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Automating Linux From Scratch with jhalfs - February 22, 2008
Building Linux From Scratch is long and tedious. I wanted to do the automated build. However, searches for howto instructions did not lead me to any instructions that ...
Installing Common Unix Printing System for hp deskjet 3320 on LFS - February 26, 2008
Woops! The link to CUPS 1.2.7 in the BLFS book was broken! I went to www.cups.org and clicked on the download link. I chose cups-1.2.12-source.tar.bz2 because it was ...
Installing a Few little Audio and Graphics Apps - February 28, 2008
GRAPHICS Sometimes, it might be nice to view images and/or take screenshots. Without bloating the system, feh and scrot from LinuxBrit worked for me. There is also the ...
Installing xfce-installer on new Linux From Scratch - February 24, 2008
I wanted to install xfce4-4.4.1-installer.run on the new system. I did a "save link as" to download that one. I could have done a "parent directory" twice and ...
Package Dependency Management - March 25, 2008
Installing linux software is infamous for the recursive dependency spiral that often occurs. There really isn't a universally appropriate package manager for LFS although a few techniques are ...
System Backups - March 22, 2008
Eventually, a mistake or a mishap will lead to the desire to restore from a backup. Only a good backup can restore the system to the state it ...
Your distro. Your rules. - April 1, 2008
Linux From Scratch (LFS) has become my linux of choice. Once the system is tailored to my specifications, I want the capability to replicate the system again on ...
Building BLFS packages with jhalfs - June 3, 2008
I keep getting one step closer to using jhalfs to automate installation of some BLFS packages. I have determined from SupportedBooks that jhalfs-2.2.tar.bz2 can help automate builds from ...
Favorite tricks to boot grub - June 15, 2008
Grub works for me and I have some favorite grub tips and tricks. If grub was installed on the host system then the possibility exists to get the ...
Getting ready to launch - June 28, 2008
After a test run of jhalfs with some of the information in README.CUSTOM, there is reason to believe that I can attach as many programs as I want ...
Problems after installing lfs - June 9, 2008
Whether building linux from scratch manually or automatically, there are many opportunities to work on linux problem solving skills. A newly built LFS system may not be easy ...
Jhalfs Primitive Package Management - June 21, 2008
Building BLFS packages with jhalfs is not generally easier than building them by hand. It may actually be harder. It requires the skills learned through building LFS and ...
LFS README files are useful - June 24, 2008
The live CD has a README.txt file with a wealth of information. It seems to be the same as the LFS LiveCD Documentation . I decided to try ...
Beyond the Automated Build - July 4, 2008
After the automated build completes, the usefulness of the build system does not come to an end. For one thing, the jhalfs directory contains files with the names ...
First Fully Automated Build Launched - July 2, 2008
After much preparatory work, I launched an automatic build from blank disk though to desktop system. Arlnode says, "It is linux system and I builded it automatically with ...
Gnome from scratch - July 13, 2008
Gnome core packages was installed with jhalfs using the custom-tools approach. The first attempt was using the blfs tool of jhalfs to get its suggestion of packages and ...
Little linux tragedies - July 31, 2008
Occasionally, some annoying and seemingly unfixable thing may happen to the system. It is that class of things that does not make the system unstable, but it is ...
Of CDs and DVDs, IDEs, SATAIIs and Kernels - July 31, 2008
The lfs standard udev rules result in the unwanted links cdrom and dvd for my DVD, and the links cdrom1 and cdrw1 for my read/write CD. I prefer ...
Build modular xorg X11R7 - August 14, 2008
Getting this to build in one fell swoop was quite an undertaking. But I had too little patience to build and install 301 packages by hand. Did I ...
Extending beyond the basic system - August 18, 2008
I am using the automated build system to continue installing software as time goes by. This is by re-using the jhalfs directory and a Makefile patterned after one ...
Firefox 3 requires GTK+-2.10 or higher - August 9, 2008
And so the dependency hobgoblins come out of the woodwork casting demoniacal enchantments, "Gtk [... tap], Cairo, Pango, Atk, [... poof], pkg-config, glib2, fontconfig, [... alakazam], freetype, expat, ...
Newer is better except sometimes. - August 28, 2008
The stable version for Beyond Linux From Scratch has recently been updated to Version 6.3. Xfce has gone missing in this latest version as has X11R6 and XFree86. ...
Xman fonts - August 16, 2008
I think xman is useful sometimes. But after installing X11R7.2, the fonts in the directory and the oblique fonts looked too big. The problem was that the fontpaths ...
More new changes. More fun. - September 4, 2008
Since the stable BLFS has been upgraded to version 6.3, I would like to try using the latest jhalfs version 2.3.1 and use its blfs-tool to set up ...
