source: prologue/common/hostreqs.xml@ c2603e6

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<sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
  <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>

  <title>Host System Requirements</title>

    <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
    minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
    modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
    place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
    <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or
    <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
    your distribution provides them.</para>

  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
      greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
      not been tested)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
      Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
      greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
      been tested)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
      greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
      not been tested)</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>#!/bin/bash

# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools

bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
diff --version | head -n1
find --version | head -n1
gawk --version | head -n1
gcc --version | head -n1
/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
grep --version | head -n1
gzip --version | head -n1
make --version | head -n1
patch --version | head -n1
sed --version | head -n1
tar --version | head -n1</literal>

EOF

bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>

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