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1 <qandaentry id="getting-help">
2 <question><para>Where is the best place to get help?</para></question>
3 <answer><para>When this FAQ fails to help, there are several places to go.
4 </para></answer>
6 <answer><para>If you're having a problem with something in the book,
7 it never hurts to go back over the book.
8 It's surprising how easy it is to overlook little things.
9 </para></answer>
11 <answer><para>If nothing else,
12 reading the appropriate man and info pages
13 will yield useful information on some subject,
14 if not what you were looking for,
15 and insure that you know enough not to embarrass yourself
16 if you have to ask someone.
17 </para></answer>
19 <answer><para><ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/"/>
20 has the HOW-TOs and a great deal of other documentation.
21 You might find something there.
22 </para></answer>
24 <answer><para>The linuxfromscratch.org site search includes the mailing lists.
25 Many questions have been discussed there at least once.  It's at
26 <ulink url="http://search.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>.
27 </para></answer>
29 <answer><para>For support type help, IRC is often best. It's faster,
30 and doesn't clog the mailinglists.
31 Information on the LFS IRC channels is at
32 <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/irc.shtml"/>.
33 </para>
34 <para>There are two IRC channels of interest.
35 #LFS, which is a community channel,
36 and #lfs-support, which is for support questions.
37 If you are asking a support question,
38 you are more likely to attract competent and friendly help in #lfs-support.
39 </para></answer>
41 <answer><para>As a last resort, there are the mailing lists.
42 People will get frustrated with you if you use the wrong one or cross post.
43 Mailing list information is at
44 <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mailinglists/"/>
45 and tells which list to use.
46 </para></answer>
48 </qandaentry>