Read the Linux From Scratch Book Online
Two versions of the LFS Book are available for viewing online, the stable released book and the daily rendered development book:
Current Stable
This is the latest released LFS book, considered stable. Most people will want to read this book.
As a result of bugs and security warnings, please be sure to read the errata page for any modifications needed to the LFS build.
Current Development
This is the LFS Book in its current development state. Whilst it may provide more features and updated upstream packages than the stable book, it is more prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities. Use with care.
Security vulnerabilities and other bugs may be present in the bug database but there may be others not yet reported.
Note: There is an automatically generated wget list available to fetch all LFS Book packages automatically.
Systemd version of LFS
Current Stable
This is the latest released LFS systemd book, considered stable. Most people will want to read this book.
As a result of bugs and security warnings, please be sure to read the errata page for any modifications needed to the LFS systemd build.
Current Development
This is the LFS systemd Book in its current development state. Whilst it may provide more features and updated upstream packages than the stable book, it is more prone to bugs and security vulnerabilities. Use with care.
Translations
The LFS book has been translated in various languages. Note that these translations were done by volunteers and may contain translation errors which the LFS team cannot control. In that case, contact the translator directly.
Please note that all versions of LFS <= 5.1 contain instructions that create an English-only system and therefore will require additional undocumented work (i.e. setting LANG and font) in order for the system to be useful in another language.
If you have translated the LFS book or if you are aware of translations not in this list, please send us an e-mail to the website mailing list with a hyperlink to the translation.
Chinese
LFS 7.7 (systemd)
Translated by The LCTT Team
Czech
LFS 6.1
Translated by Filip Bartmann
French
Website |
Download |
Stable Version
Translated by Traduc.org
German
Website |
LFS 6.4
Translated by Thomas Reitelbach
Italian
Website | LFS 6.0 | LFS 6.0 (Mirrored)
Translated by ILDP
Website |
LFS 6.1.1 |
LFS 6.1 |
LFS 6.0
Translated by Giulio Daprelà
Japanese
Website |
LFS 6.5 |
Download
Translated by Michio Matsuyama
Russian
LFS 6.0 (HTML) |
LFS 6.0 (Tarball)
Translated by Sergey Kamynski, based on Vitaly Katraev's translation of LFS 5.0.
LFS 5.0
Translated by Vitaly Katraev
Website |
LFS 4.0
Translated by Denis Kaledin, Nick Frolov, Alex Kazankov