I have been following this (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint...files/dpkg.txt) tutorial and cannot seem to get apt to work I have done everything right (I think...) however I am getting this error. Thanks in advance!

Hi...

The error means that APT is missing a dependency, libapt-pkg.so.4.12. However, I'm not sure how you would go about obtaining and installing this file for LFS, unless you can do it using a .deb package. Perhaps the LQ contributor for LFS or another member can help with this.

Where did you download APT, from Debian's site? Also what is the version number of the APT package you downloaded and installed? I did find a copy of the dependency here, but it may not work for the version of APT you have installed.

Regards...

I found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67435...rieslibapt-pkg I tried to do what it said, but it did not seem to work either.

Is there a better place for this thread to go?

Presumably the file is within the source of apt (link). I checked my Ubuntu 16.04 install, and it has only the following:
. Perhaps if someone has an older Debian based system running that you know then you could find the file. The other thing you can do is download the deb file (http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool....8.3_amd64.deb), open it up with file-roller (or ark or whatever -- just download the package and left-click on it to open a menu to open it with something like file roller), and extract the file that way.

I just did this, and it's not actually a file. It's a link to "libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0" (note the extra zero at the end). So, see if you have that file on you LFS system, and then create a link named "libapt-pkg.so.4.12" to it. I believe the location is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ for both the file and the link.

Another thought: If you can't get apt/dpkg working, there's some other simpler package managers that the LFS folks give hints for: paco or trip.

Someday I may try to build an LFS system. Seems like it might be both fun and educational.

ETA: Oh, sorry, just checked out the link in post #3 and saw that they had already suggested the link. Well, I have no other ideas, unfortunately.

Here would likely be the best place: http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support