the API documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdbusmenu-qt

Installation of libdbusmenu-qt

Install the qt4 based version of libdbusmenu-qt by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DUSE_QT4=TRUE              \
      -DWITH_DOC=OFF              \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results (QJson-0.8.1 must be installed), issue: make -k check. One test is known to fail.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Install the qt5 based version of libdbusmenu-qt by running the following commands:

Note

If building both versions of this application, be sure to remove the previous version of the source and reextract them from the original tar file.

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DWITH_DOC=OFF              \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

The qt5 version of this package does not have a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to build without debugging symbols and apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DUSE_QT4=TRUE: This switch is used to ensure that Qt4 version of the library is built even if Qt5 is present.

-DWITH_DOC=OFF: This option is set to avoid building the API documentation. Omit it if you have doxygen installed and want the documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdbusmenu-qt.so and libdbusmenu-qt5.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt and /usr/include/dbusmenu-qt5

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:49:47 -0700

extra-cmake-modules-5.14.0

Introduction to Extra Cmake Modules

The Extra Cmake Modules package contains extra CMake modules used by KDE Frameworks 5 and other packages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.14/extra-cmake-modules-5.14.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/frameworks/5.14//extra-cmake-modules-5.14.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5c5db16c6038e63e7b741fa32e4eaddd
Download size: 132 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Extra Cmake Modules Dependencies

Required

Optional

Sphinx (for building documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/extra-cmake-modules

Installation of Extra Cmake Modules

Install Extra Cmake Modules by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Note

Unlike other KF5 packages, this module is installed in /usr because it can be used by some non-KF5 packages.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/ECM and /usr/share/doc/ECM (if documentation was built)

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

Chapter 29. The KDE4 Core

KDE4 Pre-installation Configuration

Note

If you did not install Xorg in /usr, some of the CMake modules in KDE look for packages at hard coded locations. To accommodate this issue, create the following symbolic link (as the root user):

ln -sv $XORG_PREFIX /usr/X11R6

Installing in /usr

One option is to put KDE into the /usr hierarchy. This creates a simpler setup but makes it more difficult to try multiple versions of KDE.

export KDE_PREFIX=/usr

Installing in /opt

A method of building multiple versions installs KDE in the /opt hierarchy:

export KDE_PREFIX=/opt/kde

If you are not installing KDE in /usr, you will need to make some additional configuration changes. Best practice is to add those to your system or personal profile:

cat > /etc/profile.d/kde.sh << 'EOF'
# Begin /etc/profile.d/kde.sh

KDE_PREFIX=/opt/kde
KDEDIR=$KDE_PREFIX

pathappend $KDE_PREFIX/bin             PATH
pathappend $KDE_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig   PKG_CONFIG_PATH
pathappend $KDE_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH
pathappend $KDE_PREFIX/share           XDG_DATA_DIRS
pathappend $KDE_PREFIX/share/man       MANPATH
pathappend /etc/kde/xdg                XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

export KDE_PREFIX KDEDIR

# End /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
EOF

Add to your /etc/ld.so.conf:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << EOF
# Begin kde addition

/opt/kde/lib

# End kde addition
EOF

Several KDE packages install files into D-Bus and polkit directories. When installing KDE in a location other than /usr, D-Bus and polkit need to find these files. The easiest way to achieve this is to create the following symlinks (as the root user):

install -d $KDE_PREFIX/share &&
ln -svf /usr/share/dbus-1 $KDE_PREFIX/share &&
ln -svf /usr/share/polkit-1 $KDE_PREFIX/share

Tip

Sometimes, the installation paths are coded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/kde is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/kde-15.04.3. After installing KDE, you may rename the directory and create a symlink:

mv /opt/kde{,-15.04.3} &&
ln -svf kde-15.04.3 /opt/kde

Later on, you may want to install other versions of KDE. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/kde as the prefix again (KDE must not be started). Which version of KDE you use depends only on where the symlink points to. No other reconfiguration will be needed.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Automoc4-0.9.88

Introduction to Automoc4

Automoc4 is a tool to add rules for generating Qt moc files automatically to projects that use CMake as the buildsystem.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/automoc4/0.9.88/automoc4-0.9.88.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/automoc4/0.9.88/automoc4-0.9.88.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 91bf517cb940109180ecd07bc90c69ec
Download size: 0.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 488 KB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Automoc4 Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/automoc4

Installation of Automoc4

Install automoc4 by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-Wno-dev: Suppress warnings that are meant for the author of the CMakeLists.txt files.

Installed Programs: automoc4

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directories: none

Short Descriptions

automoc4

is a utility generating Qt moc files.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Akonadi-1.13.0

Introduction to Akonadi

Akonadi is an extensible cross-desktop storage service for PIM data and metadata providing concurrent read, write, and query access. It provides unique desktop-wide object identification and retrieval.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/akonadi/src/akonadi-1.13.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/akonadi/src/akonadi-1.13.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 84eb2e471bd6bdfe54a2a2f1d858c07d
Download size: 287 KB
Estimated disk space required: 82 MB
Estimated build time: 3.5 SBU, additional 1.5 SBU for tests

Akonadi Dependencies

Required

shared-mime-info-1.4, libxslt-1.1.28, Boost-1.59.0, and one of: SQLite-3.8.11.1, MariaDB-10.0.21, MySQL, or PostgreSQL-9.4.4

Optional

soprano

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/akonadi

Installation of Akonadi

Install Akonadi by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DINSTALL_QSQLITE_IN_QT_PREFIX=TRUE \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DINSTALL_QSQLITE_IN_QT_PREFIX=TRUE: This switch ensures that Akonadi SQLite extension is installed into the Qt plugins directory.

Installed Programs: akonadi_agent_launcher, akonadi_agent_server, akonadi_control, akonadi_rds, akonadictl, akonadiserver and asapcat

Installed Libraries: libakonadiprotocolinternals.so and libqsqlite3.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/akonadi, $KDE_PREFIX/lib/cmake/Akonadi and $KDE_PREFIX/share/config/akonadi

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Attica-0.4.2

Introduction to Attica

Attica is a library to access "Open Collaboration Service" providers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/attica/attica-0.4.2.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/attica/attica-0.4.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d62c5c9489a68432e8d990dde7680c24
Download size: 59 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Attica Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/attica

Installation of Attica

Install Attica by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DQT4_BUILD=ON                     \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler the optimizations.

-DQT4_BUILD=ON: This switch forces the package to build against Qt4 even if Qt5 is present on the system.

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: libattica.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/attica

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

QImageblitz-0.0.6

Introduction to QImageblitz

QImageblitz is a graphical effect and filter library for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-0.0.6.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/qimageblitz/qimageblitz-0.0.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0ae2f7d4e0876764a97ca73799f61df4
Download size: 57 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

QImageblitz Dependencies

Required

Qt-4.8.7 and CMake-3.3.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qimageblitz

Installation of QImageblitz

Install QImageblitz by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: blitztest

Installed Libraries: libqimageblitz.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/qimageblitz

Short Descriptions

blitztest

is a testing utility for qimageblitz.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Oxygen-icons-15.04.3

Introduction to Oxygen-icons

The Oxygen theme is a photo-realistic icon style, with a high standard of graphics quality.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/oxygen-icons-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 4f24f975fb90d8daab833fc719ce39a3
Download size: 219 MB
Estimated disk space required: 474 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Oxygen-icons Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/oxygen-icons

Installation of Oxygen-icons

Install Oxygen-icons by running the following commands:

Note

Unlike most packages in this section, the icons are placed in /usr so other applications can find them.

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -Wno-dev ..

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directory: $KDE_PREFIX/share/icons/oxygen

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kdelibs-4.14.10

Introduction to Kdelibs

This package includes programs and libraries that are central to development and execution of KDE programs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kdelibs-4.14.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 68cb7191d8f7ac383cc30bfe69a016bc
Download size: 11.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 453 MB
Estimated build time: 16.5 SBU

Kdelibs Dependencies

Required

Attica-0.4.2, automoc4-0.9.88, docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, giflib-5.1.1, libdbusmenu-qt-0.9.3+15.10.20150604, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, phonon-4.8.3, strigi-0.7.8, and shared-mime-info-1.4

Optional

JasPer-1.900.1, PCRE-8.37, Avahi-0.6.31, Aspell-0.60.6.1, enchant-1.6.0, grantlee-0.5.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, soprano, shared-desktop-ontologies, Hspell, FAM, HUPnP, OpenEXR, and media-player-info

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdelibs

Installation of Kdelibs

Fix file conflicts with GNOME Menus by running the following commands:

sed -i "s@{SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR}/xdg/menus@& RENAME kde-applications.menu@" \
        kded/CMakeLists.txt &&

sed -i "s@applications.menu@kde-&@" \
        kded/kbuildsycoca.cpp

Install Kdelibs by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc         \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DDOCBOOKXML_CURRENTDTD_DIR=/usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

The unit regression tests are designed to be run after kdelibs is installed.

Now as the root user:

make install

To run the unit regression tests, you must have a current KDE session running and issue make test.

Command Explanations

-DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc: This switch is used to install configuration files in /etc.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DDOCBOOKXML_CURRENTDTD_DIR=...: This switch is used to tell cmake where to find the XML DTDs.

-DWITH_SOLID_UDISKS2=TRUE: Use this switch if you have UDisks2.

Installed Programs: checkXML, kbuildsycoca4, kconfig_compiler, kcookiejar4, kde4-config, kded4, kdeinit4, kdeinit4_shutdown, kdeinit4_wrapper, kfilemetadatareader, kjs, kjscmd, kmailservice, kross, kshell4, ktelnetservice, kunittestmodrunner, kwrapper4, makekdewidgets, meinproc4, meinproc4_simple, nepomuk-rcgen and preparetips

Installed Libraries: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/include, $KDE_PREFIX/lib and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

checkXML	is a tool used to check for syntax errors in KDE DocBook XML files.
kbuildsycoca4	is used to rebuild the system configuration cache.
kconfig_compiler	is the KDE configuration compiler.
kcookiejar4	is the KDE HTTP cookie daemon.
kde4-config	is used to print the KDE installation paths.
kded4	is the KDE daemon.
kdeinit4	is the KDE process launcher.
kjs	is the KDE ECMAScript/JavaScript engine.
kjscmd	is a tool used for launching KJSEmbed scripts from the command line.
kross	is the KDE application used to run kross scripts.
makekdewidgets	is used to build Qt widget plugins from an ini style description file.
meinproc4	is used to convert DocBook files to HTML.
preparetips	is a script used to extract the text from a tips file.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kfilemetadata-4.14.3

Introduction to Kfilemetadata

Kfilemetadata is a framework for searching and managing metadata.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/kfilemetadata-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2e7143fd470bf84ac05475871119d9eb
Download size: 36 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Kfilemetadata Dependencies

Required

Optional

taglib-1.9.1, Poppler-0.35.0, Exiv2-0.25, FFmpeg-2.7.2, libepub and Mobipocket

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kfilemetadata

Installation of Kfilemetadata

Install kfilemetadata by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To run the test suite, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: libkfilemetadata.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/kfilemetadata and $KDE_PREFIX/lib/cmake/KFileMetaData

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kdepimlibs-4.14.10

Introduction to Kdepimlibs

Kdepimlibs is the common library for KDE PIM applications like kmail, kalarm, etc.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kdepimlibs-4.14.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 098c975fb970621dc8382ed3c28de0eb
Download size: 2.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 213 MB
Estimated build time: 8.3 SBU

Kdepimlibs Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10, libxslt-1.1.28, GPGME-1.6.0, libical-1.0.1, Akonadi-1.13.0, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, Boost-1.59.0, and QJson-0.8.1

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d and prison

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdepimlibs

Installation of Kdepimlibs

Install kdepimlibs by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

The full test suite for this package is not enabled by default and not tested by the BLFS team.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: akonadi2xml, akonadi_benchmarker, and akonaditest

Installed Libraries: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/include, $KDE_PREFIX/lib and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Baloo-4.14.3

Introduction to Baloo

Baloo is a framework for searching and managing metadata.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/baloo-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 09575539cf2c76c951a67da00bd5df5b
Download size: 144 KB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 1.8 SBU

Baloo Dependencies

Required

kdepimlibs-4.14.10, kfilemetadata-4.14.3, and xapian-1.2.21

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/baloo

Installation of Baloo

Install baloo by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: akonadi_baloo_indexer, baloo_file, baloo_file_cleaner, baloo_file_extractor, baloosearch and balooshow

Installed Libraries: libbaloocore.so, libbaloofiles.so, libbaloopim.so, libbalooxapian.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/baloo

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Baloo-widgets-4.14.3

Introduction to Baloo-widgets

Baloo-widgets contains widgets for the baloo search framework.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/baloo-widgets-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9ee2a741c502b924a9575a96f10bb5f8
Download size: 40 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Baloo-widgets Dependencies

Required

baloo-4.14.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/baloo-widgets

Installation of Baloo-widgets

Install baloo-widgets by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: libbaloowidgets.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/baloo

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Polkit-kde-agent-0.99.0

Introduction to Polkit-kde-agent

Polkit-kde-agent provides a graphical authentication prompt so non-priviledged users can authenticate themselves for performing administrative tasks in KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE4.x/admin/polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE4.x/admin/polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a02d3fddc6270a88bceaf3ba604c92f8
Download size: 34 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.0-remember_password-1.patch

Polkit-kde-agent Dependencies

Required

polkit-qt-0.112.0 and kdelibs-4.14.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/polkit-kde-agent

Installation of Polkit-kde-agent

Install polkit-kde-agent by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.0-remember_password-1.patch &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/policykit1-kde

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kactivities-4.13.3

Introduction to Kactivities

This package provides the activitymanager for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.13.3/src/kactivities-4.13.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.13.3/src/kactivities-4.13.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e56a3aead6f418d973c0acd9c889deb8
Download size: 88 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Kactivities Dependencies

Required

Optional

nepomuk-core

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kactivities

Installation of Kactivities

Install Kactivities by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not ship a default test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: kactivitymanagerd

Installed Libraries: libkactivities.so, libkactivities-models.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/kactivities, $KDE_PREFIX/include/kactivities-models, $KDE_PREFIX/include/KDE/KActivities, $KDE_PREFIX/lib/cmake/KActivities, $KDE_PREFIX/lib/cmake/KActivities-models, and several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kde-runtime-15.04.3

Introduction to Kde-runtime

Kde-runtime contains runtime applications and libraries essential for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-runtime-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 404af4794ca93cd7fbbb3304a671b629
Download size: 7.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 139 MB
Estimated build time: 4.3 SBU

Kde-runtime Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10 and libgcrypt-1.6.3

Optional

libcanberra-0.30, NetworkManager-1.0.6, PulseAudio-6.0, Samba-4.2.3, xine-lib-1.2.6, libssh, nepomuk-core, OpenEXR, OpenSLP, and QNtrack

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kde-runtime

Installation of Kde-runtime

Install kde-runtime by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX         \
      -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc                  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                  \
      -DSAMBA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/samba-4.0 \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now as the root user:

make install &&
ln -sfv ../lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu $KDE_PREFIX/bin/kdesu

Command Explanations

-DSAMBA_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/samba-4.0: This switch is used so that CMake can properly find Samba headers which got moved in version 4.

Installed Programs: kcmshell4, kde-cp, kde-mv, kde-open, kde4, kde4-menu, kdebugdialog, keditfiletype, kfile4, kglobalaccel, khelpcenter, khotnewstuff-upload, khotnewstuff4, kiconfinder, kioclient, kmimetypefinder, knotify4, kquitapp, kreadconfig, kstart, ksvgtopng, ktraderclient, ktrash, kuiserver, kwalletd, kwriteconfig, plasma-remote-helper, plasmapkg and solid-hardware.

Installed Libraries: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kde-baseapps-15.04.3

Introduction to Kde-baseapps

This package provides various applications, such as Dolphin (file manager) and Konqueror (web browser). Infrastructure files and libraries are also provided.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-baseapps-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c35e5cf08e0f1111adbfd0c7cac6b01b
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 102 MB
Estimated build time: 4.1 SBU

Kde-baseapps Dependencies

Required

Optional

HTML Tidy-cvs_20101110 and GLib-2.44.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kde-baseapps

Installation of Kde-baseapps

Install Kde-baseapps by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results, issue make test.

Now as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: dolphin, fsview, kbookmarkmerger, kdepasswd, kdialog, keditbookmarks, kfind, kfmclient, konqueror, nspluginscan, nspluginviewer, servicemenudeinstallation and servicemenuinstallation

Installed Libraries: libdolphinprivate.so, libkbookmarkmodel_private.so, libkdeinit4_dolphin.so, libkdeinit4_keditbookmarks.so, libkdeinit4_kfmclient.so, libkdeinit4_konqueror.so, libkonq.so, libkonqsidebarplugin.so, libkonquerorprivate.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

kbookmarkmerger	is a program for merging a given set of bookmarks into the user's set of bookmarks.
kfind	is the file find utility for KDE.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kde-base-artwork-15.04.3

Introduction to Kde-base-artwork

This package provides the default splash screen for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-base-artwork-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e1a159440e9b23fccecc04b68a56f109
Download size: 7.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Kde-base-artwork Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kde-base-artwork

Installation of Kde-base-artwork

Install Kde-base-artwork by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX -Wno-dev ..

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directory: $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/ksplash/Themes/Default

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kde-workspace-4.11.21

Introduction to Kde-workspace

The Kde-workspace package contains components that are central to providing the KDE desktop environment. Of particular importance are KWin, the KDE window manager, and Plasma, which provides the workspace interface.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-workspace-4.11.21.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-workspace-4.11.21.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bd7fa9c894dda23e8d06fc6a49a561cf
Download size: 12.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 385 MB
Estimated build time: 13.3 SBU

Kde-workspace Dependencies

Required

kactivities-4.13.3, qimageblitz-0.0.6, xcb-util-image-0.4.0, xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.9, xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.0, and xcb-util-wm-0.4.1

Optional

Linux-PAM-1.2.1, libusb-1.0.19, NetworkManager-1.0.6, lm_sensors-3.4.0, QJson-0.8.1, PyKDE4, GoogleGadgets, Prison, libraw1394, gpsd, XMMS, libqalculate (wants CLN), and Wayland

Note

Kde-workspace has a run-time dependency called Application menu for Qt that allows the application menubar to be inserted as a single button in the titlebar. It can be found at appmenu-qt.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kde-workspace

Installation of Kde-workspace

It is recommended to have a dedicated user and group to take control of the kdm daemon after it is started. Issue the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 37 kdm &&
useradd -c "KDM Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/kdm -g kdm \
        -u 37 -s /bin/false kdm &&
install -o kdm -g kdm -dm755 /var/lib/kdm

Install Kde-workspace by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX           \
      -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc                   \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                   \
      -DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install                  &&
mkdir -p /usr/share/xsessions &&
ln -sf $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/kdm/sessions/kde-plasma.desktop \
       /usr/share/xsessions/kde-plasma.desktop

Command Explanations

-DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE: This option is set to install the KDE Python objects in the correct place.

Configuring KDE Workspace

Linux PAM Configuration

If you built KDE Workspace with Linux PAM support, create necessary configuration files by running the following commands as the root user:

cat >> /etc/pam.d/kde << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/pam.d/kde

auth     requisite      pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so

auth     required       pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet
auth     include        system-auth

account  include        system-account
password include        system-password
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/kde
EOF
cat > /etc/pam.d/kde-np << "EOF" &&
# Begin /etc/pam.d/kde-np

auth     requisite      pam_nologin.so
auth     required       pam_env.so

auth     required       pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet
auth     required       pam_permit.so

account  include        system-account
password include        system-password
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/kde-np
EOF
cat > /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver

auth    include system-auth
account include system-account

# End /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver
EOF

Installed Programs: genkdmconf, kaccess, kapplymousetheme, kblankscrn.kss, kcheckrunning, kcminit, kcminit_startup, kdm, kdmctl, kdostartupconfig4, kfontinst, kfontview, kinfocenter, klipper, kmenuedit, krandom.kss, krandrstartup, krandrtray, krdb, krunner, ksmserver, ksplashqml, ksplashsimple, ksplashx, ksplashx_scale, kstartupconfig4, ksysguard, ksysguardd, ksystraycmd, kwin, kwin_gles, kwrited, oxygen-demo, oxygen-settings, oxygen-shadow-demo, plasma-desktop, plasma-netbook, plasma-overlay, plasma-windowed, solid-action-desktop-gen, solid-network, startkde and systemsettings

Installed Libraries: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/include, $KDE_PREFIX/lib and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Starting KDE4

KDE4 Startup Dependencies

Recommended Runtime Dependencies

ConsoleKit2-1.0.0 and D-Bus-1.10.0

After Kde-workspace has been installed, the first important milestone has been reached. Now you need to configure your system to start KDE4.

Starting KDE4 from the command prompt

You can start KDE4 from runlevel 3, using xinit-1.3.4, or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as sddm-0.12.0.

To start KDE4 using xinit-1.3.4, run the following commands:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde
EOF

startx

The X session starts on the first unused virtual terminal, normally vt7. You can switch to another vtn simultaneously pressing the keys Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n=1, 2, ...). To switch back to the X session, normally started at vt7, use Ctrl-Alt-F7. The vt where the command startx was executed will display many messages, including X starting messages, applications automatically started with the session, and eventually, some warning and error messages. You may prefer to redirect those messages to a log file, which not only will keep the initial vt uncluttered, but can also be used for debug purposes. This can be done starting X with:

startx &> ~/.x-session-errors

Note

You may wish to drop consolekit and/or dbus-launch, e.g., just using startkde in ~/.xinitrc. However some capabilities such as mounting or umounting file systems from a file manager will not be possible, or the reboot option will be absent or inoperative, among other problems.

When shutting down or rebooting, the shutdown messages appear on the vt where X was running. If you wish to see those messages, simultaneously press keys Alt-F7 (assuming that X was running on vt7).

Starting KDE4 at boot

KDE4 comes with a graphical login interface called KDM (the KDE4 Display Manager), which provides a customizable graphical login at boot. To use KDM, you need to edit your /etc/inittab file (as the root user). First, setup run-level 5 to start KDM (adjust the path to kdm according to your system):

cat >> /etc/inittab << EOF
kd:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm
EOF

Additionally, you need to change the default run-level from 3 to 5:

sed -i 's#id:3:initdefault:#id:5:initdefault:#' /etc/inittab

You can now restart your system and see the KDE4 login screen.

Installing further languages (l10n)

You may want to install support for your locale language. The l10n packages can be found at http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kde-l10n/. See Further KDE4 packages for build instructions. If you are in a KDE4 session when installing a new language and configure KDE4 to use it, the session needs to be restarted, in order to see the effects.

Installing further KDE4 packages

Every subsequent package can be built while having KDE4 up and running, but remember to keep $KDE_PREFIX and $QT4DIR set.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 14:49:19 -0700

Chapter 30. KDE4 Additional Packages

Konsole-4.14.3

Introduction to Konsole

This package provides a terminal emulator for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/konsole-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1c81a9a2c073f7992671e168b7285a2a
Download size: 448 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Konsole Dependencies

Required

Installation of Konsole

Install Konsole by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: konsole and konsoleprofile

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit4_konsole.so, libkonsolepart.so and libkonsoleprivate.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/konsole and $KDE_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/en/konsole

Short Descriptions

konsole

is the KDE terminal emulator.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kate-4.14.3

Introduction to Kate

This package provides two texteditors: Kate and KWrite. Kate is a powerful programmer's text editor with syntax highlighting for many programming and scripting languages. KWrite is the lightweight cousin of Kate.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/kate-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 14da162cc650075cfb364fd39e64924d
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 108 MB
Estimated build time: 2.9 SBU

Kate Dependencies

Required

Optional

QJson-0.8.1 and PyKDE4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kate

Installation of Kate

Install Kate by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DINSTALL_PYTHON_FILES_IN_PYTHON_PREFIX=TRUE: This option is set to install the KDE Python objects in the correct place.

Installed Programs: kate and kwrite

Installed Libraries: libkateinterfaces.so, libkatepartinterfaces.so, libkdeinit4_kate.so, libkdeinit4_kwrite.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/kate and several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

kate

is the KDE text editor.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Ark-15.04.3

Introduction to Ark

This package provides an archiving utility for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/ark-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e262d982aa4ce30da47a416d76c0c96e
Download size: 236 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Ark Dependencies

Required

kde-baseapps-15.04.3 and libarchive-3.1.2

Optional

QJson-0.8.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ark

Installation of Ark

Install Ark by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: ark

Installed Libraries: libkerfuffle.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

ark

is the KDE archiving utility.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kmix-15.04.3

Introduction to Kmix

This packages provides an audio mixer application for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kmix-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 228045200142ad716a147a0a3191afa4
Download size: 380 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

Kmix Dependencies

Required

Optional

PulseAudio-6.0 and libcanberra-0.30

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kmix

Installation of Kmix

Install Kmix by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: kmix and kmixctrl

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit4_kmix.so, libkdeinit4_kmixctrl.so, kded_kmixd.so and plasma_engine_mixer.so

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

kmix

is the KDE Volume Control.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

libkcddb-15.04.3

Introduction to libkcddb

The libkcddb package contains a library used to retrieve audio CD meta data from the internet.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/libkcddb-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 02c5b67d161b3815ec8a9bd9a8d3198b
Download size: 156 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

libkcddb Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10 and libmusicbrainz-5.1.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libkcddb

Installation of libkcddb

Install libkcddb by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libkcddb.so and kcm_cddb.so in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/libkcddb, $KDE_PREFIX/lib/cmake/libkcddb and several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

libkcddb.so

contains functions used to retrieve audio CD meta data from the internet.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 08:38:39 -0700

Kdepim-runtime-4.14.10

Introduction to Kdepim-runtime

This package provides additional resources for Akonadi.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kdepim-runtime-4.14.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7dd2063acf9b6920920d0118f5576db6
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 126 MB
Estimated build time: 7.4 SBU

Kdepim-runtime Dependencies

Required

kdepimlibs-4.14.10

Optional

KolabLibraries (for Kolab Groupware Resource), libKGAPI (to access Google services), and libKFbAPI (to access Facebook services)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdepim-runtime

Installation of Kdepim-runtime

Install Kdepim-runtime by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: accountwizard, akonadi_nepomuk_feeder, akonadi_*_agent, akonadi_*_resource, akonaditray, gidmigrator, kaddressbookmigrator, kjotsmigrator, kmail-migrator, knotes-migrator, and kres-migrator

Installed Libraries: libakonadi-xml.so, libkdepim-copy.so, libkmindexreader.so, libmaildir.so, and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kdepim-4.14.10

Introduction to Kdepim

This package provides several KDE programs for managing personal information. Programs include a contact manager, calendar, mail client, newsreader, X.509 certificate manager and sticky notes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/kdepim-4.14.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a09c9bd838cd71c16e9993e57653a7ad
Download size: 13.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 493 MB
Estimated build time: 28 SBU

Kdepim Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0, grantlee-0.5.1, and kdepim-runtime-4.14.10

Optional

nepomuk-widgets, Prison, dblatex, and LinkGrammar

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdepim

Installation of Kdepim

Install Kdepim by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc         \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: akonadi_archivemail_agent, akonadi_followupreminder_agent, akonadi_mailfilter_agent, akonadi_notes_agent, akonadi_sendlater_agent, akonadiconsole, akregator, akregatorstorageexporter, calendarjanitor, contactthemeeditor, headerthemeeditor, ical2vcal, importwizard, kabc2mutt, kabcclient, kaddressbook, kaddressbook-mobile, kalarm, kalarmautostart, karm, kgpgconf, kincidenceeditor, kjotes, kleopatra, kmail, kmail-mobile, kmail_antivir.sh, kmail_clamav.sh, kmail_fprot.sh, kmail_sav.sh, kmailcvt, knode, knotes, konsolekalendar, kontact, korgac, korganizer, korganizer-mobile, ksendemail, ktimetracker, ktnef, kwatchgnupg, mboximporter, notes-mobile, pimsettingexporter, sieveeditor, storageservicemanger, and tasks-mobile

Installed Libraries: several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

libkexiv2-15.04.3

Introduction to libkexiv2

Libkexiv2 is a KDE wrapper around the Exiv2 library for manipulating image metadata.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/libkexiv2-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 484acb675b7dd7287b68483181f3bb83
Download size: 136 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libkexiv2 Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10 and Exiv2-0.25

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libkexiv2

Installation of libkexiv2

Install libkexiv2 by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: none

Installed Library: libkexiv2.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/libkexiv2 and $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/libkexiv2

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Kdeplasma-addons-4.14.3

Introduction to Kdeplasma-addons

This package provides extra Plasma applets and engines like lancelot, calculator, wallpapers etc.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/kdeplasma-addons-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bf98d9bf1502ab4ff392fdd9b4703664
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 91 MB
Estimated build time: 3.0 SBU

Kdeplasma-addons Dependencies

Required

kde-workspace-4.11.21 and kdepimlibs-4.14.10

Optional

libkexiv2-15.04.3, QJson-0.8.1, Eigen (for the Mandelbrot wallpaper plugin), IBus, Nepomuk, Marble (for the desktop globe wallpaper),and QOAuth (needed for the Plasma microblog dataengine)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdeplasma-addons

Installation of Kdeplasma-addons

Install Kdeplasma-addons by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: lancelot

Installed Libraries: liblancelot-datamodels.so, liblancelot.so, libplasma_groupingcontainment.so, libplasmacomicprovidercore.so, libplasmapotdprovidercore.so, libplasmaweather.so, librtm.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/include and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Okular-15.04.3

Introduction to Okular

Okular is a document viewer for KDE. It can view documents of many types including PDF, PostScript, TIFF, Microsoft CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS and ePub.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/okular-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bac0e31a2d8b0009a470116ba7803bc4
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 37 MB
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU

Okular Dependencies

Required

Note

For PDF support in Okular you need to configure Poppler using --enable-xpdf-headers .

Optional

libkexiv2-15.04.3, ActiveApp (for developing applications for Plasma Active), libspectre (for PostScript support), libchm, DjVuLibre, libepub, and Mobipocket

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/okular

Installation of Okular

Install Okular by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: okular

Installed Libraries: libokularcore.so and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/okular and several in $KDE_PREFIX/lib and $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

okular

is the KDE document viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

libkdcraw-15.04.3

Introduction to libkdcraw

Libkdcraw is a C++ interface around the LibRaw library used to decode RAW picture files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/libkdcraw-15.04.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 107492896bbc6bfc59657ecb5dfceefe
Download size: 100 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Libkdcraw Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10 and libraw-0.17.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libkdcraw

Installation of libkdcraw

Install libkdcraw by running the following commands:

sed -e '/3/a add_definitions(${KDE4_ENABLE_EXCEPTIONS})' \
        -i libkdcraw/CMakeLists.txt &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... libkdcraw/CMakeLists.txt: Allow C++ exceptions that are needed for libraw-0.16.2 headers.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libkdcraw.so

Installed Directories: $KDE_PREFIX/include/libkdcraw and $KDE_PREFIX/share/apps/libkdcraw

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Gwenview-4.14.3

Introduction to Gwenview

Gwenview is a fast and easy-to-use image viewer for KDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/4.14.3/src/gwenview-4.14.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a609256023f7b6e786fe7728ba299544
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 32 MB
Estimated build time: 1.2 SBU

Gwenview Dependencies

Required

libkdcraw-15.04.3 and kdelibs-4.14.10

Optional

Little CMS-2.7 and Kipi-Plugins (a collection of image manipulation plugins)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gwenview

Installation of Gwenview

Install Gwenview by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gwenview and gwenview_importer

Installed Libraries: libgwenviewlib.so and gvpart.so

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

gwenview

is the KDE image viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 01:48:57 -0700

Further KDE4 packages

This section did not provide instructions for all of the available packages in the KDE4 Software Compilation. The included packages were selected based on what most people would want to use on a standard desktop computer.

For a full list of available packages, have a look on the KDE4 servers at http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/ or ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/applications/15.04.3/src/.

Note

Some packages, such as konsole, kate, and gwenview listed in the links above are only for the new KDE Frameworks 5 and cannot be used with KDE4.

Some additional packages worth mentioning are:

Kdeartwork: Collection of wallpapers, icon themes, screensavers, widget styles etc.
Juk: A lightweight music player.
Dragon: A video player.
Kcalc: A scientific calculator.
PyKDE4: Python bindings.
Kaccessible: Accessibility utilities.
Kwalletmanager: Credentials management application.
Marble: A global map program.
audiocd-kio: A library to access CD-ROM audio files.
libkcompactdisc: A library to control CD-ROM drives.

Most of these packages can be built with the standard KDE4 instructions:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

And as the root user:

make install

Last updated on 2015-09-24 07:48:36 -0700

Chapter 31. KDE Frameworks 5

KDE Frameworks 5 Pre-installation Configuration

KF5 can be installed in /usr or /opt/kf5. The BLFS editors recommend the latter in the BLFS environment.

Installing in /usr

One option is to install KDE Frameworks 5 into the /usr hierarchy. This creates a simpler setup but makes it more difficult to try multiple versions of KDE Frameworks.

export KF5_PREFIX=/usr

It is a good idea to add the following variables to your system or personal profiles:

cat >> /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh << "EOF"
# Begin kf5 extention for /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/plugins    QT_PLUGIN_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/lib/plugins     QT_PLUGIN_PATH

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/qml        QML_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/lib/qml         QML_IMPORT_PATH

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/qml        QML2_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/lib/qml         QML2_IMPORT_PATH

# End extention for /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh
EOF

cat > /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh

export KF5_PREFIX=/usr

# End /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh
EOF

Note

If qt5 was installed in /usr, the $QT5DIR/lib/ portions of the above paths may need to be changed to $QT5DIR/lib/qt5/.

Warning

If KDE4 is installed in /usr, some packages from this chapter might overwrite some programs installed by KDE4 packages.

Installing in /opt

A method of building multiple versions installs KDE Frameworks 5 in the /opt hierarchy:

export KF5_PREFIX=/opt/kf5

If you are not installing KDE Frameworks 5 in /usr, you will need to make some additional configuration changes. Best practice is to add those to your system or personal profile:

cat > /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh

. /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh

export KF5_PREFIX=/opt/kf5

pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/bin             PATH
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig   PKG_CONFIG_PATH

pathappend /etc/xdg                    XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/etc/xdg         XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
pathappend /usr/share                  XDG_DATA_DIRS
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/share           XDG_DATA_DIRS

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/plugins        QT_PLUGIN_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/plugins             QT_PLUGIN_PATH
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/lib/plugins     QT_PLUGIN_PATH

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/qml            QML_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/qml                 QML_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml         QML_IMPORT_PATH

pathappend /usr/lib/qt5/qml            QML2_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/qml                 QML2_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml         QML2_IMPORT_PATH

pathappend $KF5_PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages PYTHONPATH
# End /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh
EOF

cat > /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/profile.d/kf5.sh
# Begin Qt5 changes for KF5

pathappend $QT5DIR/plugins             QT_PLUGIN_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/qml                 QML_IMPORT_PATH
pathappend $QT5DIR/qml                 QML2_IMPORT_PATH

# End Qt5 changes for KF5
EOF

Expand your /etc/ld.so.conf file:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
# Begin KF5 addition

/opt/kf5/lib

# End KF5 addition
EOF

Several KDE Frameworks 5 packages install files into D-Bus directories. When installing KDE Frameworks 5 in a location other than /usr, D-Bus needs to be able to find these files. The easiest way to achieve this is to create the following symlinks (as the root user):

install -v -dm755           $KF5_PREFIX/{etc,share} &&
ln -sfv /etc/dbus-1         $KF5_PREFIX/etc         &&
ln -sfv /usr/share/dbus-1   $KF5_PREFIX/share

Some packages may also install icons from the "hicolor" icon set. Since that icon set is used by many packages, it is a good idea to create a symlink to the one in /usr/share to avoid having multiple installations of hicolor-icon-theme-0.15. Run the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755                $KF5_PREFIX/share/icons &&
ln -sfv /usr/share/icons/hicolor $KF5_PREFIX/share/icons

Tip

Sometimes, the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/kf5 is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/kf5-5.14.0. After installing KDE Frameworks, you may rename the directory and create a symlink:

mv /opt/kf5{,-5.14.0}
ln -sfv kf5-5.14.0 /opt/kf5

Later on, you may want to install other versions of KDE Frameworks 5. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/kf5 as the prefix again. Which version of KDE Frameworks 5 you use depends only on where the symlink points. No other reconfiguration will be needed.

Last updated on 2015-09-30 20:43:29 -0700

Building KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5)

KDE Frameworks 5 is a collection of libraries based on top of Qt5 and QML derived from the monolithic KDE 4 libraries. They can be used independent of the KDE Display Environment (Plasma 5).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

The instructions below build all of the KDE Frameworks packages in one step by using a bash script.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.14
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/frameworks/5.14/
Download MD5 sum: See Below
Download size: 31 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.0 GB
Estimated build time: 43 SBU

KF5 Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0, extra-cmake-modules-5.14.0, docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, giflib-5.1.1, libepoxy-1.3.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, libxslt-1.1.28, phonon-4.8.3 (built with qt5), shared-mime-info-1.4, URI-1.69, and Wget-1.16.3 (required to download the packages)

Optional

BlueZ-5.34 (needed to build Bluez-Qt), NetworkManager-1.0.6 (needed to build NetworkManager-Qt), ModemManager (needed to build ModemManager-Qt)

Runtime dependency for FrameworkIntegration

oxygen-fonts

Runtime dependencies for kapidox

Doxygen-1.8.10, Jinja2, and PyYAML

Additional image formats support in KImageFormats

JasPer-1.900.1 and OpenEXR

Optional dependencies for KIO

MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2

Optional dependencies for ModemManager-QT

ModemManager

Optional dependencies for Solid

UDisks-2.1.6, UPower-0.9.23 and media-player-info (runtime)

Optional dictionary backends for Sonnet

Hspell and Hunspell

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kf5

Downloading KDE Frameworks

The easiest way to get the KDE Frameworks packages is to use a single wget to fetch them all at once:

url=http://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/5.14/
wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 -A '*.xz' -np $url

The options used here are: 
  -r            recurse through child directories
  -nH           disable generation of host-prefixed directories
  --cut-dirs=3  remove three levels of directories when saving
  -A '*.xz'     just get the *.xz files
  -np           don't get parent directories

Setting Package Order

The order of building files is important due to internal dependencies. Create the list of files in the proper order as follows:

cat > frameworks-5.14.0.md5 << "EOF"
206256ed0dda3161d73a61d29835b04b  attica-5.14.0.tar.xz
#5c5db16c6038e63e7b741fa32e4eaddd  extra-cmake-modules-5.14.0.tar.xz
6852e7e3c52f18dc0f08811440f7159a  kapidox-5.14.0.tar.xz
1250214279c42c5802f998ee1f2b91b8  karchive-5.14.0.tar.xz
5089c3e4f3f9e97a9be526a17264268e  kcodecs-5.14.0.tar.xz
a4b12b753b855d8fa1240b499bc17135  kconfig-5.14.0.tar.xz
3b6b2ac66ff2c436c7b8af6d1ca426be  kcoreaddons-5.14.0.tar.xz
f549e9e7c7340df301b52530817ced0a  kdbusaddons-5.14.0.tar.xz
60c2eb4b4bc7227213bc1b570be75cfd  kdnssd-5.14.0.tar.xz
d2eccbda7aa054cfb4e6f0bd3c79aa3f  kguiaddons-5.14.0.tar.xz
a6d89fc546487e02dc921a7c21cb782d  ki18n-5.14.0.tar.xz
821deeab6cbd9e37c8e676c7ca0f2eac  kidletime-5.14.0.tar.xz
187a448cbfd6302bba9bb45a812322b8  kimageformats-5.14.0.tar.xz
3b0dbc6a5c684ac6d2831df8c7f6d262  kitemmodels-5.14.0.tar.xz
06a1fbd90019b98f037d59554c6cec84  kitemviews-5.14.0.tar.xz
69b884e9c9e5705c92e495737b8f5a4d  kplotting-5.14.0.tar.xz
c0bff34af9beb98133342541cc0ef1cd  kwidgetsaddons-5.14.0.tar.xz
a50dbdb6c25499bbd958e6df4a5b293d  kwindowsystem-5.14.0.tar.xz
#ea34cd8d1093724fc60da6e2555f2750  networkmanager-qt-5.14.0.tar.xz
8e487975994ba2c5811f6830609c73de  solid-5.14.0.tar.xz
19ee48d23eb44e3ba5c101112474775e  sonnet-5.14.0.tar.xz
35411b704157912a305c3d4b2b1b5a32  threadweaver-5.14.0.tar.xz
ea724c2152b88149893784a234c5bbcc  kauth-5.14.0.tar.xz
d330c841ddf9d3857543daff933471af  kcompletion-5.14.0.tar.xz
faa443c8a45cb942e2f2b2ae647c695b  kcrash-5.14.0.tar.xz
48a3a630dc242ba9de061a565b608ea9  kdoctools-5.14.0.tar.xz
a08cbe17b90a6757affb443cb7cbd499  kpty-5.14.0.tar.xz
ff33baab025aaa15776c5a47036f2aa9  kunitconversion-5.14.0.tar.xz
e58351e0a9feb51885593c208060fb1c  kconfigwidgets-5.14.0.tar.xz
e768f46da97986de5ae853be0af40632  kglobalaccel-5.14.0.tar.xz
989e314e2c6ac4a1657f9096d17e1766  kpackage-5.14.0.tar.xz
6bdf66cffc9b3028b4367e7a5e48f571  kservice-5.14.0.tar.xz
0daa6599557fd00f1679245b38971f21  kservice-5.14.1.tar.xz
eca764e18afbcef5496183c96c613c91  kservice-5.14.2.tar.xz
c5004c66f5037ef838421665a08828b1  kservice-5.14.3.tar.xz
7bb862e6a4897554f224741f9d16f0c2  kdesu-5.14.0.tar.xz
2eed2c3af124630323aa550cc1fa9378  kemoticons-5.14.0.tar.xz
d206ae75a9f950e026c7923b272ddc3e  kiconthemes-5.14.0.tar.xz
037b07877f3a3cd514b9c19b069872f6  kjobwidgets-5.14.0.tar.xz
dc062d457181a4e1f0b6853cbf55666d  knotifications-5.14.0.tar.xz
0a0fb3b469fc2e532b6bf9ab19fe8967  ktextwidgets-5.14.0.tar.xz
9c6ddf667c3a4dfca3f617ec22f3b6bc  kwallet-5.14.0.tar.xz
dada98dd85d6f60596f36063aeda1a66  kxmlgui-5.14.0.tar.xz
5df918cc7e7143fca74b00eb7210502c  kbookmarks-5.14.0.tar.xz
aad540c6a23327756c259afe72e531d1  kio-5.14.0.tar.xz
46c2fbccef981359cb9af1c73bd8eada  kdeclarative-5.14.0.tar.xz
fdb3eaa651bf61bbdcef094f281b9caf  kcmutils-5.14.0.tar.xz
d5094cba8ca4d280d6e817d334fb2dc1  frameworkintegration-5.14.0.tar.xz
18300dc5a57f07e7d81fba87ca55921b  kinit-5.14.0.tar.xz
17e952f64c00a844d23f56381fa53f5b  knewstuff-5.14.0.tar.xz
e66f03050ce37783261c56adea9dd244  knotifyconfig-5.14.0.tar.xz
74170ab4a66416be46efc6c8f73f7031  kparts-5.14.0.tar.xz
fd307cea16adbb0eca5cf2349bb2b88a  kactivities-5.14.0.tar.xz
5a14cc490517fad7b087057b3ec34265  kded-5.14.0.tar.xz
83039b3a1fc1098f904cfa5afaa38e57  kdewebkit-5.14.0.tar.xz
2c5c660aea6c55c3f21f29cc3f1df604  ktexteditor-5.14.0.tar.xz
d560c5c583abe4741b1794b9108ee324  kdesignerplugin-5.14.0.tar.xz
c0900fcf4a78902a99eeaa7ae3d012e7  plasma-framework-5.14.0.tar.xz
#644a45b79fd1106a68f0478d89e891e8  modemmanager-qt-5.14.0.tar.xz
d2122e29193fbbea680c82d9bd442a00  kpeople-5.14.0.tar.xz
7e66a2d58a299a125336b9e81600b686  kxmlrpcclient-5.14.0.tar.xz
#ed07b3649612f4692b8e6714cbf1e6ca  bluez-qt-5.14.0.tar.xz
73a2904c00ba6c1aca8a2efde26a552f  kfilemetadata-5.14.0.tar.xz
#0e708135232432d371596d22ed864e3e  baloo-5.14.0.tar.xz
349a11564686f99666071b2327910f61  portingAids/kjs-5.14.0.tar.xz
feb4bb63b373a4fdf7084be2a904d447  portingAids/kdelibs4support-5.14.0.tar.xz
d3e33cf31a47b33259d3bf2b5385f751  portingAids/khtml-5.14.0.tar.xz
b98728da482f20bf0331ddbb56429622  portingAids/kjsembed-5.14.0.tar.xz
e803fc78fb1acf9884621cca1e81fe88  portingAids/kmediaplayer-5.14.0.tar.xz
057ed7d554d16bb5439496e0537c2ed3  portingAids/kross-5.14.0.tar.xz
8125ed94b4b2a19fef7430b0cc649212  portingAids/krunner-5.14.0.tar.xz
EOF

In the above list, notice that some files have been commented out with a hash (#) character. The extra-cmake-modules entry has been commented out because it was built earlier in the Introduction to KDE. The others may be built if the optional dependencies have been installed.

Installation of KDE Frameworks

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

Caution

If inatalling in /opt and there is an existing /opt/kf5 either as a regular directory or a symbolic link, it should be removed (as root):

rm -rf /opt/kf5

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Install all of the packages by running the following commands:

while read -r line; do

    # Get the file name, ignoring comments and blank lines
    if $(echo $line | grep -E -q '^ *$|^#' ); then continue; fi
    file=$(echo $line | cut -d" " -f2)
    
    pkg=$(echo $file|sed 's|^.*/||')          # Remove directory
    packagedir=$(echo $pkg|sed 's|\.tar.*||') # Package directory

    tar -xf $file
    pushd $packagedir

      mkdir build
      cd    build

      cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
            -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$QT5DIR        \
            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
            -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib              \
            -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
            -Wno-dev .. 
      make
      as_root make install
  popd

  rm -rf $packagedir
  as_root /sbin/ldconfig

done < frameworks-5.14.0.md5

exit

Note

Any modules that have been omitted can be installed later by using the same mkdir build; cd build; cmake; make; make install procedure as above.

Sometimes the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. If the installed directory is not /usr, rename the directory and create a symlink:

mv -v /opt/kf5 /opt/kf5-5.14.0
ln -sfvn kf5-5.14.0 /opt/kf5

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$QT5DIR: This switch is used to allow cmake to find the proper Qt libraries.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.

-DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib: This switch is used to get libraries to install to $KF5_PREFIX/lib instead of $KF5_PREFIX/lib64 on a 64 bit system.

-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF: This switch is used to prevent building test programs and libraries that are of no use to an end user.

Installed Programs: checkXML5, depdiagram-generate, depdiagram-generate-all, depdiagram-prepare, desktoptojson, kactivitymanagerd, kbuildsycoca5, kconfig_compiler_kf5, kcookiejar5, kdebugdialog5, kded5, kdeinit5, kdeinit5_shutdown, kdeinit5_wrapper, kf5-config, kf5kross, kgenapidox, kgendesignerplugin, genframeworksapidox, kglobalaccel5, kiconfinder5, kjs5, kjscmd5, kjsconsole, kmailservice5, kpackagelauncherqml, kpackagetool5, kquitapp5, kreadconfig5, kshell5, ktelnetservice5, ktrash5, kwalletd5, kwrapper5, kwriteconfig5, meinproc5, plasmapkg2, preparetips5, and solid-hardware5

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit5_kded5.so, libkdeinit5_klauncher.so, libKF5Activities.so, libKF5Archive.so, libKF5Attica.so, libKF5Auth.so, libKF5BluezQt.so, libKF5Bookmarks.so, libKF5Codecs.so, libKF5Completion.so, libKF5ConfigCore.so, libKF5ConfigGui.so, libKF5ConfigWidgets.so, libKF5CoreAddons.so, libKF5Crash.so, libKF5DBusAddons.so, libKF5Declarative.so, libKF5DNSSD.so, libKF5Emoticons.so, libKF5GlobalAccelPrivate.so, libKF5GlobalAccel.so, libKF5GuiAddons.so, libKF5I18n.so, libKF5IconThemes.so, libKF5IdleTime.so, libKF5ItemModels.so, libKF5ItemViews.so, libKF5JobWidgets.so, libKF5JSApi.so, libKF5JsEmbed.so, libKF5JS.so, libKF5KCMUtils.so, libKF5KDELibs4Support.so, libKF5KHtml.so, libKF5KIOCore.so, libKF5KIOFileWidgets.so, libKF5KIONTLM.so, libKF5KIOWidgets.so, libKF5KrossCore.so, libKF5KrossUi.so, libKF5MediaPlayer.so, libKF5ModemManagerQt.so, libKF5NetworkManagerQt.so, libKF5NewStuff.so, libKF5Notifications.so, libKF5NotifyConfig.so, libKF5Package.so, libKF5Parts.so, libKF5PeopleBackend.so, libKF5People.so, libKF5PeopleWidgets.so, libKF5PlasmaQuick.so, libKF5Plasma.so, libKF5Plotting.so, libKF5Pty.so, libKF5QuickAddons.so, libKF5Runner.so, libKF5Service.so, libKF5Solid.so, libKF5SonnetCore.so, libKF5SonnetUi.so, libKF5Style.so, libKF5Su.so, libKF5TextEditor.so, libKF5TextWidgets.so, libKF5ThreadWeaver.so, libKF5UnitConversion.so, libKF5Wallet.so, libKF5WebKit.so, libKF5WidgetsAddons.so, libKF5WindowSystem.so, libKF5XmlGui.so, libKF5XmlRpcClient.so, libKF5XsltKde.a, and libkwalletbackend5.so

Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{Attica,BluezQt,KActivities,KArchive,KAuth}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KBookmarks,KCMUtils,KCodecs,KCompletion}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KConfigCore,KConfigGui,KConfigWidgets,KCoreAddons}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KCrash,KDBusAddons,KDeclarative,KDELibs4Support}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KDESu,KDEWebKit,KDNSSD,KEmoticons,KGlobalAccel}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KGuiAddons,KHtml,KI18n,KIconThemes,KIdleTime}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{kio,KIOCore,KIOFileWidgets,KIOWidgets}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KItemModels,KItemViews,KJobWidgets,kjs,KJsEmbed}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KMediaPlayer,KNewStuff3,KNotifications}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KNotifyConfig,KPackage,KParts,KPeople,KPlotting}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KPty,KrossCore,KrossUi,KRunner,KService,KStyle}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KTextEditor,KTextWidgets,KUnitConversion,KWallet}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KWidgetsAddons,KWindowSystem,KXmlGui}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{KXmlRpcClient,ModemManagerQt,NetworkManagerQt}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{plasma,Plasma,Solid,SonnetCore}, $KF5_PREFIX/include/KF5/{SonnetUi,ThreadWeaver,wtf,XsltKde}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KDED,KDELibs4,KF5Activities,KF5Archive,KF5Attica}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Auth,KF5BluezQt,KF5Bookmarks,KF5Codec}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Completion,KF5Config,KF5ConfigWidgets}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5CoreAddons,KF5Crash,KF5DBusAddons}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Declarative,KF5DesignerPlugin,KF5DNSSD}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5DocTools,KF5Emoticons,F5FrameworkIntegration}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5GlobalAccel,KF5GuiAddons,KF5I18n}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5IconThemes,KF5IdleTime,KF5Init}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5ItemModels,KF5ItemViews,KF5JobWidgets}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5JS,KF5JsEmbed,KF5KCMUtils}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5KDE4Support,KF5KDELibs4Support}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5KHtml,KF5KIO,KF5Kross,KF5MediaPlayer}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5ModemManagerQt,KF5NetworkManagerQt,KF5NewStuff}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Notifications,KF5NotifyConfig,KF5Package}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Parts,KF5People,KF5Plasma,KF5PlasmaQuick}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Plotting,KF5Pty,KF5Runner,KF5Service}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5Solid,KF5Sonnet,KF5Su,KF5TextEditor}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5TextWidgets,KF5ThreadWeaver}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5UnitConversion,KF5Wallet,KF5WebKit}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/{KF5WidgetsAddons,KF5WindowSystem,KF5XmlGui}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/cmake/KF5XmlRpcClient, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/libexec/{kauth,kf5}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kapidox, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qt5/{designer,imageformats,kactivitymanagerd}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qt5/{kauth,kf5,org.kde.kglobalaccel5.platforms}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qt5/{plasma,platformthemes,script}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/org/kde/{activities,bluezqt,draganddrop}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/org/kde/{kcoreaddons,kio,kquickcontrols}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/org/kde/{kquickcontrolsaddons,kwindowsystem}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/org/kde/{people,plasma,private,runnermodel}, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/org/kde/solid, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/qml/QtQuick/Controls/Styles/Plasma, $KF5_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/{kdebugdialog5,kdoctools5-common,kioslave5}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/emoticons/Glass, $KF5_PREFIX/share/{katepart5,knotifications5,kservices5,kservicetypes5}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kf5/{infopage,kactivitymanagerd,kauth,kcharselect}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kf5/{kconfigwidgets,kcookiejar,kdoctools,khtml,kjava}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kf5/{kjs,kmoretools,knewstuff,kpeople,kssl,kxmlgui}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kf5/{locale,sonnet,widgets}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{katepart,khtml}, and $KF5_PREFIX/share/plasma/{desktoptheme,services}

Last updated on 2015-09-30 11:10:36 -0700

Chapter 32. KDE Frameworks 5 Based Applications

Kate-15.08.1

Introduction to Kate

The Kate package contains an advanced KF5 based graphical text editor.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.08.1/src/kate-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/15.08.1/src/kate-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: abcb7bc53caeae3f3c5d28936e7c4474
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB
Estimated build time: 2.8 SBU

Kate Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.14.0,

Optional

libgit2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kate5

Installation of Kate

Install Kate by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX  \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib               \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                 \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: kate and kwrite

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit5_kate.so and libkdeinit5_kwrite.so

Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/lib/plugins/ktexteditor, $KF5_PREFIX/lib/plugins/plasma/dataengine, $KF5_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/{kate,katepart,kwrite}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/{kateproject,katexmltools}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{kate,katebuild,katecloseexceptplugin}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{katectags,katefiletree,kategdb}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{katekonsole,kateopenheaderplugin}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{kateproject,katesearch,katesnippets}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{katesql,katesymbolviewer,katexmltools}, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/{kwrite,tabswitcher} and $KF5_PREFIX/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.katesessions

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

Kdenlive-15.08.1

Introduction to Konsole

The Kdenlive package is a KF5 based video editor.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.08.1/src/kdenlive-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/15.08.1/src/kdenlive-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a3fbabe1108f0c1c7e76f61527d9c28e
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 45 MB
Estimated build time: 3.7 SBU

Kdenlive Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.14.0 and mlt-0.9.6

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kdenlive5

Installation of Kdenlive

Install Kdenlive by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib              \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: kdenlive and kdenlive_render

Installed Libraries: mltpreview.so

Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/kdenlive, $KF5_PREFIX/share/kdenlive, and $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/kdenlive

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

KMix-15.08.1

Introduction to KMix

The KMix package contains a KF5 based Sound Mixer application.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.08.1/src/kmix-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 004888273cd23878ef07a3d88bf66132
Download size: 380 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10.7 MB
Estimated build time: 2.0 SBU

KMix Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.14.0

Optional

libcanberra-0.30 and PulseAudio-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/kmix5

Installation of KMix

Install KMix by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib              \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -DKMIX_KF5_BUILD=1                 \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DKMIX_KF5_BUILD=1: This switch is used to ensure that KDE Frameworks 5 based application is built.

