lfs-book/chapter06/tar-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>
If a user wants to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, he can 
use the tar
patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -y option
to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
for gzip files).
</para>
 
<para>
Apply the patch by running the following command:
</para>

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	<userinput>cd src &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>patch -i ../../gnutarpatch.txt &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cd ..</userinput>

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<para>
Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
directory:
</para>

<blockquote><literallayout>

	<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin
		&amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>mv /usr/bin/tar /bin</userinput>

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</sect2>