First Compiles

I started with Fedora 15. It had Gnome 3 on it. For some reason I couldn't get a terminal window to open. So after fiddling around for a while, I just went to KDE. Had to install it:

yum install @kde-desktop

Also the Fedora was the desktop version, without a compiler. It didn't have the patch program either. So I installed gcc and patch:

yum install gcc
yum install patch

As previously stated, I had downloaded all of the software and patches. The easiest was is to create a text file that contains all of the software. This is explained on page 18 of the 7.0 manual. Select "wget-list" on page 18, it is highlighted, then save it as a text file. Once you have created the file, execute:

wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources.

I had previously defined $LFS, so the download went perfect. Took a while, since there is a lot to download, but it went without a hitch. At that point I was able to started compiling. I was able to compile binutils, gcc, and the Linux API headers last night.