Installed Programs: kmix, kmixctrl, and kmixremote

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit5_kmixctrl.so and libkdeinit5_kmix.so

Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/share/kmix

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

Konsole-15.08.1

Introduction to Konsole

The Konsole package is a KF5 based terminal emulator.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/15.08.1/src/konsole-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/15.08.1/src/konsole-15.08.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 89da8e7f1a1146241866931855157272
Download size: 452 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11.6 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU

Konsole Dependencies

Required

KDE Frameworks-5.14.0,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/konsole5

Installation of Konsole

Install Konsole by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KF5_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib              \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF                \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: konsole and konsoleprofile

Installed Libraries: libkdeinit5_konsole.so and libkonsoleprivate.so

Installed Directories: $KF5_PREFIX/share/doc/HTML/*/konsole, $KF5_PREFIX/share/konsole, and $KF5_PREFIX/share/kxmlgui5/konsole

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

Chapter 33. KDE Plasma 5

KDE Plasma 5 is a desktop environment built using KDE Frameworks 5 and QML which runs on top of a fully hardware accelerated graphics stack using Qt5, QtQuick 2 and an OpenGL(-ES) scenegraph.

Because KDE Plasma 5 is so new, there are issues preventing proper operation on some systems in the LFS environment. When these issues are worked out, then the build instructions will be added here. For more information, see https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php.

Part VIII. Selected GNOME Applications

Chapter 34. GNOME Libraries and Utilities

The objective of this section is not to build a GNOME desktop, because it depends on Systemd, which BLFS doesn't support. Rather, it provides packages required for some platform independent GNOME applications to build and run properly under any Window Manager (e.g. Fluxbox, Icewm, Openbox, Sawfish), or Desktop Environment (e.g. KDE, XFCE, LXDE).

Libraries

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1

Introduction to GSettings Desktop Schemas

The GSettings Desktop Schemas package contains a collection of GSettings schemas for settings shared by various components of a GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gsettings-desktop-schemas/3.16/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gsettings-desktop-schemas/3.16/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: baebbcf3c20591f98876e42fb0a3fd35
Download size: 536 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GSettings Desktop Schemas Dependencies

Required

Installation of GSettings Desktop Schemas

Install GSettings Desktop Schemas by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/include/gsettings-desktop-schemas

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

yelp-xsl-3.16.1

Introduction to Yelp XSL

The Yelp XSL package contains XSL stylesheets that are used by the Yelp help browser to format Docbook and Mallard documents.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp-xsl/3.16/yelp-xsl-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp-xsl/3.16/yelp-xsl-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 92871729425199f9a4374b8035f60a03
Download size: 552 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Yelp XSL Dependencies

Required

libxslt-1.1.28 and Itstool-2.0.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/yelp-xsl

Installation of Yelp XSL

Install Yelp XSL by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/yelp-xsl

Last updated on 2015-09-29 10:19:24 -0700

GConf-3.2.6

Introduction to GConf

The GConf package contains a configuration database system used by many GNOME applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/GConf/3.2/GConf-3.2.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/GConf/3.2/GConf-3.2.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2b16996d0e4b112856ee5c59130e822c
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 45 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

GConf Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104 and libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and OpenLDAP-2.4.42

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gconf

Installation of GConf

Install GConf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-orbit \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
ln -s gconf.xml.defaults /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system

Command Explanations

--disable-orbit: This switch is required if ORBit2 is not installed. ORBit2 is a deprecated package.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: gconf-merge-tree, gconftool-2, gsettings-data-convert and gsettings-schema-convert

Installed Libraries: libgconf-2.so

Installed Directories: /etc/gconf, /usr/include/gconf, /usr/lib/GConf, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gconf and /usr/share/sgml/gconf

Short Descriptions

gconf-merge-tree	merges an XML filesystem hierarchy.
gconftool-2	is a command line tool used for manipulating the GConf database.
gsettings-data-convert	reads values out of the users GConf database and stores them in GSettings.
gsettings-schemas-convert	converts between GConf and GSettings schema file formats.
`libgconf-2.so`	provides the functions necessary to maintain the configuration database.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

libsecret-0.18.3

Introduction to libsecret

The libsecret package contains a GObject based library for accessing the Secret Service API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsecret/0.18/libsecret-0.18.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsecret/0.18/libsecret-0.18.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a21605644a64883ab685aec50d63253e
Download size: 472 KB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB (21 MB with the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (0.3 SBU with the tests)

libsecret Dependencies

Required

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, and libxslt-1.1.28 (to build manual pages)

Optional (Required for the testsuite)

D-Bus Python-1.2.0, Gjs-1.43.3, and PyGObject-2.28.6

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-3.16.0

Note

Any package requiring libsecret, expect GNOME Keyring to be present at runtime.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsecret

Installation of libsecret

Install libsecret by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

To test the results, issue: make check, after the package is installed. The test suite should be run from a local GUI session started with dbus-launch.

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--disable-manpages: Use this switch if you have not installed libxslt-1.1.28 and DocBook packages.

--disable-gcrypt: Use this switch if you have not installed the recommended dependency of libgcrypt-1.6.3.

Installed Program: secret-tool

Installed Library: libsecret-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libsecret-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsecret-1

Short Descriptions

secret-tool	is a command line tool that can be used to store and retrieve passwords.
`libsecret-1.so`	contains the libsecret API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Gcr-3.16.0

Introduction to Gcr

The Gcr package contains libraries used for displaying certificates and accessing key stores. It also provides the viewer for crypto files on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gcr/3.16/gcr-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gcr/3.16/gcr-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d5835680be0b6a838e02a528d5378d9c
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 77 MB (additional 5 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for tests)

Gcr Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libtasn1-4.6, and p11-kit-0.23.1

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gcr

Installation of Gcr

Install Gcr by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. Some tests fail for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-gtk: Use this switch if you haven't installed GTK+-3.16.6.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: gcr-viewer

Installed Libraries: libgck-1.so, libgcr-3.so, libgcr-base-3.so and libgcr-ui-3.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gck-1, /usr/include/gcr-3, /usr/share/gcr-3, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gck, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gcr-3

Short Descriptions

gcr-viewer	is used to view certificate and key files.
`libgck-1.so`	contains GObject bindings for PKCS#11.
`libgcr-3.so`	contains functions for high level crypto parsing.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

gnome-keyring-3.16.0

Introduction to GNOME Keyring

The GNOME Keyring package contains a daemon that keeps passwords and other secrets for users.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-keyring/3.16/gnome-keyring-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-keyring/3.16/gnome-keyring-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d105927a8dd1791552882744b62351bd
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 134 MB (additional 1 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for tests)

GNOME Keyring Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0 and Gcr-3.16.0

Optional

libcap-ng, GnuPG-2.1.7, OpenSSH-7.1p1 and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-keyring

Installation of GNOME Keyring

Install GNOME Keyring by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-pam-dir=/lib/security &&
make

A session bus address is necessary to run the tests. To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-pam-dir=/lib/security: This switch specifies where the PAM module will be installed.

Installed Programs: gnome-keyring (symlink), gnome-keyring-3, and gnome-keyring-daemon

Installed Libraries: gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so and pam_gnome_keyring.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/gnome-keyring

Short Descriptions

gnome-keyring-daemon

is a session daemon that keeps passwords for users.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Gvfs-1.24.2

Introduction to Gvfs

The Gvfs package is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstractions of GLib's GIO library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gvfs/1.24/gvfs-1.24.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gvfs/1.24/gvfs-1.24.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 83ed317eb2a5264715d4273e90a5cfd8
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 72 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Gvfs Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0 and GLib-2.44.1

Optional

Apache-2.4.16, Avahi-0.6.31, BlueZ-5.34, dbus-glib-0.104, Fuse-2.9.4, GTK-Doc-1.24, libarchive-3.1.2, libcdio-0.93, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libxml2-2.9.2, libxslt-1.1.28, OpenSSH-7.1p1, Samba-4.2.3, GNOME Online Accounts, libbluray, libgphoto2, libimobiledevice, libmtp, and Twisted,

Optional (Runtime)

obex-data-server-0.4.6

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gvfs

Installation of Gvfs

Install Gvfs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-gphoto2 &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Command Explanations

--disable-gphoto2: This switch is required if libgphoto2 is not installed. Remove it if you installed libgphoto2 and wish to use it with Gvfs.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: gvfs-cat, gvfs-copy, gvfs-info, gvfs-less, gvfs-ls, gvfs-mime, gvfs-mkdir, gvfs-monitor-dir, gvfs-monitor-file, gvfs-mount, gvfs-move, gvfs-open, gvfs-rename, gvfs-rm, gvfs-save, gvfs-set-attribute, gvfs-trash, and gvfs-tree

Installed Library: libgvfscommon.so, libgvfsdaemon.so and some under /usr/lib/gio/modules/

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gvfs-client, /usr/lib/gvfs, and /usr/share/gvfs

Short Descriptions

gvfs-cat	concatenates the given files and prints them to the standard output.
gvfs-copy	copies a file from one URI location to another.
gvfs-info	shows information about the given locations.
gvfs-less	executes less using the VFS as input preprocesor, so less can access any resource accessible by any of the Gvfs backends.
gvfs-ls	lists information about the given locations.
gvfs-mime	is used to query information about applications that are registered to handle a mime-type, or set the default handler for a mime-type.
gvfs-mkdir	creates a directory specified by an URI.
gvfs-monitor-dir	prints information about file creation, deletion, file content and attribute changes and mount and unmount operations inside the specified directories.
gvfs-monitor-file	prints information about creation, deletion, content and attribute changes and mount and unmount operations affecting the monitored files.
gvfs-mount	provides commandline access to various aspects of GIOs mounting functionality.
gvfs-move	moves a file from one URI location to another.
gvfs-open	opens files with the default application that is registered to handle files of that type.
gvfs-rename	changes the name of a file or directory.
gvfs-rm	removes a file.
gvfs-save	reads from the standard input and saves the data to the given location.
gvfs-set-attribute	allows to set a file attribute on a file.
gvfs-trash	sends files or directories to the "Trashcan".
gvfs-tree	lists the contents of the given directories recursively, in a tree-like format.
`libgvfscommon.so`	contains the common API functions used in Gvfs programs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Gjs-1.43.3

Introduction to Gjs

Gjs is a Javascript binding for GNOME.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gjs/1.43/gjs-1.43.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gjs/1.43/gjs-1.43.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5efde4730e1ff3b943915ed152085a1e
Download size: 448 KB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional less than 0.1 SBU for the tests)

Gjs Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.14.2, gobject-introspection-1.44.0, and JS2-24.2.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gjs

Installation of Gjs

Install Gjs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gjs (symlink) and gjs-console

Installed Library: libgjs.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gjs-1.0, /usr/lib/gjs, and /usr/libexec/gjs

Short Descriptions

libgjs.so

contains the GNOME JavaScript bindings.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

gnome-desktop-3.16.2

Introduction to GNOME Desktop

The GNOME Desktop package contains a library that provides an API shared by several applications on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/3.16/gnome-desktop-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-desktop/3.16/gnome-desktop-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ab5bf4cc94ad63639f42adcc1542b1f0
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

GNOME Desktop Dependencies

Required

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1, GTK+-3.16.6, ISO Codes-3.59, Itstool-2.0.2, and xkeyboard-config-2.15

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-desktop

Installation of GNOME Desktop

Install GNOME Desktop by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-gnome-distributor="Some Name": Use this parameter to supply a custom name in the “Distributor:” field of the “GNOME About” display window.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgnome-desktop-3.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gnome-desktop-3.0, /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-desktop3, /usr/share/help/*/{gpl,lgpl,fdl}, and /usr/share/libgnome-desktop-3.0

Short Descriptions

libgnome-desktop-3.so

contains functions shared by several GNOME applications.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-video-effects-0.4.1

Introduction to GNOME Video Effects

The GNOME Video Effects package contains a collection of GStreamer effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-video-effects/0.4/gnome-video-effects-0.4.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-video-effects/0.4/gnome-video-effects-0.4.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: aa0838f5be12f524ba5622e1b61d21b1
Download size: 144 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GNOME Video Effects Dependencies

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-video-effects

Installation of GNOME Video Effects

Install GNOME Video Effects by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/gnome-video-effects

Last updated on 2015-09-29 10:19:24 -0700

libgtop-2.30.0

Introduction to libgtop

The libgtop package contains the GNOME top libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgtop/2.30/libgtop-2.30.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgtop/2.30/libgtop-2.30.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ee29a9ef60659ebf4b075ac281f71cb2
Download size: 652 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libgtop Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.44.1 and Xorg Libraries

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgtop

Installation of libgtop

Install libgtop by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgtop-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgtop-2.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgtop

Short Descriptions

libgtop-2.0.so

contains the functions that allow access to system performance data.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

libpeas-1.14.0

Introduction to libpeas

libpeas is a GObject based plugins engine, and is targeted at giving every application the chance to assume its own extensibility.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libpeas/1.14/libpeas-1.14.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libpeas/1.14/libpeas-1.14.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1347653703ba4d50dd746845c35d010a
Download size: 536 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and GTK+-3.16.6

Optional

GDB-7.10, GTK-Doc-1.24, Valgrind-3.10.1, Glade, LGI (for LUA bindings, built with LUA-5.1), with either luajit or LUA-5.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libpeas

Installation of libpeas

Install libpeas by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check 2>&1 | tee ../libpeas-make-check.log. Check the results with egrep '(FAIL|PASS)' ../libpeas-make-check.log. An active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: peas-demo

Installed Libraries: libpeas-1.0.so and libpeas-gtk-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/peas-demo and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libpeas

Short Descriptions

peas-demo	is the Peas demo program.
`libpeas-1.0.so`	contains the libpeas API functions.
`libpeas-gtk-1.0.so`	contains the libpeas GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

libwnck-3.14.0

Introduction to libwnck

The libwnck package contains the Window Navigator Construction Kit.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libwnck//3.14/libwnck-3.14.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libwnck/3.14/libwnck-3.14.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 4538672e0d775fadedf10abeb8020047
Download size: 664 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libwnck Dependencies

Required

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libwnck

Installation of libwnck

Install libwnck by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: wnckprop and wnck-urgency-monitor

Installed Library: libwnck-3.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libwnck-3.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libwnck-3.0

Short Descriptions

wnckprop	is used to print or modify the properties of a screen/workspace/window, or to interact with it.
`libwnck-3.so`	contains functions for writing pagers and task lists.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

totem-pl-parser-3.10.5

Introduction to Totem PL Parser

The Totem PL Parser package contains a simple GObject-based library used to parse a host of playlist formats, as well as save those.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/totem-pl-parser/3.10/totem-pl-parser-3.10.5.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/totem-pl-parser/3.10/totem-pl-parser-3.10.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7ff9cf8afa8df88e7856cce578d002fe
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (additional 0.9 SBU for the tests)

Totem PL Parser Dependencies

Required

GMime-2.6.20 and libsoup-2.50.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, lcov, and libquvi (version 0.9) and libquvi-scripts - if they are installed, then lua-socket (git) is necessary for the tests

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/totem-pl-parser

Installation of Totem PL Parser

Install Totem PL Parser by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-quvi   \
            --disable-static &&
make

If you wish to run the test suite, disable two tests which fail, by running:

sed -e '/g_test_add_func (\"\/parser\/parsability/d' \
    -e '/g_test_add_func (\"\/parser\/parsing\/xml_mixed_cdata/d' \
    -i plparse/tests/parser.c

To test the results, issue: make check. You will need an active internet connection in order to successfully complete all tests.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-quvi: This parameter is used because libquvi is broken with Lua-5.3.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libtotem-plparser-mini.so and libtotem-plparser.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/totem-pl-parser and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/totem-pl-parser

Short Descriptions

`libtotem-plparser.so`	is the Totem Playlist Parser library.
`libtotem-plparser-mini.so`	is the Totem Playlist Parser library, mini version.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

VTE-0.40.2

Introduction to VTE

The VTE package contains a termcap file implementation for terminal emulators.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.40/vte-0.40.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.40/vte-0.40.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6a7a6af8eb0ebadaf3338e820a7229a3
Download size: 904 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB (additional 3 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

VTE Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, GTK-Doc-1.24, Vala-0.28.1, and Glade

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vte

Installation of VTE

Install VTE by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
            --disable-static       \
            --enable-introspection &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-introspection: This switch enables Gobject Introspection bindings. Remove if you don't have gobject-introspection-1.44.0 installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: vte-2.91

Installed Library: libvte-2.91.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vte-2.91 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte-2.91

Short Descriptions

vte-2.91	is a test application for the VTE libraries.
`libvte-2.91.so`	is a library which implements a terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Required Runtime Dependencies

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

DConf-0.24.0 / DConf-Editor-3.16.1

Introduction to DConf

The DConf package contains a low-level configuration system. Its main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on platforms that don't already have configuration storage systems.

The DConf-Editor, as the name suggests, is a graphical editor for the DConf database. Installation is optional, because gsettings from GLib-2.44.1 provides similar functionality on the commandline.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dconf/0.24/dconf-0.24.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dconf/0.24/dconf-0.24.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9bd257ba5b718f484fa0f4ab6e81e53b
Download size: 216 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dconf-editor/3.16/dconf-editor-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/dconf-editor/3.16/dconf-editor-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: cefbc473bd6773cd3b92f2e5cf793ee8
Download size: 252 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

DConf Dependencies

Required

D-Bus-1.10.0, GLib-2.44.1, GTK+-3.16.6 (for the editor), and libxml2-2.9.2 (for the editor)

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dconf

Installation of DConf

Install DConf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

As the root user:

make install

Now, optionally install the editor:

tar -xf ../dconf-editor-3.16.1.tar.xz &&
cd dconf-editor-3.16.1 &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

As the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: dconf and dconf-editor

Installed Libraries: libdconf-dbus-1.so and libdconf.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/dconf, /usr/include/dconf-dbus-1, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/dconf

Short Descriptions

dconf	is a simple tool for manipulating the DConf database.
dconf-editor	is a graphical program for editing the DConf database.
`libdconf.so`	contains the DConf client API functions.
`libdconf-dbus-1.so`	contains the DConf client API functions for D-Bus.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1

Introduction to Adwaita Icon Theme

The Adwaita Icon Theme package contains an icon theme for Gtk+ 3 applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/adwaita-icon-theme/3.16/adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/adwaita-icon-theme/3.16/adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9ef86952c947aa27a1a888b7735d60b3
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 140 MB
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU

Adwaita Icon Theme Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 with librsvg-2.40.10 or both

Optional

git-2.5.0, Inkscape-0.91 and Icon Tools

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/adwaita-icon-theme

Installation of Adwaita Icon Theme

Install Adwaita Icon Theme by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0

Introduction to GNOME Icon Theme

The GNOME Icon Theme package contains an assortment of non-scalable icons of different sizes and themes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f14bed7f804e843189ffa7021141addd
Download size: 17 MB
Estimated disk space required: 85 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

GNOME Icon Theme Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 or GTK+-2.24.28, hicolor-icon-theme-0.15, and icon-naming-utils-0.8.90

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-icon-theme

Installation of GNOME Icon Theme

Install GNOME Icon Theme by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/icons/gnome

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.12.0

Introduction to GNOME Icon Theme Extras

The GNOME Icon Theme Extras package contains extra icons for the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme-extras/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme-extras/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-extras-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 91f8f7e35a3d8d926716d88b8b1e9a29
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GNOME Icon Theme Extras Dependencies

Required

gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-icon-theme-extras

Installation of GNOME Icon Theme Extras

Install GNOME Icon Theme Extras by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0

Introduction to GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic

The GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic package contains symbolic icons for the default GNOME icon theme.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic/3.12/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3c9c0e6b9fa04b3cbbb84da825a26fd9
Download size: 228 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic Dependencies

Required

gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

Installation of GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic

Install GNOME Icon Theme Symbolic by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2

Introduction to GNOME Themes Standard

The GNOME Themes Standard package contains various components of the default GNOME theme.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-themes-standard/3.16/gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-themes-standard/3.16/gnome-themes-standard-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0d80ad7786cfd498c966361ba2e790c7
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 39 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

GNOME Themes Standard Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 with librsvg-2.40.10 or both

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-themes-standard

Installation of GNOME Themes Standard

Install GNOME Themes Standard by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-gtk2-engine: This switch disables GTK+-2 theming engine.

--disable-gtk3-engine: This switch disables GTK+-3 theming engine.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libadwaita.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines, /usr/share/icons/HighContrast, /usr/share/themes/Adwaita, and /usr/share/themes/HighContrast

Short Descriptions

libadwaita.so

is the Adwaita GTK+-2 engine theme.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

notification-daemon-3.16.1

Introduction to Notification Daemon

The Notification Daemon package contains a daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/notification-daemon/3.16/notification-daemon-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/notification-daemon/3.16/notification-daemon-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8ea9ccf633c05e907e8fa9d99ca6ffd9
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Notification Daemon Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and libcanberra-0.30 (Built with GTK+-3.16.6 support).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/notification-daemon

Installation of Notification Daemon

Install Notification Daemon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

You can test the notification daemon with the command notify-send:

pgrep -l notification-da &&
notify-send -i info Information "Hi ${USER}, This is a Test"

The command pgrep -l notification-da is added to assure that it is the daemon of this package that is running, not another one, e.g. the daemon from xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4.

Installed Program: none

Installed Libraries: none

Installed Directory: none

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

polkit-gnome-0.105

Introduction to Polkit GNOME

The Polkit GNOME package provides an Authentication Agent for Polkit that integrates well with the GNOME Desktop environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/polkit-gnome/0.105/polkit-gnome-0.105.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/polkit-gnome/0.105/polkit-gnome-0.105.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 50ecad37c8342fb4a52f590db7530621
Download size: 305 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Polkit GNOME Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and Polkit-0.113

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/polkit-gnome

Installation of Polkit GNOME

Install Polkit GNOME by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Configuring Polkit GNOME

Automatic Startup

For the authentification framework to work, polkit-gnome-authentification-agent-1 needs to be started. However, make install did not install a startup file for the Polkit GNOME so you have to create it by yourself.

Issue the following commands as the root user to create a startup file for Polkit GNOME:

mkdir -p /etc/xdg/autostart &&
cat > /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Comment=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Exec=/usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;Unity;
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
EOF

Installed Program: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

is the Polkit authentication agent.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Yelp-3.16.1

Introduction to Yelp

The Yelp package contains the help browser used for viewing help files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp/3.16/yelp-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/yelp/3.16/yelp-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 528302ce066f3798d40e9c5e2fcedfc4
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Yelp Dependencies

Required

WebKitGTK+-2.4.9 and yelp-xsl-3.16.1

Optional

Note

The Yelp package is not required for a functional GNOME Desktop. Note, however, that without Yelp you will not be able to view the built-in Help provided by core GNOME and many of the support applications.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/yelp

Installation of Yelp

Install Yelp by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: gnome-help (symlink) and yelp

Installed Library: libyelp.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libyelp, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libyelp, /usr/share/yelp-xsl, and /usr/share/yelp

Short Descriptions

yelp	is the GNOME Help Browser.
`libyelp.so`	contains the Yelp API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 10:19:24 -0700

Chapter 35. GNOME Applications

These packages are desktop applications and assorted utilities from the GNOME project. Feel free to install them on an as needed or as desired basis.

Baobab-3.16.1

Introduction to Baobab

The Baobab package contains a graphical directory tree analyzer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/baobab/3.16/baobab-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/baobab/3.16/baobab-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e70b4b79ff18d6984b5d04faa2f63b35
Download size: 860 KB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Baobab Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, GTK+-3.16.6, Itstool-2.0.2 and Vala-0.28.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/baobab

Installation of Baobab

Install Baobab by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: baobab

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/help/*/baobab

Short Descriptions

baobab

is a graphical tool used to analyze disk usage.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

Brasero-3.12.1

Introduction to Brasero

Brasero is an application used to burn CD/DVD on the GNOME Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features that enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/brasero/3.12/brasero-3.12.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/brasero/3.12/brasero-3.12.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 216691249053448a9f2b4ee5e118ce72
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 106 MB
Estimated build time: 1.5 SBU

Brasero Dependencies

Required

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, Itstool-2.0.2, libcanberra-0.30, and libnotify-0.7.6

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Tracker

Recommended (Runtime)

dvd+rw-tools-7.1 and Gvfs-1.24.2

Optional (Runtime)

Cdrdao-1.2.3, libdvdcss-1.3.0, one of cdrkit or cdrtools (conflict), and VCDImager

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/brasero

Installation of Brasero

Install Brasero by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: brasero

Installed Libraries: libbrasero-{burn,media,utils}3.so, and /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-brasero-extension.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/brasero3, /usr/lib/brasero3, /usr/share/brasero, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libbrasero-{burn,media}, and /usr/share/help/*/brasero

Short Descriptions

brasero	is a simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application for the GNOME Desktop.
`libbrasero-burn3.so`	contains the Burning API functions.
`libbrasero-media3.so`	contains the Media API functions.
`libbrasero-utils3.so`	contains the Brasero API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

Cheese-3.16.1

Introduction to Cheese

Cheese is used to take photos and videos with fun graphical effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/cheese/3.16/cheese-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/cheese/3.16/cheese-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e18b0742aa190d4c3110bd427c6b7a50
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/cheese-3.16.1-clutter_gst_3.0-1.patch

Cheese Dependencies

Required

clutter-gst-3.0.10, clutter-gtk-1.6.2, gnome-desktop-3.16.2, gnome-video-effects-0.4.1, gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5, gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 (built with v4l-utils-1.6.3), Itstool-2.0.2, libcanberra-0.30, libgudev-230, and librsvg-2.40.10

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Nautilus SendTo

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cheese

Kernel Configuration

Depending on your camera, enable the appropriate options and recompile the kernel if necessary:

Device Drivers  --->
  Multimedia support --->
    <*> Cameras/video grabbers support  [CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT]
    <*> Media USB Adapter  --->         [CONFIG_MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT]
              Select device(s) as needed

Installation of Cheese

Install Cheese by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../cheese-3.16.1-clutter_gst_3.0-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

patch ...: Allow cheese to be built with clutter-gst-3.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: cheese

Installed Library: libcheese.so and libcheese-gtk.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/cheese, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/cheese, and /usr/share/help/*/cheese

Short Descriptions

cheese	is the webcam tool with graphical effects.
`libcheese.so`	contains the Cheese API functions.
`libcheese-gtk.so`	contains the Cheese GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 10:19:24 -0700

EOG-3.16.3

Introduction to EOG

EOG is an application used for viewing and cataloging image files on the GNOME Desktop. It has basic editing capabilites.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/eog/3.16/eog-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/eog/3.16/eog-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 59368997cbe700fa8e2bfcea2175f812
Download size: 4.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 55 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

EOG Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, gnome-desktop-3.16.2, Itstool-2.0.2, libpeas-1.14.0, and shared-mime-info-1.4

Optional

Exempi-2.2.2, GTK-Doc-1.24, Little CMS-2.7, and libexif-0.6.21

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/eog

Installation of EOG

Install EOG by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: eog

Installed Library: libeog.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/eog-3.0 and /usr/{lib,share{,/gtk-doc/html,/help/*}}/eog

Short Descriptions

eog

is a fast and functional image viewer as well as an image cataloging program. It has basic editing capabilites.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

Epiphany-3.16.3

Introduction to Epiphany

Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/epiphany/3.16/epiphany-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/epiphany/3.16/epiphany-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3296af4532b8019775f4b40d21a341ae
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 91 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Epiphany Dependencies

Required

Avahi-0.6.31, Gcr-3.16.0, gnome-desktop-3.16.2, libnotify-0.7.6, libwnck-3.14.0, and WebKitGTK+-2.8.5

Optional

lsb_release-1.4

Runtime Dependencies

gnome-keyring-3.16.0 (for storing passwords) and Seahorse-3.16.0 (for managing stored passwords)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/epiphany

Installation of Epiphany

Install Epiphany by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: epiphany and ephy-profile-migrator

Installed Libraries: libephywebextension.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/epiphany, /usr/share/epiphany, and /usr/share/help/*/epiphany

Short Descriptions

epiphany

is a GNOME web browser based on the WebKit2 rendering engine.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

Evince-3.16.1

Introduction to Evince

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It supports PDF, Postscript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI. It is useful for viewing documents of various types using one simple application instead of the multiple document viewers that once existed on the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evince/3.16/evince-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evince/3.16/evince-3.16.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6a5e4aa41d7026eb477290416d9f2a5b
Download size: 3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 90 MB
Estimated build time: 1 SBU

Evince Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1, GTK+-3.16.6, and Itstool-2.0.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) DjVuLibre, libgxps, libspectre, and t1lib

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/evince

Installation of Evince

Install Evince by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --enable-introspection  \
            --disable-static        &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanation

--enable-introspection: By default, the Gobject Introspection support is turned off, even though that package is an expected component of the GNOME Desktop.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--without-keyring: This switch disables use of the libsecret. Use this switch if libsecret is not installed.

--disable-nautilus: This switch disables building of the Nautilus Plugin. Use this switch if Nautilus is not installed.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: evince, evince-previewer, and evince-thumbnailer

Installed Libraries: libevdocument3.so, libevview3.so, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libevbrowserplugin.so, and /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,lib,share}/evince, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{evince,libevdocument-3.0,libevview-3.0}, and /usr/share/help/*/evince

Short Descriptions

evince	is a multiple format document viewer.
evince-previewer	is an applicaton that implements the printing preview.
evince-thumbnailer	is a simple program used to create thumbnail images of supported documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

File-Roller-3.16.4

Introduction to File Roller

File Roller is an archive manager for GNOME with support for tar, bzip2, gzip, zip, jar, compress, lzop and many other archive formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/file-roller/3.16/file-roller-3.16.4.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/file-roller/3.16/file-roller-3.16.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a704c852134041de81f50a3eeec31d50
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

File Roller Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and Itstool-2.0.2

Optional (Runtime)

UnRar-5.3.3, UnZip-6.0, and Zip-3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/file-roller

Installation of File Roller

Install File Roller by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --disable-packagekit  \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 0755 /usr/libexec/file-roller/isoinfo.sh

Command Explanations

--disable-packagekit: This switch disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: file-roller

Installed Libraries: /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-fileroller.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share{,/help/*}}/file-roller

Short Descriptions

file-roller

is an archive manager for GNOME.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

Gedit-3.16.3

Introduction to Gedit

The Gedit package contains a lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/3.16/gedit-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/3.16/gedit-3.16.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 23c67110f2be200c304b31ef833b5a27
Download size: 2.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 94 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

Gedit Dependencies

Required

gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1, gtksourceview-3.16.1, Itstool-2.0.2, and libpeas-1.14.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, Vala-0.28.1, and zeitgeist

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gedit

Installation of Gedit

Install Gedit by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-spell: Use this switch to disable spell-checking capability. It is required if Enchant is not installed.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: gedit and gnome-text-editor (symlink to gedit)

Installed Libraries: libgedit.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gedit-3.14 and /usr/{lib,libexec,share{,/gtk-doc/html,/help/*}}/gedit

Short Descriptions

gedit

is a lightweight text editor integrated with the GNOME Desktop.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-calculator-3.16.2

Introduction to GNOME Calculator

GNOME Calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-calculator/3.16/gnome-calculator-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-calculator/3.16/gnome-calculator-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3756f5f782c008b9b4e612a0d517f834
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 56 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

GNOME Calculator Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and Itstool-2.0.2

Installation of GNOME Calculator

Install GNOME Calculator by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. In 32bit systems, Number.float and Number.double tests might fail due to floating point round off errors.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gcalccmd and gnome-calculator

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/help/*/gnome-calculator

Short Descriptions

gnome-calculator	is the official calculator of the GNOME Desktop.
gcalccmd	is a command line version of gnome-calculator.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-nettool-3.8.1

Introduction to GNOME Nettool

The GNOME Nettool package is a network information tool which provides GUI interface for some of the most common command line network tools.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-nettool/3.8/gnome-nettool-3.8.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-nettool/3.8/gnome-nettool-3.8.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d4fc944b7ba8fd5f49f04a73e0d37e80
Download size: 576 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

GNOME Nettool Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6, Itstool-2.0.2, and libgtop-2.30.0

Runtime Dependencies

BIND Utilities-9.10.3, Nmap-6.47, Net-tools-CVS_20101030, Traceroute-2.0.21, and Whois-5.2.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-nettool

Installation of GNOME Nettool

Install GNOME Nettool by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: gnome-nettool

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gnome-nettool and /usr/share/help/*/gnome-nettool

Short Descriptions

gnome-nettool

is a network information tool.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-screenshot-3.16.2

Introduction to GNOME Screenshot

The GNOME Screenshot is a utility used for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or a user- defined area of the screen, with optional beautifying border effects.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-screenshot/3.16/gnome-screenshot-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-screenshot/3.16/gnome-screenshot-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8f67ae3b0746dab15e417f64a4d7fd13
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GNOME Screenshot Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6 and libcanberra-0.30 (Compiled with GTK+3 support).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-screenshot

Installation of GNOME Screenshot

Install GNOME Screenshot by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

In order to best run GNOME Screenshot from the command line, the --interactive option needs to be specified.

Installed Program: gnome-screenshot

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

gnome-screenshot

is used to capture the screen, a window, or a user-defined area and save the snapshot image to a file.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

gnome-system-monitor-3.16.0

Introduction to GNOME System Monitor

The GNOME System Monitor package contains GNOME's replacement for gtop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-system-monitor/3.16/gnome-system-monitor-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-system-monitor/3.16/gnome-system-monitor-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8c9dcf6bf26d7c8d531e646f0b714bdc
Download size: 836 KB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

GNOME System Monitor Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, Gtkmm-3.16.0, Itstool-2.0.2, libgtop-2.30.0, and librsvg-2.40.10

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.22 and appstream-glib

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-system-monitor

Installation of GNOME System Monitor

Install GNOME System Monitor by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wnck &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-wnck: This switch adds support for the Window Navigator Construction Kit libraries.

Installed Program: gnome-system-monitor

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/libexec/gnome-system-monitor and /usr/share/help/*/gnome-system-monitor

Short Descriptions

gnome-system-monitor

is used to display the process tree and hardware meters.

Last updated on 2015-09-28 12:16:40 -0700

gnome-terminal-3.16.2

Introduction to GNOME Terminal

The GNOME Terminal package contains the terminal emulator for GNOME Desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-terminal/3.16/gnome-terminal-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-terminal/3.16/gnome-terminal-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 17d15e7d226826ca1853eee1c99645b0
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 44 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

GNOME Terminal Dependencies

Required

DConf-0.24.0, gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.16.1, Itstool-2.0.2, and VTE-0.40.2

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.22 and appstream-glib

Installation of GNOME Terminal

Install GNOME Terminal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr             \
            --disable-static          \
            --disable-migration       \
            --disable-search-provider &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

To run GNOME Terminal, the environment variable LANG> must be set to a UTF-8 locale.

Command Explanations

--disable-search-provider: This switch disables “search gnome-shell” provider. Necessary, because gnome-shell is not in BLFS. Remove it, if you have gnome-shell installed.

--disable-migration: This switch disables building of the GNOME Terminal GConf migration tool which is not necessary for BLFS.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: gnome-terminal

Installed Libraries: /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/help/*/gnome-terminal

Short Descriptions

gnome-terminal

is the GNOME Terminal Emulator.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 14:04:27 -0700

Gucharmap-3.16.2

Introduction to Gucharmap

Gucharmap is a Unicode character map and font viewer. It allows you to browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the installed fonts, and to examine their detailed properties. It is an easy way to find the character you might only know by its Unicode name or code point.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gucharmap/3.16/gucharmap-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gucharmap/3.16/gucharmap-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 54d58a61c8c22e6ecf5bb33793272f47
Download size: 2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 42 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Gucharmap Dependencies

Required

desktop-file-utils-0.22, GTK+-3.16.6 and Itstool-2.0.2

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gucharmap

Installation of Gucharmap

Install Gucharmap by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vala &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-vala: This switch enables building of the Vala bindings. Remove if you don't have Vala-0.28.1 installed.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: charmap, gnome-character-map (both symlinks), and gucharmap

Installed Library: libgucharmap_2_90.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gucharmap-2.90 and /usr/share/help/*/gucharmap

Short Descriptions

gucharmap	is a Unicode character map and font viewer.
`libgucharmap_2_90.so`	contains the Gucharmap API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 14:40:16 -0700

Nautilus-3.16.2

Introduction to Nautilus

The Nautilus package contains the GNOME file manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/nautilus/3.16/nautilus-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/nautilus/3.16/nautilus-3.16.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 4a5c73bac8e26a883684b591b380f930
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 119 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Nautilus Dependencies

Required

gnome-desktop-3.16.2 and libnotify-0.7.6

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Tracker

Recommended (Runtime)

adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, and Gvfs-1.24.2 (For hotplugging and device mounting to work)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/nautilus

Installation of Nautilus

Install Nautilus by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --disable-tracker    \
            --disable-packagekit &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-packagekit: This switch disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS.

--disable-tracker: This switch disables use of Tracker which isn't part of BLFS.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--disable-xmp: Use this switch if you did not install Exempi.

--disable-libexif: Use this switch if you did not install libexif.

Installed Programs: nautilus, nautilus-autorun-software, and nautilus-connect-server

Installed Library: libnautilus-extension.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/nautilus, /usr/lib/nautilus, /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnautilus-extension

Short Descriptions

nautilus	is the GNOME file manager.
`libnautilus-extension.so`	supplies the functions needed by the file manager extensions.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 13:40:33 -0700

network-manager-applet-1.0.6

Introduction to NetworkManager Applet

The NetworkManager Applet provides a tool and a panel applet used to configure wired and wireless network connections through GUI. It's designed for use with any desktop environment that uses GTK+ like Xfce and LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/network-manager-applet/1.0/network-manager-applet-1.0.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/network-manager-applet/1.0/network-manager-applet-1.0.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: dbdead7c5838e422d4b80565b7657a2a
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 52 MB (without the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (without the tests)

NetworkManager Applet Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6, ISO Codes-3.59, libsecret-0.18.3, libnotify-0.7.6, and NetworkManager-1.0.6

Required (Runtime)

polkit-gnome-0.105

Optional

GNOME Bluetooth, mobile-broadband-provider-info (runtime), and ModemManager

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/network-manager-applet

Installation of NetworkManager Applet

Install NetworkManager Applet by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-migration \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-migration: This switch disables building of the NetworkManager Applet GConf migration tool which is not necessary for BLFS.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: nm-applet and nm-connection-editor

Installed Libraries: libnm-gtk.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share}/libnm-gtk and /usr/share/nm-applet

Short Descriptions

nm-connection-editor	allows users to view and edit network connection settings.
`libnm-gtk.so`	contains the NetworkManager GTK+ bindings.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 21:41:03 -0700

Seahorse-3.16.0

Introduction to Seahorse

Seahorse is a graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys. Currently it supports PGP keys (using GPG/GPGME) and SSH keys.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/seahorse/3.16/seahorse-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/seahorse/3.16/seahorse-3.16.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3416abb33183285a5e69fe0a058c39de
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 51 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Seahorse Dependencies

Required

Gcr-3.16.0, GPGME-1.6.0, GnuPG-2.1.7, Itstool-2.0.2, and libsecret-0.18.3

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31 and OpenLDAP-2.4.42

Runtime Dependency

gnome-keyring-3.16.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seahorse

Installation of Seahorse

Install Seahorse by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: seahorse

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/seahorse, /usr/share/help/*/seahorse, and /usr/share/seahorse

Short Descriptions

seahorse

is the graphical interface for managing and using encryption keys.

Last updated on 2015-09-27 14:04:27 -0700

Part IX. Xfce

Chapter 36. Xfce Desktop

Xfce is a desktop environment that aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that provide the full functionality one can expect of a modern desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick among the available packages to create the optimal personal working environment.

Build Xfce core packages in the order presented in the book for the easiest resolution of dependencies.

libxfce4util-4.12.1

Introduction to libxfce4util

The libxfce4util package is a basic utility library for the Xfce desktop environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4util/4.12/libxfce4util-4.12.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4eb012b6c1292ceedb3a83ebfc1ff08d
Download size: 448 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libxfce4util Dependencies

Required

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxfce4util

Installation of libxfce4util

Install libxfce4util by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: xfce4-kiosk-query

Installed Library: libxfce4util.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xfce4 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxfce4util

Short Descriptions

xfce4-kiosk-query	Queries the given capabilities of <module> for the current user and reports whether the user has the capabilities or not. This tool is mainly meant for system administrators to test their Kiosk setup.
`libxfce4util.so`	contains basic utility functions for the Xfce desktop environment.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xfconf-4.12.0

Introduction to Xfconf

Xfconf is the configuration storage system for Xfce.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfconf/4.12/xfconf-4.12.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8ebfac507b4d6ce3f4bac9d257c2853b
Download size: 532 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xfconf Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104 and libxfce4util-4.12.1

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Perl Module Glib (you may want to use build and installation instructions or alternate auto installation instructions)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfconf

Installation of Xfconf

Install Xfconf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: xfconf-query

Installed Library: libxfconf.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xfconf-0, /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/xfconf

Short Descriptions

xfconf-query	is a commandline utility to view or change any setting stored in Xfconf.
`libxfconf.so`	contains basic functions for Xfce configuration.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Introduction to libxfce4ui

The libxfce4ui package contains GTK+ 2 widgets that are used by other Xfce applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4ui/4.12/libxfce4ui-4.12.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: ea9fad7d059fe8f531fe8db42dabb5a9
Download size: 652 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libxfce4ui Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 (default) and Xfconf-4.12.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24, HTML::Parser-3.71, and Glade

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libxfce4ui

Installation of libxfce4ui

Install libxfce4ui by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libxfce4kbd-private-{2,3}.so and libxfce4ui-{1,2}.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/xfce4, /usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4kbd-private-2, /usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4ui-{1,2}, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxfce4ui

Short Descriptions

`libxfce4kbd-private-2.so`	is a private Xfce library for sharing code between Xfwm4 and Xfce4 Settings.
`libxfce4ui-1.so`	contains widgets that are used by other Xfce applications.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Exo-0.10.6

Introduction to Exo

Exo is a support library used in the Xfce desktop. It also has some helper applications that are used throughout Xfce.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/exo/0.10/exo-0.10.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 895e4f38d2cfe58d69679e2902a335a5
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 28 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)

Exo Dependencies

Required

libxfce4ui-4.12.1, libxfce4util-4.12.1 and URI-1.69

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/exo

Installation of Exo

Install Exo by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: exo-csource, exo-desktop-item-edit, exo-open and exo-preferred-applications

Installed Libraries: libexo-1.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/xfce4, /usr/{include,lib/xfce4}/exo-1, and /usr/share/{{gtk-doc/html,pixmaps}/exo-1,xfce4}

Short Descriptions

exo-csource	is a small utility that generates C code containing arbitrary data, useful for compiling texts or other data directly into programs.
exo-desktop-item-edit	is a command line utility to create or edit icons on the desktop.
exo-open	is a command line frontend to the Xfce Preferred Applications framework. It can either be used to open a list of urls with the default URL handler or launch the preferred application for a certain category.
exo-preferred-applications	is a command line utility to edit the preferred application that is used to handle a particular type of file or URI.
`libexo-1.so`	contains additional widgets, a framework for editable toolbars, light-weight session management support and functions to automatically synchronise object properties (based on GObject Binding Properties).

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Garcon-0.5.0

Introduction to Garcon

The Garcon package contains a freedesktop.org compliant menu implementation based on GLib and GIO.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/0.5/garcon-0.5.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 68e1deb0a4b7d84182140ddcb84d9065
Download size: 448 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Garcon Dependencies

Required

libxfce4ui-4.12.1, libxfce4util-4.12.1 and GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/garcon

Installation of Garcon

Install Garcon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libgarcon-1.so and libgarcon-gtk2-1.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/garcon-1, /usr/include/garcon-gtk2-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/garcon

Short Descriptions

libgarcon-1.so

contains functions that provide a freedesktop.org compliant menu implementation based on GLib and GIO.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

gtk-xfce-engine-3.2.0

Introduction to GTK Xfce Engine

The GTK Xfce Engine package contains several GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 themes and libraries needed to display them. This is useful for customising the appearance of your Xfce desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/gtk-xfce-engine/3.2/gtk-xfce-engine-3.2.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 363d6c16a48a00e26d45c45c2e1fd739
Download size: 368 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

GTK Xfce Engine Dependencies

Required

Installation of GTK Xfce Engine

Install GTK Xfce Engine by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gtk3 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxfce.so (in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines, /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines), and /usr/share/themes/Xfce* (21 variations)

Installed Directories: Xfce, Xfce-4.0, Xfce-4.2, Xfce-4.4, Xfce-4.6, Xfce-b5, Xfce-basic, Xfce-cadmium, Xfce-curve, Xfce-dawn, Xfce-dusk, Xfce-kde2, Xfce-kolors, Xfce-light, Xfce-orange, Xfce-redmondxp, Xfce-saltlake, Xfce-smooth, Xfce-stellar, Xfce-winter in /usr/share/themes

Short Descriptions

libxfce.so

contains functions that allow Xfce to apply and change GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 themes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libwnck-2.30.7

Introduction to libwnck

The libwnck package contains a Window Navigator Construction Kit.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libwnck/2.30/libwnck-2.30.7.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libwnck/2.30/libwnck-2.30.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3d20f26105a2fd878899d6ecdbe9a082
Download size: 612 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libwnck Dependencies

Required

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libwnck2

Installation of libwnck

Install libwnck by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-static \
            --program-suffix=-1 &&
make GETTEXT_PACKAGE=libwnck-1

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make GETTEXT_PACKAGE=libwnck-1 install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--program-suffix=-1: This option adds -1 to the end of the names of the installed programs to avoid overwriting the programs installed by libwnck-3.14.0.

GETTEXT_PACKAGE=libwnck-1: This parameter adds -1 to the end of the names of the gettext files installed by the package to avoid overwriting the files installed by libwnck-3.14.0.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: wnckprop-1 and wnck-urgency-monitor-1

Installed Library: libwnck-1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libwnck-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libwnck-1.0

Short Descriptions

wnckprop-1	Print or modify the properties of a screen/workspace/window, or interact with it.
`libwnck-1.so`	contains functions for writing pagers and task lists.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-panel-4.12.0

Introduction to Xfce4 Panel

The Xfce4 Panel package contains the Xfce4 Panel.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-panel/4.12/xfce4-panel-4.12.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5a333af704e386c90ad829b6baf1a758
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Xfce4 Panel Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6, Garcon-0.5.0, libwnck-2.30.7 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Optional

gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0 or lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-panel

Installation of Xfce4 Panel

Install Xfce4 Panel by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-gtk3 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: xfce4-panel, xfce4-popup-directorymenu, xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu and xfce4-popup-windowmenu

Installed Library: libxfce4panel-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel, /usr/include/xfce4/libxfce4panel-1.0, /usr/lib/xfce4/panel, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxfce4panel-1.0 and /usr/share/xfce4/panel

Short Descriptions

xfce4-panel	is the Xfce panel.
xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu	is a shell script that uses D-Bus and Xfce Panel to display a popup menu of the installed applications.
xfce4-popup-directorymenu	is a shell script that uses D-Bus and Xfce Panel to display a popup menu of your home folder and its subdirectories.
xfce4-popup-windowmenu	is a shell script that uses DBus to display the Xfwm4 a popup menu.
`libxfce4panel-1.0.so`	contains the Xfce Panel API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.7.1

Introduction to Xfce4 Keyboard Plugin

If your system has a standard (US) keyboard, you probably do not need to install this plugin.

The Xfce4 Keyboard Plugin package contains a very customizable and useful Xfce4 Panel plugin to setup and use multiple (currently up to 4 due to X11 protocol limitation) keyboard layouts and switch between them, individually by application, individually by window, or globally for the desktop and all applications and windows.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin/0.7/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.7.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2f68e0d53baf68ecc1a7165ad33c26a9
Download size: 820 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xfce4 Keyboard Plugin Dependencies

Required

librsvg-2.40.10, libxklavier-5.4, and xfce4-panel-4.12.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-xkb-plugin

Installation of Xfce4 Keyboard Plugin

Install Xfce4 Keyboard Plugin by running the following commands:

sed -e 's|xfce4/panel-plugins|xfce4/panel/plugins|' \
    -i panel-plugin/{Makefile.in,xkb-plugin.desktop.in.in} &&

./configure --prefix=/usr         \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --disable-debug       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ... xkb-plugin.desktop.in.in} and --libexecdir=/usr/lib: The sed and the switch are necessary to place the xkb-plugin in the default Xfce4 panel plugins directory.

--disable-debug: This switch disables debugging support.

