<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Preparations</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Glibc Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="What?" HREF="what.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Stuff you will need" HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Glibc Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="what.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="preparations" ></A >Chapter 3. Preparations</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html" >Stuff you will need</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1.1. <A HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html#software-you-will-need" >Software you will need</A ></DT ><DT >3.1.2. <A HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html#sources-you-will-need" >Sources you will need</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html" >Special things you need to do</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.2.1. <A HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html#things-you-will-definitely-need" >Things you will definitely need</A ></DT ><DT >3.2.2. <A HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html#software-that-may-come-in-handy" >Software that may come in handy</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P > As an installation of glibc is not an easy task. You need to do a lot of things in advance, especially in the event that something goes wrong. (That is what happened to me on my first glibc install, and I did not make any preparations.)</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="what.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="stuff-you-will-need.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >What?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Stuff you will need</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >