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7 <title>Prerequisites</title>
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10 <para>This book assumes that its reader has a good deal of knowledge about
11 using and installing Linux software. Before you begin building your LFS
12 system, you should read the following HOWTOs:</para>
15 <listitem><para>Software-Building-HOWTO</para>
17 <para>This is a comprehensive guide to building and installing
18 <quote>generic</quote> Unix software distributions under Linux. This HOWTO is
20 url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html"/>.</para>
23 <listitem><para>The Linux Users' Guide</para>
25 <para>This guide covers the usage of assorted Linux software and is
27 <ulink url="http://espc22.murdoch.edu.au/~stewart/guide/guide.html"/>.</para></listitem>
29 <listitem><para>The Essential Pre-Reading Hint</para>
31 <para>This is an LFS Hint written specifically for new users of Linux. It is
32 mostly a list of links to excellent sources of information on a wide range of
33 topics. Any person attempting to install LFS, should at least have an
34 understanding of many of the topics in this hint. It is available at
36 <ulink url="&hints-root;essential_prereading.txt"/></para></listitem>