Package Management by Guidelines - September 30, 2008
I'm working on some guidelines to use for package management assistance. If the guidelines are followed then the task of package management will be easier. However, the guidelines ...
Package management revisited - September 15, 2008
In chapter 6 of the lfs book there is a debate about Package Management . The "timestamp based" method has some drawbacks, but since I am determined to ...
Trying blfs-tool with custom-tools - September 15, 2008
One can learn from the blfs book while creating custom-tools scripts to be included in a jhalfs build. I wanted to get the blfs-tool to create scripts in ...
Depencency Database - October 13, 2008
Linux From Scratch does have some manner of "dependency database" although its form does not lend itself to making queries. The information is stored in xml files, xsl ...
Wine and fonts - October 27, 2008
Wine makes it possible to run validly-licensed windows software applications. There are a few windows apps that I can use if I want to. I installed wine-0.9.49 because ...
Custom tools package builder script - November 22, 2008
The custom_tools_builder script follows the standard method of building a package in linux from scratch: Change directory to the /sources directory. Download the package. Check the md5sum to ...
Scripts for installing xfce-4.4.3 - November 23, 2008
Installing xfce-4.4.3 I'm working on a script I might call XFCE_MAKE_EM for installing xfce-4.4.3 and maybe the upcoming xfce-4.4.6. The order in which the packages should be built ...
How to automate LFS 6.4 - December 30, 2008
There must be some way to build LFS 6.4 with jhalfs in a manner similar to the original post . What this requires is - Get the XML ...
Linux printing again - December 20, 2008
Clunky - Clumsy in form or manner; awkward Unwieldy - Difficult to manage because of complexity Bunglesome - Difficult to handle or manage Graceful - Once it has ...
Xorg 7.4 and beyond - December 25, 2008
This is a doozy! It is an xorg calculator . It requires at least lynx, wget, and a working internet connection. Ordinarily, it is an arduous task just ...
Cutting and pasting without looking - January 25, 2009
One of the goals is to create a setup that can be used to build the system (or parts of the system) without excessive operator intervention and time. ...
LFS 6.4 surprises - January 10, 2009
Due to LFS 6.4 using gcc-4.3.2 and glibc-2.8 there are surprises when compiling many tried and true packages. Devs and hackers are unperturbed by this. Good old dhcpcd-2.0.8 ...
Tired of one dependency and then another - April 24, 2009
You might get tired of the dependency hell that happens when trying to install one thing only to find that something else must be installed first, and when ...
Did Ya Get Hacked - May 29, 2009
Or somebody fried your unix permissions, maybe? I don't often pay too much attention to that -rwxrwxrwx stuff or the mysterious set uid, set gid, and sticky bit ...
What files install added or changed - May 7, 2009
It is useful to know which files were added, changed, or deleted by an installation. A method that kind of works is to make a timestamp before the ...
Build kde-4.3.4 from source - December 11, 2009
I found instructions to compile and install kde4 from source at blfs wiki , kde howto , and Community Driven BLFS . I tried to make a composite ...
Distro hopping blues - December 22, 2009
Distro hopping is a great way to spend lots of time. Always, I would hope to finally get a system that would conform to my preferences. I would ...
strace package management tool - December 26, 2009
I think I found out why there is big talk about using strace to track files created by an install, but no howtos to back it up. This ...
Strace Mensa Puzzle - January 7, 2010
It is necessary to get the correct full path to properly track files created or changed. It is also necessary to use strace -f so as not to miss files affected in child processes. ...
LFS LiveCD and Jhalfs Howto - January 20, 2010
The LiveCD provides a complete development environment. Jhalfs enables you to build a base system in a few steps. You can also build manually which you should try at least once. It is your system and your choice. You can boot the LiveCD.iso from disk ...
Alfs Progress Bar - January 26, 2010
When building source packages and especially automated linux from scratch (ALFS) it would be nice to have a progress bar that shows a realistic estimate of how the build is progressing. But the progress bar supplied with jhalfs is disappointing ...
KDE4 Display settings are lost after logout - May 4, 2010
When using KDE to set your Display settings, ... , after logging out ... , the settings you indicated are lost. The settings you chose aren't 'retained'...
Disable plasma tooltip balloons - May 9, 2010
With KDE4, some users wish to disable the plasma tooltips, or have some control...
KDE Speedup and Sensible Settings - May 22, 2010
A visual documentation of settings that improved kde4 performance and made things seem more sensible ...
Build Kde4 Again - May 22, 2010
Built kde 4.4.3 with polkit-1/without PAM with patches to disable plasma tooltips and fix display resolution being lost across logouts ...
