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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="pre-hostreqs"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <para>Your host system should have the following software with the |
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| 14 | minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most |
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| 15 | modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will |
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| 16 | place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of |
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| 17 | <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or |
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| 18 | <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if |
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| 19 | your distribution provides them.</para> |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <listitem> |
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| 24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para> |
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| 25 | </listitem> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <listitem> |
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| 28 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions |
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| 29 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have |
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| 30 | not been tested)</para> |
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| 31 | </listitem> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <listitem> |
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| 34 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para> |
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| 35 | </listitem> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <listitem> |
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| 38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0, |
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| 39 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para> |
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| 40 | </listitem> |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | <listitem> |
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| 43 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para> |
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| 44 | </listitem> |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | <listitem> |
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| 47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para> |
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| 48 | </listitem> |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | <listitem> |
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| 51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para> |
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| 52 | </listitem> |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | <listitem> |
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| 55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions |
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| 56 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not |
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| 57 | been tested)</para> |
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| 58 | </listitem> |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | <listitem> |
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| 61 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions |
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| 62 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have |
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| 63 | not been tested)</para> |
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| 64 | </listitem> |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | <listitem> |
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| 67 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para> |
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| 68 | </listitem> |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | <listitem> |
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| 71 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para> |
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| 72 | </listitem> |
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| 73 | |
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| 74 | <listitem> |
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| 75 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para> |
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| 76 | </listitem> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <listitem> |
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| 79 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para> |
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| 80 | </listitem> |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | <listitem> |
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| 83 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para> |
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| 84 | </listitem> |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | <listitem> |
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| 87 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para> |
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| 88 | </listitem> |
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| 89 | |
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| 90 | </itemizedlist> |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para> |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF" |
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| 95 | <literal>#!/bin/bash |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools |
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| 98 | |
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| 99 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 |
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| 100 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4 |
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| 101 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- |
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| 102 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 |
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| 103 | diff --version | head -n1 |
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| 104 | find --version | head -n1 |
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| 105 | gawk --version | head -n1 |
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| 106 | gcc --version | head -n1 |
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| 107 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7 |
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| 108 | grep --version | head -n1 |
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| 109 | gzip --version | head -n1 |
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| 110 | make --version | head -n1 |
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| 111 | patch --version | head -n1 |
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| 112 | sed --version | head -n1 |
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| 113 | tar --version | head -n1</literal> |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | EOF |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen> |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | </sect1> |
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