Installed Program: xfce4-xkb-plugin

Installed Library: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/xfce4/xkb

Short Descriptions

xfce4-xkb-plugin

is the Xfce keyboard layout plugin.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 08:27:00 -0700

Thunar-1.6.10

Introduction to Thunar

Thunar is the Xfce file manager, a GTK+ 2 GUI to organise the files on your computer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.6/Thunar-1.6.10.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3089e1dca6e408641b07cd9c759dea5e
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 59 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Thunar Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Required (Runtime)

Optional

Gvfs-1.24.2 (for remote browsing and automounting), libexif-0.6.21 and Tumbler-0.1.31 (runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/thunar

Installation of Thunar

Install Thunar by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/Thunar-1.6.10 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: Thunar, thunar and thunar-settings

Installed Libraries: libthunarx-2.so and /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libthunar-tpa.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/Thunar, /usr/include/thunarx-2, /usr/lib/{Thunar,thunarx-2}, /usr/share/doc/Thunar-1.6.10, and /usr/share/{pixmaps,}/Thunar

Short Descriptions

Thunar	is a symbolic link to thunar.
thunar	is the Xfce file manager.
thunar-settings	is a shell script that launches a dialog box to allow you to alter the behaviour of Thunar.
`libthunarx-2.so`	contains the Thunar extension library which permits adding new features to the Thunar file manager.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 15:22:51 -0700

thunar-volman-0.8.1

Introduction to the Thunar Volume Manager

The Thunar Volume Manager is an extension for the Thunar file manager, which enables automatic management of removable drives and media.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar-volman/0.8/thunar-volman-0.8.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 65ab6e05b2e808d1dcc8d36683a59b7e
Download size: 4r604 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Thunar Volume Manager Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6, libgudev-230, libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Recommended Runtime Dependencies

Gvfs-1.24.2 and polkit-gnome-0.105

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/thunar-volman

Installation of the Thunar Volume Manager

Install the Thunar Volume Manager by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: thunar-volman and thunar-volman-settings

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

thunar-volman	is the Thunar Volume Manager, a command line utility to automatically mount or unmount removable media.
thunar-volman-settings	is a small GTK+ 2 application for changing Thunar Volume Manager settings.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Tumbler-0.1.31

Introduction to Tumbler

The Tumbler package contains a D-Bus thumbnailing service based on the thumbnail management D-Bus specification. This is useful for generating thumbnail images of files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/tumbler/0.1/tumbler-0.1.31.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0067054e6f1f90a13f90faadfca1e89e
Download size: 540 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, FFmpegThumbnailer, FreeType-2.6, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK-Doc-1.24, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libgsf-1.14.34, libopewnraw, libpng-1.6.18 and Poppler-0.35.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tumbler

Installation of Tumbler

Install Tumbler by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: tumblerd

Installed Library: libtumbler-1.so and several under /usr/lib/tumbler-1/plugins/

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/tumbler /usr/include/tumbler-1, /usr/lib/tumbler-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/tumbler

Short Descriptions

tumblerd	is a daemon D-Bus service for applications such as Thunar and Ristretto to use thumbnail images..
`libtumbler-1.so`	contains functions that the Tumbler daemon uses to create thumbnail images.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0

Introduction to Xfce4 Appfinder

Xfce4 Appfinder is a tool to find and launch installed applications by searching the .desktop files installed on your system.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/4.12/xfce4-appfinder-4.12.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0b238b30686388c507c119b12664f1a1
Download size: 452 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Xfce4 Appfinder Dependencies

Required

Garcon-0.5.0 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-appfinder

Installation of Xfce4 Appfinder

Install Xfce4 Appfinder by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xfce4-appfinder and xfrun4 (symlink)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

xfce4-appfinder

Is a GTK+ 2 application that enables you to quickly search through the .desktop files installed on your system looking for an application.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4

Introduction to Xfce4 Power Manager

The Xfce4 Power Manager is a power manager for the Xfce desktop, Xfce power manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep, CPU frequency scaling). In addition, Xfce4 Power Manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/1.4/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e7d00548e58bf19229e727818184c1e0
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xfce4 Power Manager Dependencies

Required

libnotify-0.7.6, UPower-0.9.23, and xfce4-panel-4.12.0

Optional

UDisks-1.0.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-power-manager

Installation of Xfce4 Power Manager

Install Xfce4 Power Manager by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager-settings, xfce4-pm-helper, and xfpm-power-backlight-helper

Installed Libraries: /usr/lib/lxpanel/plugins/lxde_power_manager.so and /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

xfce4-pm-helper	is a helper program for the suspend and hibernate functions of xfce4-power-manager.
xfce4-power-manager	is the Xfce Power Manager.
xfce4-power-manager-settings	is a utility that comes with the Xfce Power Manager to access/change its configuration.
xfpm-power-backlight-helper	is a command line utility to get or set the brightness of your screen.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-settings-4.12.0

Introduction to Xfce4 Settings

The Xfce4 Settings package contains a collection of programs that are useful for adjusting your Xfce preferences.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-settings/4.12/xfce4-settings-4.12.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3eb9ff3862d773287f56f142ab7ec361
Download size: 952 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xfce4 Settings Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6, Garcon-0.5.0 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Required (Runtime)

gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0 or lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1

Installation of Xfce4 Settings

Install Xfce4 Settings by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-sound-settings: Use this switch to enable sound settings in GUI.

--enable-pluggable-dialogs: Use this switch to enable support for embedded settings dialogs.

Installed Programs: xfce4-accessibility-settings, xfce4-appearance-settings, xfce4-display-settings, xfce4-keyboard-settings, xfce4-mime-settings, xfce4-mouse-settings, xfce4-settings-editor, xfce4-settings-manager and xfsettingsd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

xfce4-accessibility-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change some of your keyboard and mouse preferences.
xfce4-appearance-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change some of your theme, icon and font preferences.
xfce4-display-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change some of your screen preferences.
xfce4-keyboard-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change some of your keyboard preferences.
xfce4-mime-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change which applications are used to handle different mime types.
xfce4-mouse-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change some of your mouse preferences.
xfce4-settings-editor	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change your preferences stored in Xfconf.
xfce4-settings-manager	is a GTK+ 2 GUI to allow you to change many of your Xfce preferences.
xfsettingsd	is the Xfce settings daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xfdesktop-4.12.3

Introduction to Xfdesktop

Xfdesktop is a desktop manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Xfdesktop sets the background image / color, creates the right click menu and window list and displays the file icons on the desktop using Thunar libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.12/xfdesktop-4.12.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: cb34f4f333d7d122f1688d2f155202c8
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 21 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Xfdesktop Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6, libwnck-2.30.7 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Installation of Xfdesktop

Install Xfdesktop by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xfdesktop and xfdesktop-settings

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce and /usr/share/pixmaps/xfdesktop

Short Descriptions

xfdesktop	is the Xfce Desktop Environment's desktop manager.
xfdesktop-settings	is a GTK+ 2 application that allows you to change your desktop background, some preferences for the righ click menu and what icons are displayed on the desktop.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xfwm4-4.12.3

Introduction to Xfwm4

Xfwm4 is the window manager for Xfce.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfwm4/4.12/xfwm4-4.12.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 197ef087ca6a263627f1bea6d5a79d6f
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Xfwm4 Dependencies

Required

libwnck-2.30.7, libxfce4ui-4.12.1 and libxfce4util-4.12.1

Installation of Xfwm4

Install Xfwm4 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xfwm4, xfwm4-settings, xfwm4-tweaks-settings and xfwm4-workspace-settings

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/xfce4/xfwm4, /usr/share/themes/{Daloa,Default{,-hdpi,-xhdpi},Kokodi,Moheli}, and /usr/share/xfwm4

Short Descriptions

xfwm4	is the Xfce window manager.
xfwm4-settings	is a GTK+ 2 application that allows you to set some preferences such as your theme, keyboard shortcuts and mouse focus behaviour.
xfwm4-tweaks-settings	is a GTK+ 2 application that allows you to set some more preferences for Xfwm4.
xfwm4-workspace-settings	is a GTK+ 2 application that allows you to set your workspace preferences.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-session-4.12.1

Introduction to Xfce4 Session

Xfce4 Session is a session manager for Xfce. Its task is to save the state of your desktop (opened applications and their location) and restore it during a next startup. You can create several different sessions and choose one of them on startup.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfce4-session/4.12/xfce4-session-4.12.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f4921fb2e606e74643daf1212263076c
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Xfce4 Session Dependencies

Required

libwnck-2.30.7, libxfce4ui-4.12.1, Which-2.21, and Xorg Applications

Required Runtime

Xfdesktop-4.12.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-session

Installation of Xfce4 Session

Install Xfce4 Session by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-legacy-sm &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-legacy-sm: This switch disables legacy session management which isn't necessary on modern system.

Configuring Xfce4 Session

There are several optional run time dependencies for Xfce4: ConsoleKit2-1.0.0, D-Bus-1.10.0, GnuPG-2.1.7, hicolor-icon-theme-0.15 and OpenSSH-7.1p1

When building an Xfce4 package, some configuration files are installed in /usr/share/applications, /usr/share/icons, and /usr/share/mime. In order to use those files in your Xfce4 session, you need to update various databases. Do that by running, as the root user (you need to have the recommended dependencies installed):

update-desktop-database &&
update-mime-database

Starting Xfce4

You can start Xfce4 from runlevel 3, using xinit-1.3.4, or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as sddm-0.12.0.

To start Xfce4 using xinit-1.3.4, run the following commands:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4
EOF

startx

startx &> ~/.x-session-errors

Note

You may wish to drop consolekit and/or dbus-launch, e.g., just using startxfce4 in ~/.xinitrc. However some capabilities such as mounting or umounting file systems from a file manager will not be possible, or the reboot option will be absent or inoperative, among other problems.

When shutting down or rebooting, the shutdown messages appear on the vt where X was running. If you wish to see those messages, simultaneously press keys Alt-F7 (assuming that X was running on vt7).

Installed Programs: xfce4-session, xfce4-session-logout, xfce4-session-settings and xfce4-tips

Installed Library: libxfsm-4.6.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xfce4/xfce4-session-4.6, /usr/share/xfce4/tips and /usr/share/doc/xfce4-session-4.12.1

Short Descriptions

xfce4-session	starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment.
xfce4-session-logout	logs out from Xfce.
xfce4-session-settings	is a GTK+ 2 GUI which allows you to alter your preferences for your Xfce Session.
xfce4-tips	is a GTK+ 2 GUI which displays tips when you log in to an Xfce Session.
`libxfsm-4.6.so`	contains the Xfce Session API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 14:49:19 -0700

Chapter 37. Xfce Applications

This is a small collection of optional applications that add extra capabilities to your Xfce desktop.

Midori-0.5.11

Introduction to Midori

Midori is a lightweight web browser that uses WebKitGTK+.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.midori-browser.org/downloads/midori_0.5.11_all_.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: fcc03ef759fce4fe9f2446d9da4a065e
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 91 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Midori Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, Gcr-3.16.0, libnotify-0.7.6, WebKitGTK+-2.4.9 (see "Command Explanations"), and Vala-0.28.1

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.24 and Zeitgeist

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/midori

Installation of Midori

Install Midori by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DUSE_ZEITGEIST=OFF         \
      -DUSE_GTK3=1                \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/midori-0.5.11 \
      ..  &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.

-DUSE_ZEITGEIST=OFF: Remove this switch if Zeitgeist is installed.

-DUSE_GTK3=1: Use this switch chooses WebKitGTK+ built against GTK+ 3, for WebKit2 layer support.

-DUSE_APIDOCS=1: Use this switch if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to build and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: midori

Installed Libraries: libmidori-core.so

Installed Directories: /{etc/xdg,/usr/{lib,share}}/midori and /usr/share/doc/midori-0.5.11

Short Descriptions

midori

is a lightweight WebKitGTK+ browser.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Parole-0.8.0

Introduction to Parole

Parole is a DVD/CD/music player for Xfce that uses GStreamer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/0.8/parole-0.8.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: fffdc23d2aa22271f01410a9e27c3404
Download size: 796 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Parole Dependencies

Required

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Installation of Parole

Install Parole by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-gstreamer=1.0: Use this switch if the deprecated gstreamer-0.x is installed.

Using Parole

If you have installed Gstreamer Plugins Ugly with support for libdvdnav and libdvdread and would like to use Parole to play a DVD, click Media> Open location and enter dvd:// into the box.

Similarly, to play a CD, click Media> Open location and enter cdda:// into the box.

Installed Program: parole

Installed Libraries: Two libraries under /usr/lib/parole-0/

Installed Directories: /usr/include/parole, /usr/lib/parole-0 and /usr/share/parole

Short Descriptions

parole

is a GTK+ 2 media player that uses GStreamer.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Mousepad-0.4.0

Introduction to Mousepad

Mousepad is a simple GTK+ 2 text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.4/mousepad-0.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f55314c5dda6323883241e6cf01550a7
Download size: 568 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Mousepad Dependencies

Required

gtksourceview-3.16.1 (optionally, it can be built with gtksourceview-2)

Optional

dbus-glib-0.104

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mousepad

Installation of Mousepad

Install Mousepad by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: mousepad

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

mousepad

is a simple GTK+ 2 text editor.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

Vte-0.28.2

Introduction to Vte

Vte is a library (libvte) implementing a terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2, and a minimal demonstration application (vte) that uses libvte.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.28/vte-0.28.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.28/vte-0.28.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 497f26e457308649e6ece32b3bb142ff
Download size: 940 KB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Vte Dependencies

Required

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0, GTK-Doc-1.24 and PyGTK-2.24.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vte2

Installation of Vte

Install Vte by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/vte \
            --disable-static  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib/vte : both this package and VTE-0.40.2 install files of the same name. This switch ensures that they do not overwrite each other if both are installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: vte

Installed Library: libvte.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vte-0.0, /usr/lib/vte, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte-0.0 and /usr/share/vte

Short Descriptions

vte	is a simple terminal emulator.
`libvte.so`	contains the Vte API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xfce4-terminal-0.6.3

Introduction to Xfce4 Terminal

Xfce4 Terminal is a GTK+ 2 terminal emulator. This is useful for running commands or programs in the comfort of an Xorg window; you can drag and drop files into the Xfce4 Terminal or copy and paste text with your mouse.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-terminal/0.6/xfce4-terminal-0.6.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6a2816d8b0933cd707ed456ceb731399
Download size: 800 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xfce4 Terminal Dependencies

Required

libxfce4ui-4.12.1 and Vte-0.28.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-terminal

Installation of Xfce4 Terminal

Install Xfce4 Terminal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: xfce4-terminal

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/xfce4/terminal

Short Descriptions

xfce4-terminal

is a GTK+ 2 terminal emulator.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Xfburn-0.5.4

Introduction to Xfburn

Xfburn is a GTK+ 2 GUI frontend for Libisoburn. This is useful for creating CDs and DVDs from files on your computer or ISO images downloaded from elsewhere.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfburn/0.5/xfburn-0.5.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 448fcbb7023645216c5a52435a9cf72a
Download size: 756 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Xfburn Dependencies

Required

Exo-0.10.6, libxfce4util-4.12.1, and libisoburn-1.4.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfburn

Installation of Xfburn

Install Xfburn by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: xfburn

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/xfburn

Short Descriptions

xfburn

is a GTK+ 2 application for creating CDs and DVDs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Ristretto-0.8.0

Introduction to Ristretto

Ristretto is a fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/ristretto/0.8/ristretto-0.8.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 94c778850325a4e5a12e3433c8a05432
Download size: 532 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Ristretto Dependencies

Required

libexif-0.6.21 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

Optional

Tumbler-0.1.31 (runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ristretto

Installation of Ristretto

Install Ristretto by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: ristretto

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

ristretto

is a fast and lightweight image viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

libunique-1.1.6

Introduction to libunique

The libunique package contains a library for writing single instance applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libunique/1.1/libunique-1.1.6.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libunique/1.1/libunique-1.1.6.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7955769ef31f1bc4f83446dbb3625e6d
Download size: 328 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libunique-1.1.6-upstream_fixes-1.patch

libunique Dependencies

Required

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.44.0 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libunique

Installation of libunique

Install libunique by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../libunique-1.1.6-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&
autoreconf -fi &&

./configure --prefix=/usr  \
            --disable-dbus \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-dbus: This switch disables D-Bus backend in favor of the GDBus backend.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libunique-1.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/unique-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/unique

Short Descriptions

libunique-1.0.so

contains the libunique API functions for single instance support.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 20:41:10 -0700

xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4

Introduction to the Xfce4 Notification Daemon

The Xfce4 Notification Daemon is a small program that implements the "server-side" portion of the Freedesktop desktop notifications specification. Applications that wish to pop up a notification bubble in a standard way can use Xfce4-Notifyd to do so by sending standard messages over D-Bus using the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-notifyd/0.2/xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 094be6f29206aac8299f27084e284e88
Download size: 356 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

The Xfce4 Notification Daemon Dependencies

Required

libnotify-0.7.6 and libxfce4ui-4.12.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-notifyd

Installation of the Xfce4 Notification Daemon

Install the Xfce4 Notification Daemon by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

You can test the notification daemon with the command notify-send:

notify-send -i info Information "Hi ${USER}, This is a Test"

Installed Program: xfce4-notifyd-config

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/themes/Default/xfce-notify-4.0, /usr/share/themes/Smoke/xfce-notify-4.0 and /usr/share/themes/ZOMG-PONIES!/xfce-notify-4.0

Short Descriptions

xfce4-notifyd-config

is a GTK+ 2 GUI that allows you to change some of your preferences (theme and screen position) for the notifications that the Xfce4 Notification Daemon displays.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Part X. LXDE

Chapter 38. LXDE Desktop

LXDE is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.

LXDE comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers.

Build LXDE core packages in the order presented in the book for the easiest resolution of dependencies.

lxmenu-data-0.1.4

Introduction to LXMenu Data

The LXMenu Data package provides files required to build freedesktop.org menu spec-compliant desktop menus for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxmenu-data-0.1.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a44bb6214594fee21b8ef3e478b0f0e5
Download size: 176 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxmenu-data

Installation of LXMenu Data

Install LXMenu Data by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/desktop-directories

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1

Introduction to LXDE Icon Theme

The LXDE Icon Theme package contains nuoveXT 2.2 Icon Theme for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7467133275edbbcc79349379235d4411
Download size: 4.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXDE Icon Theme Dependencies

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 (for gtk-update-icon-cache command)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxde-icon-theme

Installation of LXDE Icon Theme

Install LXDE Icon Theme by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have installed one of the optional dependencies, run the following command as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libfm-extra-1.2.3

Introduction to libfm-extra

The libfm-extra package contains a library and other files required by menu-cache-gen libexec of menu-cache-1.0.0.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcmanfm/libfm-1.2.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3ff38200701658f7e80e25ed395d92dd
Download size: 880 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libfm Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libfm-extra

Installation of libfm-extra

Install libfm-extra by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-extra-only \
            --with-gtk=no     \
            --disable-static  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-extra-only Disable all components but libfm-extra library.

--with-gtk=no Gtk is not necessary for this package.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libfm-extra.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libfm (symlink) and /usr/include/libfm-1.0

Short Descriptions

libfm-extra.so

contains the libfm-extra API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

menu-cache-1.0.0

Introduction to Menu Cache

The Menu Cache package contains a library for creating and utilizing caches to speed up the manipulation for freedesktop.org defined application menus.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/menu-cache-1.0.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 4a8e6c1a86d5e64ec725d850a4abfbad
Download size: 256 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB (additional 0.6 MB to build and install the API documentation)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Menu Cache Dependencies

Required

libfm-extra-1.2.3

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/menu-cache

Installation of Menu Cache

Install Menu Cache by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this option if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to build and install the API documentation. With this option enabled, the package doesn't support parallel build.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libmenu-cache.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/menu-cache, /usr/libexec/menu-cache and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libmenu-cache

Short Descriptions

libmenu-cache.so

contains the menu-cache API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libfm-1.2.3

Introduction to libfm

The libfm package contains a library used to develop file managers providing some file management utilities.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcmanfm/libfm-1.2.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3ff38200701658f7e80e25ed395d92dd
Download size: 880 KB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libfm Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 and menu-cache-1.0.0

Optional

dbus-glib-0.104 and UDisks-1.0.5 (for volume management - experimental) or Gvfs-1.24.2 and GTK-Doc-1.24

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libfm

Installation of libfm

Install libfm by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Program: libfm-pref-apps and lxshortcut

Installed Libraries: libfm.so, libfm-extra.so and libfm-gtk.so

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/libfm, /usr/lib/libfm, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libfm and /usr/share/libfm

Short Descriptions

libfm-pref-apps	sets preferred applications for programs based on libfm.
lxshortcut	is a small program used to edit application shortcuts.
`libfm.so`	contains the libfm API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

PCManFM-1.2.3

Introduction to PCManFM

The PCManFM package contains an extremely fast, lightweight, yet feature-rich file manager with tabbed browsing.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pcmanfm/pcmanfm-1.2.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c993402d407b0a3fc076f842ac1bc5c9
Download size: 400 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

PCManFM Dependencies

Required

libfm-1.2.3

Installation of PCManFM

Install PCManFM by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: pcmanfm

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/pcmanfm, /usr/lib/pcmanfm and /usr/share/pcmanfm

Short Descriptions

pcmanfm

is a lightweight GTK+ based file manager for X Window System.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 15:22:51 -0700

LXPanel-0.8.1

Introduction to LXPanel

The LXPanel package contains a lightweight X11 desktop panel.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxpanel-0.8.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6ea8dea8dc6c781b7adfbccbcd59c512
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 29 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

LXPanel Dependencies

Required

keybinder2-0.3.0, libwnck-2.30.7, lxmenu-data-0.1.4 and menu-cache-1.0.0

Optional

libindicator (indicator plugin)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxpanel

Installation of LXPanel

Install LXPanel by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: lxpanel and lxpanelctl

Installed Libraries: liblxpanel.so and several under /usr/lib/lxpanel/plugins

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/lxpanel, /usr/include/lxpanel, /usr/lib/lxpanel and /usr/share/lxpanel

Short Descriptions

lxpanel	is a lightweight GTK+ based panel for the LXDE Desktop.
lxpanelctl	is a program that controls lxpanel.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

LXAppearance-0.6.1

Introduction to LXAppearance

The LXAppearance package contains a desktop-independent theme switcher for GTK+.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxappearance-0.6.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 79740125628a8374c1101cf26e558fa5
Download size: 160 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXAppearance Dependencies

Required

Optional

libxslt-1.1.28 with docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 (to build man pages)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxappearance

Installation of LXAppearance

Install LXAppearance by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --enable-dbus     &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-dbus: This switch enables DBus support in LXAppearance which is useful for communicating with LXSession. Remove it if you are not building LXDE or have not installed dbus-glib-0.104.

--enable-man: Use this switch if you have installed optional dependencies and wish to rebuild the manual pages.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: lxappearance

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lxappearance and /usr/share/lxappearance

Short Descriptions

lxappearance

is a program used to change GTK+ themes, icon themes, and fonts used by applications.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

LXSession-0.5.2

Introduction to LXSession

The LXSession package contains the default session manager for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxsession-0.5.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2957acccbf9ce37ef8205ec5424f8047
Download size: 348 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

LXSession Dependencies

Required

dbus-glib-0.104, GTK+-2.24.28, libunique-1.1.6 (used by lxpolkit and lxclipboard), lsb_release-1.4 (runtime for lxde-logout so it does not crash), Polkit-0.113, and Vala-0.28.1

Optional

libxslt-1.1.28 with docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1 (to build man pages), and UPower-0.9.23 with pm-utils-1.4.1 (used by lxsession-logout)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxsession

Installation of LXSession

Install LXSession by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-man: This switch disables building of the manual pages. Remove it if you have installed optional dependencies and wish to build the manual pages.

Installed Programs: lxclipboard, lxlock, lxpolkit, lxsession, lxsession-db, lxsession-default, lxsession-default-apps, lxsession-default-terminal, lxsession-edit, lxsession-logout, lxsession-xdg-autostart, lxsession-xsettings, and lxsettings-daemon

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/lxsession

Short Descriptions

lxclipboard	is a clipboard utility for LXSession and LXDE.
lxlock	locks the local X display until a password is entered.
lxpolkit	is the polkit agent.
lxsession	is a lightweight X session manager.
lxsession-default	launch default applications set by LXsession.
lxsession-default-apps	is an utility to configure lxsession and its default applications.
lxsession-default-terminal	launch default terminal set by LXSession.
lxsession-edit	is the standard session edit manager used by LXDE.
lxsession-logout	is a program that to logout from LXSession.
lxsession-xdg-autostart	handle autostart spec of freedesktop.org.
lxsession-xsettings	is a tool to configure gtk+ themes, keyboard, and mouse for you on session startup.
lxsettings-daemon	is the settings daemon for LXsession.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

lxde-common-0.99.0

Introduction to LXDE Common

The LXDE Common package provides a set of default configuration for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxde-common-0.99.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5a417f5a0e5b510a0c018b66b0dc4081
Download size: 868 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXDE Common Dependencies

Required

ConsoleKit2-1.0.0, lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1, LXPanel-0.8.1, LXSession-0.5.2, openbox-3.6.1 (runtime), and PCManFM-1.2.3

Recommended Runtime Dependencies

ConsoleKit2-1.0.0 and D-Bus-1.10.0

Optional Runtime Dependencies

A notification daemon such as notification-daemon-3.16.1 or xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxde-common

Installation of LXDE Common

Install LXDE Common by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have installed recommended dependencies, run the following commands as the root user:

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime &&
gtk-update-icon-cache -qf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
update-desktop-database -q

Starting LXDE

You can start LXDE from runlevel 3, using xinit-1.3.4, or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as sddm-0.12.0.

To start LXDE using xinit-1.3.4, run the following commands:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startlxde
EOF

startx

startx &> ~/.x-session-errors

Note

You may wish to drop consolekit and/or dbus-launch, e.g., just using startlxde in ~/.xinitrc. However some capabilities such as mounting or umounting file systems from a file manager will not be possible, or the reboot option will be absent or inoperative, among other problems.

When shutting down or rebooting, the shutdown messages appear on the vt where X was running. If you wish to see those messages, simultaneously press keys Alt-F7 (assuming that X was running on vt7).

Installed Programs: lxde-logout, openbox-lxde and startlxde

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/{lxpanel,lxsession,openbox,pcmanfm}/LXDE and /usr/share/lxde

Short Descriptions

lxde-logout	is used to quit the desktop session for LXDE.
openbox-lxde	is a wrapper script which runs Openbox with LXDE specific config file.
startlxde	is used to start the desktop session for LXDE.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 14:49:19 -0700

Chapter 39. LXDE Applications

This is a small collection of optional applications that add extra capabilities to the LXDE desktop.

GPicView-0.2.4

Introduction to GPicView

The GPicView package contains a lightweight image viewer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/gpicview-0.2.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b209e36531f89c48e3067b389699d4c7
Download size: 480 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

GPicView Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gpicview

Installation of GPicView

Install GPicView by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
sed -i 's/Utility;//' /usr/share/applications/gpicview.desktop

If you have xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3 installed, as the root user, you should run the xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor command, for the installed icon to be displayed in the menu item.

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: Fixes submenu for GPicView.

Installed Program: gpicview

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/gpicview

Short Descriptions

gpicview

is a lightweight image viewer.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

lxappearance-obconf-0.2.2

Introduction to LXAppearance OBconf

The LXAppearance OBconf package contains a plugin for LXAppearance to configure OpenBox.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxappearance-obconf-0.2.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d958ac5514ba1707429ff6794ab59abf
Download size: 288 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

LXAppearance OBconf Dependencies

Required

LXAppearance-0.6.1 and openbox-3.6.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxappearance-obconf

Installation of LXAppearance OBconf

Install LXAppearance OBconf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: /usr/lib/lxappearance/plugins/obconf.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/lxappearance and /usr/share/lxappearance/obconf

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

LXInput-0.3.4

Introduction to LXInput

The LXInput package contains a small program used to configure keyboard and mouse for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxinput-0.3.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5deb8b5cffb8e385622051e4a7b103d0
Download size: 144 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXInput Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxinput

Installation of LXInput

Install LXInput by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: lxinput

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/lxinput

Short Descriptions

lxinput

is a program used to configure keyboard and mouse.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

LXRandR-0.3.0

Introduction to LXRandR

The LXRandR package contains a monitor configuration tool for LXDE.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxrandr-0.3.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 250f0ebb09c1e02f430f951911ba1259
Download size: 124 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXRandR Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 and Xorg Applications

Optional

libxslt-1.1.28 with docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 (to build man pages)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxrandr

Installation of LXRandR

Install LXRandR by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-man: Use this switch if you have installed optional dependencies and wish to build the manual pages.

Installed Program: lxrandr

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

lxrandr

is a GTK+ interface to XRandR.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

LXTask-0.1.6

Introduction to LXTask

The LXTask package contains a lightweight and desktop-independent task manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxtask-0.1.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 14b5341822aaa049f2d4d5a56c1b28f2
Download size: 136 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXTask Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxtask

Installation of LXTask

Install LXTask by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: lxtask

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

lxtask

is a lightweight and desktop-independent task manager.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 11:44:11 -0700

LXTerminal-0.2.0

Introduction to LXTerminal

The LXTerminal package contains a VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE with support for multiple tabs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lxde/lxterminal-0.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e80ad1b6e26212f3d43908c2ad87ba4d
Download size: 244 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

LXTerminal Dependencies

Required

Vte-0.28.2

Optional

libxslt-1.1.28 with docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 (to build man pages)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxterminal

Installation of LXTerminal

Install LXTerminal by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-man: Use this switch if you have installed optional dependencies and wish to build the manual pages.

Installed Program: lxterminal

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/lxterminal

Short Descriptions

lxterminal

a lightweight terminal emulator for the LXDE desktop.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 15:07:34 -0700

Part XI. LXQt

Chapter 40. LXQt Desktop

LXQt is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.

LXQt is a Qt based Desktop Environment. Here, we choose to build with Qt5, although some parts could use Qt4. It comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXQt uses less CPU and less RAM than most other environments. It is especially useful for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers, but can be used with modern hardware.

Build LXQt core packages in the order presented in the book for the easiest resolution of dependencies.

LXQt Desktop Pre-Install Instructions

LXQt can be installed in /usr or /opt/lxqt.

Installing in /usr

Installing in /usr creates a simpler setup. Run:

export LXQT_PREFIX=/usr

Either add that to your own .bash_profile so that it will still be set if you build the packages over a period of time, or else add it to the system profile as the root user:

cat >> /etc/profile.d/lxqt.sh << "EOF"

# Begin LXQt addition

export LXQT_PREFIX=/usr

# End LXQt addition

EOF

The rest of this page is for people who wish to use the alternative prefix.

Installing in /opt/lxqt

Installing in /opt/lxqt may simplify upgrading to a later version of LXQt.

Some variables need to be defined in your system profile, as the root user:

install -vdm755 /opt/lxqt/{bin,lib,share/man}

cat >> /etc/profile.d/lxqt.sh << "EOF"

# Begin LXQt addition

export LXQT_PREFIX=/opt/lxqt

pathappend /opt/lxqt/bin           PATH
pathappend /opt/lxqt/share/man/    MANPATH
pathappend /opt/lxqt/lib/pkgconfig PKG_CONFIG_PATH

# End LXQt addition

EOF

Expand your /etc/ld.so.conf file:

cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"

# Begin LXQt addition

/opt/lxqt/lib

# End LXQt addition

EOF

Before starting to install the packages in the following pages, remember to execute:

source /etc/profile

source /etc/profile                                       &&
install -v -dm755                $LXQT_PREFIX/share/icons &&
ln -sfv /usr/share/icons/hicolor $LXQT_PREFIX/share/icons

Tip

Sometimes, the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/lxqt is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/lxqt-0.9.1. After installing LXQt Desktop, you may rename the directory and create a symlink:

mv /opt/lxqt{,-0.9.1}
ln -sfv lxqt-0.9.1 /opt/lxqt

Later on, you may want to install other versions of LXQt Desktop. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/lxqt as the prefix again. Which version of LXQt Desktop you use depends only on where the symlink points. No other reconfiguration will be needed.

Last updated on 2015-08-18 16:16:04 -0700

libqtxdg-1.2.0

Introduction to libqtxdg

The libqtxdg is a Qt implementation of freedesktop.org xdg specifications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/libqtxdg/1.2.0/libqtxdg-1.2.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 3e92e224da807710862a0a94fad14dcd
Download size: 56 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libqtxdg Dependencies

Required

Optional

Qt-4.8.7 (not supported by BLFS)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libqtxdg

Installation of libqtxdg

Install libqtxdg by running the following commands:

source setqt5  &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libQt5Xdg.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/{include,share}/qt5xdg

Short Descriptions

libQt5Xdg.so

contains the libQt5Xdg API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

liblxqt-0.9.0

Introduction to liblxqt

The liblxqt is the core utility library for all LXQt components.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/liblxqt-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b027c6114d543e24a35846d37d374009
Download size: 88 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

liblxqt Dependencies

Note

You do not need all KDE Frameworks-5.14.0, just the named library and dependencies.

Required

kwindowsystem, from KDE Frameworks-5.14.0 and libqtxdg-1.2.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/liblxqt

Installation of liblxqt

Install liblxqt by running the following commands:

sed -e '/lxqtnotification.h/ i #include <QObject>' \
    -i lxqtnotification.cpp &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: Fixes the headers for Qt5-5.5.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: liblxqt.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/{include,share{,/cmake}/lxqt}

Short Descriptions

liblxqt.so

contains the liblxqt API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-globalkeys-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-globalkeys

The lxqt-globalkeys package contains a daemon used to register global keyboard shortcuts and a key shortcut GUI editor.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-globalkeys-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f7e0de7cac2379a7dd7af7fd97e9138c
Download size: 52 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

lxqt-globalkeys Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-globalkeys

Installation of lxqt-globalkeys

Install lxqt-globalkeys by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts and lxqt-globalkeysd

Installed Libraries: liblxqt-globalkeys.so and liblxqt-globalkeys-ui.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/include/lxqt-globalkeys, $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts and $LXQT_PREFIX/lib/cmake/lxqt-globalkeys{,-ui}

Short Descriptions

lxqt-config-globalkeyshortcuts	is a key shortcuts GUI editor.
lxqt-globalkeysd	is a global key shortcuts daemon.
`lxqt-globalkeys.so`	contains the lxqt-globalkeys API functions.
`liblxqt-globalkeys-ui.so`	contains the liblxqt-globalkeys-ui API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

libsysstat-0.3.0

Introduction to libsysstat

The libsysstat package contains a library used to query system info and statistics.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/libsysstat/0.3.0/libsysstat-0.3.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2d9d9889ba2ed8712d34e6835001e6d0
Download size: 20 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libsysstat Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsysstat

Installation of libsysstat

Install libsysstat by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: None

Installed Library: libsysstat-qt5.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/{include,share/cmake}/sysstat-qt5

Short Descriptions

libsysstat-qt5.so

contains the libsysstat-qt5 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

liblxqt-mount-0.9.0

Introduction to liblxqt-mount

The liblxqt-mount package is used in LXQt for removable devices management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/liblxqt-mount-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 476d91d6680f63b0dd7ab445120b9e20
Download size: 20 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

liblxqt-mount Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/liblxqt-mount

Installation of liblxqt-mount

Install liblxqt-mount by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: liblxqtmount.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/{include,lib/cmake}/lxqtmount

Short Descriptions

liblxqtmount.so

contains the liblxqt-mount API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-panel-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-panel

The lxqt-panel package contains a lightweight X11 desktop panel.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-panel-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: cdae5a811c68fe8162230f1e9ef765f2
Download size: 272 KB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 1 SBU

lxqt-panel Dependencies

Required

lxqt-globalkeys-0.9.0, liblxqt-0.9.0, liblxqt-mount-0.9.0, lxmenu-data-0.1.4, and menu-cache-1.0.0

Note

You do not need all KDE Frameworks-5.14.0, just the named library and dependencies.

Installation of lxqt-panel

Install lxqt-panel by running the following commands:

sed -i 's:<KF5/KWindowSystem/:<:'       \
       plugin-mainmenu/lxqtmainmenu.cpp       \
       plugin-kbindicator/lxqtkbindicator.h   \
       plugin-showdesktop/showdesktop.cpp     \
       plugin-taskbar/lxqttaskbutton.cpp      \
       plugin-taskbar/lxqttaskbar.h           \
       plugin-desktopswitch/desktopswitch.cpp \
       panel/lxqtpanel.cpp                    \
       panel/config/configpaneldialog.cpp     &&

sed -e 's:<KF5/KGuiAddons/:<:'          \
    -i plugin-kbindicator/lxqtkbindicator.h   &&


mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ...: Fixes the headers for KF5.

Installed Program: lxqt-panel

Installed Libraries: several plugins under $LXQT_PREFIX/lib/lxqt-panel

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/lxqt, $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/{,translations/}lxqt-panel and $LXQT_PREFIX/lib/lxqt-panel

Short Descriptions

lxqt-panel

is a lightweight Qt5 based panel for the LXQt Desktop.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

pcmanfm-qt-0.9.0

Introduction to pcmanfm-qt

The pcmanfm-qt is a file manager and desktop icon manager (Qt port of pcmanfm and libfm).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/pcmanfm-qt-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b0ce100b4380ad1a47926a3465aeb6e9
Download size: 188 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

pcmanfm-qt Dependencies

Required

liblxqt-0.9.0, libfm-1.2.3, and lxmenu-data-0.1.4

Installation of pcmanfm-qt

Install pcmanfm-qt by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib          \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: pcmanfm-qt

Installed Library: libfm-qt5.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/include/libfm-qt and $LXQT_PREFIX/lxqt/share/{libfm-qt,pcmanfm-qt}

Short Descriptions

pcmanfm-qt	is a file manager.
`libfm-qt5.so`	contains the libfm-qt5 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-qtplugin-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-qtplugin

The lxqt-qtplugin package provides an LXQt Qt platform integration plugin.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-qtplugin-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 91220a62607ea42a439bd56c23e7303d
Download size: 16 KB
Estimated disk space required: 700 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lxqt-qtplugin Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-qtplugin

Installation of lxqt-qtplugin

Install lxqt-qtplugin by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libqtlxqt.so

Installed Directory: /opt/qt5/plugins/platformthemes

Short Descriptions

libqtlxqt.so

contains the libqtlxqt API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-policykit-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-policykit

The lxqt-policykit package is the LXQt PolicyKit agent.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-policykit-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 15f8f12465d9475ca15562431a21bf38
Download size: 16 KB
Estimated disk space required: 960 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lxqt-policykit Dependencies

Note

You do not need all KDE Frameworks-5.14.0, just the named library and dependencies.

Required

kwindowsystem, from KDE Frameworks-5.14.0, liblxqt-0.9.0 and polkit-qt-0.112.0 (Qt5)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-policykit

Installation of lxqt-policykit

Install lxqt-policykit by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: lxqt-policykit-agent

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt-policykit-agent

Short Descriptions

lxqt-policykit-agent

is the LXQt PolicyKit agent.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-powermanagement-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-powermanagement

The lxqt-powermanagement package provides the power management module for LXQt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-powermanagement-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5efa3de8ee1b8548ee59dc8f7fd773d0
Download size: 36 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

lxqt-powermanagement Dependencies

Required

hicolor-icon-theme-0.15, liblxqt-0.9.0, Qt-5.5.0 built with librsvg-2.40.10, UPower-0.9.23, and xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-powermanagement

Installation of lxqt-powermanagement

Install lxqt-powermanagement by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: lxqt-config-powermanagement and lxqt-powermanagement

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt-{config-,}powermanagement

Short Descriptions

lxqt-config-powermanagement	is the lxqt-powermanagement GUI configuration tool.
lxqt-powermanagement	is the LXQt power management module.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-config-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-config

The lxqt-config package provides the LXQt system settings center.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-config-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: af485d58ed9aa78e46bb76db5c51eb9a
Download size: 140 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

lxqt-config Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-config

Installation of lxqt-config

Install lxqt-config by running the following commands:

sed -i '/<QRect>/ i #include <QObject>' lxqt-config-monitor/monitor.h

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: Fixes the headers for Qt-5.5.

Installed Programs: lxqt-config, lxqt-config-file-associations, lxqt-config-monitor, lxqt-config-appearance, and lxqt-config-input

Installed Library: liblxqt-config-cursor.so

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt-config{,-appearance,-cursor,-file-associations,-input,-monitor}

Short Descriptions

lxqt-config	is the LXQt configuration center.
lxqt-config-appearance	is the LXQt program used to change themes, icon themes, and fonts used by applications.
lxqt-config-file-associations	is the LXQt program used to associate files with programs.
lxqt-config-input	is the LXQt program used to configure input devices (e.g. mouse speed, cursor, keyboard speed, keyboard layout).
lxqt-config-monitor	is the LXQt xrandr based program used to configure the monitor.
`liblxqt-config-cursor.so`	contains the liblxqt-config-cursor API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-about-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-about

The lxqt-about package provides the standalone LXQt “About” dialog.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-about-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8a9ea5b780101b071911a84bb258675d
Download size: 12 KB
Estimated disk space required: 492 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lxqt-about Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-about

Installation of lxqt-about

Install lxqt-about by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: lxqt-about

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/lxqt-about

Short Descriptions

lxqt-about

is the LXQt “About” dialog.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-common-0.9.1

Introduction to lxqt-common

The lxqt-common package provides common files for LXQt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-common-0.9.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7db547d46c4e4e5efb6b3ee8e4a90ad9
Download size: 3.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

lxqt-common Dependencies

Required

liblxqt-0.9.0, openbox-3.6.1 (runtime - may be replaced by another WM, e.g. Xfwm4-4.12.3), Qt-5.5.0 built with librsvg-2.40.10, and xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3

Installation of lxqt-common

Install lxqt-common by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have installed recommended dependencies, run the following commands as root user:

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime          &&
xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &&
update-desktop-database -q

Installed Program: startlxqt

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt and $LXQT_PREFIX/share/{desktop-directories,lxqt/{graphics,openbox,themes}}

Short Descriptions

startlxqt

is used to start the desktop session for LXQt.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-notificationd-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-notificationd

The lxqt-notificationd package is the LXQt notification daemon.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-notificationd-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 11d8e306c0b2e23a4cca312cdcb54dbd
Download size: 40 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

lxqt-notificationd Dependencies

Required

liblxqt-0.9.0 and lxqt-common-0.9.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-notificationd

Installation of lxqt-notificationd

Install lxqt-notificationd by running the following commands:

sed -e '/QDebug/ i #include <QObject>' \
    -e 's:<KF5/KWindowSystem/:<:'      \
    -i src/notification.cpp     &&

sed -e '/LXQt\/Notification/ i  #include <QObject>' \
    -i config/basicsettings.cpp &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -e ... src/notification.cpp: Fixes the headers for KF5.

sed -e ... config/basicsettings.cpp: Fixes the headers for Qt5-5.5.

Installed Programs: lxqt-config-notificationd and lxqt-notificationd

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt-{config-,}notificationd

Short Descriptions

lxqt-config-notificationd	is the lxqt-notificationd GUI configuration tool.
lxqt-notificationd	is the LXQt notification daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-runner-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-runner

The lxqt-runner package provides a tool used to launch programs quickly by typing their names.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-runner-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f68f8b9876bc825a2f5c9d6e9621211a
Download size: 192 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

lxqt-runner Dependencies

Required

kwindowsystem, from KDE Frameworks-5.14.0, lxqt-common-0.9.1, lxqt-globalkeys-0.9.0 and menu-cache-1.0.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-runner

Installation of lxqt-runner

Install lxqt-runner by running the following commands:

sed -i 's:<KF5/KWindowSystem/:<:' dialog.cpp &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ...: Fixes the headers for KF5.

Using lxqt-runner

To use lxqt-runner, simultaneously press the Alt-F2 keys. A dialogue window appears in the top center of the screen. When you start typing the command, a list of possible matches appears and changes as you keep typing.

Installed Program: lxqt-runner

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/{,translations/}lxqt-runner

Short Descriptions

lxqt-runner

is a graphical dialogue for quickly executing a program.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

lxqt-session-0.9.0

Introduction to lxqt-session

The lxqt-session package contains the default session manager for LXQt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt/0.9.1/lxqt-session-0.9.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 92fca1504bcd61d0c8a761ba3748e81f
Download size: 56 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

lxqt-session Dependencies

Required

liblxqt-0.9.0 and lxqt-common-0.9.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lxqt-session

Installation of lxqt-session

Install lxqt-session by running the following commands:

sed -e 's:<KF5/KWindowSystem/:<:' \
    -i lxqt-session/src/lxqtmodman.cpp  &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ...: Fixes the headers for KF5.

Configuring lxqt-session

Window Managers other than openbox-3.6.1 may be used, e.g. Xfwm4-4.12.3. Notice that IceWM-1.3.8 is not a valid replacement. Fluxbox does work, although in this context (with lxqt-config-0.9.0) openbox-3.6.1 is better. The /etc/xdg/lxqt/windowmanagers.conf comes with several examples of Window Managers and the ones which are installed will appear in a drop down list of lxqt-config-session. For the ones not included in /etc/xdg/lxqt/windowmanagers.conf, you can use the lxqt-config-session "search" button, e.g. for Fluxbox-1.3.7, navigating through the file system until you can choose fluxbox. Alternatively, if you wish the Window Manager of your choice to appear in the drop down list, include it in /etc/xdg/lxqt/windowmanagers.conf. For Fluxbox-1.3.7, include the line

fluxbox/Name=Fluxbox

and it will appear as an option in the drop down list. To change the WM, after selecting it, you need to restart the session.

Installed Programs: lxqt-config-session, lxqt-leave and lxqt-session

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt/translations/lxqt{,-config}-session

Short Descriptions

lxqt-config-session	is a GUI configuration tool for lxqt-session settings.
lxqt-leave	is a graphical dialog to terminate the session.
lxqt-session	is a lightweight X session manager.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

LXQt Desktop Final Instructions

Post-Install Instructions

Final steps, before starting LXQt.

Dependencies to Start LXQt

Required

openbox-3.6.1 (runtime) - this may be replaced by another WM, see the Configuring instructions in lxqt-session-0.9.0.

Final configuration

If installed in /usr, you do not need final configuration. Jump to “Starting LXQt”, below.

If installed in /opt, in order for the system to find some files, run the following commands, as the root user:

ln -svfn $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lxqt /usr/share/lxqt &&

for i in $LXQT_PREFIX/share/applications/*
do
  ln -svf $i /usr/share/applications/
done

for i in $LXQT_PREFIX/share/desktop-directories/*
do
  ln -svf $i /usr/share/desktop-directories/
done

unset i

Starting LXQt

You can start LXQt from runlevel 3, using xinit-1.3.4, or from runlevel 5, using a Display Manager, such as sddm-0.12.0.

To start LXQt using xinit-1.3.4, run the following commands:

cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startlxqt
EOF

startx

startx &> ~/.x-session-errors

Note

You may wish to drop consolekit and/or dbus-launch, e.g., just using startlxqt in ~/.xinitrc. However some capabilities such as mounting or umounting file systems from a file manager will not be possible, or the reboot option will be absent or inoperative, among other problems.

When shutting down or rebooting, the shutdown messages appear on the vt where X was running. If you wish to see those messages, simultaneously press keys Alt-F7 (assuming that X was running on vt7).

Last updated on 2015-09-29 14:49:19 -0700

Chapter 41. LXQt Applications

This is a small collection of optional applications that add extra capabilities to the LXQt desktop.

lximage-qt-0.4.0

Introduction to lximage-qt

The lximage-qt package contains a lightweight image viewer and screenshot program.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.lxqt.org/lximage-qt/0.4.0/lximage-qt-0.4.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0bd2c6474d8d9c73b606e81647e777f0
Download size: 44 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

lximage-qt Dependencies

Required

libexif-0.6.21 and pcmanfm-qt-0.9.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lximage-qt

Installation of lximage-qt

Install lximage-qt by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/1%/%1/' src/translations/lximage-qt_pt_BR.ts &&

sed -i 's/Utility;//' data/lximage-qt.desktop.in       &&

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release          \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$LXQT_PREFIX \
      ..       &&

LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib:$LXQT_PREFIX/lib make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

ln -svf $LXQT_PREFIX/share/applications/lximage-qt.desktop \
        /usr/share/applications &&

ln -svf $LXQT_PREFIX/share/applications/lximage-qt-screenshot.desktop \
        /usr/share/applications

If you have xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3 installed, as the root user, run xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor.

Command Explanations

sed -i ... src/translations/lximage-qt_pt_BR.t: Fixes a bug introduced by the translation. If you will never use pt_BR as the prefix of your locale, this fix can be safely ignored.

sed -i ... data/lximage-qt.desktop.in: Fixes submenu for lximage-qt.

LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib:$LXQT_PREFIX/lib: Fixes for the linker to find three libraries.

Installed Program: lximage-qt

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: $LXQT_PREFIX/share/lximage-qt

Short Descriptions

lximage-qt

is a lightweight image viewer and screenshot program. There is a menu entry at Utilities for the screenshot program. From command line, obtain a full screen or window shot by running lximage-qt --screenshot.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

obconf-qt-0.9.0.8.g1ce85f1

Introduction to obconf-qt

The obconf-qt package is an OpenBox Qt based configuration tool.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/obconf-qt-0.9.0.8.g1ce85f1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: dc0b9515fec3cf81cf809192e75daa3f
Download size: 344 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

The source tarball shown above was created by the BLFS team by cloning the source code repository, finding the correct version to rename accordingly the source code directory and finally making the compressed tarball. No other modification has been made.

obconf-qt Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, openbox-3.6.1 and Qt-5.5.0 or Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/obconf-qt

Installation of obconf-qt

For compilation with Qt4, see “Command Explanations”, below. Install obconf-qt, linked to Qt5, by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      ..       &&

make

The choice of /usr prefix is due to the general characteristics of this program, which can be used without LXQt.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DUSE_QT4=ON: Use this switch, if you prefer to build this application linked to Qt4.

Installed Program: obconf-qt

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/obconf-qt

Short Descriptions

obconf-qt

is a GUI Qt based configuration tool for OpenBox.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

qtermwidget-0.6.0

Introduction to qtermwidget

As the name suggests, the qtermwidget is a terminal widget for Qt.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/qterminal/qtermwidget/releases/download/0.6.0/qtermwidget-0.6.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 763ce418ef6b7167cea6c01e3a97f5f4
Download size: 156 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

qtermwidget Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and Qt-5.5.0 or Qt-4.8.7

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qtermwidget

Installation of qtermwidget

If you have Qt4 and Qt5 installed, run source setqt4 or source setqt5, respectively, in order to link qtermwidget to the one of your choice. Following instructions are for Qt5 linking. For compilation with Qt4, see “Command Explanations”, below. Install qtermwidget by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib  \
      -DBUILD_DESIGNER_PLUGIN=0   \
      -DUSE_QT5=true              \
      ..       &&

make

The choice of /usr for prefix is due to the general characteristics of this program, which can be used without LXQt.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DBUILD_DESIGNER_PLUGIN=0: This switch is necessary, because building the Qt designer plugin is not supported for Qt5 yet. Toggle to 1 or remove, if you prefer to use Qt4.

-DUSE_QT5=true: This switch is used in order to build this application linked to Qt5. Toggle to “false”, if you prefer to use Qt4.

Installed Program: None

Installed Libraries: libqtermwidget5.so or libqtermwidget4.so and /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/designer/libqtermwidget4plugin.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share{/cmake,}}/qtermwidget5 or /usr/{include,share{/cmake,}}/qtermwidget4

Short Descriptions

`libqtermwidget5.so`	contains the libqtermwidget5 API functions.
`libqtermwidget4.so`	contains the libqtermwidget4 API functions.
`libqtermwidget4plugin.so`	contains the qtermwidget Qt4 designer plugin.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

qterminal-0.6.0

Introduction to qterminal

The qterminal package contains a Qt widget based terminal emulator for Qt with support for multiple tabs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal/releases/download/0.6.0/qterminal-0.6.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a033e898d17fcd3b0f9a839b029b0db4
Download size: 100 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.2 MB (with the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with the API documentation)

qterminal Dependencies

Required

qtermwidget-0.6.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qterminal

Installation of qterminal

For compilation with Qt4, see “Command Explanations”, below. Install qterminal by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DUSE_SYSTEM_QXT=OFF        \
      -DUSE_QT5=true              \
      ..       &&

make

The choice of /usr prefix is due to the general characteristics of this program, which can be used without LXQt.

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed, and wish to create the API documentation, issue:

doxygen ../Doxyfile

The html API documentation has been generated with the previous command. Now, if you also have texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) installed, and wish to create the pdf API reference manual, issue:

make -C docs/latex

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

To install the API documentation, if you opted to generate them, issue, as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/qterminal-0.6.0/{html,pdf} &&
install -v -m644    docs/latex/refman.pdf \
                    /usr/share/doc/qterminal-0.6.0/pdf

for the html API documentation, and, for the pdf API reference manual, as the root user:

cp -vr docs/html/* /usr/share/doc/qterminal-0.6.0/html

Command Explanations

-DUSE_SYSTEM_QXT=OFF: This switch is necessary because the option has not been implemented if linking with Qt5. However, use it also if you choose linking to Qt4, because libqxt is required, but is no longer maintained.

-DUSE_QT5=true: This switch is used in order to build this application linked to Qt5. Toggle to “false”, if you prefer to use Qt4.

Installed Program: qterminal

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/qterminal and /usr/share/doc/qterminal-0.6.0

Short Descriptions

qterminal

is a Qt based lightweight terminal emulator for.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

QScintilla-gpl-2.9

Introduction to QScintilla

QScintilla is a port to Qt of Scintilla. As well as features found in standard text editing components, it includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code: language syntax styling, error indicators, code completion, call tips, code folding, margins can contain markers like those used in debuggers to indicate breakpoints and the current line, recordable macros, multiple views and, of course, printing.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pyqt/QScintilla-gpl-2.9.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 24659879edf9786f41a9b9268ce3c817
Download size: 2.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 37 MB (with documentation)
Estimated build time: 1 SBU (with documentation)

Additional Downloads

Required patch (if building with Qt5): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/QScintilla-gpl-2.9-fixes-1.patch

QScintilla Dependencies

Required

chrpath-0.16 and Qt-5.5.0 or Qt-4.8.7

Optional

PyQt (for Python Qt bindings)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qscintilla

Installation of QScintilla

If building with Qt5, run the following commnd:

patch -Np1 -i ../QScintilla-gpl-2.9-fixes-1.patch

If Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, choose which one you prefer, by running source setqt4 or source setqt5, respectivelly.

