Packages

LXQt's Qt6 fork of libdbusmenu-qt. Needed by lxqt-qtplugin and lxqt-panel for the legacy XEmbed/StatusNotifier system-tray menu protocol. LXQt 2.4 minimal-but-real desktop stack, ship_in_iso=false (Packages-page / Package Manager install only, like KDE Plasma). Built on .101 against /opt/qt6-full + KF6 6.29. cmake/meson --libdir=lib for LinuxDoors' non-multiarch layout.

BLFS general-libraries. EDID/DisplayID parsing library -- required by libxfce4windowing. Skips the optional ninja test.

NetSurf project (not BLFS/LFS). DOM implementation binding together libwapcaplet, libhubbub, libcss, and libxml2/expat (all already built) -- the core of netsurf's page model.

BLFS. Needed by Mesa. Skips the optional test suite.

Same elfutils-0.195 source tarball as the existing libelf package (deliberately -- keeps libdw.so and libelf.so ABI-matched from the same release rather than mixing versions), built as its own separate package for the libdw component specifically (elfutils' DWARF debug-info library) -- needed by dwarves/pahole (BLFS doesn't have its own elfutils page in this book edition; libelf was already added straight from LFS ch8's own narrow libelf-only convention, and this mirrors that same narrow-scope approach for just the one additional piece actually needed). Real internal build order confirmed from elfutils' own top-level Makefile.am SUBDIRS line (not guessed): config lib libelf libcpu backends libebl libdwelf libdwfl libdwfl_stacktrace libdw libasm debuginfod src po doc tests -- this package builds through libdw only (skips libasm/debuginfod/src/po/doc/tests, none of which dwarves needs). Real build failure fixed: dwarves' dwarves.h needs <elfutils/libdwfl.h> and <elfutils/version.h>, neither of which `make -C libdw install` installs on its own -- libdwfl.h comes from libdwfl's own `make install` (added), and version.h is generated at the elfutils source root by the top-level configure and isn't installed by any subdir's Makefile at all, so it's copied in manually. || 0.196 -> 0.197 (2026-10-21 update).

Emulated Input -- KWin and xdg-desktop-portal-kde use it for input emulation / RemoteDesktop. Depends on libxkbcommon (build that first). ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

LFS ch8. Only builds the libelf sub-component of elfutils (not the full elfutils toolset), per the book. Skips the optional make check. || 0.196 -> 0.197 (2026-10-21 update).

BLFS. GL function pointer dispatch library, needed by GTK3. Skips the optional test suite and optional docs (needs Doxygen, not built).

BLFS basicnet/libevent.html. Recommended by Firefox (--with-system-libevent).

EXIF parsing -- caja uses it for image thumbnails/properties. BLFS general/libexif.html.

LFS ch8. Skips the optional make check. Bumped 3.7.1 -> 3.8.0 to track LFS 13.1's package set (sha256 from a real downloaded tarball).

libfm built with --with-extra-only -- installs ONLY libfm-extra (a tiny, GTK-free sublib split out of libfm specifically to break the libfm<->menu-cache dependency cycle). This is BLFS's own libfm-extra recipe. menu-cache 1.1.0's configure requires libfm-extra unconditionally. Nothing in the LXQt stack needs the full GTK libfm (libfm-qt is self-contained since 1.3), so only this extra-only build is packaged. LXQt 2.4 desktop, ship_in_iso=false.

Qt6 file-management library -- the backend for pcmanfm-qt. Self-contained since 1.3 (no libfm). find_package(lxqt-menu-data) + find_package(XCB) at configure time, so both must precede it. LXQt 2.4 minimal-but-real desktop stack, ship_in_iso=false (Packages-page / Package Manager install only, like KDE Plasma). Built on .101 against /opt/qt6-full + KF6 6.29. cmake/meson --libdir=lib for LinuxDoors' non-multiarch layout.

BLFS general/libfyaml.html (YAML 1.3 parser/writer). Real, needed AppStream dependency (packages/appstream) -- see that package's notes. Plain autotools build, skips the test suite.

