lfs-book/chapter06/tar-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Tar</title>

<para>A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for bzip2
files. This patch adds the <emphasis>-j</emphasis> option to tar,
which is similar to the <emphasis>-z</emphasis> option used for
gzip files.</para>
 
<para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Prepare Tar to be compiled:</para>

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

<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>

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

<para>Finish installing the package:</para>

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

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