Note

The instructions in this page are just for the QScintilla application. Code is included in the tarball for QScintilla Qt Designer plugin and Python bindings.

Install QScintilla by running the following commands:

cd Qt4Qt5             &&

qmake qscintilla.pro  &&

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you wish to install the documentation, issue, as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d $QT5DIR/share/doc/QScintilla-2.9 &&
install -v -m644    ../doc/html-Qt4Qt5/* \
                    $QT5DIR/share/doc/QScintilla-2.9

if building with Qt5. For Qt4 build, replace QT5DIR with QT4DIR.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: $QT5DIR/lib/libqt5scintilla2.so or $QT4DIR/lib/libqtscintilla2.so

Installed Directories: $QT5DIR/{include/Qsci,qsci,share/doc/QScintilla-2.9} or $QT4DIR/{include/Qsci,qsci,share/doc/QScintilla-2.9}

Short Descriptions

`libqt5scintilla2.so`	contains the QScintilla Qt5 API functions.
`libqscintilla2.so`	contains the QScintilla Qt4 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

juffed-0.10.r71.gc3c1a3f

Introduction to JuffEd

The JuffEd package is a Qt based editor with support for multiple tabs. It is simple and clear, but very powerful. It supports language syntax highlighting, auto-indents in accordance with file type, code blocks folding, matching braces highlighting with instant jumps between them, powerful search and replacing text using regular expressions (including multiline ones) with the opportunity to use matches \1, \2, … in substitutions, a terminal emulator, saving named sessions and many other features.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/juffed/juffed-0.10.r71.gc3c1a3f.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5d211f5aadcb3d7365b5a6127d3d275f
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

The source tarball shown above was created by the BLFS team by cloning the source code repository, finding the correct version to rename accordingly the source code directory, removing .git directory and .gitignore file, and finally making the compressed tarball. No other modification has been made.

JuffEd Dependencies

Required

qscintilla-2.9

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.22 and Enca

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/juffed

Installation of JuffEd

For compilation with Qt4, see “Command Explanations” below. Install JuffEd by running the following commands:

mkdir -v build &&
cd       build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib  \
      -DBUILD_TERMINAL=ON         \
      -DUSE_QT5=true              \
      ..       &&

make

The choice of /usr prefix is due to the general characteristics of this program, which can be used without LXQt.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DBUILD_TERMINAL=ON: This switch is used in order to enable building the terminal. Toggle to “OFF” or remove the switch, if you do not wish it.

-DUSE_QT5=true: This switch is used in order to build this application linked to Qt5. Toggle to “false”, if you prefer to use Qt4.

Installed Program: juffed

Installed Libraries: libjuff.so, libjuffed-engine-qsci.so and plugins under /usr/lib/juffed/plugins

Installed Directory: /usr/{include,lib,share}/juffed

Short Descriptions

juffed	is a Qt based text editor.
`libjuff.so`	contains the JuffEd API functions.
`libjuffed-engine-qsci.so`	contains the QScintilla bindings.

Last updated on 2015-09-29 11:17:21 -0700

qupzilla-1.8.6

Introduction to QupZilla

QupZilla is a fast, feature-rich and lightweight QtWebKit based browser, originally intended only for educational purposes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/qupzilla/qupzilla-1.8.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 24c4033cbf20223eb73a33af9c037862
Download size: 45 MB
Estimated disk space required: 79 MB
Estimated build time: 3.1 SBU

QupZilla Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, and Qt-5.5.0 or Qt-4.8.7

Optional

GDB-7.10, kdelibs-4.14.10 (KWallet plugin), Hunspell, and libgnome-keyring (Gnome-Keyring plugin)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/qupzilla

Installation of QupZilla

The following fixes are needed, if building with Qt5:

sed -e '/qtlocalpeer/ i #include <QDataStream>' \
    -i src/lib/3rdparty/qtsingleapplication/qtlocalpeer.cpp &&

sed -e '/QHash/ i #include <QObject>' \
    -i src/plugins/TabManager/tldextractor/tldextractor.h

If Qt4 and Qt5 are installed, choose which one you prefer, by running source setqt4 or source setqt5, respectivelly.

Install QupZilla by running the following commands:

export QUPZILLA_PREFIX=/usr \
       USE_WEBGL=true       &&

qmake &&

make

The export command is used for configuring the build. Alternatively, you can add each environmet variable, one at a line, to src/defines.pri. The choice of /usr prefix is due to the general characteristics of this program, which can be used without LXQt.

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If desktop-file-utils-0.22 and xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3 are installed, run as, the root user:

xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor &&
update-desktop-database -q

Command Explanations

Note

If you wish to use any of the following variables, they need to be exported. You can add them to the export block in the main instructions. Alternatively, instead of exporting, they can be added, one at a line, to src/defines.pri.

CONFIG += debug: Use if you want to build QupZilla with debugging symbols.

GNOME_INTEGRATION=true: Enables Gnome integration, this meaning the build of Gnome-Keyring Password plugin, which provides support for storing passwords in Gnome-Keyring.

KDE_INTEGRATION=true: Enables KDE integration, this meaning the build of KWallet Password plugin, which provides support for storing passwords in KWallet.

Installed Program: qupzilla

Installed Libraries: libQupZilla.so and plugins under /usr/lib/qupzilla/

Installed Directory: /usr/{lib,share}/qupzilla

Short Descriptions

qupzilla	is a lightweight QtWebKit web browser.
`libQupZilla.so`	contains the libQupZilla API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-14 14:12:10 -0700

Part XII. X Software

Chapter 42. Office Programs

This chapter is a collection of programs that are useful for viewing or editing office documents. Some specialise in doing one thing (such as word processing or manipulating a spreadsheet). Libre Office is a suite of programs that can manipulate many different formats including powerpoint presentations.

AbiWord-3.0.1

Introduction to AbiWord

AbiWord is a word processor which is useful for writing reports, letters and other formatted documents.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/3.0.1/source/abiword-3.0.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f3f8052e7b4979a43b75775a381e6cb8
Download size: 11 MB
Estimated disk space required: 575 MB -additional 13 MB for docs (73 MB installed - additional 3.1 MB for docs)
Estimated build time: 7.7 SBU - additional 0.5 SBU for docs

Additional Downloads

AbiWord Docs: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/3.0.1/source/abiword-docs-3.0.1.tar.gz
AbiWord Docs MD5 sum: c9b78cb5f9c415ed63ce1cf9874fa8a4
AbiWord Docs size: 1.5

AbiWord Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0, FriBidi-0.19.7, GOffice-0.10.23, and wv-1.2.9

Optional

dbus-glib-0.104, gobject-introspection-1.44.0, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libical-1.0.1, libsoup-2.50.0, Redland-1.0.17, Valgrind-3.10.1. Aiksaurus, Evolution Data Server, GtkMathView, libchamplain, libwmf, libwpd, libwpg, libwps, Link Grammar Parser, Loudmouth, Telepathy GLib, OTS, and Psiconv

Note

To enable many of the optional dependencies, review the information from ./configure --help for the necessary switches you must pass to the configure script.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/abiword

Installation of AbiWord

Install AbiWord by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This program does not come with a functional test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

In order to install the local help files, a graphics session is recommended.

If you wish to install the local help files, untar and build them first:

tar -xf ../abiword-docs-3.0.1.tar.gz &&
cd abiword-docs-3.0.1                &&
./configure --prefix=/usr            &&
make

and then, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-evolution-data-server: This switch disables AbiWord Evolution Data Server support which is known to fail when using recent versions of Evolution Data Server.

--enable-plugins="collab openxml goffice grammar": Build some or all plugins. The openxml plugin enables Abiword to open some .docx files. The grammar plugin requires Link Grammar Parser

Configuring AbiWord

Config File

~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt

Configuration Information

Choose the right template for your language and locale from the list produced by the following command:

ls /usr/share/abiword-3.0/templates

Create the folder ~/.AbiSuite/templates then copy the normal.awt you want into it:

install -v -m750 -d ~/.AbiSuite/templates &&
install -v -m640    /usr/share/abiword-3.0/templates/normal.awt-<lang> \
                    ~/.AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt

Change <lang> by the above command to fit the name of the file you want.

If you are using multiple languages, you may need to edit the template to use a font with greater coverage (e.g. one of the DejaVu fonts), because Abiword does not use fontconfig and can only display glyphs that are provided in the chosen font.

If you have desktop-file-utils-0.22 installed, you should run the update-desktop-database command to update the mimeinfo cache and allow the Help system to work.

If you have xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3 installed, you should run the xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor command, for the installed icon to be displayed in the menu item.

Installed Program: abiword

Installed Library: libabiword-3.0.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/abiword-3.0, /usr/lib/abiword-3.0, and /usr/share/abiword-3.0

Short Descriptions

abiword	is the word processor, a wrapper for the functions in libabiword-3.0 - it can also be used on the command line, see man 1 abiword.
`libabiword-3.0.so`	provides functions to access MS Word documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

Gnumeric-1.12.23

Introduction to Gnumeric

The Gnumeric package contains a spreadsheet program which is useful for mathematical analysis.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.23.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.23.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 4e1844f3fd6162a7b0a96d3325dcac5d
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 283 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 14 SBU (with tests)

Gnumeric Dependencies

Required

GOffice-0.10.23 and Rarian-0.8.1

Recommended Runtime

an icon theme such as adwaita-icon-theme-3.16.2.1, oxygen-icons-15.04.3 or gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, X Window System, and Yelp-3.16.1 for the buit-in help functionality

Optional

DConf-0.24.0 (to prevent some test failures), gobject-introspection-1.44.0, PyGObject-3.16.2, Valgrind-3.10.1 (for some tests), dblatex (for PDF docs), libgda, Mono, pxlib, and Psiconv

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnumeric

Installation of Gnumeric

Install Gnumeric by running the following commands:

sed -e "s@zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;@@" \
    -i gnumeric.desktop.in &&

./configure --prefix=/usr  &&

make

This package must to be installed before the test suite is run.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you wish to test the results, issue make -k check. Tests must be run from an active X session, and DConf-0.24.0 should be installed to prevent some failures. Even so, a few tests fail, some for known reasons.

Command Explanations

sed -e "s@zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;@@" ...: This sed removes an invalid mime type from the .desktop file.

--enable-pdfdocs: Use this switch if you have installed dblatex and wish to create PDF docs.

Installed Programs: gnumeric (symlink), gnumeric-1.12.23, ssconvert, ssdiff, ssgrep and ssindex

Installed Libraries: libspreadsheet-1.12.23.so, libspreadsheet.so, several plugins under /usr/lib/gnumeric/1.12.23/plugins/, and /usr/lib/goffice/0.10/plugins/gnumeric/gnumeric.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libspreadsheet-1.12, /usr/lib/{,goffice/0.10/plugins}/gnumeric and /usr/share/{gnome/help,,omf,pixmaps}/gnumeric

Short Descriptions

gnumeric	is a symlink to gnumeric-1.12.23.
gnumeric-1.12.23	is GNOME's spreadsheet application.
ssconvert	is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats.
ssdiff	is a command line utility to compare two spreadsheets.
ssgrep	is a command line utility to search spreadsheets for strings.
ssindex	is a command line utility to generate index data for spreadsheet files.

Last updated on 2015-09-19 13:16:52 -0700

LibreOffice-5.0.1

Introduction to LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a full-featured office suite. It is largely compatible with Microsoft Office and is descended from OpenOffice.org.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Core Download: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/5.0.1/libreoffice-5.0.1.2.tar.xz
Core Download MD5 sum: a47ad3fbfc1b1b665598e1c133692a19
Core Download size: 160 MB
Estimated disk space required: 9.8 GB (649 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 64 SBU (using parallelism=4) estimated 170 SBU with one core

Additional Downloads

Dictionaries: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/5.0.1/libreoffice-dictionaries-5.0.1.2.tar.xz
Dictionaries MD5 sum: 9387260f57692572809809e9defeed47
Dictionaries size: 35 MB
Help Files: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/5.0.1/libreoffice-help-5.0.1.2.tar.xz
Help Files MD5 sum: 866e29eac8df9e106116e484e9068506
Help Files size: 1.8 MB
Translations: http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/5.0.1/libreoffice-translations-5.0.1.2.tar.xz
Translations MD5 sum: 44378180db18158fb68fa39d555e079d
Translations size: 125 MB
Required patch to use Boost-1.59.0: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libreoffice-5.0.1.2-boost_1_59_0-1.patch

LibreOffice Dependencies

Required

Archive::Zip-1.50, UnZip-6.0, Wget-1.16.3, Which-2.21, and Zip-3.0

Note

Most of these packages are recommended because if they're not installed, the build process will compile and install its own (often older) version.

Boost-1.59.0, CLucene-2.3.3.4, Cups-2.1.0, cURL-7.44.0, dbus-glib-0.104, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, GLU-9.0.0, Graphite2-1.3.1, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK+-2.24.28, Harfbuzz-1.0.3, ICU-55.1, Little CMS-2.7, librsvg-2.40.10, libxml2-2.9.2 and libxslt-1.1.28, MesaLib-10.6.6, neon-0.30.1, NPAPI-SDK-0.27.2, NSS-3.20, OpenLDAP-2.4.42 (if connecting to an LDAP server), OpenSSL-1.0.2d or GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, Poppler-0.35.0, Python-3.4.3, Redland-1.0.17, and unixODBC-2.3.2

Optional

apache-ant-1.9.6, Avahi-0.6.31, BlueZ-5.34, desktop-file-utils-0.22, Doxygen-1.8.10 (not relevant if using --disable-odk), GConf-3.2.6, GDB-7.10, GTK+-3.16.6 (see “Command Explanations”), kdelibs-4.14.10, libatomic_ops-7.4.2, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, NASM-2.11.08, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, PostgreSQL-9.4.4, SANE-1.0.24, Valgrind-3.10.1, VLC-2.2.1, Apache Commons Codec, Apache Commons HttpClient, Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons Logging, BeanShell, CoinMP, Cppunit, Firebird, glew (OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library), Gnome VFS, hamcrest, Hunspell, Hyphen, iwyu, libabw, libcdr, libcmis, libebook, libexttextcat, libfreehand, liblangtag, libmspub, libmwaw, libodfgen, libpagemaker, librevenge (WordPerfect Document importer), libvisio, libwpd, libwpg, libwps, lp_solve, mdds, MyThes, ogl-math - OpenGL Mathematics (GLM), OpenCOLLADA, Orcus, telepathy-glib, VIGRA, and Zenity

There are many optional dependencies not listed here. They can be found in “download.lst” (source directory).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libreoffice

Installation of LibreOffice

Important

Unlike the other packages, we suppose that you have not yet unpacked the package. This is so because the --no-overwrite-dir switch is needed in case you unpack as the root user.

tar -xf libreoffice-5.0.1.2.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir &&
cd libreoffice-5.0.1.2

Create symlinks to tarballs from the source directory so they won't get downloaded again:

install -dm755 external/tarballs &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-dictionaries-5.0.1.2.tar.xz external/tarballs/ &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-help-5.0.1.2.tar.xz         external/tarballs/

If you have downloaded the translations tarball, create a symlink:

ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-translations-5.0.1.2.tar.xz external/tarballs/

Note

During the build process, some packages will be downloaded (including the ones listed as recommended and optional dependencies) if they are not present on the system. Because of this, build time may vary from the published time more than usual.

Due to the large size of the package, you may prefer to install it in /opt, instead of /usr. Depending on your choice, replace <PREFIX> by /usr or by /opt/libreoffice-5.0.1.2:

export LO_PREFIX=<PREFIX>

Fix build failures introduced by boost-1.59.0:

patch -Np1 -i ../libreoffice-5.0.1.2-boost_1_59_0-1.patch

Locales "fr" and "en-GB", you will find below, are just examples; you should change them to suit your needs - you might want to read the "Command Explanations", further below, before proceeding.

Prepare LibreOffice for compilation by running the following commands:

sed -e "/gzip -f/d"   \
    -e "s|.1.gz|.1|g" \
    -i bin/distro-install-desktop-integration &&

sed -e "/distro-install-file-lists/d" -i Makefile.in &&

sed -e "/ustrbuf/a #include <algorithm>" \
    -i svl/source/misc/gridprinter.cxx   &&

chmod -v +x bin/unpack-sources &&

./autogen.sh --prefix=$LO_PREFIX         \
             --sysconfdir=/etc           \
             --with-vendor="BLFS"        \
             --with-lang="fr en-GB"      \
             --with-help                 \
             --with-myspell-dicts        \
             --with-alloc=system         \
             --without-java              \
             --without-system-dicts      \
             --disable-gconf             \
             --disable-odk               \
             --disable-postgresql-sdbc   \
             --enable-release-build=yes  \
             --enable-python=system      \
             --with-system-boost         \
             --with-system-clucene       \
             --with-system-cairo         \
             --with-system-curl          \
             --with-system-expat         \
             --with-system-graphite      \
             --with-system-harfbuzz      \
             --with-system-icu           \
             --with-system-jpeg          \
             --with-system-lcms2         \
             --with-system-libpng        \
             --with-system-libxml        \
             --with-system-mesa-headers  \
             --with-system-neon          \
             --with-system-npapi-headers \
             --with-system-nss           \
             --with-system-odbc          \
             --with-system-openldap      \
             --with-system-openssl       \
             --with-system-poppler       \
             --with-system-redland       \
             --with-system-zlib          \
             --with-parallelism=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

The instructions below will only build the package without running any unit tests. If you prefer to run the unit tests, replace make build with make.

Build the package :

make build

Now, as the root user:

make distro-pack-install                                  &&
install -v -m755 -d $LO_PREFIX/share/appdata              &&
install -v -m644    sysui/desktop/appstream-appdata/*.xml \
                    $LO_PREFIX/share/appdata

If installed in /opt/libreoffice-5.0.1.2 some additional steps are necessary. Issue the following commands, as root user:

if [ "$LO_PREFIX" != "/usr" ]; then

  # This symlink is necessary for the desktop menu entries
  ln -svf $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice &&

  # Icons
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/pixmaps
  done &&

  # Desktop menu entries
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-$(basename $i)
  done &&

  # Man pages
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/man/man1/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/man/man1/
  done

  unset i
fi

If you have installed desktop-file-utils-0.22, and you wish to update the MIME database, issue, as the root user:

update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: The first sed prevents compression of the manual pages, the second one prevents install from failing and the third one includes a missing header without which make build fails.

chmod -v +x ...: Fix the unpack script's permissions.

--with-vendor=BLFS: This switch sets BLFS as the vendor which is mentioned when you click "About" on the toolbar.

--with-lang="fr en-GB": This switch sets what languages to support. To list several languages, separate them with a space. For all languages, use --with-lang=ALL.

Note

For a list of the available languages, look in solenv/inc/langlist.mk.

--with-help: Without this switch, the help files are not built.

--with-myspell-dicts: This switch adds myspell dictionaries to the LibreOffice installation set.

--with-alloc=system: This switch tells LibreOffice to use system allocator instead of the internal one.

--without-system-dicts: This switch disables use of dictionaries from system paths, so the ones installed by this package are used.

--without-java: This switch disables Java support in LibreOffice.

--disable-gconf: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the deprecated GNOME configuration system support.

--disable-odk: This switch disables installing the office development kit. Remove if you want to develop a LibreOffice based application.

--disable-postgresql-sdbc: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the ability to connect to a PostgreSQL database. Remove it if you would like LibreOffice to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL database. If you have installed PostgreSQL on your system and would like LibreOffice to use that rather than compile its own copy, use the --with-system-postgresql switch.

--enable-release-build=yes: This switch enables a Release Build. LibreOffice can be built as a Release Build or as a Developer Build, because their default installation paths and user profile paths are different. Developer Build displays the words "Dev" and "Beta" in several places (e.g, menu and splash screen).

--enable-python=system: This switch tells LibreOffice to use installed Python 3 to build the translations instead of the bundled one.

--with-system-*: These switches prevent LibreOffice from trying to compile its own versions of these dependencies. If you've not installed some of the dependencies, remove the corresponding switches.

--with-parallelism=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN): This switch tells LibreOffice to use all your CPUs to compile in parallel and speed up the build.

--disable-cups: Use this switch if you don't need printing support.

--disable-dbus: Use this switch if you've not installed D-Bus-1.8.0 or later. It also disables Bluetooth support and font install via PackageKit.

--disable-gstreamer-1-0: Use this switch if you have not installed gst-plugins-base-1.4.5.

--enable-gtk3: Use this switch if you want to build the GTK+ 3 integration module. This is experimental and may not work.

--enable-kde4: Use this switch if you want to build the KDE integration module.

Installed Programs: libreoffice, lobase, localc, lodraw, loffice, lofromtemplate, loimpress, lomath, loweb, lowriter, soffice and unopkg; several programs under $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program

Installed Libraries: several libraries under $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/ure/lib

Installed Directory: $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice

Short Descriptions

lobase	is a database manager.
localc	is a spreadsheet program.
lodraw	is a vector graphics editor and diagramming tool.
loimpress	can edit and display PowerPoint presentations.
lomath	is a mathematical formula editor.
lowriter	is a word processor.
unopkg	is a tool to manage LibreOffice extensions from the command line.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 43. Graphical Web Browsers

This chapter contains a wonderful selection of browsers. We hope you can find one you enjoy using or give them each a trial run.

SeaMonkey-2.38

Introduction to SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey is a browser suite, the Open Source sibling of Netscape. It includes the browser, composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the follow-on to the Mozilla browser suite.

The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy the needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer to have separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects are Firefox-41.0 and Thunderbird-38.3.0. Both are based on the Mozilla source code.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.38/source/seamonkey-2.38.source.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d77b2550665a94a88c69368f4cf54833
Download size: 196 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.2 GB (83 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 8.0 SBU (using parallelism=8)

SeaMonkey Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.0.29, GTK+-2.24.28, Zip-3.0, UnZip-6.0, and yasm-1.3.0

Note

If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.

Note

You must have installed Openssl before Python 2 or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Seamonkey), check if /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall Python-2.7.10 (after installing OpenSSL-1.0.2d. The latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed.

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, dbus-glib-0.104, Doxygen-1.8.10, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (with gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 and gst-libav-1.4.5 at runtime), libnotify-0.7.6, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, PulseAudio-6.0, startup-notification-0.12, Valgrind-3.10.1, Wget-1.16.3, Wireless Tools-29, and Hunspell

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/seamonkey

Installation of SeaMonkey

The configuration of SeaMonkey is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig file is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the following command:

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
# If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by
# uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config.  If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu

# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=suite

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier

# Use internal cairo due to reports of unstable execution with
# system cairo
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/moz-build-dir
EOF

First, fix building with system freetype-2.6 or later:

sed -i '/^ftglyph.h/ i ftfntfmt.h' mozilla/config/system-headers

Note

If you are compiling SeaMonkey in chroot, make sure you have the SHELL environment variable set or prepend SHELL=/bin/sh to the first make command below.

The moz-build-dir directory needs to exist and match the value used in mozconfig (above) for the object directory (MOZ_OBJDIR):

mkdir -vp mozilla/moz-build-dir

Compile SeaMonkey by running the following command:

make -f client.mk

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install SeaMonkey by issuing the following commands as the root user:

make  -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &&

chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.38  &&
cp    -v moz-build-dir/dist/man/man1/seamonkey.1 /usr/share/man/man1

All the Development Libraries and Headers

If you want to install the full SeaMonkey development environment, as the root user:

make -C moz-build-dir install

Command Explanations

mkdir -vp mozilla/moz-build-dir: fixes a build failure of Makefile at the beginning of the build, where a file cannot be found.

make -f client.mk: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters.

Configuring SeaMonkey

For installing various SeaMonkey plugins, refer to Mozdev's PluginDoc Project.

Along with using the “Preferences” menu to configure SeaMonkey's options and preferences to suit individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter about:config in the address bar. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the “Filter:” bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose “Modify” from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose “New” from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted.

Tip

There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize SeaMonkey. A very extensive list of these parameters can be found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html.

If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may wish to create a seamonkey.desktop file so that SeaMonkey appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable Startup-Notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}              &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=SeaMonkey
Comment=The Mozilla Suite
Icon=seamonkey
Exec=seamonkey
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.38/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps

Installed Programs: seamonkey

Installed Libraries: Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.38

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/seamonkey-2.38.

Short Descriptions

seamonkey

is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite.

Last updated on 2015-09-30 09:35:07 -0700

Firefox-41.0

Introduction to Firefox

Firefox is a stand-alone browser based on the Mozilla codebase.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/41.0/source/firefox-41.0.source.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 81324515c2f562db8c4800ebafaa5d25
Download size: 153 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.0 GB (77 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 39 SBU

Firefox Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.0.29, GTK+-2.24.28, NSS-3.20, UnZip-6.0, yasm-1.3.0, and Zip-3.0

Note

If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.

Note

With Firefox-31.0 and later versions, you must have installed Openssl before Python 2 or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Firefox), check if /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall Python-2.7.10 (after installing OpenSSL-1.0.2d. The latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed.

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/firefox

Installation of Firefox

The configuration of Firefox is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the following command:

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
# If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by
# uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
# uncomment the following one:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu

# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier

# From firefox-40, using system cairo causes firefox to crash
# frequently when it is doing background rendering in a tab.
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-build-dir
EOF

Compile Firefox by issuing the following commands:

Note

If you are compiling Firefox in chroot, make sure you have $SHELL environment variable set or prepend SHELL=/bin/sh.

make -f client.mk

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &&

chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/firefox-41.0     &&

mkdir -pv    /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins  &&
ln    -sfv   ../../mozilla/plugins \
             /usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser

Command Explanations

make -f client.mk ...: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters.

make -C firefox-build-dir install: This runs make install in firefox-build-dir.

ln -sfv ... /usr/bin/firefox: This puts a symbolic link to the firefox executable in your PATH variable.

mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: This checks that /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins exists.

ln -sv ... /usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser: This command creates a symbolic link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. It's not really needed, as Firefox checks /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by default, but the symbolic link is made to keep all the plugins installed in one folder.

Configuring Firefox

If you did not add the --disable-webm option to your mozconfig, your Firefox can play most YouTube videos without the need for the flash plugin. To enable this, go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and click on 'Join the HTML5 Trial' (needs cookies enabled).

If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may like to create a firefox.desktop file so that Firefox appears in the panel's menus. If you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. As the root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firefox Web Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=firefox %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=firefox
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=application/xhtml+xml;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/firefox-41.0/browser/icons/mozicon128.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png

Installed Programs: firefox

Installed Libraries: Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/firefox-41.0

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/firefox-41.0

Short Descriptions

firefox

is a GTK+ 2 internet browser that uses the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 13:34:11 -0700

Chapter 44. Other X-based Programs

These programs use the X Window System and don't fit easily into any of the other chapters.

Balsa-2.5.2

Introduction to Balsa

The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.5.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: da3b500b5c939f85071fb1fe3e3efc01
Download size: 3.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 78 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Balsa Dependencies

Required

Aspell-0.60.6.1 or GtkSpell (GtkSpell provides on-the-fly as you type spell checking), enchant-1.6.0, GMime-2.6.20, libESMTP-1.0.6, and Rarian-0.8.1

Optional

Compface-1.5.2, gtksourceview-3.16.1, libnotify-0.7.6, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, MTA (that provides a sendmail command, note that it is only used if you didn't install the required libESMTP package), OpenLDAP-2.4.42, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, SQLite-3.8.11.1, WebKitGTK+-2.8.5, and GtkHTML

Optional to Build S/MIME Support

GPGME-1.6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/balsa

Installation of Balsa

Install Balsa by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --sysconfdir=/etc        \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib \
            --with-rubrica           \
            --without-html-widget    \
            --without-libnotify      \
            --without-gtkspell       &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-rubrica: This parameter is used to provide Rubrica2 address book support.

--with-ssl: Use this option to enable SSL support if OpenSSL is installed.

--with-ldap: Use this option to enable LDAP address book support if OpenLDAP is installed.

--with-sqlite: Use this option to enable SQLite address book support if SQLite is installed.

--with-gpgme: Use this option to enable GPG support if “GnuPG Made Easy” (GPGME) is installed.

--enable-smime: Use this option to enable S/MIME support if GnuPG-2.x.x is installed.

Configuring Balsa

Configuration Information

All configuration of Balsa is done through the Balsa menu system, with mailbox configuration done with the Settings—>Preferences menu.

If you are unable to connect to your ISP, they probably don't support APOP. Disable it in Settings/Preferences/POP3/advanced.

If you enable filters for your incoming POP3 mail, you must have Procmail-3.22 installed, as the incoming mail will be handed off to procmail for processing.

Installed Programs: balsa and balsa-ab

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/balsa and /usr/share/sounds/balsa

Short Descriptions

balsa	is a glib based mail client.
balsa-ab	is the address-book application used by balsa.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

Ekiga-4.0.1

Introduction to Ekiga

Ekiga is a VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 compatible hardware and software. It supports many audio and video codecs and all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323. Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ekiga/4.0/ekiga-4.0.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 704ba532a8e3e0b5e3e2971dd2db39e4
Download size: 8.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 315 MB
Estimated build time: 3.5 SBU

Ekiga Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0, gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, GTK+-2.24.28 and Opal-3.10.10

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, Evolution Data Server, GNOME Doc Utils and OpenLDAP-2.4.42

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ekiga

Installation of Ekiga

Install Ekiga by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-eds     \
            --disable-gdu     \
            --disable-ldap    \
            --disable-scrollkeeper &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-eds: This switch disables support for the Evolution Data Server. Remove if you have installed Evolution Data Server.

--disable-gdu: This switch disables documentation generation using GNOME Doc Utils. Remove if you have installed GNOME Doc Utils.

--disable-ldap: This switch disables LDAP support in Ekiga. Remove if you have installed OpenLDAP.

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you have installed Rarian but wish to disable the updates to the Scrollkeeper database.

--disable-dbus: This switch disables D-Bus support. Use if you have not installed D-Bus.

--enable-avahi: This switch enables use of the Avahi with Ekiga. Use if you have installed Avahi.

Note

If you have not installed recommended dependencies you will need additional switches passed to configure. Examine ./configure --help output to see all available switches.

Installed Programs: ekiga, ekiga-config-tool and ekiga-helper

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/ekiga, /usr/share/gnome/help/ekiga, /usr/share/omf/ekiga, /usr/share/pixmaps/ekiga and /usr/share/sounds/ekiga

Short Descriptions

ekiga	is a SIP and H.323 VoIP, IP Telephony and Video Conferencing application which complies to the SIP and H.323 protocols.
ekiga-config-tool	fixes problems with the Ekiga settings.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

feh-2.13.1

Introduction to feh

feh is a fast, lightweight image viewer which uses Imlib2. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshows, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints (using TrueType fonts to display file info). Advanced features include fast dynamic zooming, progressive loading, loading via HTTP (with reload support for watching webcams), recursive file opening (slideshow of a directory hierarchy), and mouse wheel/keyboard control.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Note

For some reason, using a browser, the link will not download the package as a tarball, but instead, as a page. Therefore, you will need to use “Save link as” or the wget or another similar command, in the command line.

Download (HTTP): http://feh.finalrewind.org/feh-2.13.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 18a70487dddf43682d4acc896bfed0d3
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 6.9 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)

feh Dependencies

Required

libpng-1.6.18 and Imlib2-1.4.7 (built with giflib-5.1.1 support, for the tests)

Optional

libexif-0.6.21

Optional (runtime)

libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1 (for lossless image rotation), and ImageMagick-6.9.2-0 (to load unsupported formats)

Optional (test suite)

Test::Command-0.11 (required)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/feh

Installation of feh

Install feh by running the following commands:

sed -i "s:doc/feh:&-2.13.1:" config.mk &&
make PREFIX=/usr

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make PREFIX=/usr install

Command Explanations

sed -i "s:doc/feh:&-2.13.1:" config.mk: This sed fixes the doc directory to a versioned one, as used in BLFS.

curl=0: Use this make flag if you don't have cURL package installed.

exif=1: This make flag enables builtin Exif tag display support.

Installed Program: feh

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/feh-2.13.1 and /usr/share/feh

Short Descriptions

feh

is an image viewer and cataloguer.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 12:24:12 -0700

FontForge-20150824

Introduction to FontForge

The FontForge package contains an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/20150824/fontforge-20150824.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 74c49c73822d642b0511718d8eeb2210
Download size: 20 MB
Estimated disk space required: 243 MB (without tests)
Estimated build time: 1.5 SBU (without tests)

FontForge Dependencies

Required

FreeType-2.6, GLib-2.44.1, and libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

giflib-5.1.1, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, LibTIFF-4.0.5, Python-2.7.10, IPython, libspiro, libunicodenames, libuninameslist, and zeromq (libzmq),

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fontforge

Installation of FontForge

Install FontForge by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --enable-gtk2-use \
            --disable-static  \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-20150824 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

Fontforge may need a workaround to start, due to a bug in the splash screen. If you wish to start from a terminal, either issue fontforge -new, or, after issuing fontforge, press Ctrl-C once, after the splash screen appears. For the menu, make the following substitution, as the root user:

sed -e '/Exec/ s/fontforge/& -new/' \
    -i /usr/share/applications/fontforge.desktop

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk2-use: allows to use the GTK+2 graphics instead of basic Xorg graphics.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-debug: Turn on debug build and FONTFORGE_DEBUG conditional code. Requires libspiro.

Installed Programs: fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff

Installed Libraries: libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so, libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so

Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share}/fontforge and /usr/share/doc/fontforge-20150824

Short Descriptions

fontforge	is a program that allows you to create and modify font files.
fontimage	is a program that produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font.
fontlint	is a program that checks the font for certain common errors.
sfddiff	is a program that compares two font files.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 18:11:20 -0700

Gimp-2.8.14

Introduction to Gimp

The Gimp package contains the GNU Image Manipulation Program which is useful for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.8/gimp-2.8.14.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 233c948203383fa078434cc3f8f925cb
Download size: 20 MB
Estimated disk space required: 642 MB (additional 553 MB to run the test suite, the help files add from 307 MB (en only) to reputedly 1.3 GB (all 18 languages), typically increasing by 60 MB per translation)
Estimated build time: 4.2 SBU (additional 0.9 SBU to run the test suite, and for the help files, from 0.6 SBU (en only) to reputedly 19 SBU (all) - typically 1.3 SBU per translation)

Additional Downloads

Optional help files: http://download.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/gimp-help-2.8.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a591c8974b2f4f584d0a769d52ed6c5b
Download size: 152 MB
Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/gimp-2.8.14-device_info-1.patch

Gimp Dependencies

Required

gegl-0.2.0 and GTK+-2.24.28

Optional

AAlib-1.4rc5, alsa-lib-1.0.29, cURL-7.44.0, dbus-glib-0.104, ghostscript-9.16 (with libgs installed), Gvfs-1.24.2, ISO Codes-3.59, JasPer-1.900.1, Little CMS-1.19 or Little CMS-2.7, libexif-0.6.21, libgudev-230, libmng-2.0.3, librsvg-2.40.10, libwmf, Poppler-0.35.0, an MTA (that provides a sendmail program), WebKitGTK+-2.4.9 (required for the help-plugin) and GTK-Doc-1.24

Optional, for optimizing the PNG files in the help system

pngnq and pngcrush

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gimp

Installation of Gimp

In order to get rid of an annoying message when running from a terminal and/or if you wish to run the test suite, optionally use the following patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../gimp-2.8.14-device_info-1.patch

Install Gimp by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --without-gvfs &&
make

To test the results (requires an X-Windowed terminal) issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

The gimp-help tarball contains images and English text help for help files, together with translations. It is "work in progress".

If you downloaded the gimp-help tarball, unpack it and change into the root of the newly created source tree. Prepare for the build with the following command:

ALL_LINGUAS="ca da de el en en_GB es fr it ja ko nl nn pt_BR ru sl sv zh_CN" \
./configure --prefix=/usr &&

Remove from ALL_LINGUAS the codes for any languages which you do not wish to install. Alternatively, remove the line starting with ALL_LINGUAS, if you wish to build all languages.

Now build the help files:

make

Issue the following commands as the root user to install the help files:

make install &&
chown -R root:root /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

ALL_LINGUAS="ca da de el en en_GB ...": by default, the help files will be rendered in all the available languages. Remove the codes of any languages you do not wish to build.

--without-gvfs: the choice of the backend to handle URI information, e.g., when dragging images from a browser into the Gimp, is made at compile time. This parameter will ensure that cURL is used at run-time, instead of Gvfs. You can omit this if you are installing Gvfs AND will be running gvfsd, e.g., in a GNOME desktop.

--disable-python: This option is necessary if you have not installed PyGTK.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring The Gimp

Config Files

/etc/gimp/2.0/* and ~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc

Configuration Information

The Gimp executes a configuration wizard for each user upon their initial use of the program.

The Gimp executes the firefox web browser by default to view the help files. If you do not have Firefox, or prefer a different web browser, you can set a new system value in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc. Execute the following command as the root user, replacing <browser> with your preferred web browser:

echo '(web-browser "<browser> %s")' >> /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc

Installed Programs: gimp, gimp-2.8, gimp-console, gimp-console-2.8 and gimptool-2.0

Installed Libraries: libgimp-2.0.so, libgimpbase-2.0.so, libgimpcolor-2.0.so, libgimpconfig-2.0.so, libgimpmath-2.0.so, libgimpmodule-2.0.so, libgimpthumb-2.0.so, libgimpui-2.0.so and libgimpwidgets-2.0.so

Installed Directories: /etc/gimp, /usr/include/gimp-2.0, /usr/lib/gimp, /usr/share/gimp, /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/{en,lang2,lang3,...}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimp,libgimpbase,libgimpcolor}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimpconfig,libgimpmath}, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{libgimpmodule,libgimpthumb} and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgimpwidgets

Short Descriptions

gimp	is a symbolic link to gimp-2.8.
gimp-2.8	is the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. It works with a variety of image formats and provides a large selection of tools.
gimp-console	is a symbolic link to gimp-console-2.8.
gimp-console-2.8	is a console program that behaves as if The Gimp was called with the `--no-interface` command-line option.
gimptool-2.0	is a tool that can build plug-ins or scripts and install them if they are distributed in one source file. gimptool-2.0 can also be used by programs that need to know what libraries and include-paths The Gimp was compiled with.
`libgimp-2.0.so`	provides C bindings for The Gimp's Procedural Database (PDB) which offers an interface to core functions and to functionality provided by plug-ins.
`libgimpbase-2.0.so`	provides the C functions for basic Gimp functionality such as determining enumeration data types, gettext translation, determining The Gimp's version number and capabilities, handling data files and accessing the environment.
`libgimpcolor-2.0.so`	provides the C functions relating to RGB, HSV and CMYK colors as well as converting colors between different color models and performing adaptive supersampling on an area.
`libgimpconfig-2.0.so`	contains C functions for reading and writing config information.
`libgimpmath-2.0.so`	contains C functions which provide mathematical definitions and macros, manipulate 3x3 transformation matrices, set up and manipulate vectors and the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
`libgimpmodule-2.0.so`	provides the C functions which implements module loading using GModule and keeps a list of GimpModule's found in a given searchpath.
`libgimpthumb-2.0.so`	provides the C functions for handling The Gimp's thumbnail objects.
`libgimpui-2.0.so`	contains The Gimp's common user interface functions.
`libgimpwidgets-2.0.so`	contains The Gimp and GTK's widget creation and manipulation functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Gparted-0.23.0

Introduction to Gparted

Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 2 GUI for other command line tools that can create, reorganise or delete disk partitions.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-0.23.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 5901dca33ced32213cccb13a2713dea8
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 118 MB (with optional documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU (with optional documentation)

Gparted Dependencies

Required

Gtkmm-2.24.4 and parted-3.2

Optional

GNOME Doc Utils and Rarian-0.8.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gparted

Installation of Gparted

Install Gparted by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-doc    \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-doc: This switch disables building of the optional documentation. Remove it if you have installed GNOME Doc Utils.

Using Gparted

To manipulate file systems Gparted has a run time dependency on various file system tools (you only need to install the tools for file systems you actually use): Hdparm-9.48 (required for optionally display serial number device information), e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS), jfsutils-1.1.15, ntfs-3g-2015.3.14, reiserfsprogs-3.6.24, xfsprogs-4.2.0, btrfs-progs, dosfstools, mtools (required to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs), hfsutils, hfsprogs, nilfs-utils and reiser4progs.

Root privileges are required to run Gparted. If you wish to run the application from the menu, further applications and configurations are necessary. Examples of applications that may be used: gksu, kdesudo, or xdg-su. Other solution is to use pkexec, from Polkit-0.113, but some configuration is necessary. Another simple solution is ssh-askpass-7.1p1. Below, we describe these two alternatives: "ssh-askpass" and "pkexec".

ssh-askpass

To optionally use ssh-askpass-7.1p1 if it is installed in your system, run the following commands as the root user:

cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back &&
sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=sudo -A /'               /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop

Now, clicking in the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears in the screen, asking for the administrator password.

pkexec

To optionally use pkexec, you need polkit-gnome-0.105, and ConsoleKit2-1.0.0 installed with support to Linux-PAM-1.2.1 and Polkit-0.113. As the root user, configure Gparted-0.23.0 and Polkit-0.113 with the following commands:

cp -v /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop \
                                     /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop.back &&
sed -i 's:/usr/sbin/gparted:/usr/sbin/gparted_polkit:' \
                                     /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop      &&

cat > /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit << "EOF" &&
#!/bin/bash

pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted $@
EOF
chmod -v 0755 /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit

Still as the root user, configure Polkit-0.113 and Gparted-0.23.0 to use pkexec:

cat > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy << "EOF"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>

  <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-gparted">
    <description>Run GParted</description>
    <message>Authentication is required to run GParted</message>
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>no</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
    </defaults>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/sbin/gparted</annotate>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
  </action>

</policyconfig>
EOF
chmod -v 0644 /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy

Now, clicking in the menu item for Gparted, a dialog appears in the screen, asking for the administrator password.

Installed Programs: gparted, gpartedbin and gparted_polkit (optional)

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gnome/help/gparted and /usr/share/omf/gparted

Short Descriptions

gparted	is a shell script which sets up the environment before calling gpartedbin.
gpartedbin	is the Gparted binary.
gparted_polkit	is an optional script which can be used to run gparted with polkit, from a menu.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 11:46:01 -0700

HexChat-2.10.2

Introduction to HexChat

HexChat is an IRC chat program. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, have private one-on-one conversations, etc. File transfers are also possible.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://dl.hexchat.net/hexchat/hexchat-2.10.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: c8e7477ac941295deaeb1732591ab20b
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 50 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

HexChat Dependencies

Required

Optional

dbus-glib-0.104, ISO Codes-3.59, libcanberra-0.30, libnotify-0.7.6, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, pciutils-3.4.0, and libproxy

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/hexchat

Installation of HexChat

Install HexChat by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: hexchat

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/hexchat

Short Descriptions

hexchat

is a graphical Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

IcedTea-Web-1.6.1

Introduction to IcedTea-Web

The IcedTea-Web package contains both a Java browser plugin, and a new webstart implementation, licensed under GPLV3.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.6.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 35d6712a5d9db69e8bd14ab68f94d748
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 41 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

IcedTea-Web Dependencies

Required

NPAPI-SDK-0.27.2, and OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 or Java-1.8.0.60 (remember to configure as described in the Configuring the JAVA environment page),

Required at runtime, a web browser, such as:

Epiphany-3.16.3, Firefox-41.0, Midori-0.5.11, SeaMonkey-2.38, Chromium, and Opera

Optional

libxslt-1.1.28, Mercurial-3.5.1, EMMA, and JACOCO

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icedtea-web

Installation of IcedTea-Web

Install IcedTea-Web by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=${JAVA_HOME}/jre    \
            --with-jdk-home=${JAVA_HOME} \
            --disable-docs               \
            --mandir=${JAVA_HOME}/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mandb -c /opt/jdk/man

To test the man pages are correctly installed, issue man policyeditor to display the respective man page.

If desired, you may install a .desktop file corresponding to an entry in a desktop menu for policyeditor, as root user:

install -v -Dm0644 itweb-settings.desktop /usr/share/applications/itweb-settings.desktop &&
install -v -Dm0644 javaws.png /usr/share/pixmaps/javaws.png

Command Explanations

--with-jdk-home: This switch provides the location of the installed JDK.

--disable-docs: This switch disables installation of additional developer-related documentation. Omit this switch if you would like to do development work on IcedTea-Web.

Configuration Information

As the root user, create a symbolic link to the plugin from your browser(s) plugins directory:

ln -s ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Important

The plugin must be a symlink for it to work. If not, the browsers will crash when you attempt to load a Java application.

Installed Programs: itweb-settings, javaws and policyeditor

Installed Libraries: IcedTeaPlugin.so, about.jar, netx.jar, plugin.jar

Installed Directories: ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/share/icedtea-web

Short Descriptions

itweb-settings	allows customization of the browser plugin and javaws.
javaws	launches Java application/applets hosted on a network.
policyeditor	view and modify security policy settings, including certificates, for javaws and the browser plugin.
`IcedTeaPlugin.so`	is the Java browser plugin.
`about.jar`	contains functions for the about dialog boxes.
`netx.jar`	contains functions for the IcedTea-Web webstart implementation (NetX).
`plugin.jar`	contains functions for the IcedTea-Web Java plugin.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 05:18:05 -0700

Inkscape-0.91

Introduction to Inkscape

Inkscape is a what you see is what you get Scalable Vector Graphics editor. It is useful for creating, viewing and changing SVG images.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.91.x/0.91/+download/inkscape-0.91.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 278dfa4514adcde23546370ec2c84581
Download size: 25 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.9 GB
Estimated build time: 16 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/inkscape-0.91-testfiles-1.patch for full test coverage.

Inkscape Dependencies

Required

Boost-1.59.0, GC-7.4.2, Gsl-1.16, Gtkmm-2.24.4 (or Gtkmm-3.16.0 and gnome docking library for the experimental gtk+-3 build), libxslt-1.1.28 and popt-1.16

Optional

Aspell-0.60.6.1, D-Bus-1.10.0, Doxygen-1.8.10, ImageMagick-6.9.2-0, Poppler-0.35.0, libcdr, libvisio, libcdr, libvisio, libwpg, NumPy (for the testsuite and at runtime for some extensions) and python-lxml (for the testsuite, and at runtime for some of the extensions)

Optional Runtime Dependencies (for some of the Inkscape extensions)

XML::XQL

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/inkscape

Installation of Inkscape

Install Inkscape by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../inkscape-0.91-testfiles-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

sed -ri ... configure: This sed fixes building problems starting with gc-7.4.2.

Installed Programs: inkscape and inkview

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/inkscape

Short Descriptions

inkscape	an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editing program.
inkview	is a simple program for displaying SVG files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Pidgin-2.10.11

Introduction to Pidgin

Pidgin is a Gtk+ 2 instant messaging client that can connect with a wide range of networks including AIM, ICQ, GroupWise, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Zephyr and Yahoo!

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.10.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7c8bb6f997e05e7929104439872c2844
Download size: 9.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 215 MB (additional 2 MB for the tests and 91 MB for API docs)
Estimated build time: 1.9 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for API docs)

Additional Downloads

Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/pidgin-2.10.11-gstreamer1-1.patch

Pidgin Dependencies

Required

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31 (required for the Bonjour plugin), Check-0.10.0 (only used during the test suite), Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, D-Bus-1.10.0, GConf-3.2.6, libidn-1.32 (required, if you wish to run the test suite), NetworkManager-1.0.6, SQLite-3.8.11.1 (required for the Contact Availability Prediction plugin), startup-notification-0.12, Tcl-8.6.4, Tk-8.6.4, Evolution Data Server, Farstream (Version 0.1) (required for video and voice support), Gtkspell, libgadu, Meanwhile (required for Sametime protocol support), SILC Client, SILC Toolkit, Zephyr, and MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2 (required for Kerberos support in the Zephyr module),

Optional (runtime)

xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pidgin

Installation of Pidgin

First apply a patch to allow the package to build with the current gstreamer framework:

patch -Np1 -i ../pidgin-2.10.11-gstreamer1-1.patch &&
autoreconf -fi

If you wish to run the test suite, make sure that libidn-1.32 is installed and remove the switch “--disable-idn”. Compile Pidgin by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --with-gstreamer=1.0 \
            --disable-avahi      \
            --disable-gtkspell   \
            --disable-meanwhile  \
            --disable-idn        \
            --disable-nm         \
            --disable-vv         \
            --disable-tcl        &&
make

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed (Graphviz-2.38.0 can be used also) and you wish to create the API documentation, issue: make docs.

Remember the remarks before configure. To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-2.10.11 &&
cp -v README doc/gtkrc-2.0 /usr/share/doc/pidgin-2.10.11

If you created the API documentation, install it using the following commands as the root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/pidgin-2.10.11/api &&
cp -v doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pidgin-2.10.11/api

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

--with-gstreamer=1.0: Remove this switch and add --disable-gstreamer if you've not installed GStreamer-1.4.5.

--disable-avahi: Remove this switch if you've installed Avahi-0.6.31.

--disable-gtkspell: Spellchecking. Remove this switch if you've installed Gtkspell.

--disable-meanwhile: Remove this switch if you've installed Meanwhile.

--disable-idn: Remove this switch if you've installed libidn-1.32.

--disable-nm: Remove this switch if you've installed NetworkManager-1.0.6.

--disable-vv: Video and voice. Remove this switch if you've installed Farstream (Version 0.1).

--disable-tcl: Remove this switch if you've installed Tcl-8.6.4.

--enable-cyrus-sasl: Use this switch if you've installed Cyrus SASL-2.1.26 and wish to build Pidgin with SASL support.

--disable-gnutls: Use this switch if you've got both GnuTLS-3.4.4.1 and NSS-3.20 installed, but want to use NSS-3.20 for the SSL support.

Configuring Pidgin

Config Files

~/.purple/* and ~/.gtkrc-02

Configuration Information

Most configuration can be accomplished by using the various preference settings inside the programs. Additionally, you can create a ~/.gtkrc-02 file which can store gtk+-2 theme settings that affect Pidgin and other Gtk+ 2 applications. Note that an example gtkrc-02 file was installed during the package installation and can be used as a starting point or reference.

Installed Programs: finch, pidgin, purple-client-example, purple-remote, purple-send, purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler

Installed Library: libgnt.so, libpurple.so, and libpurple-client.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/finch, /usr/include/gnt, /usr/include/libpurple, /usr/include/pidgin, /usr/lib/finch, /usr/lib/gnt, /usr/lib/pidgin, /usr/lib/purple-2, /usr/share/doc/pidgin-2.10.11, /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin, /usr/share/purple, and /usr/share/sounds/purple

Short Descriptions

finch	is a text-based instant messaging client.
pidgin	is a GTK+ 2 instant messaging client.
purple-client-example	is an example that demonstrate how to use libpurple-client to communicate with purple.
purple-remote	send remote commands to Pidgin/Finch.
purple-send	calls purple API functions using DBus and prints the return value.
purple-send-async	calls purple API functions using DBus. As opposed to purple-send, it does not print the return value.
purple-url-handler	is a python script to handle URL with purple.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

Rox-Filer-2.11

Introduction to Rox-Filer

rox-filer is a fast, lightweight, gtk2 file manager.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rox/rox-filer-2.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0eebf05a67f7932367750ebf9faf215d
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

rox-filer Dependencies

Required

libglade-2.6.4 and shared-mime-info-1.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rox-filer

Kernel Configuration

If you want rox-filer to be able to update the contents of a directory when changes are made to the files by other applications (eg, if a script is running) you will need to enable dnotify support in your kernel. In make menuconfig:

File systems --->
  [*] Dnotify support   [CONFIG_DNOTIFY]

Save the new .config and then compile the kernel.

Installation of Rox-Filer

Compile rox-filer with the following commands:

cd ROX-Filer                                                        &&
sed -i 's:g_strdup(getenv("APP_DIR")):"/usr/share/rox":' src/main.c &&

mkdir build                        &&
pushd build                        &&
  ../src/configure LIBS="-lm -ldl" &&
  make                             &&
popd

Now install it as the root user:

mkdir -p /usr/share/rox                              &&
cp -av Help Messages Options.xml ROX images style.css .DirIcon /usr/share/rox &&

cp -av ../rox.1 /usr/share/man/man1                  &&
cp -v  ROX-Filer /usr/bin/rox                        &&
chown -Rv root:root /usr/bin/rox /usr/share/rox      &&

cd /usr/share/rox/ROX/MIME                           &&
ln -sv text-x-{diff,patch}.png                       &&
ln -sv application-x-font-{afm,type1}.png            &&
ln -sv application-xml{,-dtd}.png                    &&
ln -sv application-xml{,-external-parsed-entity}.png &&
ln -sv application-{,rdf+}xml.png                    &&
ln -sv application-x{ml,-xbel}.png                   &&
ln -sv application-{x-shell,java}script.png          &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}-compressed-tar.png    &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,lzma}-compressed-tar.png  &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip-compressed-tar,lzo}.png   &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}.png                   &&
ln -sv application-x-{gzip,lzma}.png                 &&
ln -sv application-{msword,rtf}.png

Command Explanations

sed -i 's:g_strdup(getenv("APP_DIR")):"/usr/share/rox":' src/main.c: This command hard codes /usr/share/rox as the directory for rox-filer's private files. Without this sed rox needs the environment variable ${APP_DIR} to be set.

ln -sv application-...: These commands duplicate the icons for some common mime types. Without these links rox-filer would just display the default "unknown binary blob" icon.

