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Welcome to Community Driven BLFS.

NOTICE

Please don't add information from BLFS without acknowledging the source. BLFS is copyrighted but copying is allowed with attribution.

When adding packages please add a CONTENT section so everyone knows what the package does. Thank you. You can find a script here that can be used to make this task reasonably pain free. The script even formats the output so a simple copy and paste is all you need to do (in most cases).

If you have problems building any packages in CBLFS and are unable to find the solution yourself, please do not use the "Talk" section associated with the package. You will receive no help, but your entry will be deleted. Most of the CLFS and CBLFS developers and users hang out at chat.freenode.net in the #cross-lfs channel. Your odds of receiving help dramatically improve if you stop by #cross-lfs or post on the mailing list.

What is Community Driven BLFS

Community Driven BLFS (CBLFS) is an open project that takes over after you have completed a Cross-LFS based build. While there's a veritable Who's Who of CBLFS, as the name implies anyone in the community may contribute. Your contributions are welcome; from multilib build instructions for Open Office to spelling and grammar corrections. You can find a list of packages that are referenced but still need build instructions in the Wanted Pages if you don't have anything particular in mind.

There are only three requirements and one strong suggestion for contributing to CBLFS. First, read and heed the applicable portions of the NOTICE section above. Second, please follow the page format that is set. There is a link to the page template below. Explanatory comments are in bold green text and should, obviously, be removed. Always check the template as changes are made periodically.

Third, upload patches in accordance with the instructions below. These instructions will help you create and format the file before uploading. Please don't provide links to patches or other files stored on your personal server.

Finally, there are many good open-source spell checking applications. In fact, there are build instructions for Aspell in this wiki. Please install and use a spell checker when contributing.

• Page Template
• How to upload patches
• License

In addition to this Wiki, you may also be interested in visting the CLFS-Hints Wiki.

Post CLFS Configuration

• Bash Startup Files
• System User and Groups
• Configuring for Adding Users
• Creating a Ramdisk tmp
• Creating an Initramfs

How To

• NSS Caching
• NSS Offline Caching
• Setting up an OpenSSL CA

Packages in the Wiki

Security

<dpl>category=Security</dpl>

Package Management

<dpl>category=Package Management</dpl>

Block Device

<dpl>category=Block Device</dpl>

File System

<dpl>category=File System</dpl>

Hardware Monitoring

<dpl>category=Hardware Monitoring</dpl>

Power Management

<dpl>category=Power Management</dpl>

Benchmarking

<dpl>category=Benchmarking</dpl>

Shells

<dpl>category=Shells</dpl>

Emulators

<dpl>category=Emulators</dpl>

Accessibility Solutions

<dpl>category=Accessibility Solutions</dpl>

General Libraries

<dpl>category=General Libs</dpl>

General Utilities

<dpl>category=General Utilities</dpl>

Text Editors

<dpl>category=Text Editors</dpl>

Programming

<dpl>category=Programming</dpl>

C Sharp

<dpl>category=C Sharp</dpl>

Source Code Management

<dpl>category=Source Code Management</dpl>

Modules

• Perl Modules
• Python Modules

Networking Libraries

<dpl>category=Networking Libraries</dpl>

Network Utilities

<dpl>category=Network Utilities</dpl>

Network Applications

<dpl>category=Network Applications</dpl>

Servers

<dpl>category=Servers</dpl>

Console Web Browser/Mail/News/Chat/P2P/FTP Clients

<dpl>category=Non-GUI Clients</dpl>

Graphical Web Browser/Mail/News/Chat/P2P/FTP Clients

<dpl>category=GUI Clients</dpl>

X (X Window System)

• Xorg6
• Xorg7

X Libraries

<dpl>category=X Libs</dpl>

X Window Applications

<dpl>category=X Window Applications</dpl>

Desktop Environments

<dpl>category=Desktop Environments</dpl>

Window Managers

<dpl>category=Window Managers</dpl>

Display Managers

<dpl>category=Display Managers</dpl>

Media Libraries

<dpl>category=Media Libraries</dpl>

Media Utilities

<dpl>category=Media Utilities</dpl>

CD/DVD Utilities

<dpl>category=CD/DVD Utilities</dpl>

TV & Radio Applications

<dpl>category=TV and Radio</dpl>

Graphics Libraries

<dpl>category=Graphics Libraries</dpl>

Graphics Utilities

<dpl>category=Graphics Utilities</dpl>

Cameras

<dpl>category=Cameras</dpl>

Scanning

<dpl>category=Scanning</dpl>

Printing

<dpl>category=Printing</dpl>

Type Setting

<dpl>category=Type Setting</dpl>

PostScript

<dpl>category=PostScript</dpl>

DocBook

DocBook SGML

<dpl>category=DocBook SGML</dpl>

DocBook-XML

<dpl>category=DocBook-XML</dpl>

Games

<dpl>category=Games</dpl>

Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

<dpl>category=Science_Engineering</dpl>

Clusters, Grids, and Parallel Programming

<dpl>category=Clusters_Grids</dpl>

Financial Libraries and Utilities

<dpl>category=Financial</dpl>

Office Suites and Productivity

<dpl>category=Office_Suites</dpl>

Drivers

Input Drivers

<dpl>category=Input Drivers</dpl>

Video Drivers

<dpl>category=Video Drivers</dpl>

Network Drivers

<dpl>category=Network Drivers</dpl>

Closed Source

Closed Source Applications

<dpl>category=Closed Source Applications</dpl>

Closed Source Plugins

<dpl>category=Closed Source Plugins</dpl>