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The local existence of solutions for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the Dirichlet boundary conditions in the $L_p$-framework is proved. Next an almost-global-in-time existence of small solutions is shown. The considerations are made in Lagrangian coordinates. The result is sharp in the $L_p$-approach, because the velocity belongs to $W^{2,1}_r$ with r > 3.