Install Bzip2 by running the following commands: make -f Makefile-libbz2_so && make bzip2recover libbz2.a && ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.1 libbz2.so && cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 && cp bzip2recover /bin && cp bzip2.1 /usr/share/man/man1 && cp bzlib.h /usr/include && cp -a libbz2.so* /lib && rm /usr/lib/libbz2.a && cp libbz2.a /usr/lib && cd /usr/lib && ln -sf ../../lib/libbz2.so && cd /bin && ln -sf bzip2 bunzip2 && ln -sf bzip2 bzcat && cd /usr/share/man/man1 && ln -sf bzip2.1 bunzip2.1 && ln -sf bzip2.1 bzcat.1 && ln -sf bzip2.1 bzip2recover.1 Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system it's worth mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a plain tar, you have to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz|tar xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and bunzip2 with tar. This patch provides the -j option so you can unpack a Bzip2 archive with tar xvfj file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when the Tar package is re-installed.