Configuring RoxFiler

Configuration Information

Most of the configuration of rox-filer is achieved by right clicking on a rox-filer window and choosing "Options" from the menu. It stores its settings in ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net.

A rox-filer feature is that if there is an executable file called AppRun in a directory rox-filer will first run AppRun before it opens the folder.

As an example of how this may be used, if you have ssh access to another computer (perhaps another computer on you local network) with ssh configured for passwordless logins and you have sshfs-fuse-2.5 installed you can use AppRun to mount the remote computer in a local folder using sshfs. For this example AppRun script to work the folder must have the same name as the hostname of the remote computer:

cat > /path/to/hostname/AppRun << "HERE_DOC"
#!/bin/bash

MOUNT_PATH="${0%/*}"
HOST=${MOUNT_PATH##*/}
export MOUNT_PATH HOST
sshfs -o nonempty ${HOST}:/ ${MOUNT_PATH}
rox -x ${MOUNT_PATH}
HERE_DOC

chmod 755 /path/to/hostname/AppRun

That works fine for mounting, but to unmount it the command fusermount -u ${MOUNTPOINT} is ran. You could set that as your default umount command in your rox preferences, but you would then be unable to unmount any normal mountpoints (that need umount). A script is needed that will unmount a Fuse mountpoint with fusermount -u ${MOUNTPOINT} and everything else with umount. As the root user:

cat > /usr/bin/myumount << "HERE_DOC" &&
#!/bin/bash
sync
if mount | grep "${@}" | grep -q fuse
then fusermount -u "${@}"
else umount "${@}"
fi
HERE_DOC

chmod 755 /usr/bin/myumount

Now, to make Rox use this simple script, open a Rox window, right click on it and choose Options from the menu. In the left hand list choose "Action windows" and then on the right hand side, where it says "Unmount command" change umount to myumount.

If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may like to create a rox.desktop file so that rox-filer appears in the panel's menus. As the root user:

ln -s ../rox/.DirIcon /usr/share/pixmaps/rox.png &&
mkdir -p /usr/share/applications &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/rox.desktop << "HERE_DOC"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Rox
Comment=The Rox File Manager
Icon=rox
Exec=rox
Categories=GTK;Utility;Application;System;Core;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
HERE_DOC

Installed Programs: rox

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/rox

Short Descriptions

rox

is the rox file manager.

Last updated on

rxvt-unicode-9.21

Introduction to rxvt-unicode

rxvt-unicode is a clone of the terminal emulator rxvt, an X Window System terminal emulator which includes support for XFT and Unicode.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.21.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a9a06c608258c5fd247c3725d8f44582
Download size: 904 KB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

rxvt-unicode Dependencies

Required

X Window System

Optional

gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7 (for background images) and startup-notification-0.12

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rxvt-unicode

Installation of rxvt-unicode

Install rxvt-unicode by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-everything &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-everything: Add support for all non-multichoice options. Details about the different options can be found in the file README.configure.

--disable-xft: Remove support for Xft fonts.

--disable-perl: Disable the embedded Perl interpreter.

--disable-afterimage: Remove support for libAfterImage.

Configuring rxvt-unicode

The rxvt-unicode terminal emulator uses the resource class URxvt and the resource name urxvt. You can add X resource definitions to a user's ~/.Xresources file or to the system-wide /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt file. The following example will load the matcher Perl extension (assuming Perl support wasn't disabled), which enables a middle button click to open an underlined URL in the specified browser, sets a background and foreground color and loads an Xft font:

cat >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt << "EOF"
URxvt*perl-ext: matcher
URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: yellow
URxvt*font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=12
EOF

The rxvt-unicode application can also run in a daemon mode, which makes it possible to open multiple terminal windows within the same process. The urxvtc client then connects to the urxvtd daemon and requests a new terminal window. Use this option with caution. If the daemon crashes, all the running processes in the terminal windows are terminated.

You can start the urxvtd daemon in the system or personal startup X session script (e.g., ~/.xinitrc) by adding the following lines near the top of the script:

# Start the urxvtd daemon
urxvtd -q -f -o &

For more information, examine the urxvt, urxvtd, urxvtc, and urxvtperl man pages.

If you use a Desktop Environment, a menu entry can be included, issuing, as the root user:

cat > /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Rxvt-Unicode Terminal
Comment=Use the command line
GenericName=Terminal
Exec=urxvt 
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=GTK;Utility;TerminalEmulator;
#StartupNotify=true
Keywords=console;command line;execute;
EOF

update-desktop-database -q

For that, you need desktop-file-utils-0.22 and at least one of gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, oxygen-icons-15.04.3 and lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1. Uncomment the line with “StartupNotify=true” if startup-notification-0.12 is installed.

Installed Programs: urxvt, urxvtd, and urxvtc

Installed Libraries: Many Perl extensions located under /usr/lib/urxvt/perl

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/urxvt

Short Descriptions

urxvt	is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.
urxvtd	is the urxvt terminal daemon.
urxvtc	controls the urxvtd daemon.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Thunderbird-38.3.0

Introduction to Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client based on the Mozilla codebase. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/38.3.0/source/thunderbird-38.3.0.source.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 81dd8b5679787fd5fd91b76bc7923951
Download size: 195 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.7 GB (68 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 6.5 SBU (with -j12, estimated 30 SBU with -j1)

Thunderbird Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.0.29, GTK+-2.24.28, Zip-3.0, UnZip-6.0, and yasm-1.3.0

Note

If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.

Note

With Thunderbird-31.0 and later versions, you must have installed Openssl before Python 2, or the build system will quickly fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from an older version of Thunderbird), check if /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.so exists. If it does not, reinstall Python-2.7.10 (after installing OpenSSL-1.0.2d - the latest version of any currently maintained version of Openssl should be satisfactory if already installed - if that package has not already been installed).

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, dbus-glib-0.104, Doxygen-1.8.10, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 (with gst-plugins-good-1.4.5 and gst-libav-1.4.5 at runtime), libnotify-0.7.6, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, PulseAudio-6.0, startup-notification-0.12, Wget-1.16.3, Wireless Tools-29, and Hunspell

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Thunderbird

Installation of Thunderbird

The configuration of Thunderbird is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and a brief description of each), issue mozilla/configure --help. Create the file with the following command:

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, the build may be faster if using parallel
# jobs. The build system automatically adds -jN to the "make" flags, where N
# is the number of CPU cores. The option below is therefore useless, unless
# you want to use a smaller number of jobs:
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
# uncomment the following one:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio

# If you want to compile the Mozilla Calendar, uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --enable-calendar

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu

# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=mail

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier

# Use internal cairo due to reports of unstable execution with
# system cairo
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
EOF

First, fix building with system freetype-2.6 or later:

sed -i '/^ftglyph.h/ i ftfntfmt.h' mozilla/config/system-headers

Compile Thunderbird by issuing the following commands:

Note

If you are compiling Thunderbird in chroot, prepend SHELL=/bin/sh to the make command below.

make -f client.mk

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install Thunderbird by running the following commands as the root user:

make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &&

chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/thunderbird-38.3.0

Command Explanations

Configuring Thunderbird

Configuration Information

If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to Thunderbird so that a browser will start when when you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters.

First, open the configuration dialog by opening the “Edit” drop-down menu. Choose “Preferences” and then click on the “Advanced” icon on the top menu bar. Choose the “General” tab and click on the “Config Editor” button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the “Filter:” bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose “Modify” from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose “New” from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted.

The configuration preference item you need to check so that Thunderbird uses a specified browser is the network.protocol-handler.app.http which should be set to the path of the desired browser, e.g. /usr/bin/firefox.

Tip

There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize Thunderbird. A very extensive, but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html.

If you use a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, a desktop file thunderbird.desktop may be created, in order to include a “Thunderbird” entry in the menu. If you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig, then change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following commands as the root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunderbird Mail
Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
GenericName=Mail Client
Exec=thunderbird %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=thunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;Email;
MimeType=application/xhtml+xml;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird-38.3.0/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png

Installed Program: thunderbird

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/thunderbird-38.3.0

Short Descriptions

thunderbird

is Mozilla's email and newsgroup client.

Last updated on 2015-09-30 20:43:29 -0700

Tigervnc-1.5.0

Introduction to Tigervnc

Tigervnc is an advanced VNC (Virtual Network Computing) implementation. It allows creation of an Xorg server not tied to a physical console and also provides a client for viewing of the remote graphical desktop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/tigervnc/tigervnc-1.5.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b11cc4c4d5249b9b8e355ee6f47ec4fe
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 167 MB
Estimated build time: 1.6 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required file: http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/xserver/xorg-server-1.17.2.tar.bz2
Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/tigervnc-1.5.0-gethomedir-1.patch

Note

The version of Xorg is a few versions out of date, but is required for the customizations needed for this package.

Tigervnc Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, FLTK-1.3.3, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, Pixman-0.32.6, and Xorg Applications

Installation of Tigervnc

Install tigervnc by running the following commands:

tar -xf ../xorg-server-1.17.2.tar.bz2 -C unix/xserver --strip-components=1 &&

patch -Np1 -i ../tigervnc-1.5.0-gethomedir-1.patch &&
sed -i 's/iconic/nowin/' unix/vncserver            &&

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr &&
make &&

pushd unix/xserver                  &&
  patch -Np1 -i ../xserver116.patch &&
  autoreconf -fiv                   &&

  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG \
      --disable-xwayland    --disable-dri        --disable-dmx         \
      --disable-xorg        --disable-xnest      --disable-xvfb        \
      --disable-xwin        --disable-xephyr     --disable-kdrive      \
      --disable-devel-docs  --disable-config-hal --disable-config-udev \
      --disable-unit-tests  --disable-selective-werror                 \
      --disable-static      --enable-dri3                              \
      --without-dtrace      --enable-dri2        --enable-glx          \
      --enable-glx-tls      --with-pic  &&
  make    &&
popd

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

cd unix/xserver/hw/vnc &&
make install           &&

[ -e /usr/bin/Xvnc ] || ln -svf $XORG_PREFIX/bin/Xvnc /usr/bin/Xvnc

Finally, create a menu entry. As the root user:

cat > /usr/share/applications/vncviewer.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=TigerVNC Viewer
Comment=VNC client
Exec=/usr/bin/vncviewer
Icon=tigervnc
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Network;RemoteAccess;
EOF

Command Explanations

tar -xf .. xorg-server...: This command extracts the standard Xorg packages into the tree in a location needed for modification.

patch ...: This set of patches modifies the standard Xorg server so that the Xvnc command can be built.

--disable ...: Most options that are usually needed for the standard Xorg server are not needed fror the Xvnc instance being built.

[ -e /usr/bin/Xvnc ] || ln ... Xvnc: If the Xvnc server is not installed in the /usr/bin directory, then create a link so the vncserver script can find it.

Configuring Tigervnc

The user specific configuration files of vncserver resides in the .vnc directory in the user's home directory. The xstartup file in that directory is a script specifying what commands to be run when a VNC desktop is started. If no xstartup file exists, vncserver will try to start an xterm in a twm session. An example xstartup would be:

#!/bin/sh
 
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startlxde &

Installed Programs: Xvnc, vncconfig, vncpasswd, vncserver, vncviewer, and x0vncserver

Installed Libraries: libvnc.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

Xvnc	is a X VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server. It is based on a standard X server, but it has a "virtual" screen rather than a physical one.
vncconfig	is a program to configure and control a VNC server.
vncpasswd	allows you to set the password used to access VNC desktops.
vncserver	is a perl script used to start or stop a VNC server.
vncviewer	is a client used to access VNC desktops.
x0vncserver	is a program to make an X display onm a physical terminal accessible via TigerVNC or compatible viewers.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

Transmission-2.84

Introduction to Transmission

Transmission is a cross-platform, open source BitTorrent client. This is useful for downloading large files (such as Linux ISOs) and reduces the need for the distributors to provide server bandwidth.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://transmission.cachefly.net/transmission-2.84.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 411aec1c418c14f6765710d89743ae42
Download size: 3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 230 MB
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU

Transmission Dependencies

Required

cURL-7.44.0, libevent-2.0.22, and OpenSSL-1.0.2d

Recommended (to build a GUI)

GTK+-3.16.6 and either Qt-4.8.7 or Qt-5.5.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and GDB-7.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/transmission

Installation of Transmission

Install Transmission by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

The following commands are used if you have installed Qt and would like to compile the Qt GUI. If Qt4 and Qt5 are installed in /opt, use source setqt4 or source setqt5 to choose which one will be used to build the Qt GUI. For Qt4, first fix the code with:

sed -i '/^CONFIG/aQMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++11' qt/qtr.pro

Now, compile the Qt GUI, with the following commands:

pushd qt        &&
  qmake qtr.pro &&
  make          &&
popd

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you compiled the Qt GUI, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

make INSTALL_ROOT=/usr -C qt install &&

install -m644 qt/transmission-qt.desktop /usr/share/applications/transmission-qt.desktop &&
install -m644 qt/icons/transmission.png  /usr/share/pixmaps/transmission-qt.png

Command Explanations

--without-gtk: This switch disables building of the GTK+ interface if GTK+ is present on the system (useful for Qt5 or cli only builds).

Installed Programs: transmission-cli, transmission-create, transmission-daemon, transmission-edit, transmission-gtk, transmission-qt, transmission-remote and transmission-show

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/transmission

Short Descriptions

transmission-cli	is a lightweight, command-line BitTorrent client with scripting capabilities.
transmission-create	is a command line tool used to create .torrent files.
transmission-daemon	is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or transmission-remote.
transmission-edit	is a command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs.
transmission-gtk	is a GTK+ bittorrent client.
transmission-qt	is a Qt bittorrent client.
transmission-remote	is a remote control utility for transmission-daemon and transmission.
transmission-show	is a command line tool to display bittorrent .torrent file metadata.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

xarchiver-0.5.4

Introduction to xarchiver

XArchiver is a GTK+ archive manager with support for tar, xz, bzip2, gzip, zip, 7z, rar, lzo and many other archive formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

xarchiver is only a command line or graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xarchiver/xarchiver-0.5.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 1b4cd37a6af03afc957a8e307417e8d0
Download size: 980 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/xarchiver-0.5.4-fixes-1.patch

xarchiver Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6

Optional (Runtime)

cpio-2.11, LZO-2.09, p7zip-9.38.1, UnRar-5.3.3, UnZip-6.0, and Zip-3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xarchiver

Installation of xarchiver

Install xarchiver by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../xarchiver-0.5.4-fixes-1.patch &&

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr               \
             --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
             --disable-gtk3              \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xarchiver-0.5.4 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/xarchiver-0.5.4 install

If desktop-file-utils-0.22 and hicolor-icon-theme-0.15 are installed, issue, as root user:

update-desktop-database &&
gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4: This switch fixes the location for the thunar-archive-plugin, so it will work if Thunar-1.6.10 is installed.

---disable-gtk3: This switch chooses to build against GTK+2. Default is --enable-gtk3. Remove it or replace it, if you wish to build against GTK+3.

Installed Program: xarchiver

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin, /usr/share/doc/xarchiver-0.5.4, and /usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver

Short Descriptions

xarchiver

is a GTK+ archive manager.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

XChat-2.8.8

Introduction to XChat

XChat is an IRC chat program. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, have private one-on-one conversations, etc. File transfers are also possible.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.8/xchat-2.8.8.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/xchat-2.8.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6775c44f38e84d06c06c336b32c4a452
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/xchat-2.8.8-glib-2.31-1.patch

XChat Dependencies

Required

Optional

enchant-1.6.0 (runtime), dbus-glib-0.104, GConf-3.2.6, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, Python-2.7.10, and Tcl-8.6.4

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xchat

Installation of XChat

Install XChat by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../xchat-2.8.8-glib-2.31-1.patch &&

LIBS+="-lgmodule-2.0"         \
./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --enable-shm &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.8.8 &&
install -v -m644    README faq.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.8.8

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=$GNOME_SYSCONFDIR: Setting the sysconfdir using this parameter will ensure that the sysconfdir is consistent with the installation environment and the package will be installed in the correct location.

--enable-shm: This parameter is used to enable XShm for fast tinting.

--enable-ipv6: Enable IPv6 support in xchat.

Installed Programs: xchat

Installed Libraries: XChat binding modules

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/xchat and /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.8.8

Short Descriptions

xchat

is a graphical Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

Last updated on 2015-09-22 13:15:28 -0700

xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3

Introduction to xdg-utils

xdg-utils is a a set of command line tools that assist applications with a variety of desktop integration tasks. It is required for Linux Standards Base (LSB) conformance.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://people.freedesktop.org/~rdieter/xdg-utils/xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 617ef5f9872ab5b148ad4717bc9012f5
Download size: 284 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xdg-utils Dependencies

Required

xmlto-0.0.26 with one of Lynx-2.8.8rel.2, w3m-0.5.3, Links-2.12, or fop-2.0

Required (runtime)

Xorg Applications

Optional (runtime)

D-Bus-1.10.0

Installation of xdg-utils

Compile xdg-utils with the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

Caution

The tests for the scripts must be made from a X-Window based session. There are several run-time requirements to run the tests including a broswer and an MTA. Running the tests as root usr is not recommended.

To run the tests, issue: make -k test.

Now install it as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xdg-desktop-menu, xdg-desktop-icon, xdg-mime, xdg-icon-resource, xdg-open, xdg-email, xdg-screensaver, xdg-settings

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

xdg-desktop-menu	is a command line tool for (un)installing desktop menu items.
xdg-desktop-icon	is a command line tool for (un)installing icons to the desktop.
xdg-mime	is a command line tool for querying information about file type handling and adding descriptions for new file types.
xdg-icon-resource	is a command line tool for (un)installing icon resources.
xdg-open	opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.
xdg-email	opens the user's preferred e-mail composer in order to send a mail message.
xdg-screensaver	is a command line tool for controlling the screensaver.
xdg-settings	is a command line tool for managing various settings from the desktop environment.

Last updated on

XScreenSaver-5.33

Introduction to XScreenSaver

The XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program that can draw on the root window as a display mode. The purpose of XScreenSaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do in the movies. However, XScreenSaver can also be used as a screen locker, to prevent others from using your terminal while you are away.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.33.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: cd99d65b143cc2c7b010b185aa1413b8
Download size: 20 MB
Estimated disk space required: 202 MB
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

XScreenSaver Dependencies

Required

libglade-2.6.4 and Xorg Applications

Optional

GDM, GLE and Linux-PAM-1.2.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xscreensaver

Installation of XScreenSaver

Install XScreenSaver by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-setuid-hacks: This switch allows some demos to be installed setuid root which is needed in order to ping other hosts.

Configuring XScreenSaver

Config Files

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver and ~/.xscreensaver

Linux PAM Configuration

If XScreenSaver has been built with Linux PAM support, you need to create a PAM configuration file, to get it working correctly with BLFS.

Issue the following commands as the root user to create the configuration file for Linux PAM:

cat > /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver

auth    include system-auth
account include system-account

# End /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver
EOF

Installed Programs: xscreensaver, xscreensaver-command, xscreensaver-demo, xscreensaver-getimage, xscreensaver-getimage-file, xscreensaver-getimage-video, xscreensaver-gl-helper and xscreensaver-text

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/libexec/xscreensaver and /usr/share/xscreensaver

Short Descriptions

xscreensaver	is a screen saver and locker daemon.
xscreensaver-command	controls a running xscreensaver process by sending it client messages.
xscreensaver-demo	is a graphical front-end for setting the parameters used by the background xscreensaver daemon.
xscreensaver-getimage	is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules that manipulate images.
xscreensaver-getimage-file	is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules that manipulate images.
xscreensaver-getimage-video	is a helper program for the xscreensaver modules that manipulate images.
xscreensaver-gl-helper	is a helper program for the xscreensaver OpenGL modules.
xscreensaver-text	prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Part XIII. Multimedia

Chapter 45. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

Many multimedia programs require libraries and/or drivers in order to function properly. The packages in this section fall into this category. Generally you only need to install these if you are installing a program which has the library listed as either a requirement, or as an option to enable it to support certain functionality.

ALSA-1.0.29

The Linux kernel now provides ALSA support by default. However, applications need to interface to that capability. The following five sections of the book deal with the five separate components of ALSA: the libraries, the utilities, the tools, the firmware and the OSS compatibility libraries.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

alsa-lib-1.0.29

Introduction to ALSA Library

The ALSA Library package contains the ALSA library used by programs (including ALSA Utilities) requiring access to the ALSA sound interface.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: de67e0eca72474d6b1121037dafe1024
Download size: 884 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

ALSA Library Dependencies

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and Python-2.7.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-lib

Kernel Configuration

If needed, enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Device Drivers --->
  <*/m> Sound card support --->                  [CONFIG_SOUND]
    <*/m> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> [CONFIG_SND]
            Select settings and drivers appropriate for your hardware.
    < >   Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)         [CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME]

In the Device Drivers ⇒ Sound card support ⇒ Advanced Linux Sound Architecture section of the kernel configuration, select the settings and drivers appropriate for your hardware. Ensure that the deprecated Device Drivers ⇒ Sound card support ⇒ Open Sound System is not selected. If necessary, recompile and install your new kernel.

Installation of ALSA Library

Install ALSA Library by running the following commands:

./configure &&
make

If you have Doxygen installed and you wish to build the library API documentation, run the following commands from the top-level directory of the source tree:

make doc

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

To install the API documentation, run the following command as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.29/html/search &&
install -v -m644 doc/doxygen/html/*.* \
                /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.29/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/doxygen/html/search/* \
                /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.29/html/search

Configuring ALSA Library

Config Files

~/.asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf

Configuration Information

The default alsa.conf is adequate for most installations. For extra functionality and/or advanced control of your sound device, you may need to create additional configuration files. For information on the available configuration parameters, visit http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc.

Installed Program: aserver

Installed Library: libasound.so and several under /usr/lib/alsa-lib/smixer

Installed Directories: /usr/include/alsa, /usr/lib/alsa-lib, /usr/share/alsa and /usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-1.0.29

Short Descriptions

aserver	is the ALSA server.
`libasound.so`	contains the ALSA API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

alsa-plugins-1.0.29

Introduction to ALSA Plugins

The ALSA Plugins package contains plugins for various audio libraries and sound servers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a66797b4471e3cbe96575207bfbe252c
Download size: 360 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

ALSA Plugins Dependencies

Required

Optional

FFmpeg-2.7.2, JACK, libsamplerate-0.1.8, PulseAudio-6.0 and Speex-1.2rc2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-plugins

Installation of ALSA Plugins

Install ALSA Plugins by running the following commands:

sed -i "/speex_preprocess.h/i#include <stdint.h>" speex/pcm_speex.c &&
./configure &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... speex/pcm_speex.c: Fix a build problem when speex1.2rc2 is installed.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: Numerous libasound_module_<module>.so modules including ctl_oss, ctl_pulse, pcm_a52, pcm_jack, pcm_oss, pcm_pulse, pcm_upmix, pcm_usb_stream, pcm_vdownmix, rate_samplerate* and rate_speexrate*

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

`libasound_module_pcm_oss.so`	Allows native ALSA applications to run on OSS.
`libasound_module_pcm_upmix.so`	Allows upmixing sound to 4 or 6 channels.
`libasound_module_pcm_vdownmix.so`	Allows downmixing sound from 4-6 channels to 2 channel stereo output.
`libasound_module_pcm_jack.so`	Allows native ALSA applications to work with jackd.
`libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so`	Allows native ALSA applications to access a PulseAudio sound daemon.
`libasound_module_pcm_a52.so`	Converts S16 linear sound format to A52 compressed format and sends it to an SPDIF output.
`libasound_module_rate_samplerate.so`	Provides an external rate converter through `libsamplerate`.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

alsa-utils-1.0.29

Introduction to ALSA Utilities

The ALSA Utilities package contains various utilities which are useful for controlling your sound card.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6b289bf874c4c9a63f4b3973093dd404
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

ALSA Utilities Dependencies

Required

Optional

libsamplerate-0.1.8, xmlto-0.0.26 and Dialog

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-utils

Installation of ALSA Utilities

Install ALSA Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --disable-alsaconf --disable-xmlto &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-alsaconf: This switch disables building the alsaconf configuration tool which is incompatible with Udev.

--disable-xmlto: Omit this switch if you have installed xmlto-0.0.26 and don't wish to install pregenerated man pages.

Configuring ALSA Utilities

Config Files

/var/lib/alsa/asound.state

Configuration Information

Note that all channels of your sound card are muted by default. You can use the alsamixer program to change this. Use speaker-test to check that your settings have been applied correctly. You should hear “pink noise” on your speakers.

The alsactl program is normally run from a standard udev rule. The first time it is run, it will complain that there is no state in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state. You can prevent this by running the following commands as the root user:

alsactl -L store

The volume settings should be restored from the saved state by Udev when the device is detected (during boot or when plugged in for USB devices).

All sound devices are not accessible for any user except root and members of the audio group. Add any users that might use the sound devices to that group:

usermod -a -G audio <username>

Note

You may need to log out and back in again to refresh your group memberships. 'su <username>' should work as well.

Boot Script

To automatically store and restore volume settings (if udev rule doesn't work for you) when the system is rebooted, install the /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa boot script from the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package.

make install-alsa

Installed Programs: aconnect, alsa-info.sh, alsactl, alsaloop, alsamixer, alsaucm, amidi, amixer, aplay, aplaymidi, arecord (symlink), arecordmidi, aseqdump, aseqnet, iecset and speaker-test

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/sounds/alsa and /var/lib/alsa

Short Descriptions

aconnect	is a utility for connecting and disconnecting two existing ports in the ALSA sequencer system.
alsa-info.sh	is used to generate a file containing detailed information about your sound hardware.
alsactl	is used to control advanced settings for the ALSA sound card drivers.
alsaloop	allows creation of a PCM loopback between a PCM capture device and a PCM playback device.
alsamixer	is an Ncurses based mixer program for use with the ALSA sound card drivers.
alsaucm	allows applications to access the hardware in an abstracted manner
amidi	is used to read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports.
amixer	allows command-line control of the mixers for the ALSA sound card drivers.
aplay	is a command-line soundfile player for the ALSA sound card drivers.
aplaymidi	is a command-line utility that plays the specified MIDI file(s) to one or more ALSA sequencer ports.
arecord	is a command-line soundfile recorder for the ALSA sound card drivers.
arecordmidi	is a command-line utility that records a standard MIDI file from one or more ALSA sequencer ports.
aseqdump	is a command-line utility that prints the sequencer events it receives as text.
aseqnet	is an ALSA sequencer client which sends and receives event packets over a network.
iecset	is a small utility to set or dump the IEC958 (or so-called “S/PDIF”) status bits of the specified sound card via the ALSA control API.
speaker-test	is a command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

alsa-tools-1.0.29

Introduction to ALSA Tools

The ALSA Tools package contains advanced tools for certain sound cards.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: f339a3cd24f748c9d007bdff0e98775b
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

ALSA Tools Dependencies

Required

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28 (to build echomixer, envy24control and rmedigicontrol), GTK+-3.16.6 (to build hdajackretask) and FLTK-1.3.3 (to build hdspconf and hdspmixer)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-tools

Installation of ALSA Tools

Note

When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general options that can be used to do this:

Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
Use the sudo command from the Sudo-1.8.14p3 package.
Use su -c "command arguments" (quotes required) which will ask for the root password for every iteration of the loop.

as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\"$*\\"
  fi
}

export -f as_root

First, start a subshell that will exit on error:

bash -e

Now, remove a tool that needs Qt2 or 3 and two unneed files (for the BLFS instructions below):

rm -rf qlo10k1 Makefile gitcompile

The ALSA Tools package is only needed by those with advanced requirements for their sound card. The tools can be built all together at once, but if only a subset is needed, you need to cd into the directory of each tool you wish to compile and run the commands. Here, we present instructions to build all tools.

Install all ALSA Tools by running the following commands:

for tool in *
do
  case $tool in
    seq )
      tool_dir=seq/sbiload
    ;;
    * )
      tool_dir=$tool
    ;;
  esac

  pushd $tool_dir
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make
    as_root make install
    as_root /sbin/ldconfig
  popd

done
unset tool tool_dir

Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:

exit

Installed Programs: as10k1, cspctl, dl10k1, echomixer, envy24control, hdajackretask, hda-verb, hdspconf, hdsploader, hdspmixer, hwmixvolume, init_audigy, init_audigy_eq10, init_live, lo10k1, ld10k1, ld10k1d, mixartloader, pcxhrloader, qlo10k1 (broken, needs Qt2 or 3), rmedigicontrol, sbiload, sscape_ctl, us428control, usx2yloader and vxloader

Installed Library: liblo10k1.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lo10k1, /usr/share/ld10k1 and /usr/share/sounds

Short Descriptions

as10k1	is an assembler for the emu10k1 DSP chip present in the Creative SB Live, PCI 512, and emu APS sound cards. It is used to make audio effects such as a flanger, chorus or reverb.
cspctl	is an SB16/AWE32 Creative Signal Processor (ASP/CSP) control program.
echomixer	is the Linux equivalent of the Echoaudio console application from Echoaudio. It is a tool to control all the features of any Echoaudio soundcard. This includes clock sources, input and output gains, mixers, etc.
envy24control	is a control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) based sound cards.
hdajackretask	is a GUI to make it easy to retask your jacks - e g, turn your Mic jack into an extra Headphone, or why not make them both line outs and connect them to your surround receiver.
hda-verb	is a small program to send HD-audio commands to the given ALSA hwdep device on the hd-audio interface.
hdspconf	is a GUI to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa Settings. Up to four hdsp cards are supported.
hdsploader	is used to load the firmware required by the Hammerfall HDSP sound cards.
hdspmixer	is the Linux equivalent of the Totalmix application from RME. It is a tool to control the advanced routing features of the RME Hammerfall DSP soundcard series.
hwmixvolume	allows you to control the volume of individual streams on sound cards that use hardware mixing
init_audigy*	are tools used to initialize Creative cards.
init_live	is a tool used to initialize Creative cards.
ld10k1	is the server of a EMU10K{1,2} patch loader for ALSA.
lo10k1	is the client of a EMU10K{1,2} patch loader for ALSA.
dl10k1	loads config dumps generated by lo10k1 and ld10k1.
ld10k1d	is an init script for the ld10k1 patch loader.
qlo10k1	is a Qt GUI for the ld10k1 patch loader.
mixartloader	is a helper program to load the firmware binaries onto the Digigram's miXart board sound drivers. The following modules require this program: snd-mixart. These drivers don't work properly at all until the certain firmwares are loaded, i.e. no PCM nor mixer devices will appear.
pcxhrloader	is a helper program to load the firmware binaries onto Digigram's pcxhr compatible board sound drivers. The following modules require this program: snd-pcxhr. These drivers don't work properly at all until the certain firmwares are loaded, i.e. no PCM nor mixer devices will appear.
rmedigicontrol	is a control tool for RME Digi32 and RME Digi96 sound cards. It provides a graphical frontend for all the sound card controls and switches.
sbiload	is an OPL2/3 FM instrument loader for the ALSA sequencer.
sscape_ctl	is an ALSA SoundScape control utility.
us428control	is a Tascam US-428 control program.
usx2yloader	is a helper program to load the 2nd Phase firmware binaries onto the Tascam USX2Y USB sound cards. It has proven to work so far for the US122, US224 and US428. The snd-usb-usx2y module requires this program.
vxloader	is a helper program to load the firmware binaries onto the Digigram's VX-board sound drivers. The following modules require this program: snd-vx222, snd-vxpocket, snd-vxp440. These drivers don't work properly at all until the certain firmwares are loaded, i.e. no PCM nor mixer devices will appear.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

alsa-firmware-1.0.29

Introduction to ALSA Firmware

The ALSA Firmware package contains firmware for certain sound cards.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.29.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9a1182f8a6ac44cb9af5774cc045565f
Download size: 4.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

ALSA Firmware Dependencies

Required

alsa-tools-1.0.29

Optional

AS31 (for rebuilding the firmware from source)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-firmware

Installation of ALSA Firmware

The ALSA Firmware package is only needed by those with advanced requirements for their sound card. See the README for configure options.

Install ALSA Firmware by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: Several directories in /lib/firmware and /usr/share/alsa/firmware

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

ALSA OSS-1.0.28

Introduction to ALSA OSS

The ALSA OSS package contains the ALSA OSS compatibility library. This is used by programs which wish to use the ALSA OSS sound interface.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.8 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alsa.cybermirror.org/oss-lib/alsa-oss-1.0.28.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/oss-lib/alsa-oss-1.0.28.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 91f57e8cee1ad4cc956caa8b62ac5d43
Download size: 288 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.8 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

ALSA OSS Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/alsa-oss

Installation of ALSA OSS

Install ALSA OSS by running the following commands:

./configure --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: aoss

Installed Libraries: libalsatoss.so, libaoss.so, and libossredir.a

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

aoss

is a simple wrapper script which facilitates the use of the ALSA OSS compatibility library. It just sets the appropriate LD_PRELOAD path and then runs the command.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

AudioFile-0.3.6

Introduction to AudioFile

The AudioFile package contains the audio file libraries and two sound file support programs useful to support basic sound file formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/audiofile/0.3/audiofile-0.3.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/audiofile/0.3/audiofile-0.3.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 235dde14742317328f0109e9866a8008
Download size: 520 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

AudioFile Dependencies

Required

Optional

AsciiDoc and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/audiofile

Installation of AudioFile

Install AudioFile by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that the tests will fail if the --disable-static option is used.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: sfconvert and sfinfo

Installed Libraries: libaudiofile.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

sfinfo	displays the sound file format, audio encoding, sampling rate and duration for audio formats supported by this library.
sfconvert	converts sound file formats where the original format and destination format are supported by this library.
`libaudiofile.so`	contains functions used by programs to support AIFF, AIFF-compressed, Sun/NeXT, WAV and BIC audio formats.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

FAAC-1.28

Introduction to FAAC

FAAC is an encoder for a lossy sound compression scheme specified in MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 standards and known as Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). This encoder is useful for producing files that can be played back on iPod. Moreover, iPod does not understand other sound compression schemes in video files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faac-1.28.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c5dde68840cefe46532089c9392d1df0
Download size: 519 KB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/faac-1.28-glibc_fixes-1.patch

FAAC Dependencies

Optional

libmp4v2 from mpeg4ip (untested, as of 2007-09-28, development of the project is stopped; an internal version of the library is used if the external one is not found).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/faac

Installation of FAAC

Install FAAC by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../faac-1.28-glibc_fixes-1.patch &&
sed -i -e '/obj-type/d' -e '/Long Term/d' frontend/main.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite. However, basic functionality can be tested by encoding a sample WAV file (the sample file is installed by the alsa-utils-1.0.29 package:

./frontend/faac -o Front_Left.mp4 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav

Then, decode the result using the faad program from the FAAD2-2.7 package and play back the decoded file (requires the aplay program from the alsa-utils-1.0.29 package:

faad Front_Left.mp4
aplay Front_Left.wav

aplay should identify the file as “Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo”, and you should hear the words “front left”.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: This command removes documentation for the --obj-type parameter from the faac --long-help command output. This parameter is already disabled in FAAC-1.28 due to sound quality issues with object types other than “Low Complexity”.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-drm: This option is supposed to enable support for encoding files for Digital Radio Mondiale, but actually breaks the base functionality of the package (e.g., the resulting faac program produces files that cannot be decoded by FAAD2-2.7, even if compiled with DRM support). Don't use it.

Other AAC encoders

The quality of FAAC is not up to par with the best AAC encoders currently available. Also, it only supports AAC and not High Efficiency AAC (also known as aacPlus), which provides better quality at low bitrates by means of using the “spectral band replication” technology. There are the following alternative programs for producing AAC and HE-AAC streams:

Nero AAC Codec: available only in the binary form, the command-line AAC and HE-AAC encoders for Linux are in the same archive as the Windows application.
3GPP Enhanced aacPlus general audio codec: available in the source form, can encode only HE-AAC up to 48 kbps out of the box, but the maximum bitrate can be changed by editing the tuning table in the FloatFR_sbrenclib/src/sbr_main.c file.

Note, however, that iPod supports only Low Complexity AAC profile, which is the default in FAAC, but may not be the default in Nero AAC Encoder and is completely unavailable in the 3GPP encoder.

Installed Program: faac

Installed Libraries: libfaac.so and libmp4v2.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

faac	is a command-line AAC encoder.
`libfaac.so`	contains functions for encoding AAC streams.
`libmp4v2.so`	contains functions for creating and manipulating MP4 files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

FAAD2-2.7

Introduction to FAAD2

FAAD2 is a decoder for a lossy sound compression scheme specified in MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 standards and known as Advanced Audio Coding (AAC).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4c332fa23febc0e4648064685a3d4332
Download size: 880 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB (without media player plugins)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (without media player plugins)

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/faad2-2.7-mp4ff-1.patch
Sample AAC file: http://www.nch.com.au/acm/sample.aac (7 KB)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/faad2

Installation of FAAD2

Install FAAD2 by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../faad2-2.7-mp4ff-1.patch &&
sed -i "s:AM_CONFIG_HEADER:AC_CONFIG_HEADERS:g" configure.in &&
sed -i "s:man_MANS:man1_MANS:g" frontend/Makefile.am &&
autoreconf -fi &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite. However, basic functionality can be tested by decoding the sample AAC file:

./frontend/faad -o sample.wav ../sample.aac

This should display a copyright message and the following information about the sample file:

sample.aac file info: ADTS, 4.608 sec, 13 kbps, 16000 Hz --------------------- | Config: 2 Ch | --------------------- | Ch | Position | --------------------- | 00 | Left front | | 01 | Right front | ---------------------

Now play the result (requires the aplay program from the alsa-utils-1.0.29 package):

aplay sample.wav

aplay should identify the file as “Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Stereo”, and you should hear some piano notes.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: First command fixes autotools scripts to be compatible with latest version of Automake and second command fixes manual page install location.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--with-drm: This option is supposed to enable support for decoding Digital Radio Mondiale, but actually breaks the base functionality of the package (e.g., the resulting faad program cannot decode the sample AAC file linked above). Don't use it.

Installed Program: faad

Installed Library: libfaad.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

faad	is a command-line utility for decoding AAC and MP4 files.
`libfaad.so`	contains functions for decoding AAC streams.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

fdk-aac-0.1.4

Introduction to fdk-aac

fdk-aac package provides the Fraunhofer FDK AAC library, which is purported to be a high quality Advanced Audio Coding implementation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opencore-amr/fdk-aac-0.1.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e274a7d7f6cd92c71ec5c78e4dc9f8b7
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fdk-aac

Installation of fdk-aac

Install fdk-aac by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libfdk-aac.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/fdk-aac

Short Descriptions

libfdk-aac.so

provides the functions used to encode audio in AAC format.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

FLAC-1.3.1

Introduction to FLAC

FLAC is an audio CODEC similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed without losing any information.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://downloads.xiph.org/pub/xiph/releases/flac/flac-1.3.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b9922c9a0378c88d3e901b234f852698
Download size: 920 KB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB (additional 77 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.5 SBU to run the test suite)

FLAC Dependencies

Optional

libogg-1.3.2, NASM-2.11.08, DocBook-utils-0.6.14, Doxygen-1.8.10 and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/flac

Installation of FLAC

Install FLAC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-thorough-tests &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. Note that if you passed the --enable-exhaustive-tests and --enable-valgrind-testing parameters to configure and then run the test suite, it will take a very long time (up to 300 SBUs) and use about 375 MB of disk space.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-thorough-tests: This parameter is used so that the test suite will complete in a reasonable amount of time. Remove it if you desire more extensive tests.

Installed Programs: flac and metaflac

Installed Libraries: libFLAC.so and libFLAC++.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/FLAC, /usr/include/FLAC++ and /usr/share/doc/flac-1.3.1

Short Descriptions

flac	is a command-line utility for encoding, decoding and converting FLAC files.
metaflac	is a program for listing, adding, removing, or editing metadata in one or more FLAC files.
`libFLAC{,++}.so`	these libraries provide native FLAC and Ogg FLAC C/C++ APIs for programs utilizing FLAC.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

frei0r-27-01-15

Introduction to Frei0r

Frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video effects. Note that the 0 in the name is a zero, not a capital letter o.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://files.dyne.org/frei0r/snapshots/frei0r-snapshot-27-01-15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a383214dacc8edf0d31ee3fea65ca8fd
Download size: 728 KB
Estimated disk space required: 83 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/frei0r-snapshot-27-01-15-gcc5_fix-1.patch

Frei0r Dependencies

Required

gavl-1.4.0 and opencv-3.0.0

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/frei0r

Installation of Frei0r

Install Frei0r by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../frei0r-snapshot-27-01-15-gcc5_fix-1.patch &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: None

Installed Libraries: Over 120 vieeo effects plugins

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/frei0r-1

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

gavl-1.4.0

Introduction to Gavl

Gavl is short for Gmerlin Audio Video Library. It is a low level library that handles the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmerlin/files/gavl/1.4.0/gavl-1.4.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2752013a817fbc43ddf13552215ec2c0
Download size: 4.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 50 MB
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU

Gavl Dependencies

Required

libpng-1.6.18

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gavl

Installation of Gavl

Install Gavl by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gavl-1.4.0 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: None

Installed Libraries: libgavl.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gavl and /usr/share/doc/gavl-1.4.0

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

GStreamer-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer

GStreamer is a streaming media framework that enables applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video encoding and decoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. This package only provides base functionality and libraries. You may need at least gst-plugins-base-1.4.5 and one of Good, Bad, Ugly or Libav plugins.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 88a9289c64a4950ebb4f544980234289
Download size: 3.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 81 MB (additional 19 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (additional 0.8 SBU to run the test suite)

GStreamer Dependencies

Required

Optional

Gsl-1.16, GTK-Doc-1.24, and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gstreamer10

Installation of GStreamer

Install GStreamer by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gst-inspect-1.0, gst-launch-1.0 and gst-typefind-1.0

Installed Libraries: libgstbase-1.0.so, libgstcheck-1.0.so, libgstcontroller-1.0.so, libgstnet-1.0.so, libgstreamer-1.0.so and /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstcoreelements.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0, /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0, /usr/libexec/gstreamer-1.0, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gstreamer{,-{libs,plugins}}-1.0

Short Descriptions

gst-inspect-1.0	is a tool that prints out information on available GStreamer plugins, information about a particular plugin, or information about a particular element.
gst-launch-1.0	is a tool that builds and runs basic GStreamer pipelines.
gst-typefind-1.0	uses the GStreamer type finding system to determine the relevant GStreamer plugin to parse or decode file, and the corresponding MIME type.
`libgstbase-1.0.so`	provides some base classes to be extended by elements and utillity classes that are most useful for plugin developers.
`libgstcheck-1.0.so`	provides functionality for writing unit tests that use the check framework.
`libgstcontroller-1.0.so`	provides functionality to animate element properties over time.
`libgstnet-1.0.so`	provides network elements and objects.
`libgstreamer-1.0.so`	provides all the core GStreamer services, including initialization, plugin management and types, as well as the object hierarchy that defines elements and bins, along with some more specialized elements.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

gst-plugins-base-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer Base Plug-ins

The GStreamer Base Plug-ins is a well-groomed and well-maintained collection of GStreamer plug-ins and elements, spanning the range of possible types of elements one would want to write for GStreamer. You will need at least one of Good, Bad, Ugly or Libav plugins for GStreamer applications to function properly.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 357165af625c0ca353ab47c5d843920e
Download size: 2.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 0.1 GB (additional 13 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.8 SBU (additional 0.7 SBU to run the test suite)

GStreamer Base Plug-ins Dependencies

Required

GStreamer-1.4.5

Optional

CDParanoia-III-10.2, GTK+-3.16.6, GTK-Doc-1.24, Qt-4.8.7, Valgrind-3.10.1, libvisual, ORC, and Tremor

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-base

Installation of GStreamer Base Plug-ins

Note

If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this application.

Install GStreamer Base Plug-ins by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer Base Plugins 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Note

When installing, the Makefile does some additional linking. If you do not have Xorg in /usr, the LIBRARY_PATH variable needs to be defined for the root user. If using sudo to assume root, use the -E option to pass your current environment variables for the install process.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: gst-device-monitor-1.0, gst-discoverer-1.0 and gst-play-1.0

Installed Libraries: libgstallocators-1.0.so, libgstapp-1.0.so, libgstaudio-1.0.so, libgstfft-1.0.so, libgstpbutils-1.0.so, libgstriff-1.0.so, libgstrtp-1.0.so, libgstrtsp-1.0.so, libgstsdp-1.0.so, libgsttag-1.0.so, libgstvideo-1.0.so and several plugins under /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0/gst/{allocators,app,audio,fft,pbutils}, /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0/gst/{riff,rtp,rtsp,sdp,tag,video}, /usr/share/gst-plugins-base/1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-base-{libs,plugins}-1.0

Short Descriptions

gst-device-monitor-1.0	is a command line tool that can be used to test GStreamer's device monitoring functionality
gst-discoverer-1.0	is a tool that can be used to print basic metadata and stream information about a media file.
gst-play-1.0	is a command line tool that can be used to test basic playback using the playbin element.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

gst-plugins-good-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer Good Plug-ins

The GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins considered by the GStreamer developers to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred license (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: eaf1a6daf73749bc423feac301d60038
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 0.1 GB (additional 10 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU (additional 1 SBU to run the test suite)

GStreamer Good Plug-ins Dependencies

Required

Optional

AAlib-1.4rc5, GTK+-3.16.6, GTK-Doc-1.24, libdv-1.0.0, libgudev-230, PulseAudio-6.0, Speex-1.2rc2, taglib-1.9.1, Valgrind-3.10.1, v4l-utils-1.6.3, JACK, libcaca, libiec61883, libraw1394, libshout, ORC, and WavPack

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-good

Installation of GStreamer Good Plug-ins

Note

If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this application.

Install GStreamer Good Plug-ins by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer Good Plugins 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/"  &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. Some tests are known to fail.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: Several plugins under /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gstreamer-1.0/presets and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-1.0

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer Bad Plug-ins

The GStreamer Bad Plug-ins package contains a set a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e0bb39412cf4a48fe0397bcf3a7cd451
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 0.1 GB (additional 8 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU (additional 1.1 SBU to run the test suite)

Additional Downloads

Optional patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5-openjpeg21-1.patch

GStreamer Bad Plug-ins Dependencies

Required

Optional

BlueZ-5.34, cURL-7.44.0, FAAC-1.28, FAAD2-2.7, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, GTK-Doc-1.24, GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6, libass-0.12.3, libexif-0.6.21, libgcrypt-1.6.3, libmpeg2-0.5.1, libvdpau-1.1.1, MesaLib-10.6.6, mpg123-1.22.4, neon-0.30.1, OpenJPEG-1.5.2 or OpenJPEG-2.1.0, SDL-1.2.15, Valgrind-3.10.1, Xorg Libraries, Celt, Flite, Game Music Emu, GSM, libdca, libmimic, libmms, libofa, MJPEG Tools, OpenAL, ORC, RTMPDUMP, Schroedinger, VO AAC, VO AMRWB, Wayland, and ZBAR

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-bad

Installation of GStreamer Bad Plug-ins

Note

If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this application.

If you have installed OpenJPEG-2.1.0 and wish to use it with GStreamer Bad Plug-ins, apply the following patch:

patch -Np1 -i ../gst-plugins-bad-1.4.5-openjpeg21-1.patch &&

Prevent a miscompilation caused by a change in the output from cpp in gcc-5 which leads to crashes.

sed -i -e 's/ GST_CHECK_FAAD_VERSION / /' \
       -e '/"GST_CHECK_FAAD_VERSION/{
           s/GST_CHECK_FAAD_VERSION //
           s/""/"$"/ }' configure

Install GStreamer Bad Plug-ins by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. One test (camerabin) needs hardware with a camera. A couple of tests need a terminal emulator in a graphical session.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libgstbadbase-1.0.so, libgstbadvideo-1.0.so, libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1.0.so, libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so, libgstgl-1.0.so, libgstinsertbin-1.0.so, libgstmpegts-1.0.so, libgstphotography-1.0.so, libgsturidownloader-1.0.so and several plugins under /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0/gst/{basecamerabinsrc,codecparsers,gl}, /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0/gst/{insertbin,interfaces,mpegts}, /usr/include/gstreamer-1.0/gst/uridownloader, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-bad-{libs,plugins}-1.0

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

gst-plugins-ugly-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins

The GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins considered by the GStreamer developers to have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how the GStreamer developers would like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6954beed7bb9a93e426dee543ff46393
Download size: 827 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins Dependencies

Required

Optional

liba52-0.7.4, libmad-0.15.1b, libmpeg2-0.5.1, libcdio-0.93 (for CD-ROM drive access), libsidplay, OpenCore AMR, ORC, and TwoLame

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-plugins-ugly

Installation of GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins

Note

If you need a plugin for a given dependency, that dependency needs to be installed before this application.

Install GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer Ugly Plugins 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: Several plugins under /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0

Installed Directories: /usr/share/gstreamer-1.0/presets and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-ugly-plugins-1.0

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

gst-libav-1.4.5

Introduction to GStreamer Libav

The GStreamer Libav package contains GStreamer plugins for Libav (a fork of FFmpeg).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Note

GStreamer 1.0 series is not API or ABI compatible with GStreamer 0.10 series and both can be installed on the same system.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.4.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f4922a46adbcbe7bd01331ff5dc7979d
Download size: 5.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 0.4 GB (adittional 1 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU

GStreamer Libav Dependencies

Required

Optional

Valgrind-3.10.1 and ORC

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gst10-libav

Installation of GStreamer Libav

Install GStreamer Libav by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-package-name="GStreamer Libav Plugins 1.4.5 BLFS" \
            --with-package-origin="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-libav-extra-configure="--disable-yasm": Use this switch if you don't have yasm installed.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstlibav.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-libav-plugins-1.0

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

IcedTea-Sound-1.0.1

Introduction to IcedTea-Sound

The IcedTea-Sound package contains the PulseAudio-6.0 provider which was removed from IcedTea itself from version 2.5.0 onwards. More providers may be included in the future.

Because of pulseaudio real-time capabilities, the pulseaudio provider is said to provide smoother sound than the default alsa provider.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: e4d8013735ae517c015327924dabf3ed
Download size: 1.44 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

IcedTea-Sound Dependencies

Required

OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 or Java-1.8.0.60 (remember to configure as described in the OpenJDK-1.8.0.60 page), and PulseAudio-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/icedtea-sound

Installation of IcedTea-Sound

Install IcedTea-Sound by running the following commands:

 ./configure --with-jdk-home=${JAVA_HOME} --disable-docs &&
make

This package does not come with a working test suite.

Now, as the root user:

case $(uname -m) in
  i?86   ) ARCH=i386 ;;
  x86_64 ) ARCH=amd64 ;;
esac &&

install icedtea-sound.jar ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/ext &&
install build/native/libicedtea-sound.so ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/$ARCH &&
unset ARCH

Command Explanations

--with-jdk-home=...: This parameter specifies the location of your JDK.

--disable-docs: Disable building the documentation.

Configuring IcedTea-Sound

Config Files

${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/sound.properties

Configuration Information

The default installation of OpenJDK uses the ALSA provider. You have to specify the PulseAudio provider in the sound.properties file, as the root user:

cat >> ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/sound.properties << "EOF"
# Begin PulseAudio provider additions:

javax.sound.sampled.Clip=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioClip
javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioSourceDataLine
javax.sound.sampled.TargetDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioTargetDataLine

# End PulseAudio provider additions
EOF

Installed Program: None.

Installed Libraries: libicedtea-sound.so and icedtea-sound.jar.

Installed Directories: None.

Short Descriptions

libicedtea-sound.so

contains the sound provider(s) bindings.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Liba52-0.7.4

Introduction to Liba52

liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 (also known as AC-3) streams. The A/52 standard is used in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: caa9f5bc44232dc8aeea773fea56be80
Download size: 236 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Optional

djbfft

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/liba52

Installation of Liba52

Install liba52 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-static \
            CFLAGS="-g -O2 $([ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && echo -fPIC)" &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
cp liba52/a52_internal.h /usr/include/a52dec &&
install -v -m644 -D doc/liba52.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/liba52-0.7.4/liba52.txt

Command Explanations

CFLAGS="-g -O2 ...: This sets CFLAGS to -g -O2 (which is the default) but then on x86_64 adds -fPIC. This is needed to compile liba52 on x86_64.

