lfs-book/chapter06/tar.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" xreflabel="Tar">
<title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-tar"><primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary></indexterm>

<para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
&diskspace; 10 MB</screen>

<para>Tar installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>



<sect2>
<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Now install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-tar"><title>Contents of Tar</title>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: rmt and tar</para>

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<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt"><primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary></indexterm>
<para id="rmt"><command>rmt</command> is used to remotely manipulate a magnetic
tape drive, through an interprocess communication connection.</para>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar"><primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary></indexterm>
<para id="tar"><command>tar</command> is used to create and extract files from
archives, also known as tarballs.</para>

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