lfs-book/chapter06/tar-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, you can 
use the tar
patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j 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>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.13.patch</userinput></screen></para>

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

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin --bindir=/bin &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

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