Going Beyond BLFS

The packages that are installed in this book are only the tip of the iceberg. We hope that the experience you gained with the LFS book and the BLFS book will give you the background needed to compile, install and configure packages that are not included in this book.

If you are in search of a package that is not in the book, the following are different ways you can search for the concerned package.

Some general hints on handling new packages:

Tip: If you have found a package that is only available in .deb or .rpm format, there are two small scripts rpm2targz and deb2targz that are available at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/downloads/ to convert the archives into a simple tar.gz format.