Your host system should have the following software with the minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of “[package-name]-devel” or “[package-name]-dev”. Be sure to install those if your distribution provides them.
Bash-2.05a
Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than 2.17 are not recommended as they have not been tested)
Bzip2-1.0.2
Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)
Diffutils-2.8
Findutils-4.1.20
Gawk-3.0
Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than 4.1.1 are not recommended as they have not been tested)
Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than 2.4 are not recommended as they have not been tested)
Grep-2.5
Gzip-1.2.4
Make-3.79.1
Patch-2.5.4
Sed-3.0.2
Tar-1.14
To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:
cat > version-check.sh << "EOF" #!/bin/bash # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4 bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 diff --version | head -n1 find --version | head -n1 gawk --version | head -n1 gcc --version | head -n1 /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7 grep --version | head -n1 gzip --version | head -n1 make --version | head -n1 patch --version | head -n1 sed --version | head -n1 tar --version | head -n1 EOF bash version-check.sh