--disable-static: This option stops it installing the static version of the library.

cp liba52/a52_internal.h ...: Copying this header file into /usr/include/a52dec allows some other programs (such as xine-lib) to compile and link against a system installed liba52.

Installed Programs: a52dec and extract_a52

Installed Library: liba52.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/a52dec and /usr/share/doc/liba52-0.7.4

Short Descriptions

a52dec	plays ATSC A/52 audio streams.
extract_a52	extracts ATSC A/52 audio from an MPEG stream.
`liba52.so`	provides functions for the programs dealing with ATSC A/52 streams.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Libao-1.2.0

Introduction to Libao

The libao package contains a cross-platform audio library. This is useful to output audio on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports WAV files, OSS (Open Sound System), ESD (Enlighten Sound Daemon), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), NAS (Network Audio system), aRTS (analog Real-Time Synthesizer and PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound architecture).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ao/libao-1.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9f5dd20d7e95fd0dd72df5353829f097
Download size: 456 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Libao Dependencies

Optional

X Window System, ALSA-1.0.29, and PulseAudio-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libao

Installation of Libao

Install libao by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/libao-1.2.0

Configuring Libao

Config Files

/etc/libao.conf and ~/.libao

Configuration Information

Currently, the only configuration option available is setting the default output device. Issue man libao.conf for details.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libao.so and plugins under /usr/lib/ao/plugins-4

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ao, /usr/lib/ao and /usr/share/doc/libao-1.2.0

Short Descriptions

libao.so

provides functions for programs wishing to output sound over supported platforms.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libass-0.12.3

Introduction to libass

libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/libass-0.12.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1b53e739ab389335ce46fd626777ec61
Download size: 128 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libass Dependencies

Required

FreeType-2.6 and FriBidi-0.19.7

Optional

Harfbuzz-1.0.3 and Enca

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libass

Installation of libass

Install libass by running the following commands:

sh autogen.sh                              &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-fontconfig: Use this switch if you didn't install Fontconfig.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libass.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/ass

Short Descriptions

libass.so

provides the functions used to render ASS/SSA subtitle format.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libcanberra-0.30

Introduction to libcanberra

libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops, such as GNOME.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/libcanberra-0.30.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 34cb7e4430afaf6f447c4ebdb9b42072
Download size: 312 KB
Estimated disk space required: 7.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libcanberra Dependencies

Required

libvorbis-1.3.5

Optional

GTK+-2.24.28, GTK-Doc-1.24, PulseAudio-6.0 and tdb

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libcanberra

Installation of libcanberra

Install libcanberra by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-oss &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/libcanberra-0.30 install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Installed Programs: canberra-boot and canberra-gtk-play

Installed Libraries: libcanberra-gtk.so, libcanberra-gtk3.so and libcanberra.so

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.30, /usr/share/doc/libcanberra and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libcanberra

Short Descriptions

canberra-gtk-play	is an application used for playing sound events.
`libcanberra-gtk.so`	contains the libcanberra bindings for GTK+ 2.
`libcanberra-gtk3.so`	contains the libcanberra bindings for GTK+ 3.
`libcanberra.so`	contains the libcanberra API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libcdio-0.93

Introduction to libcdio

The libcdio is a library for CD-ROM and CD image access. The assiciated libcido-cdparanoia library reads audio from the CD-ROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe as .wav, .aifc or as raw 16 bit linear PCM.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libcdio/libcdio-0.93.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8be842d903f086941c45ad0360420314
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 35 MB (both packages)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (both packages)

Additional Download

Required file: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libcdio/libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.93+1.tar.bz2

libcdio Dependencies

Optional

libcddb

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libcdio

Installation of libcdio

Install libcdio by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Now install libcdio-paranoia:

tar -xf ../libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.93+1.tar.bz2 &&
cd libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.93+1

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: cd-drive, cd-info, cd-paranoia, cd-read, cdda-player, iso-info, iso-read, and mmc-tool

Installed Library: libcdio++.so, libcdio.so, libcdio_cdda, libcdio_paranoia, libiso9660++, libiso9660, and libudf

Installed Directories: /usr/include/cdio and /usr/include/cdio++

Short Descriptions

cd-drive	shows CD-ROM drive characteristics
cd-info	shows information about a CD or CD-image
cd-paranoia	is an audio CD reading utility which includes extra data verification features
cd-read	reads Information from a CD or CD-image
cdda-player	is a simple curses CD player
iso-info	shows Information about an ISO 9660 image
iso-read	reads portions of an ISO 9660 image
mmc-tool	issues libcdio multimedia commands
`libcdio.so`	contains the primary cdio API functions

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libdiscid-0.6.1

Introduction to libdiscid

The libdiscid package contains a library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs from audio CDs. It reads a CD's table of contents (TOC) and generates an identifier which can be used to lookup the CD at MusicBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org). Additionally, it provides a submission URL for adding the DiscID to the database.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/libdiscid/libdiscid-0.6.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/libdiscid/libdiscid-0.6.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 98c4b281780707e6b446cc526a825e7a
Download size: 358 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdiscid

Installation of libdiscid

Install libdiscid by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdiscid.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/discid

Short Descriptions

libdiscid.so

contains the DiscID API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libdvdcss-1.3.0

Introduction to libdvdcss

libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs as a block device without having to bother about the decryption.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.videolan.org/libdvdcss/1.3.0/libdvdcss-1.3.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7f0fdb3ff91d638f5e45ed7536f7eb67
Download size: 348 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libdvdcss Dependencies

Optional (to Create Documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdvdcss

Installation of libdvdcss

Install libdvdcss by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libdvdcss-1.3.0 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdvdcss.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/dvdcss and /usr/share/doc/libdvdcss-1.3.0

Short Descriptions

libdvdcss.so

provides the functionality that is required for transparent DVD access with CSS decryption.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Libdvdread-5.0.3

Introduction to Libdvdread

libdvdread is a library which provides a simple foundation for reading DVDs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdread/5.0.3/libdvdread-5.0.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b7b7d2a782087ed2a913263087083715
Download size: 388 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdvdread

Installation of Libdvdread

Install libdvdread by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libdvdread-5.0.3 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdvdread.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/dvdread and /usr/share/doc/libdvdread-5.0.3

Short Descriptions

libdvdread.so

provides functionality required to access DVDs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Libdvdnav-5.0.3

Introduction to Libdvdnav

libdvdnav is a library that allows easy use of sophisticated DVD navigation features such as DVD menus, multiangle playback and even interactive DVD games.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.videolan.org/videolan/libdvdnav/5.0.3/libdvdnav-5.0.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e9ea4de3bd8f204e61301d407d09f033
Download size: 364 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Libdvdnav Dependencies

Required

libdvdread-5.0.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdvdnav

Installation of Libdvdnav

Install libdvdnav by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libdvdnav-5.0.3 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libdvdnav.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/dvdnav and /usr/share/doc/libdvdnav-5.0.3

Short Descriptions

libdvdnav.so

DVD navigation library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Libdv-1.0.0

Introduction to Libdv

The Quasar DV Codec (libdv) is a software CODEC for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders. It can be used to copy videos from camcorders using a firewire (IEEE 1394) connection.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libdv/libdv-1.0.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: f895162161cfa4bb4a94c070a7caa6c7
Download size: 574 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.0 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Libdv Dependencies

Optional

popt-1.16, SDL-1.2.15, and X Window System

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdv

Installation of Libdv

Install libdv by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-xv \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d      /usr/share/doc/libdv-1.0.0 &&
install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/libdv-1.0.0

Command Explanations

--disable-xv: This parameter is required if an X Window System is not installed. It also prevents configure testing for libXv which is only used for an obsolete program playdv that will not be built with current linux headers and would also need other obsolete dependencies.

--disable-static: This switch prevents the static libraries being installed.

Installed Programs: dubdv, dvconnect, and encodedv

Installed Library: libdv.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libdv and /usr/share/doc/libdv-1.0.0

Short Descriptions

dubdv	inserts audio into a digital video stream.
dvconnect	is a small utility to send or capture raw data from and to the camcorder.
encodedv	encodes a series of images to a digital video stream.
`libdv.so`	provides functions for programs interacting with the Quasar DV CODEC.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libmad-0.15.1b

Introduction to libmad

libmad is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder capable of 24-bit output.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mad/libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1be543bc30c56fb6bea1d7bf6a64e66c
Download size: 491 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libmad-0.15.1b-fixes-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libmad

Installation of libmad

Install libmad by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../libmad-0.15.1b-fixes-1.patch                &&
sed "s@AM_CONFIG_HEADER@AC_CONFIG_HEADERS@g" -i configure.ac &&
touch NEWS AUTHORS ChangeLog                                 &&
autoreconf -fi                                               &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Some packages check for the pkg-config file for libmad. This file is particularly needed so that Cdrdao can recognize the installed libmad.

As the root user:

cat > /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mad.pc << "EOF"
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: mad
Description: MPEG audio decoder
Requires:
Version: 0.15.1b
Libs: -L${libdir} -lmad
Cflags: -I${includedir}
EOF

Command Explanations

touch NEWS AUTHORS ChangeLog: Prevent autoreconf from returning an error.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libmad.so

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libmad.so

is a MPEG audio decoder library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libmpeg2-0.5.1

Introduction to libmpeg2

The libmpeg2 package contains a library for decoding MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video streams. The library is able to decode all MPEG streams that conform to certain restrictions: “constrained parameters” for MPEG-1, and “main profile” for MPEG-2. This is useful for programs and applications needing to decode MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video streams.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/files/libmpeg2-0.5.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libmpeg2-0.5.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 0f92c7454e58379b4a5a378485bbd8ef
Download size: 513 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libmpeg2 Dependencies

Optional

X Window System and SDL-1.2.15

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libmpeg2

Installation of libmpeg2

Install libmpeg2 by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/static const/static/' libmpeg2/idct_mmx.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr                           &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. To perform a more comprehensive regression test, see the file test/README in the source tree.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mpeg2dec-0.5.1 &&
install -v -m644 README doc/libmpeg2.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/mpeg2dec-0.5.1

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: This sed fixes problems with recent GCC compilers.

Installed Programs: corrupt_mpeg2, extract_mpeg2 and mpeg2dec

Installed Libraries: libmpeg2.{so,a} and libmpeg2convert.{so,a}

Installed Directories: /usr/include/mpeg2dec and /usr/share/doc/mpeg2dec-0.5.1

Short Descriptions

extract_mpeg2	extracts MPEG video streams from a multiplexed stream.
mpeg2dec	decodes MPEG1 and MPEG2 video streams.
`libmpeg2.{so,a}`	contains API functions used to decode MPEG video streams.
`libmpeg2convert.{so,a}`	contains API functions used for color conversions of MPEG video streams.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libmusicbrainz-2.1.5

Introduction to libmusicbrainz

The libmusicbrainz package contains a library which allows you to access the data held on the MusicBrainz server. This is useful for adding MusicBrainz lookup capabilities to other applications.

MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing the web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or other related information.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/historical/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/historical/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: d5e19bb77edd6ea798ce206bd05ccc5f
Download size: 524 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5-missing-includes-1.patch

libmusicbrainz Dependencies

Optional to Build the Python Bindings

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libmusicbrainz

Installation of libmusicbrainz

Install libmusicbrainz by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../libmusicbrainz-2.1.5-missing-includes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If Python is installed, build the bindings with the following commands:

(cd python && python setup.py build)

This package does not come with a stand-alone test suite (to test you must have Python installed and perform the test after the package is installed).

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D docs/mb_howto.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5/mb_howto.txt

To test the Python bindings, issue the following: (cd python && python setup.py test).

If you built the Python bindings, issue the following commands as the root user to install them:

(cd python && python setup.py install)

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libmusicbrainz.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/musicbrainz and /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-2.1.5

Short Descriptions

libmusicbrainz.so

contains API functions to access the MusicBrainz database, both for looking up data and also for submitting new data.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libmusicbrainz-5.1.0

Introduction to libmusicbrainz

The libmusicbrainz package contains a library which allows you to access the data held on the MusicBrainz server.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz/releases/download/release-5.1.0/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4cc5556aa40ff7ab8f8cb83965535bc3
Download size: 76 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.6 MB (additional 4.4 MB for the API documentaion)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libmusicbrainz Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1, libxml2-2.9.2 and neon-0.30.1

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libmusicbrainz5

Installation of libmusicbrainz

Install libmusicbrainz by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. &&
make

If you have installed Doxygen-1.8.10, optionally build the API documentation:

doxygen ../Doxyfile

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have built the API documentation, install, as the root user:

rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0 &&
cp -vr docs/ /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libmusicbrainz5.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libmusicbrainz5 and /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0

Short Descriptions

libmusicbrainz5.so

contains API functions for accessing the MusicBrainz database.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

libogg-1.3.2

Introduction to libogg

The libogg package contains the Ogg file structure. This is useful for creating (encoding) or playing (decoding) a single physical bit stream.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://downloads.xiph.org/pub/xiph/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5c3a34309d8b98640827e5d0991a4015
Download size: 400 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libogg

Installation of libogg

Install libogg by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libogg-1.3.2 --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libogg.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ogg and /usr/share/doc/libogg-1.3.2

Short Descriptions

libogg.so

provides the functions required for programs to read or write Ogg formatted bit streams.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libquicktime-1.2.4

Introduction to libquicktime

The libquicktime package contains the libquicktime library, various plugins and codecs, along with graphical and command line utilities used for encoding and decoding QuickTime files. This is useful for reading and writing files in the QuickTime format. The goal of the project is to enhance, while providing compatibility with the Quicktime 4 Linux library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libquicktime/libquicktime-1.2.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 81cfcebad9b7ee7e7cfbefc861d6d61b
Download size: 1.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 20 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (includes building all codec modules)

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/libquicktime-1.2.4-ffmpeg2-1.patch

libquicktime Dependencies

Optional

alsa-lib-1.0.29, Doxygen-1.8.10, FAAC-1.28, FAAD2-2.7, FFmpeg-2.7.2, GTK+-2.24.28, LAME-3.99.5, libdv-1.0.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libpng-1.6.18, libvorbis-1.3.5, Schroedinger, x264-20150908-2245, and Xorg Libraries

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libquicktime

Installation of libquicktime

Install libquicktime by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../libquicktime-1.2.4-ffmpeg2-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --enable-gpl      \
            --without-doxygen \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libquicktime-1.2.4
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-1.2.4 &&
install -v -m644    README doc/{*.txt,*.html,mainpage.incl} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-1.2.4

Command Explanations

--enable-gpl: Changes the licence to GPL. This enables some extra plugins, such as FAAC, FAAD2, and x264.

--without-doxygen: This is necessary if you do not have Doxygen, omit this if installed.

--with-libdv: Build with libdv support. Not enabled by default.

Installed Programs: libquicktime_config, lqtplay, lqtremux, lqt_transcode, qt2text, qtdechunk, qtdump, qtinfo, qtrechunk, qtstreamize, and qtyuv4toyuv

Installed Libraries: libquicktime.so and several plugin codec libraries

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lqt, /usr/lib/libquicktime, and /usr/share/doc/libquicktime-1.2.4

Short Descriptions

libquicktime_config	is a graphical front end to examine and configure the available libquicktime audio and video codecs.
lqtplay	is a simple QuickTime movie player for X Window System.
lqt_transcode	is a command-line program used to encode video and/or audio files from one format to another.
qt2text	is used to dump all text strings from a quicktime file.
qtdechunk	can take movies containing rgb frames and write them out as ppm images.
qtdump	displays the parsed contents of the provided file.
qtinfo	prints various pieces of metadata parsed by the libquicktime library for the provided file
qtrechunk	concatenates input frames into a QuickTime movie.
qtstreamize	is used to make a file streamable by placing the moov header at the beginning of the file.
qtyuv4toyuv	is used to write a YUV4 encoded movie as a planar YUV 4:2:0 file.
`libquicktime.so`	is a library for reading and writing QuickTime files. It provides convenient access to QuickTime files with a variety of supported codecs. The library contains new functions integrated with all the original QuickTime 4 Linux library functions used to encode and decode QuickTime files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libsamplerate-0.1.8

Introduction to libsamplerate

libsamplerate is a sample rate converter for audio.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/libsamplerate-0.1.8.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1c7fb25191b4e6e3628d198a66a84f47
Download size: 4.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libsamplerate Dependencies

Optional

libsndfile-1.0.25, and libfftw3 (for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsamplerate

Installation of libsamplerate

Install libsamplerate by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make htmldocdir=/usr/share/doc/libsamplerate-0.1.8 install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Program: sndfile-resample

Installed Library: libsamplerate.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libsamplerate-0.1.8

Short Descriptions

sndfile-resample

is a sample rate converter using libsndfile for file I/O.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libsndfile-1.0.25

Introduction to libsndfile

Libsndfile is a library of C routines for reading and writing files containing sampled audio data.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/files/libsndfile-1.0.25.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e2b7bb637e01022c7d20f95f9c3990a2
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

libsndfile Dependencies

Optional

alsa-lib-1.0.29, FLAC-1.3.1, libogg-1.3.2, libvorbis-1.3.5 and SQLite-3.8.11.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsndfile

Installation of libsndfile

Install libsndfile by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make htmldocdir=/usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.25 install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: sndfile-cmp, sndfile-concat, sndfile-convert, sndfile-deinterleave, sndfile-info, sndfile-interleave, sndfile-metadata-get, sndfile-metadata-set, sndfile-play, sndfile-regtest and sndfile-salvage

Installed Library: libsndfile.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libsndfile-1.0.25

Short Descriptions

sndfile-cmp	compares two audio files.
sndfile-concat	concatenates two or more audio files.
sndfile-convert	converts a sound files from one format to another.
sndfile-deinterleave	splits a multi-channel into multiple single channel files.
sndfile-info	displays information about a sound file.
sndfile-interleave	converts multiple single channel files into a multi-channel file.
sndfile-metadata-get	retrieves metadata from a sound file.
sndfile-metadata-set	sets metadata in a sound file.
sndfile-play	plays a sound file.
`libsndfile.so`	contains the libsndfile API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libtheora-1.1.1

Introduction to libtheora

libtheora is a reference implementation of the Theora video compression format being developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9eeabf1ad65b7f41533854a59f7a716d
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 13.4 MB (without static libs or API docs and without installing the examples)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

libtheora Dependencies

Required

libogg-1.3.2

Optional

SDL-1.2.15 and libpng-1.6.18 (both to build the example players), Doxygen-1.8.10, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx), BibTex, and Transfig (all four to build the API documentation), and Valgrind-3.10.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Libtheora

Installation of libtheora

Install libtheora by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/png_\(sizeof\)/\1/g' examples/png2theora.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If you wish to run the tests, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you wish to install the examples (so that you can hack on theora), install them as the root user:

cd examples/.libs &&
for E in *; do
  install -v -m755 $E /usr/bin/theora_${E}
done

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/png_$sizeof$/\1/g' examples/png2theora.c: This sed fixes build with libpng 1.6.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None, unless you installed the examples

Installed Libraries: libtheora.so, libtheoraenc.so, and libtheoradec.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/theora and /usr/share/doc/libtheora-1.1.1

Short Descriptions

libtheora*.so

libraries provide the functions to read and write video files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libvorbis-1.3.5

Introduction to libvorbis

The libvorbis package contains a general purpose audio and music encoding format. This is useful for creating (encoding) and playing (decoding) sound in an open (patent free) format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.5.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 28cb28097c07a735d6af56e598e1c90f
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 15 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

libvorbis Dependencies

Required

libogg-1.3.2

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) (specifically, pdflatex and htlatex) to build the PDF documentation

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Libvorbis

Installation of libvorbis

Optionally fix installation of the package when --enable-docs is added to the configure switches:

sed -i '/components.png \\/{n;d}' doc/Makefile.in

Install libvorbis by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make LIBS=-lm check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/Vorbis* /usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.3.5

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-docs: This switch enables building the documentation in formats other than the supplied html.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libvorbis.so, libvorbisenc.so and libvorbisfile.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vorbis and /usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.3.5

Short Descriptions

libvorbis.so

provides the functions used to read and write sound files.

Last updated on 2015-09-21 11:19:34 -0700

libvpx-1.4.0

Introduction to libvpx

This package, from the WebM project, provides the reference implementations of the VP8 Codec, used in most current html5 video, and of the next-generation VP9 Codec.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webm/libvpx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 63b1d7f59636a42eeeee9225cc14e7de
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 38 MB (without the documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.9 SBU

libvpx Dependencies

Required

yasm-1.3.0 (compiling with NASM-2.11.08 is currently broken) and Which-2.21 (so configure can find yasm)

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 and PHP-5.6.13 (to build the documentation).

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libvpx

Installation of libvpx

Install libvpx by running the following commands:

sed   -e 's/cp -p/cp/'       \
      -i build/make/Makefile &&
chmod -v 644 vpx/*.h         &&

mkdir ../libvpx-build &&
cd    ../libvpx-build &&

../libvpx-1.4.0/configure --prefix=/usr \
                           --enable-shared \
                           --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed ... && chmod ...: These commands correct ownership and permissions of installed files.

mkdir ../libvpx-build && cd ../libvpx-build: The libvpx developers recommend building in a dedicated build directory.

--disable-vp8: This switch prevents building of VP8 codec support.

--disable-vp9: This switch prevents building of VP9 codec support.

--disable-static: This switch prevents building of static versions of libraries.

Installed Programs: vpxdec and vpxenc

Installed Libraries: libvpx.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vpx

Short Descriptions

vpxdec	is the WebM Project VP8 and VP9 decoder.
vpxenc	is the WebM project VP8 and VP9 encoder.
`libvpx.so`	provides functions to use the VP8 and VP9 video codecs.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

MLT-0.9.6

Introduction to MLT

MLT package is the Media Lovin Toolkit. It is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting. It provides a toolkit for broadcasters, video editors, media players, transcoders, web streamers and many more types of applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlt/files/mlt-0.9.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 92bcc95af44ff086df0a0ce17a201d1c
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 168 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

MLT Dependencies

Required

frei0r-27-01-15 and Qt-5.5.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10, libexif-0.6.21, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, LADSPA, MOVEit, SoX, and Swfdec

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mlt

Installation of MLT

Install MLT by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --avformat-vdpau         \
            --enable-gpl             \
            --enable-gpl3            \
            --enable-opengl          \
            --disable-gtk2           \
            --qt-libdir=$QT5DIR/lib  \
            --qt-includedir=$QT5DIR/include &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: melt

Installed Libraries: libmlt.so, libmlt++.so, and over twenty plugins

Installed Directories: /usr/include/mlt, /usr/include/mlt++, /usr/lib/mlt, and /usr/share/mlt

Short Descriptions

melt

is a test tool for MLT.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Opal-3.10.10

Introduction to Opal

The Opal package contains a C++ class library for normalising the numerous telephony protocols into a single integrated call model.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.10/opal-3.10.10.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/opal/3.10/opal-3.10.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 6efa1b4c5e0ad6460019b4c6df0898d7
Download size: 5.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 305 MB
Estimated build time: 2.0 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/opal-3.10.10-ffmpeg2-1.patch

Opal Dependencies

Required

Ptlib-2.10.10

Optional

Celt, FFmpeg-2.7.2, GSM, ISDN4Linux, libtheora-1.1.1, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, Ruby-2.2.3, Spandsp, Speex-1.2rc2, and x264-20150908-2245

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/opal

Installation of Opal

Install Opal by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../opal-3.10.10-ffmpeg2-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 644 /usr/lib/libopal_s.a

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: libopal.so and libopal_s.a

Installed Directories: /usr/include/opal and /usr/lib/opal-3.10.10

Short Descriptions

libopal.so

contains the Opal API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Opus-1.1

Introduction to Opus

Opus is a lossy audio compression format developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is particularly suitable for interactive speech and audio transmission over the Internet. This package provides the Opus development library and headers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/opus/opus-1.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: c5a8cf7c0b066759542bc4ca46817ac6
Download size: 831 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.5 SBU for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Opus

Installation of Opus

Install Opus by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libopus.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/opus

Short Descriptions

libopus.so

provides the functions used to read and write Opus format.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

PulseAudio-6.0

Introduction to PulseAudio

PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-6.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b691e83b7434c678dffacfa3a027750e
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 95 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU (additional 0.6 SBU for tests)

PulseAudio Dependencies

Required

JSON-C-0.12 and libsndfile-1.0.25

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, BlueZ-5.34 (runtime), Check-0.10.0, ConsoleKit2-1.0.0 (runtime), GConf-3.2.6, GTK+-3.16.6, libsamplerate-0.1.8, SBC-1.3 (Bluetooth support), Valgrind-3.10.1, FFTW, JACK, libasyncns, LIRC, ORC, TDB, WebRTC AudioProcessing and XEN

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pulseaudio

Installation of PulseAudio

Install PulseAudio by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-bluez4     \
            --disable-rpath      &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

While still as the root user, remove the D-Bus configuration file for the system wide daemon to avoid creating unnecessary system users and groups:

rm /etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf

Command Explanations

--disable-bluez4: This switch disables support for BlueZ version 4 in favour of BlueZ version 5 since the latter also installs compatibility library for the earlier version.

--disable-rpath: This switch prevents linker from adding a hardcoded runtime path to the installed programs and libraries.

Configuring PulseAudio

Config Files

There are system wide configuration files: /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, /etc/pulse/client.conf, /etc/pulse/default.pa, and user configuration files with the same names in ~/.config/pulse. User configuration files take precedence over system wide ones.

Configuration Information

The default configuration files allow to set up a working installation, except that you need to remove a reference to Console-Kit if it is not installed. For example, issue the following command as the root user:

sed '/load-module module-console-kit/s/^/#/' \
                    -i /etc/pulse/default.pa

You may also have to configure the audio system. You may start pulseaudio in command line mode using pulseaudio -C. You can then list various informations and change some settings. See man pulse-cli-syntax.

Installed Programs: esdcompat, pacat, pacmd, pactl, padsp, pamon (symlink), paplay (symlink), parec (symlink), parecord (symlink), pasuspender, pax11publish, pulseaudio, and start-pulseaudio-x11

Installed Libraries: libpulse.so, libpulse-mainloop-glib.so, libpulse-simple.so, and libpulsecore-6.0.so

Installed Directories: /etc/pulse, /usr/include/pulse, /usr/lib/{pulseaudio,pulse-6.0}, /usr/lib/cmake/PulseAudio, /usr/libexec/pulse, and /usr/share/pulseaudio

Short Descriptions

esdcompat	is the PulseAudio ESD wrapper script.
pacat	plays back or records raw or encoded audio streams on a PulseAudio sound server.
pacmd	is a tool used to reconfigure a PulseAudio sound server during runtime.
pactl	is used to control a running PulseAudio sound server.
padsp	is the PulseAudio OSS Wrapper.
pamon	is a symbolic link to pacat.
paplay	is used to play audio files on a PulseAudio sound server.
parec	is a symbolic link to pacat.
parecord	is a symbolic link to pacat.
pasuspender	is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications to access them directly.
pax11publish	is the PulseAudio X11 Credential Utility.
pulseaudio	is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux.
start-pulseaudio-kde	Starts PulseAudio and loads module-device-manager to use KDE routing policies.
start-pulseaudio-x11	starts PulseAudio and registers it to the X11 session manager.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

SBC-1.3

Introduction to SBC

The SBC is a digital audio encoder and decoder used to transfer data to Bluetooth audio output devices like headphones or loudspeakers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/sbc-1.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/sbc-1.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 2d8b7841f2c11ab287718d562f2b981c
Download size: 244 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

SBC Dependencies

Optional

libsndfile-1.0.25

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sbc

Installation of SBC

Install SBC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static --disable-tester &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-tester This disables the SBC tester. Remove it if you have installed the optional libsndfile package.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: sbcdec, sbcenc, and sbcinfo

Installed Library: libsbc.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/sbc

Short Descriptions

sbcdec	is a SBC decoder utility.
sbcenc	is a SBC encoder utility.
sbcinfo	is a subband codec (SBC) analyzer.
`libsbc.so`	contains the SBC API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

SDL-1.2.15

Introduction to SDL

The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multimedia software, such as games and emulators.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9d96df8417572a2afb781a7c4c811a85
Download size: 3.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 40 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

SDL Dependencies

Optional

AAlib-1.4rc5, ALSA-1.0.29, GLU-9.0.0, NASM-2.11.08, PulseAudio-6.0, Pth-2.0.7, X Window System, DirectFB, GGI, libcaca, PicoGUI, and SVGAlib

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sdl

Installation of SDL

Install SDL by running the following commands:

sed -e '/_XData32/s:register long:register _Xconst long:' \
    -i src/video/x11/SDL_x11sym.h &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&

make

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/SDL-1.2.15/html &&
install -v -m644    docs/html/*.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/SDL-1.2.15/html

Testing SDL

If you wish to, test the installation of SDL using the included test programs. It is not required to install any of the resulting binaries to validate the installation. Issue the following commands to build the test programs:

cd test &&
./configure &&
make

You'll need to manually run all the test programs (they are listed in the README file in this directory). Many of them will need to be manually killed, and you'll need to turn your speakers on with the volume at a suitable level.

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: This command fixes compilation with libX11-1.6.0

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--disable-alsa-shared: This switch disables dynamically loading ALSA shared libraries.

--disable-sdl-dlopen: This switch disables using dlopen for shared object loading. Loading image backend libraries like libpng dynamically on the fly does not work.

--disable-x11-shared: This switch disables dynamically loading X11 shared libraries.

Configuring SDL

Configuration Information

As with most libraries, there is no configuration to do, save that the library directory, i.e., /opt/lib or /usr/local/lib should appear in /etc/ld.so.conf so that ldd can find the shared libraries. After checking that this is the case, /sbin/ldconfig should be run while logged in as root.

Installed Program: sdl-config

Installed Libraries: libSDL.so and libSDLmain.a

Installed Directories: /usr/include/SDL and /usr/share/doc/SDL-1.2.15

Short Descriptions

sdl-config	determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use `libSDL`.
`libSDL.so`	library provides low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D frame buffer across multiple platforms.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

SoundTouch-1.9.0

Introduction to SoundTouch

The SoundTouch package contains an open-source audio processing library that allows changing the sound tempo, pitch and playback rate parameters independently from each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/soundtouch-1.9.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 0b0672c09c1c97df2e61c4d5aa9a7b86
Download size: 168 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.4 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/soundtouch

Installation of SoundTouch

Install SoundTouch by running the following commands:

./bootstrap &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/soundtouch-1.9.0 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-openmp: This switch adds support for running the algorithms parallel in several CPU cores, in systems with multicore processors.

Installed Program: soundstretch

Installed Library: libSoundTouch.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/soundtouch and /usr/share/doc/soundtouch-1.9.0

Short Descriptions

soundstretch	is a program for processing WAV audio files by modifying sound tempo, pitch and playback rate properties independently from each other.
`libSoundTouch.so`	contains SoundTouch API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-18 20:33:16 -0700

Speex-1.2rc2

Introduction to Speex

Speex is an audio compression format designed especially for speech. It is well-adapted to internet applications and provides useful features that are not present in most other CODECs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.2rc2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 6ae7db3bab01e1d4b86bacfa8ca33e81
Download size: 1.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 8.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/speex/speexdsp-1.2rc3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 70d9d31184f7eb761192fd1ef0b73333
Download size: 884 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.1 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Speex Dependencies

Required

libogg-1.3.2

Optional

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/speex

Installation of Speex

This package consists of two separate tarballs. They need to be extracted and built independently.

Install Speex by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/speex-1.2rc2 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

As the root user:

make install

Now extract and install the speexdsp package:

cd ..                          &&
tar -xf speexdsp-1.2rc3.tar.gz &&
cd speexdsp-1.2rc3             &&

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/speexdsp-1.2rc3 &&
make

Again, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: speexdec and speexenc

Installed Libraries: libspeex.so and libspeexdsp.so

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/speex-1.2rc2 and /usr/share/doc/speexdsp-1.2rc3

Short Descriptions

speexdec	decodes a Speex file and produces a WAV or raw file.
speexenc	encodes a WAV or raw files using Speex.
`libspeex.so`	provides functions for the audio encoding/decoding programs.
`libspeexdsp.so`	is a speech processing library that goes along with the Speex codec.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Taglib-1.9.1

Introduction to Taglib

Taglib is a library used for reading, writing and manipulating audio file tags and is used by applications such as Amarok and VLC.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/taglib/taglib/releases/download/v1.9.1/taglib-1.9.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 0d35df96822bbd564c5504cb3c2e4d86
Download size: 644 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU

Taglib Dependencies

Required

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/taglib

Installation of Taglib

Install Taglib by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: taglib-config

Installed Libraries: libtag.so and libtag_c.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/taglib

Short Descriptions

taglib-config

is a tool used to print information about the taglib installation.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

v4l-utils-1.6.3

Introduction to v4l-utils

v4l-utils provides a series of utilities for media devices, allowing to handle the proprietary formats available at most webcams (libv4l), and providing tools to test V4L devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-1.6.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 307858616be6374f63bf946307f15a7f
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 47 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

v4l-utils Dependencies

Required

GLU-9.0.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, and MesaLib-10.6.6

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.22 and hicolor-icon-theme-0.15

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/v4l-utils

Installation of v4l-utils

Install v4l-utils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: cx18-ctl, decode_tm6000, dvb-fe-tool, dvb-format-convert, dvbv5-scan, dvbv5-zap, ir-keytable, ivtv-ctl, media-ctl, qv4l2, rds-ctl, v4l2-compliance, v4l2-ctl, v4l2-dbg, and v4l2-sysfs-path

Installed Library: libdvbv5.so, libv4l-mplane.so, libv4l1.so, libv4l2.so, libv4l2rds.so, libv4lconvert.so, v4l1compat.so, and v4l2convert.so

Installed Directories: /lib/udev/rc_keymaps /usr/include/libdvbv5, /usr/lib/libv4l, and /usr/lib/libv4l/plugins

Short Descriptions

cx18-ctl	is a tool to handle cx18 based devices.
decode_tm6000	decode multiplexed format from TM5600/TM6000 USB.
dvb-fe-tool	is a command line tool for digital TV services.
dvb-format-convert	is a tool meant to convert among different file formats. It is compliant with version 5 of the DVB API.
dvbv5-scan	is command line frequency scanning tool for digital TV services that are compliant with version 5 of the DVB API.
dvbv5-zap	is a command line tuning tool for digital TV services that is compliant with version 5 of the DVB API.
ir-keytable	is a tool that lists the Remote Controller devices, allows one to get/set IR keycode/scancode tables, test events generated by IR, and to adjust other Remote Controller options.
ivtv-ctl	is a utility that can control many card settings, like changing the inputs from tuner to svideo or composite, setting video resolution or changing video mode (PAL, SECAM, NTSC).
media-ctl	is a utility used to configure V4L2 devices.
qv4l2	is used to test video4linux capture devices.
rds-ctl	is a utility for decoding raw RDS data from V4L2 Radio devices and offers simple ways to access the received RDS information.
v4l2-compliance	is a compliance test tool.
v4l2-ctl	is a tool to control v4l2 controls from the cmdline.
v4l2-dbg	is a tool to directly get and set registers of v4l2 devices.
v4l2-sysfs-path	checks the media devices installed on a machine and the corresponding device nodes.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

x264-20150908-2245

Introduction to x264

x264 package provides a library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20150908-2245-stable.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 64118402b0ea00109bd6460e27871430
Download size: 660 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

x264 Dependencies

Installation of x264

Install x264 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-shared \
            --disable-cli &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-cli: This switch disables building the command-line encoder which is redundant since it requires FFmpeg for most of the input formats.

--disable-asm: Use this switch if you didn't install yasm.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libx264.so

Installed Directory: None

Short Descriptions

libx264.so

provides the functions used to encode video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xine-lib-1.2.6

Introduction to Xine Libraries

The Xine Libraries package contains xine libraries. These are useful for interfacing with external plug-ins that allow the flow of information from the source to the audio and video hardware.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-lib-1.2.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/xine-lib-1.2.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 02ee3c2380273989b4b016903209e05e
Download size: 4.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 121 MB (additional 123 MB to install API documentation)
Estimated build time: 1.4 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU to install API documentation)

Xine Libraries Dependencies

Required

X Window System, FFmpeg-2.7.2, and at least one of: ALSA-1.0.29, PulseAudio-6.0 or JACK

Optional

AAlib-1.4rc5, FAAD2-2.7, FLAC-1.3.1, gdk-pixbuf-2.31.7, GLU-9.0.0, ImageMagick-6.9.2-0, liba52-0.7.4, libmad-0.15.1b, libmng-2.0.3, libtheora-1.1.1, libva-1.6.0, libvdpau-1.1.1, libvorbis-1.3.5, libvpx-1.4.0, MesaLib-10.6.6, Samba-4.2.3, SDL-1.2.15, Speex-1.2rc2, Doxygen-1.8.10 (to create the API documentation), v4l-utils-1.6.3 DirectFB, libbluray, libcaca, libdca, libFAME, libmodplug, musepack, VCDImager, and WavPack,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xine-lib

Installation of Xine Libraries

Install Xine Libraries by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr          \
            --disable-vcd          \
            --with-external-dvdnav \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xine-lib-1.2.6 &&
make

To create the API documentation, Doxygen must be installed and issue the following command:

doxygen doc/Doxyfile

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

If you built the API documentation, issue the following commands as the root user to install it:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/xine-lib-1.2.6/api &&
install -v -m644    doc/api/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/xine-lib-1.2.6/api

Command Explanations

--disable-vcd: This switch is required to compile Xine Lib without VCDImager installed. Remove this option if you have installed VCDImager.

--with-external-dvdnav: This switch is required, because internal libraries cannot decrypt DVD.

--docdir=/usr/share/xine-lib-1.2.6: This switch causes the documentation to be installed into a versioned directory instead of the default /usr/share/doc/xine-lib.

Installed Programs: xine-config and xine-list-1.2

Installed Libraries: libxine.so and numerous plugin modules and video extensions under /usr/lib/xine/plugins/2.4

Installed Fonts: Output display engine fonts located in /usr/share/xine-lib/fonts

Installed Directories: /usr/include/xine, /usr/lib/xine, /usr/share/xine-lib, and /usr/share/doc/xine-lib-1.2.6

Short Descriptions

xine-config	provides information to programs trying to link with the xine libraries.
xine-list-1.2	is used to get supported filetype information from xine-lib.
`libxine.so`	provides the API for processing audio/video files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

XviD-1.3.3

Introduction to XviD

XviD is an MPEG-4 compliant video CODEC.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.3.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8ecddfe488cb3a82d792fc7efbf51d62
Download size: 800 KB
Estimated disk space required: 8.1 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

XviD Dependencies

Optional

yasm-1.3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xvid

Installation of XviD

Note

This package tarball expands to xvidcore, not the expected xvidcore-1.3.3.

Install XviD by running the following commands:

cd build/generic &&
sed -i 's/^LN_S=@LN_S@/& -f -v/' platform.inc.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

sed -i '/libdir.*STATIC_LIB/ s/^/#/' Makefile &&
make install &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4.3 &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.3/examples &&
install -v -m644 ../../doc/* /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.3 &&
install -v -m644 ../../examples/* \
    /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.3/examples

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/^LN_S=@LN_S@/& -f -v/' platform.inc.in: Fix error during make install if reintalling or upgrading.

sed -i '/libdir.*STATIC_LIB/ s/^/#/' Makefile: This command disables installing the static library.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libxvidcore.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/xvidcore-1.3.3

Short Descriptions

libxvidcore.so

provides functions to encode and decode most MPEG-4 video data.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 46. Audio Utilities

This chapter contains programs involved with audio file manipulation; that is to say playing, recording, ripping and the other common things which people want to do. It also includes a package used to render text to speech using your system's audio hardware. To use much of this software, you will need to have the kernel sound drivers installed.

mpg123-1.22.4

Introduction to mpg123

The mpg123 package contains a console-based MP3 player. It claims to be the fastest MP3 decoder for Unix.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mpg123/mpg123-1.22.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 2dfafae3bbc532b4c8b04a77c6a6de89
Download size: 852 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

mpg123 Dependencies

Optional

PulseAudio-6.0, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, OpenAL and PortAudio

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mpg123

Installation of mpg123

Install mpg123 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-module-suffix=.so &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--with-module-suffix=.so: This switch tells mpg123 to load modules with .so extension which is useful if you don't want to keep .la files.

Installed Programs: mpg123, mpg123-id3dump, mpg123-strip, and out123

Installed Library: libmpg123.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/mpg123

Short Descriptions

mpg123	is used for playing MP3 files via the console.
mpg123-id3dump	Tool to dump ID3 meta data from MPEG audio files using libmpg123
mpg123-strip	Extract only MPEG frames from a stream using libmpg123 (stdin to stdout)
out123	play raw PCM audio to an output device
`libmpg123.so`	contains the mpg123 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

vorbis-tools-1.4.0

Introduction to Vorbis Tools

The Vorbis Tools package contains command-line tools useful for encoding, playing or editing files using the Ogg CODEC.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/vorbis-tools-1.4.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 567e0fb8d321b2cd7124f8208b8b90e6
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Vorbis Tools Dependencies

Required

libvorbis-1.3.5

Optional (required to build the ogg123 program)

libao-1.2.0

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, FLAC-1.3.1, libkate, and Speex-1.2rc2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vorbistools

Installation of Vorbis Tools

Install Vorbis Tools by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-vcut \
            --without-curl &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-vcut: This parameter is used so that the vcut program is built as it is not by default.

--without-curl: This parameter disables HTTP streaming in ogg123. Remove this parameter if you have cURL installed.

Configuring Vorbis Tools

Config Files

/etc/libao.conf, ~/.libao and ~/.ogg123rc

Configuration Information

Issue man libao.conf for information about setting the default output device. Also see /usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools-1.4.0/ogg123rc-example .

Installed Programs: ogg123, oggdec, oggenc, ogginfo, vcut and vorbiscomment

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/vorbis-tools-1.4.0

Short Descriptions

ogg123	is a command-line audio player for Ogg Vorbis streams.
oggdec	is a simple decoder which converts Ogg Vorbis files into PCM audio files (WAV or raw).
oggenc	is an encoder that turns raw, WAV or AIFF files into an Ogg Vorbis stream.
ogginfo	prints information stored in an audio file.
vcut	splits a file into two files at a designated cut point.
vorbiscomment	is an editor that changes information in the audio file metadata tags.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

LAME-3.99.5

Introduction to LAME

The LAME package contains an MP3 encoder and optionally, an MP3 frame analyzer. This is useful for creating and analyzing compressed audio files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 84835b313d4a8b68f5349816d33e07ce
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

LAME Dependencies

Optional

Dmalloc, Electric Fence, libsndfile-1.0.25 and NASM-2.11.08

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/lame

Installation of LAME

First, fix a compiler error introduced by gcc-4.9.0 on 32-bit machines:

case $(uname -m) in
   i?86) sed -i -e '/xmmintrin\.h/d' configure ;;
esac

Install LAME by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-mp3rtp --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user:

make pkghtmldir=/usr/share/doc/lame-3.99.5 install

Command Explanations

sed -i -e '/xmmintrin\.h/d' configure : with gcc-4.9.0 and above, the compiler issues an error on 32-bit machines, while compiling xmm_quantize_sub.c. The error message is: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline '_mm_loadu_ps'. This sed makes it appear as if xmmintrin.h is not present. Do not use this on other versions of gcc.

--enable-mp3rtp: This switch enables building the encode-to-RTP program.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-nasm: Enable the use of NASM-2.11.08 to compile optimized assembly routines.

Installed Programs: lame and mp3rtp

Installed Library: libmp3lame.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/lame and /usr/share/doc/lame-3.99.5

Short Descriptions

lame	creates MP3 audio files from raw PCM or `.wav` data.
mp3rtp	is used to encode MP3 with RTP streaming of the output.
`libmp3lame.so`	libraries provide the functions necessary to convert raw PCM and WAV files to MP3 files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

CDParanoia-III-10.2

Introduction to CDParanoia

The CDParanoia package contains a CD audio extraction tool. This is useful for extracting .wav files from audio CDs. A CDDA capable CDROM drive is needed. Practically all drives supported by Linux can be used.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
Download MD5 sum: b304bbe8ab63373924a744eac9ebc652
Download size: 179 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/cdparanoia-III-10.2-gcc_fixes-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cdparanoia

Installation of CDParanoia

Note

This package does not support parallel build.

Install CDParanoia by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../cdparanoia-III-10.2-gcc_fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make -j1

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libcdda_*.so.0.10.2

Configuring CDParanoia

Configuration Information

Installed Program: cdparanoia

Installed Libraries: libcdda_interface.{so,a} and libcdda_paranoia.{so,a}

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

cdparanoia	is used for 'ripping' an audio-cd. Ripping is the process of digitally extracting music from an audio CD.
`libcdda_interface.{so,a}`	contains functions used by cdparanoia, as well as other packages, which can automatically identify if a CD device is CDDA compatible.
`libcdda_paranoia.{so,a}`	contains functions used by cdparanoia, as well as other packages, which provide data verification, synchronization, error handling and scratch reconstruction capability.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

FreeTTS-1.2.2

Introduction to FreeTTS

The FreeTTS package contains a speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Flite is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University. The FreeTTS package is used to convert text to audible speech through the system audio hardware.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetts/freetts-1.2.2-src.zip
Download MD5 sum: 692b5ece251fed88539736e55af5f391
Download size: 13.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 92 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Test suite: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetts/freetts-1.2.2-tst.zip
Download MD5 sum: 4348c7db928612d4b6f6eb2fd621a949
Download size: 3.8 MB

FreeTTS Dependencies

Required

apache-ant-1.9.6 and Sharutils-4.15.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/freetts

Installation of FreeTTS

The FreeTTS package is distributed in ZIP format and the unzip command will default to creating an unused source directory. Additionally, unzipping the test suite file will prompt for questions about overwriting existing files. Use the following commands to unzip the source files:

unzip -q freetts-1.2.2-src.zip -x META-INF/* &&
unzip -q freetts-1.2.2-tst.zip -x META-INF/*

Tip

The sh jsapi.sh command below installs the Java Speech API components into the FreeTTS source tree. You will be required to view, and then accept (by entering a y keypress), a license agreement before the installation will continue. If you are scripting (automating) the build, you'll need to account for this. There is information about automating build commands in the Automated Building Procedures section of Chapter 2. Towards the end of this section, specific information for automating this type of installation is discussed.

Install FreeTTS by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/value="src/value="./' build.xml &&
cd lib      &&
sh jsapi.sh &&
cd ..       &&
ant

To test the results, issue:

ant junit &&
cd tests &&
sh regression.sh &&
cd ..

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /opt/freetts-1.2.2/{lib,docs/{audio,images}} &&
install -v -m644 lib/*.jar /opt/freetts-1.2.2/lib                &&
install -v -m644 *.txt RELEASE_NOTES docs/*.{pdf,html,txt,sx{w,d}} \
                               /opt/freetts-1.2.2/docs           &&
install -v -m644 docs/audio/*  /opt/freetts-1.2.2/docs/audio     &&
install -v -m644 docs/images/* /opt/freetts-1.2.2/docs/images    &&
cp -v -R javadoc               /opt/freetts-1.2.2                &&
ln -v -s freetts-1.2.2 /opt/freetts

Optionally, install any or all of the additional FreeTTS components using the following commands as the root user (see the Command Explanations section for details):

cp -v -R bin    /opt/freetts-1.2.2        &&
install -v -m644 speech.properties $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib &&
cp -v -R tools  /opt/freetts-1.2.2        &&
cp -v -R mbrola /opt/freetts-1.2.2        &&
cp -v -R demo   /opt/freetts-1.2.2

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/value="src/value="./' build.xml: Fix an error in the build file to allow the program to find the source.

sh jsapi.sh: This command installs the Java Speech API components into the FreeTTS source tree.

ant: FreeTTS uses the Apache Ant build system instead of the GNU autotools. This commands builds everything, including the class libraries, tools and demos.

cp -v -R bin ...; install -v -m644 speech.properties: These two commands install the demonstration programs. Optionally copy the speech.properties file to ~/speech.properties if you don't want to make it available system-wide.

cp -v -R tools ...: This installs the voice data import utilities. See the README.html files in the tools/ subdirectories for information and instructions about using the tools.

cp -v -R mbrola ...: This installs the mbrola.jar file, required if you use the MBROLA voices.

cp -v -R demo ...: This installs the sources and documentation for the demonstration programs.

For additional information and documentation about the FreeTTS project, visit the main web page at http://freetts.sourceforge.net.

Testing the Installation

Test the installation using the following command:

java -jar /opt/freetts/lib/freetts.jar \
     -text "This is a test of the FreeTTS speech synthesis system"

Depending on the setup of your audio drivers and software, you may have to add the -streaming switch to the command as shown below:

java -jar /opt/freetts/lib/freetts.jar -streaming \
     -text "This is a test of the FreeTTS speech synthesis system"

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: /opt/freetts-1.2.2/lib/*.jar

Installed Directory: /opt/freetts-1.2.2

Short Descriptions

*.jar

contains the class libraries which make up the FreeTTS speech synthesis system.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Audacious-3.6.2

Introduction to Audacious

Audacious is an audio player.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-3.6.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 79132b694714c90dbcd8593919abed1c
Download size: 528 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required Plugins

Download (HTTP): http://distfiles.audacious-media-player.org/audacious-plugins-3.6.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b4340be4d3c1ec577937a2c5399c6d53
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 60 MB
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU

Audacious Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.16.6, libxml2-2.9.2 (plugins), Xorg build environment (plugins), and X Window System (runtime)

Optional

PCRE-8.37 or Oniguruma, Valgrind-3.10.1 and libguess

Optional (for Plugins)

cURL-7.44.0, FAAD2-2.7, FFmpeg-2.7.2, FLAC-1.3.1, LAME-3.99.5, libcdio-0.93 (to identify and play CDs), libnotify-0.7.6, libsamplerate-0.1.8, libsndfile-1.0.25, libvorbis-1.3.5, mpg123-1.22.4, neon-0.30.1 (for online mpg3 and ogg radio), PulseAudio-6.0, Qt-5.5.0, SDL-1.2.15, The Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) library, FluidSynth, JACK (requires libsamplerate-0.1.8), libbinio (to build the AdPlug plugin), libcue, libmodplug, libmms, LIRC, and WavPack

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/audacious

Installation of Audacious

Install Audacious by running the following commands (you may wish to change the stamp to another string):

TPUT=/bin/true ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                           --with-buildstamp="BLFS" &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite, but you can run, before installing, test src/balsa. You will see a lot of debugging messages scrolling in the console. This is actually useful because they can be used to track down a bug.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installation of Audacious Plugins

Install the required plugins package by unpacking the tarball, changing into the newly created directory, and issuing the following commands:

TPUT=/bin/true ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

TPUT=/bin/true: the default is for make to output text in color. This is fine if you're building in a terminal, but if you script the build process and pipe the output from make to a log file then the control characters used to color the text can make the logfile unreadable. This option stops it coloring the text.

--with-buildstamp: This switch appends the given text to the version string.

--disable-mp3: Use this for the plugins if you have not installed mpg123 and do not wish to play mp3 files.

--enable-valgrind: Allow better Valgrind leak checks.

Configuring Audacious

If you prefer the old, smaller Winamp/XMMS interface, click on View> Interface> Winamp Classic Interface.

Installed Programs: audacious and audtool

Installed Libraries: libaudcore.so, libaudgui.so, libaudtag.so, and several plugin libraries under /usr/lib/audacious/ sub-directories

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{audacious,libaudcore,libaudgui}, /usr/lib/audacious and /usr/share/audacious

Short Descriptions

audacious	is a GTK+2 port of XMMS based on the Beep Media Player.
audtool	is a small tool to modify the behavior of a running audacious instance.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Amarok-2.8.0

Introduction to Amarok

Amarok is a powerful audio player for the KDE environment. Features include a context browser, integration with many online music services and support for management of several digital music players including Apple's iPod.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/2.8.0/src/amarok-2.8.0.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/amarok/2.8.0/src/amarok-2.8.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 53cfcb4819668b10e13b061478c7b32a
Download size: 38.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 223 MB
Estimated build time: 9.2 SBU

Amarok Dependencies

Required

kdelibs-4.14.10, MariaDB-10.0.21 or MySQL, and taglib-1.9.1

Optional

cURL-7.44.0 (for MP3tunes integration), libxml2-2.9.2 (for MP3tunes integration), OpenSSL-1.0.2d (for MP3tunes integration), QJson-0.8.1, nepomuk-core, Taglib-extras, Clamz (For Amazon integration), libgpod (for iPod support), liblastfm (for Last.fm integration), libmtp (for MTP device support), libmygpo-qt (for gpodder.net podcast support), libofa (for MusicDNS support), Loudmouth (for MP3tunes integration), qtscript-qt, and Google Mock (for tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/amarok

Installation of Amarok

Note

Amarok depends strongly on $KDE_PREFIX. If a new version of KDE is installed in a different location (for instance installing kde in a versioned directory of /opt), then this package will need to be reinstalled.

