Download the Cross Linux From Scratch Book

Several versions of the LFS book are available for download, in several formats:

Current Development

This is the CLFS Book in its current development state. Changes can happen that break the build temporarily.

Daily rendered ​snapshots may be downloaded. Or check out the book's XML source from our Subversion repository and render it yourself:

svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/cross-lfs/trunk/BOOK/

LFS Museum

Old and crusty. But still useful as an educational experience, or to see how LFS has grown over the years. ​http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/

Packages for CLFS

CLFS has a list of packages which you should download. Please use the versions which are ​listed in the book; these are tested versions which are known to work with each other. In addition to the packages you will need to download some ​patches. There are several ways to download the packages.

Hunt and Peck/Freshmeat.net

When a package is not available from the location listed in the book, some other places to try are:

• A search for the full package name in ​google or your favorite search engine
• ​Debian Package Search Page
• ​filemirrors.com
• ​freshmeat.net
• Sources from your linux distro

LFS HTTP/FTP Sites

If the above methods are not available to you, the packages are also available in a tarball and individually on the following ftp and http mirrors. HLFS package tarballs and individual packages are also available on these mirrors.

• ​ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/lfs/ (Brisbane, Australia, 1Gbps)
• ​ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs/ (Montreal, Canada, 100Mbps)
• ​http://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs/ (Montreal, Canada, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://gaosu.rave.org/pub/lfs/ (VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs/ (Corvallis, OR, USA, 100Mbps)
• ​http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs/ (Corvallis, OR, USA, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://ftp.lauf-forum.at/pub/lfs/ (Nürnberg, Germany, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://ftp.aliensoft.org/pub/lfs/ (Munich, Germany, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/lfs/ (Singapore, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://mirrors.angelinacounty.net/pub/lfs/ (Houston, TX, USA, 100Mbps)
• ​http://mirrors.angelinacounty.net/pub/lfs/ (Houston, TX, USA, 100Mbps)
• ​ftp://mirror.cict.fr/lfs/ (Toulouse, France, 100Mbps)