Building Linux From Scratch is long and tedious. I wanted to do the automated build. However, searches for howto instructions did not lead me to any instructions that ...
Installing Common Unix Printing System for hp deskjet 3320 on LFS - February 26, 2008
Woops! The link to CUPS 1.2.7 in the BLFS book was broken! I went to www.cups.org and clicked on the download link. I chose cups-1.2.12-source.tar.bz2 because it was ...
Installing a Few little Audio and Graphics Apps - February 28, 2008
GRAPHICS Sometimes, it might be nice to view images and/or take screenshots. Without bloating the system, feh and scrot from LinuxBrit worked for me. There is also the ...
Installing xfce-installer on new Linux From Scratch - February 24, 2008
I wanted to install xfce4-4.4.1-installer.run on the new system. I did a "save link as" to download that one. I could have done a "parent directory" twice and ...
Package Dependency Management - March 25, 2008
Installing linux software is infamous for the recursive dependency spiral that often occurs. There really isn't a universally appropriate package manager for LFS although a few techniques are ...
System Backups - March 22, 2008
Eventually, a mistake or a mishap will lead to the desire to restore from a backup. Only a good backup can restore the system to the state it ...
Your distro. Your rules. - April 1, 2008
Linux From Scratch (LFS) has become my linux of choice. Once the system is tailored to my specifications, I want the capability to replicate the system again on ...
Building BLFS packages with jhalfs - June 3, 2008
I keep getting one step closer to using jhalfs to automate installation of some BLFS packages. I have determined from SupportedBooks that jhalfs-2.2.tar.bz2 can help automate builds from ...
Favorite tricks to boot grub - June 15, 2008
Grub works for me and I have some favorite grub tips and tricks. If grub was installed on the host system then the possibility exists to get the ...
Getting ready to launch - June 28, 2008
After a test run of jhalfs with some of the information in README.CUSTOM, there is reason to believe that I can attach as many programs as I want ...
Problems after installing lfs - June 9, 2008
Whether building linux from scratch manually or automatically, there are many opportunities to work on linux problem solving skills. A newly built LFS system may not be easy ...
Jhalfs Primitive Package Management - June 21, 2008
Building BLFS packages with jhalfs is not generally easier than building them by hand. It may actually be harder. It requires the skills learned through building LFS and ...
LFS README files are useful - June 24, 2008
The live CD has a README.txt file with a wealth of information. It seems to be the same as the LFS LiveCD Documentation . I decided to try ...
Beyond the Automated Build - July 4, 2008
After the automated build completes, the usefulness of the build system does not come to an end. For one thing, the jhalfs directory contains files with the names ...
First Fully Automated Build Launched - July 2, 2008
After much preparatory work, I launched an automatic build from blank disk though to desktop system. Arlnode says, "It is linux system and I builded it automatically with ...
Gnome from scratch - July 13, 2008
Gnome core packages was installed with jhalfs using the custom-tools approach. The first attempt was using the blfs tool of jhalfs to get its suggestion of packages and ...
Little linux tragedies - July 31, 2008
Occasionally, some annoying and seemingly unfixable thing may happen to the system. It is that class of things that does not make the system unstable, but it is ...
Of CDs and DVDs, IDEs, SATAIIs and Kernels - July 31, 2008
The lfs standard udev rules result in the unwanted links cdrom and dvd for my DVD, and the links cdrom1 and cdrw1 for my read/write CD. I prefer ...
Build modular xorg X11R7 - August 14, 2008
Getting this to build in one fell swoop was quite an undertaking. But I had too little patience to build and install 301 packages by hand. Did I ...
Extending beyond the basic system - August 18, 2008
I am using the automated build system to continue installing software as time goes by. This is by re-using the jhalfs directory and a Makefile patterned after one ...
Firefox 3 requires GTK+-2.10 or higher - August 9, 2008
And so the dependency hobgoblins come out of the woodwork casting demoniacal enchantments, "Gtk [... tap], Cairo, Pango, Atk, [... poof], pkg-config, glib2, fontconfig, [... alakazam], freetype, expat, ...
Newer is better except sometimes. - August 28, 2008
The stable version for Beyond Linux From Scratch has recently been updated to Version 6.3. Xfce has gone missing in this latest version as has X11R6 and XFree86. ...
Xman fonts - August 16, 2008
I think xman is useful sometimes. But after installing X11R7.2, the fonts in the directory and the oblique fonts looked too big. The problem was that the fontpaths ...
More new changes. More fun. - September 4, 2008
Since the stable BLFS has been upgraded to version 6.3, I would like to try using the latest jhalfs version 2.3.1 and use its blfs-tool to set up ...
