My Linux Practice

Tag: Development tools

  • Software headers in separate packages

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    2.2.2 Host system software: “Also note that many distributions will place software headers into separate packages…. Be sure to install those if your distribution provides them.” I googled and then checked with AI Mode each of the essential programs, looking for software headers, -dev, and -devel. Here’s where AI Mode became useful in trying to…

  • More essential programs for the host

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    Continuing 2.2.2 Host System Software. sudo apt update Played around with: sudo apt list –upgradablesudo apt upgradesudo apt autoremove –dry runsudo apt auto remove Now installed missing programs or possibly tried to reinstall two programs sudo apt updatesudo apt install bisonsudo apt install gawksudo apt install m4sudo apt install texinfosudo apt install findutils – I…

  • Going over the Essential Programs

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    I went over the Essential Programs for LFS – 2.2.2 Host System Software. Many of them should have been installed with the development tools that I installed after setting up Ubuntu. I checked the version of all of them and wrote them in the manual. My notes include: Checking version of coreutils – use any…

  • Installing Ubuntu over Windows

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    This is the first time I’ve successfully installed Linux. (Once I tried to install Ubuntu on an old Mac mini but failed. My other miniPCs had Ubuntu pre-installed.) I’m wiping the Windows 10 that came with the miniPC. My LFS host machine will be Ubuntu and LFS will go on a separate partition. I didn’t…