Blast from the Past: Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
This post was originally published on November 27, 2011. The original can be found here. As you may be able to tell from my recent, […]
This post was originally published on November 27, 2011. The original can be found here. As you may be able to tell from my recent, […]
As you may be able to tell from my recent, snooze-worthy technical posts about compilers and makefiles and other assorted garbage, my experience with Linux […]
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
I went to play around with my Linux from Scratch installation after getting a working version of KDE 4.7.3 up and running. For a few […]
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Seriously, I’d like to know, because this is a bit ridiculous. For all the heavily encouraged coding styles out there, nearly all the open source […]
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
Since the install of Linux From Scratch, one of the main issues I’ve been having is the playback of audio and video files. VLC does […]
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]
Fixing libmng with -fPIC In preparation for getting KDE4 (and Qt4, and all the other dependencies) working with my Linux from Scratch install, I noticed […]
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
What Next? Chroot Once you get into the chroot environment, you will get the incredibly annoying PC speaker beep every time you foul up a […]
Hi Everyone, If you don’t remember me, I’m Dave. Last time for the experiment I used SuSE, which I regretted. This time I decided to […]
And I’m started with Linux from Scratch! Here are some helpful pointers for anyone considering running LFS on their own. Caution: this is highly nerdy […]