Package Management by Guidelines - September 30, 2008
I'm working on some guidelines to use for package management assistance. If the guidelines are followed then the task of package management will be easier. However, the guidelines ...
Package management revisited - September 15, 2008
In chapter 6 of the lfs book there is a debate about Package Management . The "timestamp based" method has some drawbacks, but since I am determined to ...
Trying blfs-tool with custom-tools - September 15, 2008
One can learn from the blfs book while creating custom-tools scripts to be included in a jhalfs build. I wanted to get the blfs-tool to create scripts in ...
Depencency Database - October 13, 2008
Linux From Scratch does have some manner of "dependency database" although its form does not lend itself to making queries. The information is stored in xml files, xsl ...
Wine and fonts - October 27, 2008
Wine makes it possible to run validly-licensed windows software applications. There are a few windows apps that I can use if I want to. I installed wine-0.9.49 because ...
Custom tools package builder script - November 22, 2008
The custom_tools_builder script follows the standard method of building a package in linux from scratch: Change directory to the /sources directory. Download the package. Check the md5sum to ...
Scripts for installing xfce-4.4.3 - November 23, 2008
Installing xfce-4.4.3 I'm working on a script I might call XFCE_MAKE_EM for installing xfce-4.4.3 and maybe the upcoming xfce-4.4.6. The order in which the packages should be built ...
How to automate LFS 6.4 - December 30, 2008
There must be some way to build LFS 6.4 with jhalfs in a manner similar to the original post . What this requires is - Get the XML ...
Linux printing again - December 20, 2008
Clunky - Clumsy in form or manner; awkward Unwieldy - Difficult to manage because of complexity Bunglesome - Difficult to handle or manage Graceful - Once it has ...
Xorg 7.4 and beyond - December 25, 2008
This is a doozy! It is an xorg calculator . It requires at least lynx, wget, and a working internet connection. Ordinarily, it is an arduous task just ...
Cutting and pasting without looking - January 25, 2009
One of the goals is to create a setup that can be used to build the system (or parts of the system) without excessive operator intervention and time. ...
LFS 6.4 surprises - January 10, 2009
Due to LFS 6.4 using gcc-4.3.2 and glibc-2.8 there are surprises when compiling many tried and true packages. Devs and hackers are unperturbed by this. Good old dhcpcd-2.0.8 ...
Tired of one dependency and then another - April 24, 2009
You might get tired of the dependency hell that happens when trying to install one thing only to find that something else must be installed first, and when ...
Did Ya Get Hacked - May 29, 2009
Or somebody fried your unix permissions, maybe? I don't often pay too much attention to that -rwxrwxrwx stuff or the mysterious set uid, set gid, and sticky bit ...
What files install added or changed - May 7, 2009
It is useful to know which files were added, changed, or deleted by an installation. A method that kind of works is to make a timestamp before the ...
Build kde-4.3.4 from source - December 11, 2009
I found instructions to compile and install kde4 from source at blfs wiki , kde howto , and Community Driven BLFS . I tried to make a composite ...
Distro hopping blues - December 22, 2009
Distro hopping is a great way to spend lots of time. Always, I would hope to finally get a system that would conform to my preferences. I would ...
strace package management tool - December 26, 2009
I think I found out why there is big talk about using strace to track files created by an install, but no howtos to back it up. This ...
Strace Mensa Puzzle - January 7, 2010
It is necessary to get the correct full path to properly track files created or changed. It is also necessary to use strace -f so as not to miss files affected in child processes. ...
LFS LiveCD and Jhalfs Howto - January 20, 2010
The LiveCD provides a complete development environment. Jhalfs enables you to build a base system in a few steps. You can also build manually which you should try at least once. It is your system and your choice. You can boot the LiveCD.iso from disk ...
Alfs Progress Bar - January 26, 2010
When building source packages and especially automated linux from scratch (ALFS) it would be nice to have a progress bar that shows a realistic estimate of how the build is progressing. But the progress bar supplied with jhalfs is disappointing ...
KDE4 Display settings are lost after logout - May 4, 2010
When using KDE to set your Display settings, ... , after logging out ... , the settings you indicated are lost. The settings you chose aren't 'retained'...
Disable plasma tooltip balloons - May 9, 2010
With KDE4, some users wish to disable the plasma tooltips, or have some control...
KDE Speedup and Sensible Settings - May 22, 2010
A visual documentation of settings that improved kde4 performance and made things seem more sensible ...
Build Kde4 Again - May 22, 2010
Built kde 4.4.3 with polkit-1/without PAM with patches to disable plasma tooltips and fix display resolution being lost across logouts ...
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Hi, r u in uk, i need some help with lfs chroot and how to do this properly, since it is getting messed up every time, it says become root and lfs user and some commands are not working etc.
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