Install Amarok by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release         \
      -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF             \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

-DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF: This switch disables the integrated tests. The test suite requires Google Mock.

Installed Programs: amarok, amarok_afttagger, amarokcollectionscanner, amarokpkg, and amzdownloader

Installed Libraries: libamarokcore.so, libamaroklib.so, libamarokocsclient.so, libamarokpud.so, libamarok_service_lastfm_shared.so, libamarok-sqlcollection.so, libamarok-transcoding.so, libampache_account_login.so, and several libraries in $KDE_PREFIX/lib/kde4

Installed Directories: several in $KDE_PREFIX/share

Short Descriptions

amarok

Is a powerful music player and organizer built on top of KDE development platform.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 14:44:04 -0700

pnmixer-0.5.1

Introduction to Pnmixer

The Pnmixer package provides a lightweight volume control with a tray icon.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/downloads/nicklan/pnmixer/pnmixer-0.5.1.tar.gz
Download (FTP):
Download MD5 sum: 2288af95ab280721b39b7c33601d5dd4
Download size: 135 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Pnmixer Dependencies

Required

alsa-utils-1.0.29 and GTK+-2.24.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pnmixer

Installation of Pnmixer

Install Pnmixer by running the following commands:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not have a testsuite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: pnmixer

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/pnmixer

Short Descriptions

pnmixer

is a lightweight volume control that sits in a tray.

Last updated on 2015-09-12 19:40:39 -0700

Chapter 47. Video Utilities

This chapter always seems to be the favorite chapter. It's probably because there is a lot of satisfaction in playing your first video when you have spent so much time getting to that point. All those libraries, all the configurations and your reward is that you finally get to watch a movie. Not to worry though, there is always one more CODEC to install.

FFmpeg-2.7.2

Introduction to FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It is a very fast video and audio converter and it can also acquire from a live audio/video source. Designed to be intuitive, the command-line interface (ffmpeg) tries to figure out all the parameters, when possible. FFmpeg can also convert from any sample rate to any other, and resize video on the fly with a high quality polyphase filter. FFmpeg can use a Video4Linux compatible video source and any Open Sound System audio source.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.7.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 7eb2140bab9f0a8669b65b50c8e4cfb5
Download size: 7.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 1.1 GB (with optional docs); additional 2.3 GB to run the FATE suite)
Estimated build time: 1.8 SBU (with -j4 and optional docs); additional 2.8 SBU, with THREADS=4, to run the FATE suite, after sample files are downloaded

FFmpeg Dependencies

Recommended for desktop use

alsa-lib-1.0.29, libva-1.6.0, libvdpau-1.1.1 (with the corresponding driver package), and SDL-1.2.15

Optional

FAAC-1.28, Fontconfig-2.11.1, frei0r-27-01-15, libcdio-0.93 (to identify and play CDs), libwebp-0.4.3, opencv-3.0.0, OpenJPEG-1.5.2, OpenSSL-1.0.2d or GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, PulseAudio-6.0, Speex-1.2rc2, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) for PDF and PS documentation, v4l-utils-1.6.3, XviD-1.3.3, X Window System, Flite, GSM, HEVC/H.265, LADSPA, libaacplus, libbluray, libcaca, libcelt, libdc1394, libdca, libiec61883, libilbc, libmodplug, libnut (Git checkout), librtmp, libssh, libxavs (SVN checkout), OpenAL, OpenCore AMR, Schroedinger, TwoLAME, vo-aaenc, vo-amrwbenc, x265 (H.265/MPEG-H HEVC), and ZVBI

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/ffmpeg

Installation of FFmpeg

Install FFmpeg by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/-lflite"/-lflite -lasound"/' configure &&

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --enable-gpl         \
            --enable-version3    \
            --enable-nonfree     \
            --disable-static     \
            --enable-shared      \
            --disable-debug      \
            --enable-libass      \
            --enable-libfdk-aac  \
            --enable-libfreetype \
            --enable-libmp3lame  \
            --enable-libopus     \
            --enable-libtheora   \
            --enable-libvorbis   \
            --enable-libvpx      \
            --enable-libx264     \
            --enable-x11grab     \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2 &&

make &&

gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart

HTML documentation was built in the previous step. If you have texlive-20150521 installed and wish to build PDF and Postscript versions of the documentation, issue the following commands:

sed -i '$s/$/\n\n@bye/' doc/{git-howto,nut,fate}.texi             &&
sed -i '/machine:i386/ s/\\/@backslashchar{}/g' doc/platform.texi &&

pushd doc &&
for DOCNAME in `basename -s .html *.html`
do
    texi2pdf -b $DOCNAME.texi &&
    texi2dvi -b $DOCNAME.texi &&

    dvips    -o $DOCNAME.ps   \
                $DOCNAME.dvi
done &&
popd &&
unset DOCNAME

If you have Doxygen-1.8.10 installed and wish to create the API documentation (takes about 350 MB of space), issue the command doxygen doc/Doxyfile.

The fate-suite tests include comparisons with installed files, and should not be run before the package is installed. Therefore, if you desire to run them, instructions are given further below.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755    tools/qt-faststart /usr/bin &&
install -v -m644    doc/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2

If PDF and Postscript documentations were built, issue the following commands, as the root user, to install them:

install -v -m644 doc/*.pdf \
                 /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2 &&
install -v -m644 doc/*.ps  \
                 /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2

If you used doxygen to create the API documentation, install it (another 300 MB of space) by issuing the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2/api                     &&
cp -vr doc/doxy/html/* /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2/api                  &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2/api -type f -exec chmod -c 0644 \{} \; &&
find /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2/api -type d -exec chmod -c 0755 \{} \;

To properly test the installation you must have rsync-3.1.1 installed and follow the instructions for the FFmpeg Automated Testing Environment (FATE). First, about 930 MB of sample files used to run FATE are downloaded with the command:

make fate-rsync SAMPLES=fate-suite/

The fate-suite directory is created and the files are downloaded there. That command actually runs an rsync command, to obtain the sample files. You may want to compress and keep this directory for testing again, in another system, or when a new version of ffmpeg is launched. Then, you unpack the sample files in the source directory, and run, again, the make fate-rsync ... command above, to sync with the repository. Now, the download size and time are drastically reduced. Estimated values in "Package Information" do not include the download SBU. Some samples may have been removed, in the new version, so, in order to be sure local and server fate samples are identical, when you use previously saved samples, run the following command:

rsync -vrltLW  --delete --timeout=60 --contimeout=60 \
      rsync://fate-suite.ffmpeg.org/fate-suite/ fate-suite/

Next, FATE is executed, with the commands (you obtain a number of tests larger than 2400):

make fate THREADS=N SAMPLES=fate-suite/ | tee ../fate.log &&
grep ^TEST ../fate.log | wc -l

where N is an integer, N ≤ number of threads in the system.

Command Explanations

sed -i ... configure: This command adds the ALSA library to the Flite LDFLAGS variable and enables the discovery of Flite.

sed -i ... texi: Fix some .texi files for documentation builds.

find ... ;: Fix permissions of documentation files and directories.

--enable-libfreetype: Enables Freetype support.

--enable-gpl: Enables the use of GPL code and permits support for postprocessing, swscale and many other features.

--enable-version3: Enables the use of (L)GPL version 3 code.

--enable-nonfree: Enables the use of nonfree code. Note that the resulting libraries and binaries will be unredistributable.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-shared: Enables building shared libraries, otherwise only static libraries are built and installed.

--disable-debug: Disables building debugging symbols into the programs and libraries.

--enable-libass: Enables ASS/SSA subtitle format rendering via libass.

--enable-libfdk-aac: Enables currently the highest-quality AAC audio encoding via libfdk-aac.

--enable-libmp3lame: Enables MP3 audio encoding via libmp3lame.

--enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora: Enables Theora video encoding via libvorbis and libtheora.

--enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx: Enables WebM encoding via libvorbis and libvpx.

--enable-libx264: Enables high-quality H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding via libx264.

--enable-x11grab: Enables X11 grabbing.

--enable-openssl or --enable-gnutls: Enables HTTPS protocol for network streams.

gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart: This builds the qt-faststart program which can modify QuickTime formatted movies (.mov or .mp4) so that the header information is located at the beginning of the file instead of the end. This allows the movie file to begin playing before the entire file has been downloaded.

Note

Configuring FFmpeg

Config Files

/etc/ffserver.conf and ~/.ffmpeg/ffserver-config

You'll find a sample ffserver configuration file at doc/ffserver.conf in the source tree.

Installed Programs: ffmpeg, ffplay, ffprobe, ffserver, and qt-faststart

Installed Libraries: libavcodec.so, libavdevice.so, libavfilter.so, libavformat.so, libavutil.so, libpostproc.so, libswresample, and libswscale.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{libavcodec,libavdevice,libavfilter,libavformat}, /usr/include/{libavutil,libpostproc,libswresample,libswscale}, /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg-2.7.2, and /usr/share/ffmpeg

Short Descriptions

ffmpeg	is a command-line tool to convert video files, network streams and input from a TV card to several video formats.
ffplay	is a very simple and portable media player using the `ffmpeg` libraries and the SDL library.
ffprobe	gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in a human and machine-readable fashion.
ffserver	is a streaming server for everything that ffmpeg could use as input (files, streams, TV card input, webcam, etc).
qt-faststart	moves the index file to the front of quicktime (mov/mp4) videos.
`libavcodec.so`	is a library containing the FFmpeg codecs (both encoding and decoding).
`libavdevice.so`	is the FFmpeg device handling library.
`libavfilter.so`	is a library of filters that can alter video or audio between the decoder and the encoder (or output).
`libavformat.so`	is a library containing the file formats handling (mux and demux code for several formats) used by ffplay as well as allowing the generation of audio or video streams.
`libavutil.so`	is the FFmpeg utility library.
`libpostproc.so`	is the FFmpeg post processing library.
`libswresample.so`	is the FFmpeg audio rescaling library, it contains functions for converting audio sample formats.
`libswscale.so`	is the FFmpeg image rescaling library.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

MPlayer-SVN-r37520

Introduction to MPlayer

MPlayer is a powerful audio/video player controlled via the command line or a graphical interface that is able to play almost every popular audio and video file format. With supported video hardware and additional drivers, MPlayer can play video files without an X Window System installed.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/other/mplayer-SVN-r37520.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: db598c845fcc12c917c4cca0d76276e7
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 263 MB
Estimated build time: 3.5 SBU

MPlayer developers recommend using current snapshots. The source tarball shown above was created by the BLFS team by downloading an MPlayer snapshot and an ffmpeg snapshot. To form the final tarball, the MPlayer tarball is uncompressed and the directory renamed. Then, the ffmpeg snapshot is uncompressed into this directory, which is in turn compressed into the tar.xz final format. BLFS made no other changes to the existing source files. The ffmpeg snapshot is required, or a git checkout will be requested at configure time. This is not desired, because both should be obtained at the same date.

Additional Downloads

Skins

GUI skin (HTTP): http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Clearlooks-1.6.tar.bz2
GUI skin (FTP): ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Clearlooks-1.6.tar.bz2
Skin MD5 sum: f52b7592b8881021ec7ccb56ec455fba
Skin size: 40 KB
Alternative skins: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/

Note

Skins are only required in order to use the Gtk+ 2 user interface.

MPlayer Dependencies

Required

yasm-1.3.0

Optional Input Drivers and Libraries

CDParanoia-III-10.2, libcdio-0.93 (to identify and play CDs), libdvdread-5.0.3, libdvdnav-5.0.3, libdvdcss-1.3.0, Samba-4.2.3, libbluray, LIVE555 Streaming Media, RTMPDump, TiVo vstream client, and XMMS

Optional Audio Output Drivers and Libraries

ALSA-1.0.29, PulseAudio-6.0, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, NAS, and OpenAL

Optional Video Output Drivers and Libraries

AAlib-1.4rc5, giflib-5.1.1, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libmng-2.0.3, libpng-1.6.18, OpenJPEG-1.5.2, DirectFB, libcaca, and SVGAlib

Optional CODECs

FAAC-1.28, FAAD2-2.7, LAME-3.99.5, liba52-0.7.4, libdv-1.0.0, libmad-0.15.1b, libmpeg2-0.5.1, libtheora-1.1.1, libvpx-1.4.0, LZO-2.09, mpg123-1.22.4, Speex-1.2rc2, XviD-1.3.3, x264-20150908-2245, CrystalHD, Dirac, GSM, iLBC, libdca, libnut, libmpcdec, OpenCore Adaptive Multi Rate, Schroedinger, Tremor, and TwoLAME

Optional Miscellaneous Dependencies

Fontconfig-2.11.1, FreeType-2.6, FriBidi-0.19.7, GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, OpenSSL-1.0.2d, Opus-1.1, and UnRar-5.3.3; libxslt-1.1.28, docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1 (all three required to build the HTML documentation); and Enca, libbs2b, and LIRC (and LIRC Client Daemon)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mplayer

Installation of MPlayer

Main MPlayer Installation

Note

The package maintainers recommend building without any optimizations.

You may wish to examine the output from ./configure --help to find out what additional parameters to configure are needed to include the dependencies you have installed on your system.

Install MPlayer by running the following commands:

sed -i 's:libsmbclient.h:samba-4.0/&:' configure stream/stream_smb.c &&

./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --confdir=/etc/mplayer   \
            --enable-dynamic-plugins \
            --enable-menu            \
            --enable-gui             &&
make

If you wish to build the HTML documentation, issue the following command:

make doc

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install  &&
ln -svf ../icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/mplayer.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/mplayer.png

To install the HTML documentation, issue the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-SVN-r37520 &&
install -v -m644    DOCS/HTML/en/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/mplayer-SVN-r37520

You will only need codecs.conf if you want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it. Ensure any changes you make to codecs.conf achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary, create the file as the root user:

install -v -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer

You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files to /etc/mplayer for future reference or more customization ability. As the root user:

install -v -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Skin Installation (Optional)

To enable the Gtk+ 2 frontend of MPlayer, you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and create the default location (as the root user):

tar -xvf  ../Clearlooks-1.6.tar.bz2 \
    -C    /usr/share/mplayer/skins &&
ln  -sfvn Clearlooks /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default

Command Explanations

sed -i 's:libsmbclient.h:samba-4.0 ...: Include support for Samba 4.

--enable-gui: This option builds the GUI interface into mplayer.

--enable-menu: This option is set to enable the on-screen display.

--language-doc="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the documentation. Use ./configure --help to find out what additional information.

--language-man="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the man pages. Use ./configure --help to find out what additional information.

--language-msg="<lang>": This switch enables the language used for the messages and the GUI. Use ./configure --help to find out what additional information.

--language="<lang>": This switch defines the default language used. Use ./configure --help to find out what additional information.

Note

Specific options override --language. You can pass a list of languages separated by whitespace or commas instead of a single language. Nonexisting translations will be dropped from each list. All documentation and man page translations available in the list will be installed, for the messages the first available translation will be used. The value "all" will activate all translations. The LINGUAS environment variable is honored. In all cases the fallback is English. Values listed by ./configure --help are not all available, as would normally be expected. You need to build test.

Configuring MPlayer

Config Files

/etc/mplayer/* and ~/.mplayer/*

Configuration Information

Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide files in /etc/mplayer (in fact, this directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned above). Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration button located on the MPlayer GUI. Any configuration changes made in the GUI will be saved in the user's ~/.mplayer directory.

Installed Programs: gmplayer, mplayer and mencoder

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/mplayer, /usr/share/doc/mplayer-SVN-r37520 and /usr/share/mplayer

Short Descriptions

gmplayer	is a symlink to mplayer which brings up the GTK+ 2 frontend of MPlayer.
mplayer	is the main MPlayer video player.
mencoder	is a powerful command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool that is useful for (amongst other things) ripping DVDs to files on your hard disk (see /usr/share/doc/mplayer-SVN-r37520/mencoder.html)

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Transcode-1.1.7

Introduction to Transcode

Transcode is a fast, versatile and command-line based audio/video everything to everything converter. For a rundown of the features and capabilities, along with usage examples, visit the Transcode Wiki at http://www.transcoding.org/.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://bitbucket.org/france/transcode-tcforge/downloads/transcode-1.1.7.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/transcode-1.1.7.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9bb25a796a8591fb764de46ee87ce505
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 75 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/transcode-1.1.7-ffmpeg2-1.patch

Transcode Dependencies

Required

FFmpeg-2.7.2

Optional

FAAC-1.28, FreeType-2.6, ImageMagick-6.9.2-0, liba52-0.7.4, libdv-1.0.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, libogg-1.3.2, libquicktime-1.2.4, libtheora-1.1.1, libvorbis-1.3.5, libxml2-2.9.2, LZO-2.09, SDL-1.2.15, v4l-utils-1.6.3, x264-20150908-2245, XviD-1.3.3 MJPEG Tools, and PVM3,

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/transcode

Installation of Transcode

Note

The details of how the FFmpeg libraries are used has changed since this version of Transcode was released. The patch allows the package to be compiled, but some or all of the internal calls to FFmpeg fail at run time (they report an error and processing continues, but without any output).

For many packages, that would be a critical error. In this case, the main reason to install Transcode is for the tccat program, which works. Some of the transcode options work - for the others, use ffmpeg directly on the command line.

If building with --enable-freetype2 configure switch, use the following sed to fix building against FreeType-2.5.1 or newer versions:

sed -i "s:#include <freetype/ftglyph.h>:#include FT_GLYPH_H:" filter/subtitler/load_font.c

Install Transcode by running the following commands:

sed -i 's|doc/transcode|&-$(PACKAGE_VERSION)|' \
       $(find . -name Makefile.in -exec grep -l 'docsdir =' {} \;) &&

sed -i "s:av_close_input_file:avformat_close_input:g" \
       import/probe_ffmpeg.c                                       &&

patch -Np1 -i ../transcode-1.1.7-ffmpeg2-1.patch                   &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --enable-alsa \
            --enable-libmpeg2 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: Fixes install location for documentation.

sed ... import/probe_ffmpeg.c: This sed fixes compilation with ffmpeg-2.4 or newer versions.

Support for most of the dependency packages requires using options passed to the configure script. View the INSTALL file and the output from ./configure --help for complete information about enabling dependency packages.

Installed Programs: avifix, aviindex, avimerge, avisplit, avisync, tccat, tcdecode, tcdemux, tcextract, tcmodinfo, tcmp3cut, tcprobe, tcscan, tcxmlcheck, tcxpm2rgb, tcyait, and transcode

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/lib/transcode and /usr/share/doc/transcode-1.1.7

Short Descriptions

avifix	fixes the header of an AVI file.
aviindex	writes a text file describing the index of an AVI file.
avimerge	merges AVI files of the same format. Do not try to merge AVI files of different formats, it will most likely result in errors (and format means same bitrates, too!).
avisplit	splits AVI files into multiple files.
avisync	can shift audio in AVI files for better synchronizing of the audio and video data signal.
tccat	concatenates input files using the input plugins of Transcode. This is useful for extracting VOB (Video OBject) files.
tcdecode	is used to decode input files to raw video and PCM audio streams.
tcdemux	demultiplexes (separates) audio/video input that contains multiple streams, e.g., VOB files.
tcextract	grabs single streams from a file containing multiple streams.
tcmodinfo	loads a supplied Transcode filter module and prints its parameters.
tcmp3cut	is a tool which can cut MP3 streams at milliseconds positions.
tcprobe	prints information about the input file format.
tcscan	performs several measurements on the given input data.
tcxmlcheck	checks information in a SMIL input file.
transcode	is the encoder's user interface that handles the plugins and other programs, being the glue between the modules. There are several well documented usage examples on both the homepage and the documentation included in the package.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

VLC-2.2.1

Introduction to VLC

VLC is a media player, streamer, and encoder. It can play from many inputs, such as files, network streams, capture devices, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can use most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), and it can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the network.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.videolan.org/vlc/2.2.1/vlc-2.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 42273945758b521c408fabc7fd6d9946
Download size: 20 MB
Estimated disk space required: 697 MB
Estimated build time: 4.5 SBU

VLC Dependencies

Optional features and packages

D-Bus-1.10.0

Optional input plugins

libdv-1.0.0, libdvdcss-1.3.0, libdvdread-5.0.3, libdvdnav-5.0.3, Samba-4.2.3, v4l-utils-1.6.3, libbluray, libdc1394, libcddb, libproxy, Live555, OpenCV, and VCDImager (requires libcdio-0.93)

Optional mux/demux plugins

libogg-1.3.2, Game Music Emu, libdvbpsi, libshout, libmatroska (requires libebml), libmodplug, Musepack, and sidplay-libs,

Optional codec plugins

FAAD2-2.7, FLAC-1.3.1, libass-0.12.3, libmpeg2-0.5.1, libpng-1.6.18, libtheora-1.1.1, libva-1.6.0, libvorbis-1.3.5, Opus-1.1, Speex-1.2rc2, x264-20150908-2245, Dirac, FluidSynth, libdca, libkate, libtiger, OpenMAX, Schroedinger, Tremor, Twolame, and Zapping VBI

Optional video plugins

AAlib-1.4rc5, Fontconfig-2.11.1, FreeType-2.6, FriBidi-0.19.7, librsvg-2.40.10, libvdpau-1.1.1, SDL-1.2.15 (with SDL_image), and libcaca

Optional audio plugins

PulseAudio-6.0, libsamplerate-0.1.8, and JACK

Optional interface plugins

Qt-4.8.7 (required for the graphical user interface), Qt-5.5.0 (for some plugins), libtar, and LIRC

Optional visualisations and video filter plugins

Goom and projectM

Optional service discovery plugins

Avahi-0.6.31, libmtp and libupnp

Miscellaneous options

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1, libnotify-0.7.6, libxml2-2.9.2, taglib-1.9.1, and xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3 (runtime)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vlc

Installation of VLC

Install VLC by running the following commands:

sed -e 's:libsmbclient.h:samba-4.0/&:' \
    -i modules/access/smb.c &&

./bootstrap &&

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

sed -e 's/luaL_optint/(int)&eger/' \
    -i modules/lua/libs/{net,osd,volume}.c &&
sed -e 's/luaL_checkint(/(int)luaL_checkinteger(/' \
    -i modules/lua/{demux,libs/{configuration,net,osd,playlist}}.c \
       modules/lua/{demux,libs/{stream,variables,volume}}.c &&

make

To test the results, issue: make check. Tests must be run from an active X session.

Now, as the root user:

Note

If the XORG_PREFIX is not /usr, make sure the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is set properly when doing the install, For example: sudo make LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib ... install.

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-2.2.1 install

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: This sed fixes compilation with Samba 4.

./bootstrap: This command calls autoreconf to generate m4 macros and prepare Makefiles.

sed -i ... {net,osd,volume}.c This sed fixes compilation with lua 5.3.

sed -i ... variables,volume}}.c: This sed fixes compilation with lua 5.3.

--disable-lua: Use this switch if you don't have Lua installed.

--disable-mad: Use this switch if you don't have libmad installed.

--disable-avcodec --disable-swscale: Use these switches if you don't have FFmpeg installed.

--disable-a52: Use this switch if you don't have liba52 installed.

--disable-xcb: Use this switch if you don't have X Window System installed.

--disable-alsa: Use this switch if you don't have ALSA installed.

--disable-libgcrypt: Use this switch if you don't have libgcrypt installed.

Note

There are many options to VLC's configure command. Check the configure --help output for a complete list.

Installed Programs: cvlc, nvlc, qvlc, rvlc, svlc, vlc and vlc-wrapper

Installed Libraries: libvlccore.so, libvlc.so and several plugins in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins

Installed Directories: /usr/include/vlc, /usr/lib/vlc, /usr/share/vlc and /usr/share/doc/vlc-2.2.1

Short Descriptions

cvlc	is a script to run VLC with the dummy interface.
nvlc	is a script to run VLC with the ncurses interface.
qvlc	is a script to run VLC with the Qt interface.
rvlc	is a script to run VLC with a command line interface.
svlc	is a script to run VLC with the skins interface.
vlc	is the VLC media player.
vlc-wrapper	is a wrapper to drop privileges with VLC.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

xine-ui-0.99.9

Introduction to Xine User Interface

The xine User Interface package contains a multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, MPEG and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-ui-0.99.9.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a6d00381b5c8b7aec1a7a3fbf84f01ce
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 26 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Xine User Interface Dependencies

Required

xine-lib-1.2.6 and shared-mime-info-1.4

Optional

cURL-7.44.0, AAlib-1.4rc5, LIRC, and libcaca

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xine-ui

Installation of Xine User Interface

Install xine User Interface by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docsdir=/usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.99.9 install

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.22 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache &&
update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

docsdir=/usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.99.9: This parameter causes the Xine UI documentation to be installed in the versioned directory /usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.99.9, rather that the default /usr/share/doc/xine-ui.

Configuring Xine User Interface

Config Files

~/.xine/config

Configuration Information

The above file is created and maintainable through the xine setup dialog box. The documentation for the configuration settings is located at /usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.99.9/README.config_en.

If you have a DVB TV card, you can watch TV with the command xine dvb:// and change channels with the scroll wheel on your mouse.

Installed Programs: aaxine, cacaxine, fbxine, xine, xine-bugreport, xine-check, and xine-remote

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/xine and /usr/share/doc/xine-ui-0.99.9

Short Descriptions

aaxine	is an ASCII art video player which utilizes AAlib as the frontend for the xine Libraries.
cacaxine	is a color ASCII art video player which utilizes CACA as the frontend for the xine Libraries.
fbxine	is a frame buffer interface to the xine Libraries.
xine	is a multimedia player designed to play MPEG streams (audio and video), MPEG elementary streams (MP3), MPEG transport streams, Ogg files, AVI files, ASF files, some Quicktime files, VCDs and DVDs.
xine-bugreport	produces a terse system description and guides you through the process of reporting a bug.
xine-check	tests the xine video player installation for common problems. It tests the operating system settings, installation of plugins, CD/DVD drive settings and video support parameters.
xine-remote	is a tool to connect to a xine remote control server.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 48. CD/DVD-Writing Utilities

This chapter contains information on CD/DVD-writing utilities in Linux.

Additional sources of information include:

Cdrdao-1.2.3

Introduction to Cdrdao

The Cdrdao package contains CD recording utilities. These are useful for burning a CD in disk-at-once mode.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cdrdao/cdrdao-1.2.3.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 8d15ba6280bb7ba2f4d6be31d28b3c0c
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 64 MB
Estimated build time: 1.3 SBU (includes building gcdmaster)

Cdrdao Dependencies

Installation of Cdrdao

Install Cdrdao by running the following commands:

sed -i '/ioctl/a #include <sys/stat.h>' dao/ScsiIf-linux.cc &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/cdrdao-1.2.3 &&
install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/cdrdao-1.2.3

Command Explanations

sed -i '/ioctl/a #include <sys/stat.h>' ...: This sed adds missing sys/stat.h include.

--mandir=/usr/share/man: Install manual pages in /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man.

Installed Programs: cdrdao, cue2toc, toc2cddb, toc2cue and optionally, gcdmaster and toc2mp3

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/cdrdao, /usr/share/doc/cdrdao-1.2.3 and /usr/share/gcdmaster

Short Descriptions

cdrdao	records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents.
cue2toc	converts CUE to TOC format for audio CDs.
gcdmaster	is a graphical front end to cdrdao for composing audio CDs.
toc2cddb	converts a Cdrdao TOC file into a cddb file and prints it to stdout.
toc2cue	converts TOC to CUE format for audio CDs.
toc2mp3	converts an audio CD disk image (`.toc` file) to MP3 files.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

dvd+rw-tools-7.1

Introduction to dvd+rw-tools

The dvd+rw-tools package contains several utilities to master the DVD media, both +RW/+R and -R[W]. The principle tool is growisofs which provides a way to both lay down and grow an ISO9660 file system on (as well as to burn an arbitrary pre-mastered image to) all supported DVD media. This is useful for creating a new DVD or adding to an existing image on a partially burned DVD.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/dvd+rw-tools-7.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 8acb3c885c87f6838704a0025e435871
Download size: 138 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.7 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

dvd+rw-tools Dependencies

Required

Though not required during the build, you must have installed a package which provides the xorrisofs command, such as libisoburn-1.4.0, or the growisofs command will not function properly, rendering the entire package useless.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/dvd+rw-tools

Installation of dvd+rw-tools

Install dvd+rw-tools by running the following commands:

sed -i '/stdlib/a #include <limits.h>' transport.hxx &&
sed -i 's#mkisofs"#xorrisofs"#' growisofs.c &&
sed -i 's#mkisofs#xorrisofs#;s#MKISOFS#XORRISOFS#' growisofs.1 &&

make all rpl8 btcflash

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make prefix=/usr install &&
install -v -m644 -D index.html \
    /usr/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools-7.1/index.html

Command Explanations

sed -i '/stdlib/a #include <limits.h>' ...: This sed includes limits.h, one of the kernel headers. This is needed due to a change in the 2.6.23 kernel headers.

sed -i 's#mkisofs"#xorrisofs"#' growisofs.c: This sed changes the code to use xorrisofs from xorriso. The default was for it to use mkisofs from Cdrtools.

sed -i 's#mkisofs#xorrisofs#;s#MKISOFS#XORRISOFS#' growisofs.1: This sed fixes the man page to account for the above change.

make all rpl8 btcflash: This command uses additional targets so that all the utilities are built.

Installed Programs: btcflash, dvd+rw-booktype, dvd+rw-format, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd-ram-control, growisofs, and rpl8

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/dvd+rw-tools-7.1

Short Descriptions

growisofs

is a combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

K3b-2.0.3

Introduction to K3b

The K3b package contains a KDE-based graphical interface to the Cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools CD/DVD manipulation tools. It also combines the capabilities of many other multimedia packages into one central interface to provide a simple-to-operate application that can be used to handle many of your CD/DVD recording and formatting requirements. It is used for creating audio, data, video and mixed-mode CDs as well as copying, ripping and burning CDs and DVDs.

Though K3b can be used to copy almost any DVD to similar medium, it does not provide a way to copy, or reproduce a double-layer DVD onto single-layer medium. Of course, there is not a program anywhere on any platform that can make an exact duplicate of a double-layer DVD onto a single-layer disk, there are programs on some platforms that can compress the data on a double-layer DVD to fit on a single-layer DVD producing a duplicate, but compressed, image. If you need to copy the contents of a double-layer DVD to single-layer medium, you may want to look at the RMLCopyDVD package.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://download.kde.org/stable/k3b/k3b-2.0.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 52e78aabe8e483347d04e88be0aed150
Download size: 9.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 326 MB
Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU

K3b Dependencies

Required

kde-runtime-15.04.3, libkcddb-15.04.3, and libsamplerate-0.1.8

There are programs from three packages that K3b will look for at runtime: Cdrtools (required to burn CD-ROM media), dvd+rw-tools-7.1 (required to burn or format DVD media), and Cdrdao-1.2.3 (required to burn CD-ROM media in DAO (Disk At Once) mode). If you don't need the capability provided by any of the three packages, you don't have to install it. However, a warning message will be generated every time you run the k3b program if any are not installed.

Optional

FLAC-1.3.1, LAME-3.99.5, libmad-0.15.1b, libsndfile-1.0.25, libvorbis-1.3.5, libmusicbrainz-2.1.5, Musepack (libmpcdec), and VCDImager

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/k3b

Installation of K3b

Install K3b by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDE_PREFIX \
      -DSYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR=/etc/kde     \
      -Wno-dev ..  &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: k3b and k3bsetup

Installed Libraries: libk3b.so, libk3bdevice.so and numerous modules for the installed dependencies

Installed Directories: The following subdirectories of $KDE_PREFIX/share/: applnk/Settings/System, apps/k3b, doc/HTML/*/k3b

Short Descriptions

k3b	is the graphical CD/DVD program.
k3bsetup	is a script used to launch the k3bsetup2 KControlModule for setting up the CD/DVD hardware and device files on your system.

Last updated on 2015-09-24 08:38:39 -0700

libburn-1.4.0

Introduction to libburn

libburn is a library for writing preformatted data onto optical media: CD, DVD and BD (Blu-Ray).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libburn-1.4.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 82ff94bb04e78eac9b12c7546f005d6f
Download size: 948 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libburn

Installation of libburn

Install libburn by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: cdrskin

Installed Library: libburn.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libburn

Short Descriptions

cdrskin	burns preformatted data to CD, DVD, and BD via libburn.
`libburn.so`	contains the libburn API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libisoburn-1.4.0

Introduction to libisoburn

libisoburn is a frontend for libraries libburn and libisofs which enables creation and expansion of ISO-9660 filesystems on all CD/DVD/BD media supported by libburn. This includes media like DVD+RW, which do not support multi-session management on media level and even plain disk files or block devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisoburn-1.4.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 77bc6bcbe023ccd0fb210e341606dfbf
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB (with Tk and HTML documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with Tk and HTML documentation)

libisoburn Dependencies

Required

libburn-1.4.0 and libisofs-1.4.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.10 (to generate HTML documentation) and Tk-8.6.4 (for xorriso-tcltk)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libisoburn

Installation of libisoburn

Install libisoburn by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr              \
            --disable-static           \
            --enable-pkg-check-modules &&
make

If you have installed Doxygen and wish to generate the HTML documentation, issue the following command:

doxygen doc/doxygen.conf

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have built the HTML documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libisoburn-1.4.0 &&
install -v -m644 doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/libisoburn-1.4.0

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-pkg-check-modules: Enable pkg-config check for libburn and libisofs.

Installed Programs: osirrox, xorrecord, xorriso, xorrisofs and xorriso-tcltk

Installed Library: libisoburn.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libisoburn and /usr/share/doc/libisoburn-1.4.0

Short Descriptions

osirrox	is a symbolic link to xorriso that copies files from ISO image to a disk filesystem.
xorrecord	is a symbolic link to xorriso that provides a cdrecord type user interface.
xorriso	is a program to create, load, manipulate, read, and write ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions.
xorrisofs	is a symbolic link to xorriso that that provides a mkisofs type user interface.
xorriso-tcltk	is a frontend that operates xorriso in dialog mode.
`libisoburn.so`	contains the libisoburn API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

libisofs-1.4.0

Introduction to libisofs

libisofs is a library to create an ISO-9660 filesystem with extensions like RockRidge or Joliet.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/libisofs-1.4.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 394f9025d40b5f9b1b884a72bfaf5bed
Download size: 800 KB
Estimated disk space required: 13 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libisofs

Installation of libisofs

Install libisofs by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libisofs.so

Installed Directory: /usr/include/libisofs

Short Descriptions

libisofs.so

contains the libisofs API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

SimpleBurn-1.6.5

Introduction to SimpleBurn

SimpleBurn is a minimalistic application for burning and extracting CDs and DVDs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://simpleburn.tuxfamily.org/IMG/bz2/simpleburn-1.6.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: de658ab5af00e7bcb1e948d5c45da7b9
Download size: 44 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

SimpleBurn Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.3.1 and GTK+-2.24.28

Optional

libcdio-0.93 (to identify and play CDs), FLAC-1.3.1, mpg123-1.22.4, vorbis-tools-1.4.0, LAME-3.99.5, MPlayer-SVN-r37520, mpg321, normalize, cdrtools, and cdrkit

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/simpleburn

Installation of SimpleBurn

Install SimpleBurn by running the following commands:

sed -i -e 's|DESTINATION doc|DESTINATION share/doc|' CMakeLists.txt &&

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DBURNING=LIBBURNIA .. &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

All optical devices are not accessible for any user except root and members of the cdrom group. Add any users that might use the optical devices to that group:

usermod -a -G cdrom <username>

Command Explanations

sed ...: Ensure the documentation is installed in /usr/share/doc.

-DBURNING=LIBBURNIA: This switch changes the burning suite from the default cdrtools.

Installed Programs: simpleburn, simpleburn-abort-operation, simpleburn-blank-media, simpleburn-burn-audio, simpleburn-burn-data, simpleburn-burning-suite, simpleburn-burn-iso, simpleburn-copy-audio, simpleburn-copy-data, simpleburn-extract-audio, simpleburn-extract-iso, simpleburn-gauges, simpleburn-get-datasize, simpleburn-media-detection, simpleburn-ripdvd-detection, and simpleburn-ripdvd-encoding

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/simpleburn-1.6.5 and /usr/share/simpleburn

Short Descriptions

simpleburn	is the graphical program.
simpleburn-abort-operation	is a bash script to abort an operation.
simpleburn-blank-media	is a bash script used to blank a CD.
simpleburn-burn-audio	is a bash script used to burn an audio CD.
simpleburn-burn-data	is a bash script used to burn a data CD.
simpleburn-burning-suite	is a bash script used to print information about the burn tools.
simpleburn-burn-iso	is a bash script used to burn an iso CD.
simpleburn-copy-audio	is a bash script used to copy an audio CD.
simpleburn-copy-data	is a bash script used to copy a data CD.
simpleburn-extract-audio	is a bash script used to extract audio files from an audio CD.
simpleburn-extract-iso	is a bash script to write an ISO file from a CD.
simpleburn-gauges	is a program used to display a gauge.
simpleburn-get-datasize	is a bash script used to get the size of a media.
simpleburn-media-detection	is a bash script used to print information about a media.
simpleburn-ripdvd-detection	is a bash script used to print information about the content of a video DVD.
simpleburn-ripdvd-encoding	is a bash script used to rip a DVD.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 19:26:37 -0700

Part XIV. Printing, Scanning and Typesetting

Chapter 49. Printing

This chapter contains spooling printer management systems and ghostscript applications to render PostScript for display on terminals or paper.

Cups-2.1.0

Introduction to Cups

The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is a print spooler and associated utilities. It is based on the "Internet Printing Protocol" and provides printing services to most PostScript and raster printers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.cups.org/software/2.1.0/cups-2.1.0-source.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c4e57a66298bfdba66bb3d5bedd317a4
Download size: 8.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 115 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (5.0 SBU for tests)

Cups Dependencies

Required

GnuTLS-3.4.4.1

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, libpaper-1.1.24+nmu4, Linux-PAM-1.2.1, MIT Kerberos V5-1.13.2, OpenJDK-1.8.0.60, PHP-5.6.13, Python-2.7.10, and xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3

Required (Postinstall)

cups-filters-1.0.74

Optional (Postinstall)

Gutenprint-5.2.10 and hplip (HP printers)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cups

Kernel Configuration

Note

There used to be a conflict between the Cups libusb backend and the usblp kernel driver. This is no longer the case and cups will work with both of these enabled.

If you want to use the kernel usblp driver (for example, if you wish to use escputil from Gutenprint-5.2.10) enable the following options in your kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Device Drivers  --->
  [*] USB support  --->                          [CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT]
    <*/M>  OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support            [CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD]
    <*/M>  UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support [CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD]
    <*/M>  USB Printer support                   [CONFIG_USB_PRINTER]

If you have a parallel printer, enable the following options in your kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Device Drivers  --->
  <*/M> Parallel port support  --->    [CONFIG_PARPORT]
    <*/M> PC-style hardware            [CONFIG_PARPORT_PC]
  Character devices  --->
    <*/M> Parallel printer support     [CONFIG_PRINTER]

Installation of Cups

You will need to add an lp user, as Cups will create some files owned by this user. (The lp user is the default used by Cups, but may be changed to a different user by passing a parameter to the configure script.) Use the following command as the root user:

useradd -c "Print Service User" -d /var/spool/cups -g lp -s /bin/false -u 9 lp

You will also need a dedicated group that will contain users allowed to do Cups administrative tasks. Add the group by running the following command as the root user:

groupadd -g 19 lpadmin

If you want to add a user to the Cups administrative group, run the following command as the root user:

usermod -a -G lpadmin <username>

If you didn't install xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc3, use the following sed to change the default browser that will be used to access the Cups web interface:

sed -i 's#@CUPS_HTMLVIEW@#firefox#' desktop/cups.desktop.in

Replace firefox with the web browser of your choice.

Build Cups by running the following commands:

sed -i 's:555:755:g;s:444:644:g' Makedefs.in                                  &&
sed -i '/MAN.EXT/s:.gz::g' configure config-scripts/cups-manpages.m4          &&
sed -i '/LIBGCRYPTCONFIG/d' config-scripts/cups-ssl.m4                        &&
sed -i 's@else /\* HAVE_AVAHI \*/@elif defined(HAVE_AVAHI)@' test/ippserver.c &&

aclocal  -I config-scripts &&
autoconf -I config-scripts &&

./configure --libdir=/usr/lib            \
            --disable-systemd            \
            --with-rcdir=/tmp/cupsinit   \
            --with-system-groups=lpadmin \
            --with-docdir=/usr/share/cups/doc-2.1.0 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make -k check. An already active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests. Some tests fail for unknown reasons.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
rm -rf /tmp/cupsinit &&
ln -svnf ../cups/doc-2.1.0 /usr/share/doc/cups-2.1.0

Create a basic Cups client configuration file by running the following command as the root user:

echo "ServerName /var/run/cups/cups.sock" > /etc/cups/client.conf

Remove filters that are now part of the Cups Filters package by running the following commands as the root user:

rm -rf /usr/share/cups/banners &&
rm -rf /usr/share/cups/data/testprint

Note

If you reinstall or update Cups, commands above break cups-filters-1.0.74, which needs, therefore, to be reinstalled.

Note

This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and you can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme. To perform the update you must have GTK+-2.24.28 or GTK+-3.16.6 installed and issue the following command as the root user:

gtk-update-icon-cache

Command Explanations

sed ... Makedefs.in: Fix files and directories permissions.

sed ... cups-manpages.m4: This sed prevents compression of the man pages by default.

sed ... cups-ssl.m4: Prevent configure script from searching libgcrypt-config, because libgcrypt is not used anywere else in the package.

sed ... test/ippserver.c: This sed fixes a bug, which shows up when avahi is not present.

--disable-systemd: Systemd is not supported by BLFS.

--with-rcdir=/tmp/cupsinit: This switch tells the build process to install the shipped bootscript into /tmp instead of /etc/rc.d.

--with-system-groups=lpadmin: This switch ensures that only lpadmin will be used as the Cups administrative group.

--disable-libusb: Use this switch if you have installed libusb-1.0.19, but wish to use the kernel usblp driver.

--enable-libpaper: Use this switch if you have installed libpaper and wish to use it with Cups.

Configuring Cups

Config Files

/etc/cups/*

Configuration Information

Normally, printers are set up via a web browser. The Cups server will normally connect via the url http://localhost:631. From there printers, print jobs, and the server configuration can be set up and managed. Remote system administration can also be set up. Configuration can also be done from the command line via the lpadmin, lpoptions, and lpstat commands.

Configuration of Cups is dependent on the type of printer and can be complex. Generally, PostScript printers are easier. For detailed instructions on configuration and use of Cups, see http://www.cups.org/documentation.php.

For non-PostScript printers to print with Cups, you need to install ghostscript-9.16 to convert PostScript to raster images and a driver (e.g. from Gutenprint-5.2.10) to convert the resulting raster images to a form that the printer understands. Foomatic drivers use ghostscript-9.16 to convert PostScript to a printable form directly, but this is considered suboptimal by Cups developers.

Linux PAM Configuration

If CUPS has been built with Linux PAM support, you need to create a PAM configuration file to get it working correctly with BLFS.

Issue the following command as the root user to create the configuration file for Linux PAM:

cat > /etc/pam.d/cups << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/pam.d/cups

auth    include system-auth
account include system-account
session include system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/cups
EOF

Boot Script

If you want the Cups print service to start automatically when the system is booted, install the init script included in the blfs-bootscripts-20150924 package:

make install-cups

Installed Programs: accept, cancel, cupsaccept, cupsaddsmb, cups-config, cupsctl, cupsd, cupsdisable, cupsenable, cupsfilter, cupsreject, cupstestdsc, cupstestppd, ippfind, ipptool, lp, lpadmin, lpc, lpinfo, lpmove, lpoptions, lpq, lpr, lprm, lpstat, ppdc, ppdhtml, ppdi, ppdmerge, ppdpo, and reject

Installed Libraries: libcupscgi.so, libcupsimage.so, libcupsmime.so, libcupsppdc.so, and libcups.so

Installed Directories: /{etc,usr/{include,lib,share},var/{cache,log,run,spool}}/cups and /usr/share/doc/cups-2.1.0

Short Descriptions

accept	instructs the printing system to accept print jobs to the specified destinations.
cancel	cancels existing print jobs from the print queues.
cupsaccept	accept jobs sent to a destination.
cupsaddsmb	exports printers to the Samba software for use with Windows clients.
cups-config	is a Cups program configuration utility.
cupsctl	updates or queries the cupsd.conf file for a server.
cupsd	is the scheduler for the Common Unix Printing System.
cupsdisable	stop printers and classes.
cupsenable	start printers and classes.
cupsfilter	is a front-end to the Cups filter subsystem which allows you to convert a file to a specific format.
cupsreject	reject jobs sent to a destination.
cupstestdsc	tests the conformance of PostScript files.
cupstestppd	tests the conformance of PPD files.
ippfind	finds internet printing protocol printers.
ipptool	sends IPP requests to the specified URI and tests and/or displays the results.
lp	submits files for printing or alters a pending job.
lpadmin	configures printer and class queues provided by Cups.
lpc	provides limited control over printer and class queues provided by Cups.
lpinfo	lists the available devices or drivers known to the Cups server.
lpmove	moves the specified job to a new destination.
lpoptions	displays or sets printer options and defaults.
lpq	shows the current print queue status on the named printer.
lpr	submits files for printing.
lprm	cancels print jobs that have been queued for printing.
lpstat	displays status information about the current classes, jobs, and printers.
ppdc	compiles PPDC source files into one or more PPD files.
ppdhtml	reads a driver information file and produces a HTML summary page that lists all of the drivers in a file and the supported options.
ppdi	imports one or more PPD files into a PPD compiler source file.
ppdmerge	merges two or more PPD files into a single, multi-language PPD file.
ppdpo	extracts UI strings from PPDC source files and updates either a GNU gettext or Mac OS X strings format message catalog source file for translation.
reject	instructs the printing system to reject print jobs to the specified destinations.
`libcups.so`	contains the Cups API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

cups-filters-1.0.74

Introduction to CUPS Filters

The CUPS Filters package contains backends, filters and other software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution but is no longer maintained by Apple Inc.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.openprinting.org/download/cups-filters/cups-filters-1.0.74.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 14862048b4a9a87abfeeae07531dd020
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 50 MB (without tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (without tests)

CUPS Filters Dependencies

Required

Cups-2.1.0, GLib-2.44.1, IJS-0.35, Little CMS-2.7, Poppler-0.35.0 and Qpdf-5.1.3

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, OpenLDAP-2.4.42 and PHP-5.6.13 (use of this might be broken)

Required (Runtime)

ghostscript-9.16 (Needed for PostScript printers), or Gutenprint-5.2.10 (for supported printers), or other printer drivers

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cups-filters

Installation of CUPS Filters

Install CUPS Filters by running the following commands:

./configure                             \
        --prefix=/usr                   \
        --sysconfdir=/etc               \
        --localstatedir=/var            \
        --without-rcdir                 \
        --disable-static                \
        --with-gs-path=/usr/bin/gs      \
        --with-pdftops-path=/usr/bin/gs \
        --docdir=/usr/share/doc/cups-filters-1.0.74 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check 2>&1 >testlog.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--without-rcdir: This switch disables installation of the bundled bootscript which is not compatible with BLFS.

--with-gs-path=/usr/bin/gs: This switch defines the path to the GhostScript binary in case ghostscript-9.16 is not installed at build time.

--with-pdftops-path=/usr/bin/gs: This switch defines the path to the GhostScript binary in case ghostscript-9.16 is not installed at build time.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

make check 2>&1 >testlog: the testsuite dumps a stream of bytes into the input buffer after it finishes. Sending the output to a file keeps the history usable, but some debug information will still appear on the screen.

--with-test-path=VALUE : if you wish to run the tests, but you do not have the default /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf use this switch to specify where DejaVuSans.ttf (or perhaps some other text TTF font - untested) is located.

Installed Programs: cups-browsed, foomatic-rip (link) and ttfread

Installed Libraries: libcupsfilters.so and libfontembed.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/{cupsfilters,fontembed}, /usr/lib/cups/{backend,filter}, /usr/share/cups/{banners,charsets,data}, /usr/share/doc/cups-filters-1.0.74 and /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters

Short Descriptions

cups-browsed	is a daemon for browsing the Bonjour and CUPS broadcasts of shared, remote CUPS printers.
foomatic-rip	is a universal print filter/RIP wrapper which can be used as CUPS filter or stand-alone for spooler-less, direct printing.
`libcupsfilters.so`	contains CUPS Filters API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

ghostscript-9.16

Introduction to Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a versatile processor for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different targets. It used to be part of the cups printing stack, but is no longer used for that.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.16.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 21732fd6e39acc283bc623b8842cbfbb
Download size: 28 MB
Estimated disk space required: 170 MB (add 5 MB for fonts and 55 MB for libgs.so)
Estimated build time: 1 SBU (add 1 SBU for libgs.so)

Additional Downloads

If you wish, you can download additional fonts.

Standard Fonts

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6
Download size: 3.7 MB

Other Fonts

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gs-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 33457d3f37de7ef03d2eea05a9e6aa4f
Download size: 796 KB

Ghostscript Dependencies

Optional

Cairo-1.14.2, Cups-2.1.0, Fontconfig-2.11.1 (required, if you are installing any suggested font), GTK+-2.24.28, libidn-1.32, libpaper-1.1.24+nmu4, Little CMS-1.19 (not used by default, nor if lcms2 is present or found), and X Window System

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gs

Installation of Ghostscript

Note

The Ghostscript build system is not user-friendly. In order to use system copies of various graphics libraries, you must do it using unconventional methods.

GPL Ghostscript includes (old) copies of several libraries. Some of these seem to have been patched to fix known vulnerabilities, but others of these copies are less-well maintained. To ensure that any future fixes are applied throughout the whole system, it is recommended that you first install the released versions of these libraries and then configure GPL Ghostscript to link to them.

If you have installed these dependencies on your system, remove the copies of freetype, lcms2, libjpeg, and libpng:

sed -i 's/ZLIBDIR=src/ZLIBDIR=$includedir/' configure.ac configure &&
rm -rf freetype lcms2 jpeg libpng

Compile Ghostscript:

rm -rf zlib expat &&

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --disable-compile-inits \
            --enable-dynamic        \
            --with-system-libtiff   &&
make

Note

The shared library depends on GTK+-2.24.28. It is only used in external programs like asymptote-2.35 and ImageMagick-6.9.2-0.

To compile the shared library libgs.so, run the following additional command as an unprivileged user:

make so

This package does not come with a test suite. A set of example files may be used for testing, but it is only possible after installation of the package.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you want the shared library too:

make soinstall &&
install -v -m644 base/*.h /usr/include/ghostscript &&
ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps

Now make the documentation accessible from the normal place:

ln -sfv ../ghostscript/9.16/doc /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-9.16

If you have downloaded any fonts, unpack them to /usr/share/ghostscript and ensure the ownerships of the files are root: root. Substitute <font-tarball> appropriately in the command below for the fonts you wish to install:

tar -xvf ../<font-tarball> -C /usr/share/ghostscript --no-same-owner &&
fc-cache -v /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/

You can now test the rendering of various postscript and pdf files from the /usr/share/ghostscript/9.16/examples , for example (you need an X window system display):

gs -q -dBATCH /usr/share/ghostscript/9.16/examples/tiger.eps

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/ZLIBDIR=src/ZLIBDIR=$includedir/' ... : Fix to build with system zlib.

rm -rf zlib expat : zlib and expat were installed as part of LFS.

--disable-compile-inits: This option makes gs and libgs.so slightly smaller.

--with-system-libtiff: Remove this option if you've not installed LibTIFF-4.0.5.

install -v -m644 base/*.h... : Some packages (ImageMagick is one) need the Ghostscript interface headers in place to link to the shared library. These commands install the headers.

ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps: Some packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate location.

ln -sfv ../ghostscript-9.16/doc ... : This puts a symbolic link to the documentation where it is expected to be found.

--disable-cups: this option will save a tiny amount of space by not linking gs and libgs.so to the Cups-2.1.0 libraries if you have installed those.

Installed Programs: dvipdf, eps2eps, font2c, gs, gsbj, gsc (from soinstall), gsdj, gsdj500, gslj, gslp, gsnd, gsx (from soinstall), lprsetup.sh, pdf2dsc, pdf2ps, pf2afm, pfbtopfa, pphs, printafm, ps2ascii, ps2epsi, ps2pdf, ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14, ps2pdfwr, ps2ps, ps2ps2, unix-lpr.sh, and wftopfa

Installed Library: libgs.so and /usr/lib/ghostscript/9.16/X11.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/ghostscript, /usr/lib/ghostscript, /usr/share/ghostscript, and /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-9.16

Short Descriptions

gs	is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document Format (PDF).
`libgs.so`	provides Ghostscript functionality to other programs, such as GSView, ImageMagick, and libspectre.