BLFS general-libraries. Required by lightdm. Skips the book's HTML/text doc regeneration (needs makeinfo/texlive-adjacent tooling we don't build) and the optional test suite. || Security/patch update 1.12.2 -> 1.12.4 (2026-10-08): real upstream tarball, archive integrity tested, sha256 computed from the download.

libgee -- GObject collection library, written in Vala (libgee-0.8). Dep of Budgie Desktop. autotools; needs valac (packages/vala) + glib2 + gobject-introspection. ship_in_iso=false.

Not a BLFS book package -- added as a real, standalone system library specifically to work around a real build failure in packages/cargo-c: the `cargo` crate (a real dependency of cargo-c itself) pulls in libgit2-sys, whose *vendored* C build produced a broken/incomplete generated-header include directory in this environment (real 'git2/sys/errors.h: No such file or directory' and 'sys/credential.h: No such file or directory' compile failures, confirmed not caused by this project's own MAKEFLAGS quirk -- ruled out by testing). Standard upstream CMake build (https://libgit2.org/docs/guides/build-and-link/), no BLFS page exists for it. Once this real system libgit2.so + its pkg-config file are installed, cargo-c's build.sh sets LIBGIT2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG=1 (the documented libgit2-sys env var, same idea as the already-used LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG) so libgit2-sys links against this real system copy instead of trying (and failing) to compile its own vendored copy.

GLFS (Gaming LFS) core/libglvnd.html -- BLFS's Mesa page points here for exactly this case: 'Packages and binaries outside of BLFS, like AppImages, can have trouble ... install the GLFS package libglvnd.' Added 2026-10-19 because KDE's Kdenlive and Kate AppImages failed on LinuxDoors with 'libOpenGL.so.0' / 'libGLX.so.0' not found. Provides the vendor-neutral libGL, libEGL, libGLESv1_CM, libGLESv2, libOpenGL, libGLX and libGLdispatch; Mesa (built with -D glvnd=enabled) then supplies libGLX_mesa/libEGL_mesa behind them. GLFS's ext_device patch applied; -D hgl=false; --libdir=lib (.101 is a Debian-multiarch-looking host). ship_in_iso true: it is now part of the base GL stack.

libgnome-desktop -- shared GNOME desktop-environment library (monitor/RandR helper code, thumbnailing, wall-clock formatting) gnome-control-center's panels link against. BLFS general/gnome-desktop.html. All 4 documented deps (gsettings-desktop-schemas, iso-codes, libseccomp, xkeyboard-config) plus the recommended GTK3+GTK4 were already built on .101 from earlier GNOME/KDE work -- confirmed via pkg-config before writing this. ship_in_iso=false, same as the rest of the GNOME stack -- Package Manager install only. || Bumped 44.5 -> 51.0 (2026-09-18, part of the GNOME 51 push). Real, confirmed soname collision found: upstream's own libversion string (2.1.4 -> libgnome-desktop-4.so.2) is IDENTICAL in both 44.5 and 51.0's meson.build. That, plus gnome-session/gnome-shell/mutter/gnome-control-center/gnome-keyring all installing to the same fixed /usr/bin paths as their GNOME 48 counterparts, is why this whole GNOME 51 chain builds into an isolated /opt/gnome51 prefix instead of /usr -- see build.sh's own comment for the full reasoning. Real sha256 verified against GNOME's own published sha256sum file.

GNOME keyboard-configuration library (libgnomekbd / libgnomekbdui). Last upstream release (3.28.1, 2021). xapp's keyboard-layout controller (used by Cinnamon) hard-requires libgnomekbdui via pkg-config. Plain autotools; depends on libxklavier (already built, 5.4). Cinnamon 6.4 desktop, ship_in_iso=false.

BLFS general-libraries. Required by libgcrypt, which lightdm needs. Skips the optional test suite.

GNOME Structured File library (libgsf-1). nemo's search-helpers subdir hard-requires it (search inside compound/archive documents). Plain autotools. Cinnamon 6.4 desktop, ship_in_iso=false.

Portable library to obtain process and system state (CPU/mem/proc lists). Required by mate-system-monitor (libgtop-2.0 pkg-config). Autotools. ship_in_iso:false.

libgudev -- GObject bindings for libudev. Needed by mutter (-Dudev=true) and gnome-settings-daemon. ship_in_iso=false, built on .101.