Hello forum members and LFS users,

this is my very first attempt at building LFS, and I am having issues as to the commands in chapter 4.2, which must be run as root. Linux Mint is my current host system.

I am having issues running the below commands as root (doing sudo before running them:

mkdir -pv $LFS/{etc,var} $LFS/usr/{bin,lib,sbin}

for i in bin lib sbin; do
ln -sv usr/$i $LFS/$i
done

case $(uname -m) in
x86_64) mkdir -pv $LFS/lib64 ;;
esac

I am having issues such as: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/bin/bin': Permission denied

or: sudo: case: command not found: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'


I am not a software developer nor a System Admin, just curious as to how Linux works. My previous experience with Linux was Gentoo, which I learned how to install pretty well, but LFS is another story...

Any help is much appreciated, and I fear it won't be my first request for assistance...

Thank you in advance to all of you for any support. While I wait for an answer, I will goggle the errors and see if I can find any potential work around....

the issue is sudo doesn’t handle multiple commands

sudo - su into a root shell then run the commands, or use sudo bash -c ‘command_string’

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view...4/ch17s15.html

better put the commands in a script and then run the script with sudo

Than you both for your support,

It was a very newbie mistake on my part when using the sudo command with the LFS instructions, I resolved after reading your replies and the link provided by wiigelec.

I marked the thread as solved.