GPL Ghostscript provides many different scripts used to convert PostScript, PDF, and other formats. Please refer to the HTML documentation or the man pages for information about the capabilities provided.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Gutenprint-5.2.10

Introduction to Gutenprint

The Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-Print) package contains high quality drivers for many brands and models of printers for use with ghostscript-9.16, Cups-2.1.0, Foomatic, and the GIMP-2.0. See a list of supported printers at http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-print/gutenprint-5.2.10.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9ff027103bafac419c37e19da75163ae
Download size: 6.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 73 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Gutenprint Dependencies

Optional

IJS-0.35 and Foomatic

Optional (to Regenerate Documentation)

ImageMagick-6.9.2-0, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx), Doxygen-1.8.10, and DocBook-utils-0.6.14

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gutenprint

Kernel Configuration

If you intend to use escputil with a USB-connected Epson Stylus printer for commands such as --ink-level which need to access the raw device, you must enable the kernel's usblp driver. Enable the following options in your kernel configuration and recompile the kernel:

Device Drivers  --->
  [*] USB support  --->                          [CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT]
    <*/M>  OHCI HCD (USB 1.1) support            [CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD]
    <*/M>  UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support [CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD]
    <*/M>  USB Printer support                   [CONFIG_USB_PRINTER]

Installation of Gutenprint

Install Gutenprint by running the following commands:

sed -i 's|$(PACKAGE)/doc|doc/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)|' \
       {,doc/,doc/developer/}Makefile.in &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. When last tested (version 5.2.7, LFS-7.1, on a uniprocessor box which is admittedly short of memory) this took more than 800 SBUs (more than two days for that box) and used an extra 678 MB of disk space.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gutenprint-5.2.10/api/gutenprint{,ui2} &&
install -v -m644    doc/gutenprint/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/gutenprint-5.2.10/api/gutenprint &&
install -v -m644    doc/gutenprintui2/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/gutenprint-5.2.10/api/gutenprintui2

Command Explanations

sed -i '...' ...Makefile.in: This command is used so that the package documentation is installed in the conventional /usr/share/doc directory structure instead of /usr/share/gutenprint/doc.

--disable-static: This switch prevents the static libraries being installed.

Configuring Gutenprint

Configuration Information

For CUPS to see newly installed print drivers, it has to be restarted (as the root user):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart

Then point your web browser to http://localhost:631/ to add a new printer to CUPS.

Installed Programs: cups-calibrate, cups-genppd.5.2, cups-genppdupdate, escputil, ijsgutenprint.5.2 (if compiled using ijs), and testpattern

Installed Libraries: libgutenprint.so, libgutenprintui2.so and optionally, various CUPS filters and backend drivers under /usr/lib/gutenprint/5.2/modules/

Installed Directories: /usr/include/gutenprint, /usr/include/gutenprintui2, /usr/lib/gutenprint, /usr/share/doc/gutenprint-5.2.10 and /usr/share/gutenprint

Short Descriptions

cups-calibrate	calibrates the color output of printers using the Gutenprint, CUPS or ESP Print Pro drivers.
cups-genppd.5.2	generate Gutenprint PPD files for use with CUPS.
cups-genppdupdate	regenerates the Gutenprint PPD files in use by CUPS.
escputil	is a command line utility to perform various maintenance tasks on Epson Stylus inkjet printers.
ijsgutenprint.5.2	is a Ghostscript driver for HP inkjet and laserjet printers.
testpattern	is a test programm to learn how to use libgutenprint.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 50. Scanning

This chapter contains scanning applications which allow you to convert printed documents into formatted documents readable by other applications.

SANE-1.0.24

Introduction to SANE

SANE is short for Scanner Access Now Easy. Scanner access; however, is far from easy, since every vendor has their own protocols. The only known protocol that should bring some unity into this chaos is the TWAIN interface, but this is too imprecise to allow a stable scanning framework. Therefore, SANE comes with its own protocol, and the vendor drivers can't be used.

SANE is split into back ends and front ends. The back ends are drivers for the supported scanners and cameras. The front ends are user interfaces to access the backends.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Back Ends Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://fossies.org/linux/misc//sane-backends-1.0.24.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 1ca68e536cd7c1852322822f5f6ac3a4
Download size: 5.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 97 MB
Estimated build time: 1 SBU

Front Ends Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/1140/sane-frontends-1.0.14.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp2.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-frontends-1.0.14.tar.gz
Downlaod MD5 sum: c63bf7b0bb5f530cf3c08715db721cd3
Download size: 231 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.0 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

SANE Dependencies

Optional (Back Ends)

Avahi-0.6.31, Cups-2.1.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.1, LibTIFF-4.0.5, libusb-1.0.19, v4l-utils-1.6.3, Net-SNMP, libieee1284, libgphoto2, and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

Optional (Front Ends)

X Window System, GTK+-2.24.28, and Gimp-2.8.14

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sane

Kernel Configuration, Drivers and Additional Packages

To access your scanner, you will probably need the related kernel drivers and/or additional support packages. A SCSI scanner will need SCSI drivers, a parallel port scanner needs parallel port support (you should use enhanced EPP modes) and perhaps libieee1284, and a USB scanner will need the libusb-1.0.19 package. For HP devices, you may need hplip. Ensure you have the necessary drivers properly configured to access the devices.

Installation of SANE

Installation of SANE Back Ends

Note

You may safely disregard any messages printed on the screen when you unpack the tarball.

The SANE daemon should run with its own group. Create this group by issuing the following commands as the root user:

groupadd -g 70 scanner

Note

The user building SANE-backends should be a member of the scanner group before proceeding. After you have added the user building the package to the scanner group, issue the following command to create a new shell:

su $(whoami)

Check the output of the groups command and ensure the user is a member of the scanner group.

For a USB scanner, if you are linking to libusb-1.0.19, include the configure switch --enable-libusb_1_0. Install SANE-backends by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                                    \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                                \
            --localstatedir=/var                             \
            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/sane-backend-1.0.24 \
            --with-group=scanner                             &&
make                                                         &&
exit

If you want to test the results, some files need to be fixed:

sed -i -e 's/Jul 31 07:52:48/Oct  7 08:58:33/'      \
       -e 's/1.0.24git/1.0.24/'                     \
       testsuite/tools/data/db.ref                  \
       testsuite/tools/data/html-mfgs.ref           \
       testsuite/tools/data/usermap.ref             \
       testsuite/tools/data/html-backends-split.ref \
       testsuite/tools/data/udev+acl.ref            \
       testsuite/tools/data/udev.ref

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install                                         &&
install -m 644 -v tools/udev/libsane.rules           \
                  /etc/udev/rules.d/65-scanner.rules &&
chgrp -v scanner  /var/lock/sane

With the scanner on, run scanimage -L and the name and location of the device should appear. Of course, you need the device drivers configured, in order to run this test.

Installation of SANE Front Ends

The SANE-frontends package includes the graphical frontends xscanimage and xcam, and a command-line frontend scanadf. You don't need this package if you intend to use one of the more advanced graphical frontends like XSane-0.999. For a list of frontend packages, see http://www.sane-project.org/sane-frontends.html.

To install SANE-frontends, use the following commands:

sed -i -e "/SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE/d" src/gtkglue.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/sane.png xscanimage-icon-48x48-2.png \
    /usr/share/sane

If GIMP was linked into the build and you wish GIMP to use xscanimage as a scanning plugin, issue the following command as the root user:

ln -v -s ../../../../bin/xscanimage /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins

Note

If the plugin xscanimage is disabled in GIMP's menu, in order to enable it, "create" a blank image using the menu or Ctrl-N. After that, it is enabled.

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc: This switch installs the configuration files in /etc/sane.d instead of /usr/etc/sane.d.

--with-group=scanner: This parameter causes the directory created for the locking files to be group owned by the scanner group instead of the default uucp group.

exit: This command is used to exit the shell created by the su command.

Configuring SANE

Config Files

/etc/sane.d/*.conf

Configuration Information

Backend Configuration

The backend configuration files are located in /etc/sane.d. Information for configuring the various backends can be found by using the man(5) page for the desired backend. Run man sane-<backend>, substituting the desired backend.

Add any desired users to the scanner group.

If you want to access a network scanner, include two lines in net.conf, as root user (make sure to replace <server_ip> by the actual value, below):

cat >> /etc/sane.d/net.conf << "EOF"
connect_timeout = 60
<server_ip>
EOF

On the server side, include the client ip in the access list of /etc/sane.d/saned.conf, restart the saned daemon, and make sure the firewall, if any, is open to the client.

Frontend Configuration

If you use a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE you may wish to create a xscanimage.desktop file so that xscanimage appears in the panel's menus. As the root user:

mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}               &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/xscanimage.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XScanImage - Scanning
Comment=Acquire images from a scanner
Exec=xscanimage
Icon=xscanimage
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Graphics
EOF

ln -svf ../sane/xscanimage-icon-48x48-2.png /usr/share/pixmaps/xscanimage.png

General Information

For general information about configuring and using SANE, see man sane. Linux-2.6.x brings some special issues into the picture. See http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux for information about using SANE with the Linux-2.6.x kernel. For information about USB scanning devices, run man sane-usb. For information about SCSI devices, run man sane-scsi.

Configuration and setup of the 'saned' daemon

The saned daemon is not meant to be used for untrusted clients. You should provide Firewalling protection to ensure only trusted clients access the daemon. Due to the complex security requirements to ensure only trusted clients access the daemon, BLFS does not provide instructions to configure the saned daemon. If you desire to make the daemon available, ensure you provide adequate security, configure your [x]inetd.conf file and send a SIGHUP to the [x]inetd daemon. Some good information for setting up and securing the saned daemon can be found at http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/saned/.

Back Ends:

Installed Programs: gamma4scanimage, sane-config, saned, sane-find-scanner, and scanimage

Installed Libraries: libsane.so and numerous scanner backend modules

Installed Directories: /etc/sane.d, /usr/include/sane, /usr/lib/sane, /usr/share/sane, and /usr/share/doc/sane-1.0.24

Front Ends:

Installed Programs: scanadf, xcam, and xscanimage

Installed Library: GIMP plugin embedded in xscanimage

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

gamma4scanimage	creates a gamma table in the format expected by scanimage.
sane-config	is a tool used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link SANE.
saned	is the SANE daemon that allows remote clients to access image acquisition devices available on the local host.
sane-find-scanner	is a command-line tool to find SCSI and USB scanners and determine their device files. Its primary purpose is to make sure that scanners can be detected by SANE backends.
scanadf	is a command-line interface to control image acquisition devices which are equipped with an automatic document feeder (ADF).
scanimage	is a command line interface for scanning from image acquisition devices such as flatbed scanners or cameras. It is also used to list the available backend devices.
xcam	is a graphical camera front end for SANE.
xscanimage	is a graphical user interface for scanning.
`libsane.so`	is the application programming interface that is used to communicate between frontends and backends.
`libsane-*.so`	modules are backend scanning library plugins used to interface with scanning devices. See http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html for a list of supported backends.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

XSane-0.999

Introduction to XSane

XSane is another front end for SANE-1.0.24. It has additional features to improve the image quality and ease of use compared to xscanimage.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.xsane.org/download/xsane-0.999.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 9927f21e1ab6ba96315e7f0e30746deb
Download size: 2.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

XSane Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 and SANE-1.0.24 (back ends)

Optional

Little CMS-1.19 and Gimp-2.8.14

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xsane

Installation of XSane

Install XSane by running the following commands:

sed -i -e 's/png_ptr->jmpbuf/png_jmpbuf(png_ptr)/' src/xsane-save.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr                                           &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make xsanedocdir=/usr/share/doc/xsane-0.999 install &&
ln -v -s ../../doc/xsane-0.999 /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc

A browser of your choice can be used to get inline help, using the following command, as the root user:

ln -v -s <browser> /usr/bin/netscape

Note

Be sure to replace <browser> with the browser of your choice on your system.

Alternatively, if the environment variable BROWSER is set to the browser you want to use, eg, BROWSER="/usr/bin/firefox", the first time you run xsane, it will be recorded in ~/.sane/xsane/xsane.rc. If you wish to change it, edit this file, or remove it, and use the instructions above, so that a new one is created.

If GIMP is installed, issue the following command as the root user:

ln -v -s /usr/bin/xsane /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/

Command Explanations

ln -v -s ../../doc/xsane-0.999 /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc: This symlink is created to ensure that any program that looks for the XSane documentation in the default location will find it, as the documentation is installed in an alternate location specified in the make install command.

ln -v -s /usr/bin/xsane /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/: This creates a link in the system-wide GIMP plug-ins directory so that users can access XSane directly from GIMP. GIMP must be available before building XSane for this to work. Alternatively, create the link in ~/.gimp-2.0/plug-ins/ to provide individual user access. man xsane for additional information.

Installed Program: xsane

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/xsane-0.999 and /usr/share/sane/xsane

Short Descriptions

xsane

is a graphical user-interface to control an image acquisition device such as a flatbed scanner.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Chapter 51. Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

This chapter contains DocBook SGML document type definitions (DTDs), DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets and DocBook tools to validate, transform, format and publish DocBook documents.

sgml-common-0.6.3

Introduction to SGML Common

The SGML Common package contains install-catalog. This is useful for creating and maintaining centralized SGML catalogs.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/SOURCES/sgml-common-0.6.3.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 103c9828f24820df86e55e7862e28974
Download size: 75 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/sgml-common-0.6.3-manpage-1.patch

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sgml-common

Installation of SGML Common

Instead of the normal convention of including the autotools files in the package, the maintainers included symlinks to the files in /usr/share/automake. For previous versions of Automake this convention is correct, but recent versions of Automake install the internal files in version specific directories. This causes the configure script to abort. To fix this error, the autotools are regenerated. Since the included Makefile.am file uses a syntax not supported by current versions of Automake, a patch is required to fix the syntax.

patch -Np1 -i ../sgml-common-0.6.3-manpage-1.patch &&
autoreconf -f -i

Install SGML Common by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc install &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat \
    /etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat

Update Hint

Remove the above catalog items prior to upgrading (as the root user) with:

install-catalog --remove /etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/sgml-iso-entities-8879.1986/catalog &&

install-catalog --remove /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat \
    /etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat

Configuring SGML Common

Config Files

/etc/sgml/sgml.conf

Configuration Information

No change in this file is necessary.

Installed Programs: install-catalog and sgmlwhich

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Files: SGML and XML DocBook entity files

Installed Directories: /etc/sgml, /usr/share/doc/sgml-common-0.6.3, and /usr/share/sgml

Short Descriptions

install-catalog	creates a centralized catalog that maintains references to catalogs scattered throughout the `/usr/share/sgml` directory tree.
sgmlwhich	will print to standard output the name of the main configuration file.
`SGML entities files`	contain the basic character entities defined with SDATA entries.
`XML entities files`	contain the basic character entities defined by a hexadecimal representation of the Unicode character number.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

docbook-3.1

Introduction to DocBook SGML DTD

The DocBook SGML DTD package contains document type definitions for verification of SGML data files against the DocBook rule set. These are useful for structuring books and software documentation to a standard allowing you to utilize transformations already written for that standard.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.docbook.org/sgml/3.1/docbk31.zip
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/devel/docbook/SOURCES/docbk31.zip
Download MD5 sum: 432749c0c806dbae81c8bcb70da3b5d3
Download size: 55 KB
Estimated disk space required: 676 KB
Estimated build time: 0.01 SBU

DocBook SGML DTD Dependencies

Required

sgml-common-0.6.3 and UnZip-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sgml-dtd-3

Installation of DocBook SGML DTD

Note

The package source is distributed in zip format and requires unzip. You should create a directory and change to that directory before unzipping the file to ease the removal of the source files after the package has been installed.

Install DocBook SGML DTD by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/ISO 8879/d' \
       -e 's|DTDDECL "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN"|SGMLDECL|g' \
       docbook.cat

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1 &&
chown -R root:root . &&
install -v docbook.cat /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog &&
cp -v -af *.dtd *.mod *.dcl /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1 &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-dtd-3.1.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-dtd-3.1.cat \
    /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat

Command Explanations

sed -i -e '/ISO 8879/d' docbook.cat: This command removes the ENT definitions from the catalog file.

sed -i -e 's|DTDDECL "-//OASIS//DTD Docbook V3.1//EN"|SGMLDECL|g' docbook.cat: This command replaces the DTDDECL catalog entry, which is not supported by Linux SGML tools, with the SGMLDECL catalog entry.

Configuring DocBook SGML DTD

Config Files

/etc/sgml/catalog

Configuration Information

The above installation script updates the catalog.

Using only the most current 3.x version of DocBook SGML DTD requires the following (perform as the root user):

cat >> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1/catalog << "EOF"
  -- Begin Single Major Version catalog changes --

PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" "docbook.dtd"

  -- End Single Major Version catalog changes --
EOF

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Files: SGML DTD and MOD files

Installed Directory: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-3.1

Short Descriptions

`SGML DTD files`	contain a document type definition which defines the element types and the attribute lists that can be used in the corresponding SGML files.
`SGML MOD files`	contain components of the document type definition that are sourced into the `DTD` files.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

docbook-4.5

Introduction to DocBook SGML DTD

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.5/docbook-4.5.zip
Download MD5 sum: 07c581f4bbcba6d3aac85360a19f95f7
Download size: 70 KB
Estimated disk space required: 784 KB
Estimated build time: 0.01 SBU

DocBook SGML DTD Dependencies

Required

sgml-common-0.6.3 and UnZip-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sgml-dtd

Installation of DocBook SGML DTD

Note

Install DocBook SGML DTD by running the following commands:

sed -i -e '/ISO 8879/d' \
       -e '/gml/d' docbook.cat

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5 &&
chown -R root:root . &&

install -v docbook.cat /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5/catalog &&
cp -v -af *.dtd *.mod *.dcl /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5 &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-dtd-4.5.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5/catalog &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-dtd-4.5.cat \
    /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat

Command Explanations

sed -i -e '/ISO 8879/d' -e '/gml/d' docbook.cat: This command removes the ENT definitions from the catalog file.

Configuring DocBook SGML DTD

Config Files

/etc/sgml/catalog

Configuration Information

The above installation script updates the catalog.

Using only the most current 4.x version of DocBook SGML DTD requires the following (perform as the root user):

cat >> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5/catalog << "EOF"
  -- Begin Single Major Version catalog changes --

PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.4//EN" "docbook.dtd"
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.3//EN" "docbook.dtd"
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN" "docbook.dtd"
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" "docbook.dtd"
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.0//EN" "docbook.dtd"

  -- End Single Major Version catalog changes --
EOF

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Files: SGML DTD and MOD files

Installed Directory: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-4.5

Short Descriptions

`SGML DTD files`	contain a document type definition which defines the element types and the attribute lists that can be used in the corresponding SGML files.
`SGML MOD files`	contain components of the document type definition that are sourced into the `DTD` files.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

OpenSP-1.5.2

Introduction to OpenSP

The OpenSP package contains a C++ library for using SGML/XML files. This is useful for validating, parsing and manipulating SGML and XML documents.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openjade/OpenSP-1.5.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 670b223c5d12cee40c9137be86b6c39b
Download size: 1.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 32 MB
Estimated build time: 1.0 SBU

OpenSP Dependencies

Required

sgml-common-0.6.3

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/opensp

Installation of OpenSP

Install OpenSP by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/32,/253,/' lib/Syntax.cxx &&
sed -i 's/LITLEN          240 /LITLEN          8092/' \
    unicode/{gensyntax.pl,unicode.syn} &&

./configure --prefix=/usr                              \
            --disable-static                           \
            --disable-doc-build                        \
            --enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog \
            --enable-http                              \
            --enable-default-search-path=/usr/share/sgml &&

make pkgdatadir=/usr/share/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.2

To test the results, issue: make check. As many as nine of the 23 tests may fail. Do not be alarmed.

Now, as the root user:

make pkgdatadir=/usr/share/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.2 \
     docdir=/usr/share/doc/OpenSP-1.5.2      \
     install &&

ln -v -sf onsgmls   /usr/bin/nsgmls   &&
ln -v -sf osgmlnorm /usr/bin/sgmlnorm &&
ln -v -sf ospam     /usr/bin/spam     &&
ln -v -sf ospcat    /usr/bin/spcat    &&
ln -v -sf ospent    /usr/bin/spent    &&
ln -v -sf osx       /usr/bin/sx       &&
ln -v -sf osx       /usr/bin/sgml2xml &&
ln -v -sf libosp.so /usr/lib/libsp.so

Command Explanations

sed -i 's/32,/253,/...unicode.syn}: These seds prevent some annoying messages that may otherwise appear while running openjade.

--disable-static: This switch prevents the building of the static library.

--enable-http: This switch adds support for HTTP.

--enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog: This switch sets the path to the centralized catalog.

--enable-default-search-path: This switch sets the default value of SGML_SEARCH_PATH.

--enable-xml-messages: This switch adds support for XML Formatted Messages.

--disable-doc-build: This switch prevents the configure script checking if you have xmlto installed. If you have xmlto, you can remove this option.

make pkgdatadir=/usr/share/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.2: This sets the pkgdatadir variable in the Makefile from /usr/share/OpenSP to /usr/share/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.2.

ln -v -sf ...: These commands create the SP equivalents of OpenSP executables and libraries.

Installed Programs: onsgmls, osgmlnorm, ospam, ospcat, ospent, osx, and the SP equivalent symlinks: nsgmls, sgml2xml, sgmlnorm, spam, spcat, spent, and sx

Installed Library: libosp.so and the SP equivalent symlink: libsp.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/OpenSP, /usr/share/doc/OpenSP, and /usr/share/sgml/OpenSP-1.5.2

Short Descriptions

onsgmls	is used to process SGML files.
osgmlnorm	prints on the standard output a normalized document instance for the SGML document contained in the concatenation of the entities with system identifiers .nf and .fi.
ospam	is a markup stream editor.
ospcat	prints effective system identifiers found in the catalogs.
ospent	provides access to OpenSP's entity manager.
osx	is an SGML normalizer or used to convert SGML files to XML files.
nsgmls	is a symlink to onsgmls.
sgml2xml	is a symlink to osx.
sgmlnorm	is a symlink to osgmlnorm.
spam	is a symlink to ospam.
spcat	is a symlink to ospcat.
spent	is a symlink to ospent.
sx	is a symlink to osx.
`libosp.so`	contains functions required by the OpenSP programs to parse, validate and manipulate SGML and XML files.
`libsp.so`	is a symlink to `libosp.so`.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

OpenJade-1.3.2

Introduction to OpenJade

The OpenJade package contains a DSSSL engine. This is useful for SGML and XML transformations into RTF, TeX, SGML and XML.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openjade/openjade-1.3.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 7df692e3186109cc00db6825b777201e
Download size: 880 KB
Estimated disk space required: 19.2 MB
Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU

Additional Download

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/openjade-1.3.2-gcc_4.6-1.patch

OpenJade Dependencies

Required

OpenSP-1.5.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/openjade

Installation of OpenJade

First fix a compilation problem identified in gcc-4.6 and later:

patch -Np1 -i ../openjade-1.3.2-gcc_4.6-1.patch

Now fix a compilation problem with perl-5.16 and later:

sed -i -e '/getopts/{N;s#&G#g#;s#do .getopts.pl.;##;}' \
       -e '/use POSIX/ause Getopt::Std;' msggen.pl

Install OpenJade by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr                                \
            --mandir=/usr/share/man                      \
            --enable-http                                \
            --disable-static                             \
            --enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog   \
            --enable-default-search-path=/usr/share/sgml \
            --datadir=/usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2   &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install                                                   &&
make install-man                                               &&
ln -v -sf openjade /usr/bin/jade                               &&
ln -v -sf libogrove.so /usr/lib/libgrove.so                    &&
ln -v -sf libospgrove.so /usr/lib/libspgrove.so                &&
ln -v -sf libostyle.so /usr/lib/libstyle.so                    &&

install -v -m644 dsssl/catalog /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/ &&

install -v -m644 dsssl/*.{dtd,dsl,sgm}              \
    /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2                             &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/openjade-1.3.2.cat  \
    /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog                     &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat    \
    /etc/sgml/openjade-1.3.2.cat

Command Explanations

make install-man: This command installs the openjade man page.

--disable-static: This switch prevents the building of the static library.

--enable-http: This switch adds support for HTTP.

--enable-default-catalog=/etc/sgml/catalog: This switch sets the path to the centralized catalog.

--enable-default-search-path: This switch sets the default value of SGML_SEARCH_PATH.

--datadir=/usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2: This switch puts data files in /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2 instead of /usr/share.

ln -v -sf ...: These commands create the Jade equivalents of OpenJade executables and libraries.

Configuring OpenJade

Configuration Information

As the root user:

echo "SYSTEM \"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd\" \
    \"/usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/docbookx.dtd\"" >> \
    /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2/catalog

This configuration is only necessary if you intend to use OpenJade to process the BLFS XML files through DSSSL Stylesheets.

Installed Programs: openjade and the Jade equivalent symlink, jade

Installed Libraries: libogrove.so, libospgrove.so, libostyle.so, and the Jade equivalent symlinks: libgrove.so, libspgrove.so, and libstyle.so

Installed Directory: /usr/share/sgml/openjade-1.3.2

Short Descriptions

openjade	is a DSSSL engine used for transformations.
jade	is a symlink to openjade.

Last updated on 2015-09-11 17:57:49 -0700

docbook-dsssl-1.79

Introduction to DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets

The DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets package contains DSSSL stylesheets. These are used by OpenJade or other tools to transform SGML and XML DocBook files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-dsssl-1.79.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/docbook-dsssl-1.79.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: bc192d23266b9a664ca0aba4a7794c7c
Download size: 277 KB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Documentation and test data

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-dsssl-doc-1.79.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 9a7b809a21ab7d2749bb328334c380f2
Download size: 142 KB

DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets Dependencies

Required

sgml-common-0.6.3

Required (to Test the DocBook SGML Toolchain)

docbook-3.1, docbook-4.5, OpenSP-1.5.2 and OpenJade-1.3.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/docbook-dsssl

Installation of DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets

If you downloaded the documentation, run:

tar -xf ../docbook-dsssl-doc-1.79.tar.bz2 --strip-components=1

Install DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 bin/collateindex.pl /usr/bin                      &&
install -v -m644 bin/collateindex.pl.1 /usr/share/man/man1         &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79 &&
cp -v -R * /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79          &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/dsssl-docbook-stylesheets.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/catalog         &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/dsssl-docbook-stylesheets.cat \
    /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/common/catalog  &&

install-catalog --add /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat              \
    /etc/sgml/dsssl-docbook-stylesheets.cat

Command Explanations

The above commands create an installation script for this package.

Testing the DocBook SGML Toolchain (Optional)

The following commands will perform the necessary tests to confirm that your installed DocBook SGML toolchain will produce desired results. You must have the docbook-3.1, docbook-4.5, OpenSP-1.5.2 and OpenJade-1.3.2 packages installed and perform the tests as the root user.

All tests will be performed from the /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/doc/testdata directory as the root user:

cd /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/doc/testdata

The first test should produce no output to stdout (your screen) and create a file named jtest.rtf in the current directory:

openjade -t rtf -d jtest.dsl jtest.sgm

The next test should return only the following line to stdout: onsgmls:I: "OpenSP" version "1.5.2"

onsgmls -sv test.sgm

The next test should produce no output to stdout and create a file named test.rtf in the current directory:

openjade -t rtf \
    -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/print/docbook.dsl \
    test.sgm

The last test should produce no output to stdout and create a file named c1.htm in the current directory:

openjade -t sgml \
    -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/docbook.dsl \
    test.sgm

Finally, clean up:

rm jtest.rtf test.rtf c1.htm

Installed Program: collateindex.pl

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Files: DSSSL stylesheets

Installed Directory: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79

Short Descriptions

collateindex.pl

is a Perl script that creates a DocBook index from raw index data.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

DocBook-utils-0.6.14

Introduction to DocBook-utils

The DocBook-utils package is a collection of utility scripts used to convert and analyze SGML documents in general, and DocBook files in particular. The scripts are used to convert from DocBook or other SGML formats into “classical” file formats like HTML, man, info, RTF and many more. There's also a utility to compare two SGML files and only display the differences in markup. This is useful for comparing documents prepared for different languages.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials/SOURCES/docbook-utils-0.6.14.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 6b41b18c365c01f225bc417cf632d81c
Download size: 124 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.44 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/docbook-utils-0.6.14-grep_fix-1.patch

DocBook-utils Dependencies

Required

OpenJade-1.3.2, docbook-dsssl-1.79, and docbook-3.1

Optional (Runtime Dependencies Only)

SGMLSpm-1.1 (for conversion to man and texinfo), and Lynx-2.8.8rel.2 or Links-2.12 or w3m-0.5.3 (for conversion to ASCII text)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/docbook-utils

Installation of DocBook-utils

Install DocBook-utils by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../docbook-utils-0.6.14-grep_fix-1.patch &&
sed -i 's:/html::' doc/HTML/Makefile.in                &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man      &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make docdir=/usr/share/doc install

Many packages use an alternate name for the DocBook-utils scripts. If you wish to create these alternate names, use the following command as the root user:

for doctype in html ps dvi man pdf rtf tex texi txt
do
    ln -svf docbook2$doctype /usr/bin/db2$doctype
done

Note

The jw script uses the which command to locate required utilities. You must install Which-2.21 before attempting to use any of the DocBook-utils programs.

Command Explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../docbook-utils-0.6.14-grep_fix-1.patch: This patch corrects the syntax in the jw (Jade Wrapper) script which is at the heart of much db2* processing, so that the current version of Grep will not reject it.

sed -i 's:/html::' doc/HTML/Makefile.in: This command changes the installation directory of the HTML documents.

docdir=/usr/share/doc: This option is placed on the make install line because is is not recognized by configure.

Installed Programs: docbook2dvi, docbook2html, docbook2man, docbook2pdf, docbook2ps, docbook2rtf, docbook2tex, docbook2texi, docbook2txt, jw, and sgmldiff

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/docbook-utils-0.6.14 and /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14

Installed Symlinks: db2dvi, db2html, db2man, db2pdf, db2ps, db2rtf, db2tex, db2texi, and db2txt

Short Descriptions

docbook2*	are simple one-line wrapper scripts to jw. They are provided as easy-to-remember names used to convert DocBook or other SGML files to the respective format.
db2*	are symlinks pointing at the respectively named docbook2* commands, created to satisfy some program's use of these names.
jw	is a script used to convert DocBook or other SGML files to various output formats. It hides most of OpenJade's complexity and adds comfortable features.
sgmldiff	is used to compare two SGML files and only return the differences in the markup. This is especially useful to compare files that should be identical except for language differences in the content.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

Chapter 52. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

This chapter contains the DocBook XML document type definition (DTD) and DocBook Stylesheets which are used to validate, transform, format and publish DocBook documents.

docbook-xml-4.5

Introduction to DocBook XML DTD

The DocBook XML DTD-4.5 package contains document type definitions for verification of XML data files against the DocBook rule set. These are useful for structuring books and software documentation to a standard allowing you to utilize transformations already written for that standard.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.5/docbook-xml-4.5.zip
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/docbook-xml-4.5.zip
Download MD5 sum: 03083e288e87a7e829e437358da7ef9e
Download size: 96 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

DocBook XML DTD Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.9.2, sgml-common-0.6.3, and UnZip-6.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/docbook-xml

Installation of DocBook XML DTD

Note

Install DocBook XML DTD by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 &&
install -v -d -m755 /etc/xml &&
chown -R root:root . &&
cp -v -af docbook.cat *.dtd ent/ *.mod \
    /usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5

Create (or update) and populate the /etc/xml/docbook catalog file by running the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -e /etc/xml/docbook ]; then
    xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/docbook
fi &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML CALS Table Model V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/calstblx.dtd" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//DTD XML Exchange Table Model 19990315//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/soextblx.dtd" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Information Pool V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbpoolx.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Document Hierarchy V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbhierx.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML HTML Tables V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/htmltblx.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Notations V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbnotnx.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Character Entities V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbcentx.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Additional General Entities V4.5//EN" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbgenent.mod" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \
    /etc/xml/docbook &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \
    /etc/xml/docbook

Create (or update) and populate the /etc/xml/catalog catalog file by running the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -e /etc/xml/catalog ]; then
    xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog
fi &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegatePublic" \
    "-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegatePublic" \
    "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateSystem" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&
xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateURI" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog

Configuring DocBook XML DTD

Config Files

/etc/xml/catalog, /etc/xml/docbook

Configuration Information

The above installation creates the files and updates the catalogs. In order to install ScrollKeeper or to utilize DocBook XML DTD V4.5 when any version 4.x is requested in the System Identifier, you need to add additional statements to the catalog files. If you have any of the DocBook XML DTD's referenced below already installed on your system, remove those entries from the for command below (issue the commands as the root user):

for DTDVERSION in 4.1.2 4.2 4.3 4.4
do
  xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \
    "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V$DTDVERSION//EN" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/docbookx.dtd" \
    /etc/xml/docbook
  xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \
    /etc/xml/docbook
  xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION" \
    "file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \
    /etc/xml/docbook
  xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateSystem" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog
  xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateURI" \
    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/" \
    "file:///etc/xml/docbook" \
    /etc/xml/catalog
done

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Files: DTD, MOD and ENT files

Installed Directories: /etc/xml and /usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5

Short Descriptions

`DTD files`	contain a document type definition which defines the element types and the attribute lists that can be used in the corresponding `XML` files.
`MOD files`	files contain components of the document type definition that are sourced into the `DTD` files.
`ENT files`	files contain lists of named character entities allowed in HTML.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

docbook-xsl-1.78.1

Introduction to DocBook XSL Stylesheets

The DocBook XSL Stylesheets package contains XSL stylesheets. These are useful for performing transformations on XML DocBook files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.78.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 6dd0f89131cc35bf4f2ed105a1c17771
Download size: 4.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 49 MB (includes installing optional documentation)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Optional documentation

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-doc-1.78.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 77b63a06db2db2b692dcb96c2c64dc45
Download size: 1.0 MB

DocBook XSL Stylesheets Dependencies

Required

libxml2-2.9.2

Optional

Ruby-2.2.3 (to utilize the “epub” stylesheets)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/docbook-xsl

Installation of DocBook XSL Stylesheets

If you downloaded the optional documentation tarball, unpack it with the following command:

tar -xf ../docbook-xsl-doc-1.78.1.tar.bz2 --strip-components=1

BLFS does not install the required packages to run the test suite and provide meaningful results.

Install DocBook XSL Stylesheets by running the following commands as the root user:

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1 &&

cp -v -R VERSION common eclipse epub extensions fo highlighting html \
         htmlhelp images javahelp lib manpages params profiling \
         roundtrip slides template tests tools webhelp website \
         xhtml xhtml-1_1 \
    /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1 &&

ln -s VERSION /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1/VERSION.xsl &&

install -v -m644 -D README \
                    /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.78.1/README.txt &&
install -v -m644    RELEASE-NOTES* NEWS* \
                    /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.78.1

If you downloaded the optional documentation tarball, install the documentation by issuing the following command as the root user:

cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.78.1

Configuring DocBook XSL Stylesheets

Config Files

/etc/xml/catalog

Configuration Information

Create (or append) and populate the XML catalog file using the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -d /etc/xml ]; then install -v -m755 -d /etc/xml; fi &&
if [ ! -f /etc/xml/catalog ]; then
    xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog
fi &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.78.1" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.78.1" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog

Occasionally, you may find the need to install other versions of the XSL stylesheets as some projects reference a specific version. One example is BLFS-6.0, which required the 1.67.2 version. In these instances you should install any other required version in its own versioned directory and create catalog entries as follows (substitute the desired version number for <version>):

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/<version>" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-<version>" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/<version>" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-<version>" \
    /etc/xml/catalog

Installed Programs: None

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.78.1 and /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.78.1

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

Itstool-2.0.2

Introduction to Itstool

Itstool extracts messages from XML files and outputs PO template files, then merges translations from MO files to create translated XML files. It determines what to translate and how to chunk it into messages using the W3C Internationalization Tag Set (ITS).

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://files.itstool.org/itstool/itstool-2.0.2.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d472d877a7bc49899a73d442085b2f93
Download size: 96 KB
Estimated disk space required: 784 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Itstool Dependencies

Required

docbook-xml-4.5 and Python-2.7.10

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/itstool

Installation of Itstool

Install Itstool by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Program: itstool

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/itstool

Short Descriptions

itstool

is used to create translated XML files.

Last updated on 2015-09-09 21:58:46 -0700

xmlto-0.0.26

Introduction to xmlto

The xmlto is a front-end to an XSL toolchain. It chooses an appropriate stylesheet for the conversion you want and applies it using an external XSL-T processor. It also performs any necessary post-processing.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://fedorahosted.org/releases/x/m/xmlto/xmlto-0.0.26.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c90a47c774e0963581c1ba57235f64f4
Download size: 120 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.4 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

xmlto Dependencies

Required

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, and libxslt-1.1.28

Optional (for DVI, PDF, and postscript backend post-processing)

dblatex, PassiveTeX, and fop-2.0

Optional (for text backend post-processing)

One of w3m-0.5.3, Links-2.12, or Lynx-2.8.8rel.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xmlto

Installation of xmlto

Install xmlto by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: xmlif and xmlto

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/xmlto

Short Descriptions

xmlif	is a conditional processing instructions for XML.
xmlto	applies an XSL stylesheet to an XML document.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

Chapter 53. PostScript

This chapter includes applications that create, manipulate or view PostScript files and create or view Portable Document Format PDF files.

a2ps-4.14

Introduction to a2ps

a2ps is a filter utilized mainly in the background and primarily by printing scripts to convert almost every input format into PostScript output. The application's name expands appropriately to “all to PostScript”.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

a2ps cannot convert UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript. The issue is discussed in detail in the Needed Encoding Not a Valid Option section of the Locale Related Issues page. The solution is to use paps-0.6.8 instead of a2ps for converting UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-4.14.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-4.14.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 781ac3d9b213fa3e1ed0d79f986dc8c7
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

International fonts: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/i18n-fonts/i18n-fonts-0.1.tar.bz2

a2ps Dependencies

Optional

ghostscript-9.16, libpaper-1.1.24+nmu4, texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) X Window System, Adobe Reader, and Ghostview

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/A2PS

Installation of a2ps

Install a2ps by running the following commands:

autoconf &&
sed -i -e "s/GPERF --version |/& head -n 1 |/" \
       -e "s|/usr/local/share|/usr/share|" configure &&

./configure --prefix=/usr  \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/a2ps \
    --enable-shared        \
    --with-medium=letter   &&
make                       &&
touch doc/*.info

To test the results, issue: make check. The printers.tst test will fail, as there is no default test printer. The styles.tst may also fail, as the tests report some inconsistencies between the generated postscript and the reference sets. This is caused by version number differences between the postscript test files and those generated by the tests — these do not affect the operation of the program and can be ignored.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If desired, install the downloaded i18n-fonts by running the following commands as the root user:

tar -xf ../i18n-fonts-0.1.tar.bz2 &&
cp -v i18n-fonts-0.1/fonts/* /usr/share/a2ps/fonts               &&
cp -v i18n-fonts-0.1/afm/* /usr/share/a2ps/afm                   &&
pushd /usr/share/a2ps/afm    &&
  ./make_fonts_map.sh        &&
  mv fonts.map.new fonts.map &&
popd

Command Explanations

autoconf: This command is used to recreate the configure script. This is required because there is an issue in the mktime test which causes the configure script to hang for 60 seconds and then report that there is no working mktime function.

sed -i "s/GPERF --version |/& head -n 1 |/" configure: This fixes a bug in the handling of the version output of gperf.

sed -i "s|/usr/local/share|/usr/share|" configure: This command modifies the configure script to search for Ghostscript fonts at the location where they were installed by the BLFS instructions.

--sysconfdir=/etc/a2ps: Configuration data is installed in /etc/a2ps instead of /usr/etc.

--enable-shared: This switch enables building the dynamic liba2ps library.

--with-medium=letter: This switch changes the default paper format to US letter. It can either be given here or set in /etc/a2ps/a2ps-site.cfg after installation. The default is A4, but there are several other options, in particular: A4dj or letterdj are good settings for HP Deskjet and other printers that need wider paper-handling margins. See /etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg after installation.

touch doc/*.info: This command avoids trying to regenerate the info files. This is an older package and the current .texi files will produce errors preventing make install from working properly.

Configuring a2ps

Config Files

/etc/a2ps/a2ps.cfg, /etc/a2ps/a2ps-site.cfg

Configuration Information

Information about configuring a2ps can be found in the comments contained in the above files, and also by running info a2ps.

Installed Programs: a2ps, card, composeglyphs, fixnt, fixps, ogonkify, pdiff, psmandup, psset, and texi2dvi4a2ps

Installed Libraries: liba2ps.{so,a} and filter data

Installed Directories: /etc/a2ps and /usr/share/a2ps

Short Descriptions

a2ps	is a filter, utilized primarily by printing scripts, that converts standard input or supported files to PostScript.
card	prints a reference card of a given program's options.
composeglyphs	creates a composite font program.
fixnt	is supposed to fix the problems in the PostScript files generated by the Microsoft PostScript driver under Windows NT (3.5 and 4.0).
fixps	tries to fix common PostScript problems that break postprocessing.
ogonkify	provides international support for Postscript by performing various munging of PostScript files related to printing in different languages.
pdiff	produces a pretty comparison between files.
psmandup	tries to produce a version of a given PostScript file to print in manual duplex.
psset	produces a version of a given PostScript file with a protected call to the PostScript operator 'setpagedevice'. Typical use is making a file print duplex, or on the manual tray, etc.
texi2dvi4a2ps	compiles Texinfo and LaTeX files to DVI or PDF

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

Enscript-1.6.6

Introduction to Enscript

Enscript converts ASCII text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI and overstrikes.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Caution

Enscript cannot convert UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript. The issue is discussed in detail in the Needed Encoding Not a Valid Option section of the Locale Related Issues page. The solution is to use paps-0.6.8, instead of Enscript, for converting UTF-8 encoded text to PostScript.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/enscript/enscript-1.6.6.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/enscript-1.6.6.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3acc242b829adacabcaf28533f049afd
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 14 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

Enscript Dependencies

Optional

texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Enscript

Installation of Enscript

Install Enscript by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr              \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/enscript \
            --localstatedir=/var       \
            --with-media=Letter &&
make &&

pushd docs &&
  makeinfo --plaintext -o enscript.txt enscript.texi &&
popd

If you have texlive-20150521 installed, you can create Postscript and PDF documentation by issuing: make -C docs ps pdf.

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/enscript-1.6.6 &&
install -v -m644    README* *.txt docs/*.txt \
                    /usr/share/doc/enscript-1.6.6

If you built Postscript and PDF documentation, install it using the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 docs/*.{dvi,pdf,ps} \
                 /usr/share/doc/enscript-1.6.6

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/enscript: This switch puts configuration data in /etc/enscript instead of /usr/etc.

--localstatedir=/var: This switch sets the directory for runtime data to /var instead of /usr/var.

--with-media=Letter: This switch sets the medium format to letter size instead of the A4 default.

Installed Programs: diffpp, enscript, mkafmmap, over, sliceprint, and states

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /etc/enscript, /usr/share/doc/enscript-1.6.6, and /usr/share/enscript

Short Descriptions

diffpp	converts diff output files to a format suitable to be printed with enscript.
enscript	is a filter, used primarily by printing scripts, that converts ASCII text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI and overstrikes.
mkafmmap	creates a font map from a given file.
over	is a script which calls enscript and passes the correct parameters to create overstriked fonts.
sliceprint	slices documents with long lines.
states	is an awk-like text processing tool with some state machine extensions. It is designed for program source code highlighting and for similar tasks where state information helps input processing.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

PSUtils-p17

Introduction to PSUtils

PSUtils is a set of utilities to manipulate PostScript files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/psutils/psutils-p17.tar.gz/b161522f3bd1507655326afa7db4a0ad/psutils-p17.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b161522f3bd1507655326afa7db4a0ad
Download size: 68 KB
Estimated disk space required: 740 KB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/psutils

Installation of PSUtils

Install PSUtils by running the following commands:

sed 's@/usr/local@/usr@g' Makefile.unix > Makefile &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

sed 's@/usr/local@/usr@g' Makefile.unix > Makefile: This command creates a Makefile that installs the program to the /usr prefix instead of the /usr/local prefix.

Installed Programs: epsffit, extractres, fixdlsrps, fixfmps, fixmacps, fixpsditps, fixpspps, fixscribeps, fixtpps, fixwfwps, fixwpps, fixwwps, getafm, includeres, psbook, psmerge, psnup, psresize, psselect, pstops, and showchar

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/psutils

Sometimes psnup and other utilities from this package produce PostScript files that don't conform to Adobe's DSC standard. CUPS may print them incorrectly. On the other hand, CUPS has builtin replacements for most commands from this package. For example, to print a document 2-up, you can issue this command:

lp -o number-up=2 <filename>

Short Descriptions

epsffit	fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box.
extractres	is a filter to extract resources from a PostScript document.
fix*	are filters of different kinds of documents to work with PSUtils.
getafm	create an AFM file for a PostScript font.
includeres	is a filter to include resources in a PostScript document.
psbook	rearranges pages into signatures.
psmerge	is a filter to merge several PostScript files into one.
psnup	puts multiple pages per physical sheet of paper.
psresize	alters the document paper size.
psselect	selects pages and page ranges.
pstops	performs general page rearrangements and selection.
showchar	outputs PostScript to draw a character with metric info.

Last updated on 2015-09-10 20:43:58 -0700

ePDFView-0.1.8

Introduction to ePDFView

ePDFView is a free standalone lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries. It is a good replacement for Evince as it does not rely upon GNOME libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/conglomeration/epdfview/epdfview-0.1.8.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e50285b01612169b2594fea375f53ae4
Download size: 456 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/epdfview-0.1.8-fixes-2.patch

ePDFView Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.28 and Poppler-0.35.0

Recommended (mainly for Desktop Environments)

Optional

Cups-2.1.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/epdfview

Installation of ePDFView

Install ePDFView by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.8-fixes-2.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

For Desktop Environment users, further (optional) instructions are necessary for properly displaying epdfview.desktop in the menu. As root user:

for size in 24 32 48; do
  ln -svf ../../../../epdfview/pixmaps/icon_epdfview-$size.png \
          /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps
done &&
unset size &&

update-desktop-database &&
gtk-update-icon-cache -t -f --include-image-data /usr/share/icons/hicolor

Command Explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.8-fixes-2.patch The patch does four things: fixes compiling with glib-2.32 or greater, corrects red appearing as blue with recent versions of poppler, allows the application to compile when Cups-2.1.0 has been installed, and fixes the display of embedded png images.

Installed Program: epdfview

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directory: /usr/share/epdfview

Short Descriptions

epdfview

is a Gtk+-2 program for viewing PDF documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

fop-2.0

Introduction to fop

The FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) package contains a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO). It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PCL, PostScript, SVG, XML (area tree representation), print, AWT, MIF and ASCII text. The primary output target is PDF.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://archive.apache.org/dist/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-2.0-src.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 754e5307a73433afb5c4c9b11d45e302
Download size: 22 MB
Estimated disk space required: 206 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU

Additional Downloads

Recommended packages

Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API components (architecture dependent):
http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/1_1_3/jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz
a2cbc155ef3899bcde9c74a8035764b3
3.4 MB

or

http://download.java.net/media/jai/builds/release/1_1_3/jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-amd64.tar.gz
4a906db35612f668aeef2c0606d7075b
3.4 MB

Required patch

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/fop-2.0-listNPE-1.patch

fop Dependencies

Required

apache-ant-1.9.6

Optional

JUnit-4.11 (to run tests), X Window System (to run tests), JIMI SDK, XMLUnit, JAI Image I/O Tools, JEuclid, PMD (requires Jaxen), and Forrest (Forrest used only to build the documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fop

Installation of fop

Ensure $JAVA_HOME is set correctly before beginning the build. To build the JIMI SDK and/or XMLUnit extension classes, ensure the corresponding .jar files can be found via the CLASSPATH environment variable.

Installing Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API components

Install the JAI API components. As the root user:

case `uname -m` in
  i?86)
    tar -xf ../jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-i586.tar.gz
    cp -v jai-1_1_3/lib/{jai*,mlibwrapper_jai.jar} $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/
    cp -v jai-1_1_3/lib/libmlib_jai.so             $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/
    ;;

  x86_64)
    tar -xf ../jai-1_1_3-lib-linux-amd64.tar.gz
    cp -v jai-1_1_3/lib/{jai*,mlibwrapper_jai.jar} $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/
    cp -v jai-1_1_3/lib/libmlib_jai.so             $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/
    ;;
esac

Installing fop Components

The javadoc command coming with OpenJDK 8 has become much stricter than before regarding the conformance of the Javadoc comments in source code to HTML. The FOP documentation does not meet those standard, so the conformance checks have to be disabled. This can be done with the following command:

sed -i '\@</javad@i<arg value="-Xdoclint:none"/>' build.xml

Then, compile fop by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../fop-2.0-listNPE-1.patch &&
ant compile &&
ant jar-main &&
ant javadocs &&
mv build/javadocs .

To test the application, run ant junit-all. The hyphenation tests will fail. To see a list of other test targets, use ant -p. You must run the tests from an X-window using a GL-aware Xorg server or some of the JUnit tests will hang.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -d -m755                                     /opt/fop-2.0 &&
cp -v  KEYS LICENSE NOTICE README                       /opt/fop-2.0 &&
cp -va build conf examples fop* javadocs lib status.xml /opt/fop-2.0 &&

ln -v -sf fop-2.0 /opt/fop

Command Explanations

ant target: This reads the file build.xml and builds the target files.

ln -v -sf fop-2.0 /opt/fop: This is optional and creates a convenience symlink so that $FOP_HOME doesn't have to be changed each time there's a package version change.

Configuring fop

Config Files

~/.foprc

Configuration Information

Using fop to process some large FO's (including the FO derived from the BLFS XML sources), can lead to memory errors. Unless you add a parameter to the java command used in the fop script you may receive messages similar to the one shown below:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

To avoid errors like this, you need to pass an extra parameter to the java command used in the fop script. This can be accomplished by creating a ~/.foprc (which is sourced by the fop script) and adding the parameter to the FOP_OPTS environment variable.

The fop script looks for a FOP_HOME environment variable to locate the fop class libraries. You can create this variable using the ~/.foprc file as well. Create a ~/.foprc file using the following commands:

cat > ~/.foprc << "EOF"
FOP_OPTS="-Xmx<RAM_Installed>m"
FOP_HOME="/opt/fop"
EOF

Replace <RAM_Installed> with a number representing the amount of RAM installed in your computer (in megabytes). An example would be FOP_OPTS="-Xmx768m".

To include the fop script in your path, update your personal or system-wide profile with the following:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/fop

Note

Running fop can be somewhat verbose. The default logging level can be changed from INFO to any of FINEST, FINER, FINE, CONFIG, INFO, WARNING, SEVERE, ALL, or OFF. To do this, edit $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/logging.properties and change the entries for .leval and java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level to the desired value.

Installed Programs: fop

Installed Libraries: fop.jar and numerous support library classes located in /opt/fop/{build,lib}; JAI components include libmlib_jai.so, jai_codec.jar, jai_core.jar, and mlibwrapper_jai.jar

Installed Directory: /opt/fop-2.0

Short Descriptions

fop	is a wrapper script to the java command which sets up the fop environment and passes the required parameters.
`fop.jar`	contains all the fop Java classes.

Last updated on 2015-09-13 02:50:13 -0700

MuPDF-1.7a

Introduction to MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://www.mupdf.com/downloads/archive/mupdf-1.7a-source.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 319fda2cc5301bb3ec2e1d82c3329986
Download size: 13 MB
Estimated disk space required: 131 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU

Additional Downloads

Recommended patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/mupdf-1.7a-openjpeg21-1.patch

MuPDF Dependencies

Required

Optional

OpenSSL-1.0.2d and jbig2dec

Required (runtime)

X Window System

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mupdf

Installation of MuPDF

Install MuPDF by running the following commands:

rm -rf thirdparty/curl &&
rm -rf thirdparty/freetype &&
rm -rf thirdparty/jpeg &&
rm -rf thirdparty/openjpeg &&
rm -rf thirdparty/zlib &&
patch -Np1 -i ../mupdf-1.7a-openjpeg21-1.patch &&
make build=release

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m 755 build/release/mupdf-x11-curl /usr/bin/mupdf &&
install -v -m 644 docs/man/mupdf.1 /usr/share/man/man1/

Installed Program: mupdf

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

mupdf

is a program for viewing PDF and XPS documents.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700

paps-0.6.8

Introduction to paps

paps is a text to PostScript converter that works through Pango. Its input is a UTF-8 encoded text file and it outputs vectorized PostScript. It may be used for printing any complex script supported by Pango.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/paps/paps-0.6.8.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: e9508132bf27609bf2fded2bfd9cb3f1
Download size: 460 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Additional Downloads

Required patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/7.8/paps-0.6.8-freetype_fix-1.patch

paps Dependencies

Required

Pango-1.36.8

Optional